Scalegrid

JUNE 7, 2024

In this article, we will explore what RabbitMQ is, its mechanisms to facilitate message queueing, its role within software architectures, and the tangible benefits it delivers in real-world scenarios. It plays a critical role by assigning tasks, which trims down the delivery times for web application servers and enhances overall productivity.

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IoT Software Architecture Architecture Scalability 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Since December 10, days after a critical vulnerability known as Log4Shell was discovered in servers supporting the game Minecraft, millions of exploit attempts have been made of the Log4j 2 Java library, according to one team tracking the impact, with potential threat to millions more applications and devices across the globe.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This article explains what a software supply chain attack is, and how Dynatrace protects its customers against such attacks by applying: Risk management and business continuity planning. It all starts with the code. Dynatrace has established a secure SDL, which automatically enforces that all developed code is reviewed by a peer.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. This article will explore how they handle data storage and scalability, perform in different scenarios, and, most importantly, how these factors influence your choice. Data transfer technology.

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If you think that static rendering is limited to generic, public content that is the same for every user of your website, you should definitely read this article. Segmented Rendering is a new pattern for the Jamstack that lets you personalize content statically, without any sort of client-side rendering or per-request Server-Side Rendering.

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Cache Website Energy Servers 117

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. While classic logging is an essential tool in debugging issues, it often lacks context and only provides snapshot information of one specific location in your code/application. Those are prime candidates for their own spans.

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Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 171

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. One of the reasons for that is because a PWA has the same code base. So unlike the case with native applications, the progressive web app needs to be coded only once. Alex Husar.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Measuring Performance With Server Timing. Measuring Performance With Server Timing. That issue is slow server response times. There’s very little browser optimisations can do to improve a page that is simply slow to build on the server. Encompassed in that wait time is everything the server needs to do to build the page.

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Servers Performance Metrics Database 88

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

I can reload the exact same page under the exact same network conditions over and over, and I can guarantee I will not get the exact same, say, DOMContentLoaded each time. What if another file on the critical path had dropped out of cache and needed fetching from the network? This next example was the motivation for this whole article.

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Benchmarking Metrics Cache Network 212

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

We’re equally convinced on both counts, but in this blog article, we’re focusing on why MongoDB is not open source. This blog article traces key developments that coincided with MongoDB’s move away from open source software, and it examines how SSPL influence might have lured others in the same direction.

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 81

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Every unnecessary bit of JavaScript code you bundle and serve will be more code the client has to load and process. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. How will you serve blazingly fast code, then?

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Performance Cache Servers Social Media 127

CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

A classic example is jQuery, that we might link to like so: There are a number of perceived benefits to doing this, but my aim later in this article is to either debunk these claims, or show how other costs vastly outweigh them. I won’t go into too much detail in this post, because I have a whole article. Penalty: Network Negotiation.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. On that note, it’s worth calling out that there are multiple flavors of network throttling.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 82

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. This article will cover many areas that database administrators need to be aware of in order to properly license, recover, and tune a Reporting Services installation.

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Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Have we optimized enough with tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, progressive hydration, clients hints, HTTP/3, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

In this article, we will explain Redis sharding, explore its pros and cons, and how to apply it. Unlike replication, which merely copies data from one place to another, sharding entails horizontally partitioning the database into separate segments or shards placed on different servers. How Does Redis Sharding Work?

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Scalability Efficiency Java Database 130

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Using SQL Server’s SNITrace to Troubleshoot Networking Issues In the process of tracking down a few TCP 10054 issues (highlighted here: ​​ [link] ) I ​​ also ​​ used ​​ the ​​ SNITrace ​​ (SNI Trace) ​​ capabilities.

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Network Servers Processing Software Engineering 40

tRPC

JANUARY 16, 2023

post ) throw new TRPCError ({ code : "NOT_FOUND" }); return post ; }) , ; 5 more.; post ) throw new TRPCError ({ code : "NOT_FOUND" }); return post ; }) , ; 5 more.; post ) throw new TRPCError ( { code : " NOT_FOUND " } ) ; return post ; } ) , ; 5 more.; any): Post | undefined (+1 overload)">find (( p ) => p. id ); if ( !

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Servers Code Network Database 145

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Here’s another article about reducing JavaScript dependencies and the bundle size sent to the client. This article is about a couple of things that Bookaway faced and we (as a company in the traveling industry) managed to optimize our pages, so that the HTML we send is smaller. Now it kicks into play in the server. Liran Cohen.

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Google Architecture Servers Speed 111

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Kubernetes Dashboard as a part of a comprehensive monitoring solution This article introduces the key building blocks to consider when designing your Kubernetes monitoring solution. After applying the first manifests (which are likely copied and pasted from a how-to tutorial ), a web server is up and running within minutes.

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Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 158

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

Pre-deployment policy compliance, supported by policy as code frameworks such as Sentinel, Open Policy Agent (OPA), Conftest, etc. 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.

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AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies. In DevTools, the Network inspector helps us see what the first webpage is doing too.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

HTTP(s) Headers are key-value pairs that can be used by the client or server to pass additional information along with an HTTP(s) request or response. without any need to code. That was when I first got to witness the power of network headers. But first, let’s start at the beginning. What Are HTTP(s) Headers?

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Testing Network Website Google 102

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

On the Android team, while most of our time is spent working on the app, we are also responsible for maintaining this backend that our app communicates with, and its orchestration code. Image taken from a previously published blog post As you can see, our code was just a part (#2 in the diagram) of this monolithic service.

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

Instead, we want to focus on detecting and stopping attacks before they happen: In your applications, in context, at the exact line of code that is vulnerable and in use. Attack tactics describe why an attacker performs an action, for example, to get that first foothold into your network. Scanned our internal network with  nmap.

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Analytics AWS Strategy Infrastructure 184

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

There are two images sitting on a server, a large one and a small one. The less across the network, the less electricity. making a network request over and over) rather than something event-based like web sockets? Imagine images. You’ll be dinged on performance scores for serving too large or unoptimized images.

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Website Energy Storage Efficiency 97

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It’s much easier to reach performance goals when the code base is fresh or is just being refactored.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Each storage server collects statistics about the requests it serves, the data it stores, etc. This increases the cores and network bandwidth available to serve common requests. We also implemented a routing service that sends user requests to the correct servers in the correct tiers. Related Articles.

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Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

This blog article will examine shared attributes of high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). For example, in a server cluster, multiple servers are used to host the same application so that if one server fails, the application can continue to run on the other servers. there cannot be high availability.

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Availability Hardware Open Source Database 78

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

In this article, we will see how to implement authentication and authorization in our Next.js You will be automatically logged in to all of them; Social login : Authenticate using your preferred social network profile; Multi-Factor Authentication ; Multiple standard protocols are allowed, such as OpenID Connect, JSON Web Token, or OAuth 2.0;

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Serverless Servers Programming Database 115

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Following the series of blogs written with the intention to describe basic operations matching Docker and open source databases, in this article, I will demonstrate how to proceed with installing MongoDB with Docker. I wrote this article based on the Docker-maintained repository. Docker quickly deploys standalone MongoDB containers.

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Scalability Best Practices Servers Database 58

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2019

The idea presented here is now to load only so many bytes of a progressive JPEG from the server that you can quickly get an impression of the image content. With Ajax, however, this is possible, provided that the server delivering the image supports HTTP Range Requests. Creating the Frontend JavaScript Code.

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Network Servers Programming Code 104

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

However, let’s take a step further and learn how to deploy modern qualities to PWAs, such as offline functionality, network-based optimizing, cross-device user experience, SEO capabilities, and non-intrusive notifications and requests. The service workers also retrieve the latest data once the server connection is restored.

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Cache Internet Internet Google 125

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. After the file is uploaded to a server on step 1, the file must be available to whichever server handles the request for steps 2 and 3, which may or may not be the same one for step 1. Leonardo Losoviz.

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AWS Servers Storage Cloud 45

Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2022

The output of the code above would be the following: WeakMap {{…} => 'done'} man = null; console.log(human). The object is retained in memory and can be accessed with the following code: console.log(human[0]). let human = new WeakMap(): // Create an object, and assign it to a variable called man. It keeps the object in memory.

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Cache Programming Storage Code 119

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Time To First Byte (TTFB) This is the time it takes for the first piece of information from the server to reach the user’s browser. You need to beware that slow server response times can significantly increase TTFB, often due to server overload, network issues, or un-optimized logic on the server side.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104