Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

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MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2020

Chrome’s DevTools suite contains some of the most powerful tools available to help you analyze and improve the speed of your website (or web app). However, we often get asked about another area of the DevTools – the ‘Performance’ tab. Accessing the DevTools Performance Tab. To improve your site!

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. and 75KiB of JavaScript.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2020

Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring allows you to proactively monitor the availability of your public as well as your internal web applications and API endpoints from locations around the globe or important internal locations such as branch offices. Synthetic monitors are also the perfect tool to monitor performance baselines.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

In Part I , we introduced a High Availability (HA) framework for MySQL hosting and discussed various components and their functionality. Semisynchronous replication, which is natively available in MySQL, helps the HA framework to ensure data consistency and redundancy for committed transactions. slave_preserve_commit_order = 1.

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Percona

JANUARY 4, 2023

Last time I blogged about the New WAL Archive Module/Library feature available in PostgreSQL 15 , which is quite transformative in how WALs are archived today in PostgreSQL. In this blog, I would like to highlight some of them which solve great operational challenges for many of the PostgreSQL users. . * Thanks to Community!

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2020

”, “Are my OneAgents and ActiveGates performing well?”, Speed of management: with a single command you can manage hundreds or thousands of Dynatrace OneAgents almost instantaneously, wherever they are and whatever they are configured to do. ”, and “Do I have the latest versions installed?”

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

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Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Custom data buckets for faster queries, increased control, and custom retention periods The first layer in the Grail data model consists of buckets and tables (and views for entities, which is outside this blog post’s scope). This improves query speeds and reduces related costs for all other teams and apps.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

But what about our web font’s performance? Unfortunately, there is typically much less thought put into the performance cost of using the amazing third-party font you downloaded. Considering web font performance is something that should become a habit of yours. Use it wherever possible for the best performance.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Further, it builds a rich analytics layer powered by Dynatrace causational artificial intelligence, Davis® AI, and creates a query engine that offers insights at unmatched speed. Data is available in real time without requiring indexing by our powerful Dynatrace Query Language. High-performance analytics—no indexing required.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform delivers precise answers about the performance of your applications, the underlying infrastructure, and the experience of your end-users. To make some queries even simpler, keywords are available. Dynatrace news. The “to now” portion of the expression is applied by default.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

However, getting reliable answers from observability data so teams can automate more processes to ensure speed, quality, and reliability can be challenging. This drive for speed has a cost: 22% of leaders admit they’re under so much pressure to innovate faster that they must sacrifice code quality. – blog.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure. MySQL on AWS Performance Test. AWS High Performance XLarge (see system details below). Amazon RDS.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

SREs use Service-Level Indicators (SLI) to see the complete picture of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across various systems, especially revenue-critical systems. Thus, Site Reliability Guardian supports DevOps and SREs in speeding up release delivery and improving release quality.

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MachMetrics

JULY 15, 2020

However, if utilized carelessly, CSS can greatly affect our page speed. When a user requests a website, the browser must process all the information available to determine the layout and style. That’s good to know, but I know you’re looking for a css speed test, or techniques for optimizing your css for speed.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. This is what this blog is all about. Its a detailed tutorial blog that explains how you can make the first steps towards SLI/SLO-based Quality Gates. For this blog I will be using the same Node.js

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Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 189

Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2021

I am delighted to share, Dynatrace has been named a Leader for the 11 th consecutive time in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) report. Dynatrace enables our customers to tame cloud complexity, speed innovation, and deliver better business outcomes through BizDevSecOps collaboration.

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2021

Based on survey results gathered during the Dynatrace Perform 2020 conference, we learned that just 10% of organizations have implemented automatic quality gates in their release pipelines. Only 10% of organizations have implemented automatic quality gate validation (Source: Perform 2020 survey). Shift left your SRE practices.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. How did you get into performance engineering? At first, we were using LoadRunner, but we quickly moved to Performance Center. After a year I was put in charge of the Performance Center platform (9.52

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The challenge with ASP.NET Web Service Observability, Diagnostics and Performance Optimization is that most monitoring & diagnostic tools only provide global Service Level Indicators metrics (SLIs) such as response time, failure rate, and throughput, but not metrics for each individual service endpoint. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Effective application development requires speed and specificity. Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Increased availability.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

New technologies like Xamarin or React Native are accelerating the speed at which organizations release new features and unlock market reach. How do I connect the dots between mobile analytics and performance monitoring? Optimize mobile app performance and maximize business impact. Dynatrace news.

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Analytics Mobile Performance Monitoring 203

Dynatrace

APRIL 23, 2019

Synthetic monitors provide a perfect means of continually monitoring the performance baselines of your web applications. However, understanding the performance of different application types requires an emphasis on different performance metrics, that is, key performance metrics. Key performance metrics come with a new UI.

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Metrics Monitoring Performance Speed 102

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. Recently, I spent some time checking on the Performance (not a very detailed study) of the various programming languages.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But, manual steps — such as reviewing test results and addressing production issues resulting from performance, resiliency, security, or functional issues — often hinder these efforts. Many organizations often start with the service availability and performance SLOs. For example, if you have a 99.9%

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DevOps Metrics Engineering Speed 215

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

For example, log data, which can include personal data, should have a shorter retention period when used to troubleshoot and debug performance issues in your testing environment (compared to log data used for audit logs) because the data might not be needed after a few days. Other data types will be available soon).

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Storage Healthcare Best Practices Speed 164

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

However, that assumes he or she is available and has time to talk. In a distributed processing environment, message queuing is similar, although the speed and volume of messages are much greater. This approach is common in transaction-intensive environments in which teams perform the same tasks repetitively.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

However, that assumes he or she is available and has time to talk. In a distributed processing environment, message queuing is similar, although the speed and volume of messages are much greater. This approach is common in transaction-intensive environments in which teams perform the same tasks repetitively.

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Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2020

Dynatrace Visually complete is a point-in-time web performance metric that measures when the visual area of a page has finished loading. New web performance metrics and r evamped Visually Complete. Analyze application performance with newly added web performance metrics. More precisely, you can now: .

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Now, Dynatrace and Microsoft have further deepened their partnership by making Dynatrace for Azure generally available. Monitoring the health and performance of your workloads—whether based in Azure or other cloud providers—is established in minutes with just a few clicks. How to get started.

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MachMetrics

MAY 2, 2020

Our most recent article identified (and remedied) the 4 most common page speed testing mistakes we see website owners making, and it inspired us to do even more to help those who make mistake #2: Only testing from 1 location. Of course, testing won’t often be available exactly where you are, but we can get very close.

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Simform

JULY 13, 2022

AWS Lambda provides various benefits such as scalability, cost-efficiency, high availability, and more. But it also introduces cold starts and latency, decelerating your applications’ performance. This blog discusses how Lambda provisioned concurrency reduces cold starts and improves the speed and performance of your applications.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2022

In turn, IAC offers increased deployment speed and cross-team collaboration without increased complexity. But this increased speed can’t come at the expense of control, compliance, and security. As a result, IT teams often end up performing time-consuming, manual processes. The post What is infrastructure as code?

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