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The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces

Dynatrace

In this OpenTelemetry demo series, we’ll take an in-depth look at how to use OpenTelemetry to add observability to a distributed web application that originally didn’t know anything about tracing, telemetry, or observability. However, as software workloads have become more distributed, relying on logs alone is proving inadequate.

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Breaking Down Bulky Builds With Netlify And Next.js

Smashing Magazine

Without build optimizations (incremental builds, caching, we will get to those soon) this will eventually become unmanageable as well — think about going through all images in a website: resizing, deleting, and/or creating new files over and over again. The cache is invalidated on a time basis. Creating an On-Demand builder.

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How To Add eBPF Observability To Your Product

Brendan Gregg

cachestat File system cache statistics line charts. In a previous blog post, [An Unbelievable Demo], I talked about how something similar happened many years ago where old tracing tool versions were used without updates. BPF didn't exist on those versions, so I used basic Ftrace capabilities that were available on Linux 3.2.

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A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors

Smashing Magazine

If the web font isn’t available then, we fall back to the fallback font, but the next page navigation (or a reload of this page) will use the font — as it should have finished downloading now. It’s also trickier to handle cached fonts we already have, not to mention differences in various fallback styles.

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Why is Wordpress Slow?

KeyCDN

Many factors affect the speed of your WordPress website; some of them are: Your web host Server-side optimizations (PHP version, compression, caching, etc.) Several website speed testing tools available could be used for this purpose. Even many of their demos, packed full of content, load under 800 ms.

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Minimal Logging with INSERT…SELECT into Empty Clustered Tables

SQL Performance

If both sort and no-sort alternatives are available, the optimizer will make a cost-based choice. The demo loads 268 rows into a brand new clustered table using INSERT.SELECT with TABLOCK , and reports on the transaction log records generated. spt_values AS SV ; Plan Caching. DECLARE @NumRows bigint = 269 ; INSERT dbo.

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The Fastest Google Fonts

CSS Wizardry

It’s widely accepted that self-hosted fonts are the fastest option: same origin means reduced network negotiation, predictable URLs mean we can preload , self-hosted means we can set our own cache-control. directives , and full ownership mitigates the risks that come with leaving static assets on third-party origins.

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