Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Or even on a plane. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

This article dives straight into what triggers a rollback in MongoDB, the risks it carries, and concrete steps you can take to both prevent and recover from one. This particular write concern prioritizes data longevity over reading speed.

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Database Network Servers Monitoring 130

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A WordPress website comprises many parts, including web servers and their settings, different plugins, and themes. Unfortunately, it is a bit difficult to point out the problem directly– there are many possibilities that we will explore in this article. We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site.

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Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

As I see it, there are two main issues when it comes to measuring performance changes (note, not improvements , but changes) in the lab: Site-speed is nondeterministic 1. We can take reasonable measures (always refresh from a cold cache; throttle to a constant network speed), but we can’t account for everything. Isolate Your Impact.

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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

So in this article, we’ll pit Gzip vs Brotli and completely end the debate! Simply put, compression allows the web server to send smaller files to your web site viewers. When someone enters your URL and requests your site, their browser will indicate to the web server that it understands compression (and which type it understands).

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

Any website request initially goes to the DNS server to fetch the IP address of the website and accesses it on the responded address. The Great Firewall of China also uses the trick to reset connections between two communicating devices/servers, as long as the transmitted data is qualified as sensitive data. DNS Poisoning/Spoofing.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

In this article, I will discuss some common test automation myths and biases that people have towards test automation. operator has been used throughout this article to denote inequality. Here is the link to the open-source version of Testsigma: testsigmahq/testsigma: Build stable and reliable end-to-end tests @ DevOps speed.

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Testing Open Source IoT Programming 95

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

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. Client Side Rendering, Server Side Rendering And Jamstack. To run it, you have to make another API call to the server and retrieve any data you want to load. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

CSS Wizardry

JANUARY 31, 2019

Where bandwidth deals with capacity, latency is more about speed of transfer 2. This is the column we want to focus on for this article. If I wanted to speed up the delivery of these images, I am unlikely to get any real gains through optimising them further. To help demystify it, look at the Server Timing API. ↩

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In this article, we will check how page load time affects your site revenue and also the importance of even just one second in page loading. They get even MORE impatient when it comes to website speed. drop in the number of articles a visitor read The three-second delay resulted in a 7.9% Want proof? Want proof?

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Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In comparison, the AIOps approach discussed within this article, is built upon a radically different deterministic AI engine – at Dynatrace known as Davis – that yields precise, actionable results in real-time. Another huge advantage of that approach is speed. This is now the starting node in our tree. How a deterministic AI works.

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Software Software Artificial Intelligence Metrics 264

Percona

MARCH 24, 2023

You might want to use binlog compression with MySQL/ Percona Server for MySQL , but it can come with drawbacks. This article discusses the need for using binlog compression and the potential issues it may cause. The easiest way to fix this error is to restart the primary MySQL server to update the gtid_purged variable.

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Open Source Database C++ Servers 82

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Any website request initially goes to the DNS server to fetch the IP address of the website and accesses it on the responded address. The Great Firewall of China also uses the trick to reset connections between two communicating devices/servers, as long as the transmitted data is qualified as sensitive data. DNS Poisoning/Spoofing.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 97

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more … Why Performance doesn’t get Prioritized Web performance at organizations is a real challenge. Ideally, shoot for 30% speed improvements. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Or even on a plane. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

HTTP Preload and HTTP/2’s feature “Server Push” are both methods that can be used to improve the loading efficiency of your web application. In this article, we’ll go over the similarities and differences between HTTP Preload vs HTTP/2 Push and discuss when it makes sense to use each.

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Speed Servers Website Efficiency 99

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In this article, we will go through how to optimize and build a high-performance Next.js We will go through how to set up an Nx server, how to add a plugin to an existing server, and the concept of a monorepo with a practical visualization. For this article, we will be focusing on how Nx works with Next.js What Is Nx?

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Cache Servers Code Storage 109

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While speeding up development processes and reducing complexity does make the lives of Kubernetes operators easier, the inherent abstraction and automation can lead to new types of errors that are difficult to find, troubleshoot, and prevent. Both health checks are running perfectly fine and it seems that there is no problem.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. This follow-up post revisits the question for SQL Server 2019, using a larger number of rows. This machine has four i7 CPUs (hyperthreaded to 8) with a base speed of 2.4GHz. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance.

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Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. 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!

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Tech News Gather

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

With some unique advantages like low latency and faster speed, 5G aims to give birth to a new era of mobile application development with some innovations. With the increase in speed and less latency, there are a lot of possibilities that can be explored in the field of the internet of things (IOT) and smart devices.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Then again, a newer but less widely known framework may more effectively suit your needs, so it's worth it to get up to speed about today's most popular options. Prototypes - The ideal frontend framework allows you to quickly produce wireframes and prototypes to speed up the overall design and development process.

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MachMetrics

AUGUST 7, 2019

Every time your website loads, it’s using computing power at the server to generate your page, network power to transfer your page, and device power to render your page on the browser. The less power that’s used, the better for the environment, better for your server costs, and better for you client’s utility bills.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 68

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Our solution doesn't require any change on the origin server. How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. WebP delivery doesn't require any change on the origin server with the WebP caching feature. We won't go into detail in this article.

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Processing Cache Website Servers 127

MachMetrics

JANUARY 13, 2021

Webpagetest.org is one of the premier page speed auditing services in the industry. Patrick Meenan, the founder of WebPageTest, speaks very highly of Catchpoint in his article , adding that they share his passion and obsession with web performance. This is obviously very exciting news, but a little uncertainty comes with it.

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Open Source Network Speed Engineering 64

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

While it’s important to check various speed metrics , the Web Almanac uses data from the Chome UX Report which focuses on how Chrome users actually experience the web. As we mentioned in our article Average Page Load Times for 2020 , mobile page speed is a huge deal going forward. It can also be described as server delay.

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Performance Speed Website Mobile 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. 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. Lighthouse results. One type is called lab data.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Reduced Resource Usage Optimizing resource-intensive queries and configurations can lead to a reduced burden on your server. Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? In her book, Lara Hogan helps you approach projects with page speed in mind, showing you how to test and benchmark which design choices are most critical. Speed Up Your Site.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

Any website request initially goes to the DNS server to fetch the IP address of the website and accesses it on the responded address. The Great Firewall of China also uses the trick to reset connections between two communicating devices/servers, as long as the transmitted data is qualified as sensitive data. DNS Poisoning/Spoofing.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

Any website request initially goes to the DNS server to fetch the IP address of the website and accesses it on the responded address. The Great Firewall of China also uses the trick to reset connections between two communicating devices/servers, as long as the transmitted data is qualified as sensitive data. DNS Poisoning/Spoofing.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

For example, later in this article, we’ll be developing a web toy that flips a webpage upside down making it readable for Australians. When developing locally, it can be a pain to simulate wildcard domains and we’ll be touching on this a fair bit later on in this article but it is something important to keep in mind. More after jump!

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Servers Website Code Best Practices 83

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Netlify has a great article going over a few of their favorites. Everyone should just use a static site generator and experience incredible speed increases? It can, of course, be changed by the developer, but after it is built and stored on a server, it gets sent to your visitors exactly the same way until it’s updated.

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Website Speed Traffic Database 52

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This is due to the fact that the cloud enables the provisioning of test servers on demand. This also ensures unused servers are not sitting idle. In this article, we will discuss what features make Testsigma a recommended tool for cloud automation testing. This feature can further speed up your test case execution.

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Cloud Testing Mobile Scalability 59

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

In this article we’ll take a look at the main types of Resource Hints and when and where we can use them in our pages. One step on from DNS prefetching is preconnecting to a server. Establishing a connection to a server hosting a resource takes several steps: DNS lookup (as we’ve just discussed); TCP handshake. Preconnecting.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Most browsers implement the Intersection Observer API, common libraries make it super simple to implement, and speed is more important than ever. My previous article implemented lazy loading in plain javascript, but I wanted something more robust. Your server, and your users will thank you. The jQuery Lazy Plugin.

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