Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

In this article, we will explore into the significance of pre-deployment policy compliance, explore the role of policy as code frameworks, and showcase real-life examples of successful implementations. In traditional software development practices, compliance checks often occur late in the development lifecycle, closer to deployment.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. Ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and best practices also poses a significant obstacle for workload management in the realm of cloud computing platforms.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Contrasting 5 Nines Availability Against Other Levels of AvailabilityAs discussed in this article, various levels of availability correspond to specific durations during which a service or system is expected to experience downtime. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Contrasting 5 Nines Availability Against Other Levels of AvailabilityAs discussed in this article, various levels of availability correspond to specific durations during which a service or system is expected to experience downtime. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In one of our previous articles , we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. Monitoring can provide a way to differentiate between.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In this article, we’ll walk through the tools and some of the steps you can take to optimize your videos for playback — all of it to avoid stalls and impress your precious customers! We could endlessly tweak the configuration in FFMPEG, but let’s just touch on a few important ones in this article. Large preview ).

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

For more information on interpreting histograms, see this support article. Your Improve dashboard aggregates performance recommendations from synthetic testing and identifies the percentage of your RUM traffic that would benefit. For an overview of Site Settings, see this support article. Combine synthetic and RUM datasets.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. We want fewer cars on the road to alleviate traffic on the main thread.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Ironically, at the moment of publishing that article in late February, we still had floating labels used in most of our forms, and we wanted to explore if removing them would actually help us improve the overall experience on the site. On February 19th, most of our articles landed in the red zone. Floating Labels Are Gone.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

As illustrated above, ProxySQL allows us to set up a common entry point for the application and then redirect the traffic on the base of identified sharding keys. It will also allow us to redirect read/write traffic to the primary and read-only traffic to all secondaries. I will eventually increase them if I see the need.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To maximize indexing benefits, be sure to follow best practices. MySQL Tuning for Best Performance & Best Practices innodb_file_per_table Setting this to “ON” will generate an independent InnoDB table space for every table in the database. This does not apply to read (SELECT) traffic.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This article will help you with exactly that. The metrics selection is outside of the scope of this article and depends highly on the project context, but I recommend that you start by reading User-centric Performance Metrics by Philip Walton. This saves clients traffic — sometimes traffic which the client is paying for.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. Over the years, more and more articles have been published about clocksource in virtual machines, and it's now a well-known issue.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

These statements and articles typically skip over some crucial technical details , are lacking in nuance, and usually are only partially correct. In this article series, I will discuss the new protocol, especially its performance features , with more nuance. We will discuss these features in more depth later in this article.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( current article ). You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). HTTP/3 performance features. This is more in-depth and technical.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. In this article, I want to spend a bit more time on this, and also look at other signals we can similarly use to help us make decisions on what to load on our websites. Barry Pollard.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

The entry/exit communication traffic can be overwhelmed by limited international bandwidth and huge user number. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website. Best Practices. The good news is there are website monitoring tools specially designed to solve this problem.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

The entry/exit communication traffic can be overwhelmed by limited international bandwidth and huge user number. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website. Best Practices. The good news is there are website monitoring tools specially designed to solve this problem.

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Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

The entry/exit communication traffic can be overwhelmed by limited international bandwidth and huge user number. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website. Best Practices. The good news is there are website monitoring tools specially designed to solve this problem.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 18, 2019

We’ve written tons of articles giving you step-by-step advice on how to make your website faster – but not everyone wants to go through lots of steps. In addition, nearly 60% of web traffic in 2018 came from mobile devices. Good news is that we can answer that with a simple response.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience. Note : At the moment of writing of this article, the fetchpriority attribute is currently supported in Chrome Canary with full release set for Chrome version 101, with other browsers to follow suit.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

According to Statista , at least 50% of global online traffic is driven by mobile users. You can also check out our article on how to automate mobile UI testing. One of the best practices while performing this test is to find out if the features we’ve designed are supported by various browsers. We can use Can I Use?

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Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on. <200 ms “fast” TTFB is based on the server responsiveness best practice recommendation. Conclusion.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. Over the years, more and more articles have been published about clocksource in virtual machines, and it's now a well-known issue.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. Over the years, more and more articles have been published about clocksource in virtual machines, and it's now a well-known issue.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

The Supermarket After slicing my way through the supermarket-trolly traffic jam at the main entrance, I shimmied my way around the dawdling potato connoisseurs in the vegetable aisles, and majestically faked to the right and went left around a confused pensioner who wasn’t sure whether he wanted to look at dairy products or cooked meats.

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SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

I addressed some terminology considerations in the first two parts of the series, and will address more in future articles when discussing CTEs, views and inline TVFs. There’s quite a lot to say about the fourth item so I’ll dedicate a separate article to it next month (Part 4). This month I’m going to address the first three items.

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SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

I addressed some terminology considerations in the first two parts of the series, and will address more in future articles when discussing CTEs, views and inline TVFs. There’s quite a lot to say about the fourth item so I’ll dedicate a separate article to it next month (Part 4). This month I’m going to address the first three items.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( coming up soon! ). This is because most articles only consider the worst case (TCP + TLS 1.2, (a)), not mentioning that the modern TCP + TLS 1.3 As such, one best practice or optimization can end up undoing another.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). From Fast By Default: Modern Loading Best Practices by Addy Osmani (Slides 18, 19). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. From Addy’s article “ Loading Web Pages Fast On A $20 Feature Phone ”. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Based on their daily traffic, they estimated that this increase translated to an astonishing 10.28 In fact, you can implement all 35 of the best practices for performance as recommended by Yahoo! In April of this year, Mozilla performed just a couple of simple performance techniques and shaved 2.2

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