Percona

JULY 24, 2023

To make sure that Percona Backup for MongoDB answers the pains of our customers, we took the common denominator of the pains that anyone using snapshot capabilities faces when performing backups and restores and positioned PBM as the open source, freely available answer to those pains. I am happy to announce that with PBM 2.2.0,

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Availability Open Source Strategy Storage 76

Alex Podelko

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Can’t say that it changed much since then industry-wise – but great free MongoDB courses are available to everybody). Impact of Available IOPS On Your Database Performance. Overnight to 60 Seconds: An IOT ETL Performance Case Study. There are many great blog posts: Performance Best Practices 7-parts series.

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Performance IoT Education Best Practices 200

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

In the recent webinar, Good to great: Case studies in excellence on state and local government transformations, Tammy Zbojniewicz, enterprise monitoring and service delivery owner within Michigan’s Department of Technology, Management, and Budget (DTMB), illustrates that meeting both objectives is possible.

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Government Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 167

Dynatrace

JULY 26, 2022

We covered everything from the study findings, how the study was conducted, how the data was collated, and most importantly – what it means for you, our partners, and how you can leverage it to better serve your customers and business. The post Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) Study: What does it mean for you?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 9, 2020

And, with an increased demand for products and services do customers know what’s available and in real-time? Here, I want to demonstrate how some of our Dynatrace customers in LATAM are using our platform to adapt, change and improve their processes to confront this unique situation with case study examples from various industries: 1.

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Retail Government Infrastructure Mobile 182

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This is certainly frustrating for a website’s user, but even more so for its owner: in fact, there is a direct correlation between web performance and business revenue which has been corroborated time and again in a plethora of case studies. Let’s explore in a case study how we can effectively combine the power of Astro and Storyblok.

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Website Performance Ecommerce Technology 109

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The remainder of this post discusses the first paper above, which was published at KDD ’22 (and available on ArXiV ). If you are curious about the technical details of the sequential tests for quantiles developed here, you can learn all about the math in our KDD paper ( also available on arxiv ). We detail one example. What’s next?

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Testing Software Software Metrics 239

CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

They were either running their own infrastructure and installing and deploying Brotli everywhere proved non-trivial, or they were using a CDN who didn’t have readily available support for the new algorithm. Each new TCP connection has no way of knowing what bandwidth it currently has available to it, nor how reliable the connection is (i.e.

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Latency Servers Website Speed 269

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

The ideal end user experience is friction-free: users can access available and functional applications how, when, and where they want. Case study: The value of DEM for Vitality. Dynatrace news. But how do companies ensure they’re delivering this level of omnichannel user experience?

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Mobile Monitoring Benchmarking Best Practices 173

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

WebP size comparison In previous case studies, we've analyzed the different image sizes against WebP. In almost each case, the size of the WebP images was smaller. WebP Case Study with WordPress Cache Enabler Commonly used Image Processing operations Image Processing offers a wide range of operations.

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Processing Cache Website Servers 127

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

Once you have this all working, you have version 1! ## Case study: Netflix Netflix is building a new GUI that does this tool dashboard and more, based on the bpftrace versions of these tools. BPF didn't exist on those versions, so I used basic Ftrace capabilities that were available on Linux 3.2. at the time.

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

This is a rough post to share this old but good case study of using these tools, and to help justify their further development. total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 64414 15421 349 5 48643 48409 Swap: 0 0 0. total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 64414 18421 11218 5 34773 45407 Swap: 0 0 0.

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Cache C++ AWS Latency 105

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

The second approach is on the diagnosis side: data teams measure the impact of outages and expose patterns across their occurrence, as well as provide a connected view of micro-service-level availability. Can we adjust our auto-scaling policies to be more efficiency without risking our availability during traffic spikes?

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Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Case Study: Studio Edge Intro to Studio Ecosystem Netflix is producing original content at an accelerated pace. From the time a TV show or a movie is pitched to when it’s available on Netflix, a lot happens behind the scenes. We’re sharing our story to inspire others and encourage conversations around applicability elsewhere.

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Architecture Engineering Scalability Open Source 359

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This data is available by enabling the mPulse behavior in property manager. Recent server timing case studies It's great to see server timing starting to get more use in the wild. Below are some examples from the major CDN providers that you can leverage. db = Duration of the request processing spent querying the database.

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

LCP is only available in Chromium-based browsers, so if you have a significant number of users that come in via other browsers, you should also consider tracking Last Painted Hero, below. > Several metrics are available in both tools, so you can create charts in which you track the same metric in both synthetic and RUM.

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. We already have 55 Availability Zones across 19 infrastructure regions that customers can use today. This news marks the 23rd AWS Region that we have announced globally.

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AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Specific metrics to measure include current pods, available pods, unavailable pods, and current node conditions. To learn more about Dynatrace and Red Hat OpenShift, check out this case study from Porsche Informatik and this blog from Red Hat, The Power of OpenShift, The Visibility of Dynatrace. What is OpenShift?

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Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Speed Curve

JANUARY 7, 2020

There's a ton of useful material and inspiring case studies in here, including some really great examples of using correlation charts to see the relationship between performance and conversions. SpeedCurve's User Happiness metric (available in LUX) is an aggregate metric that includes Largest Contentful Paint.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Monitoring 84

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Twitter’s Image Pipeline (Case Study). +. This case study focuses on the different steps that Twitter has taken to load images faster while ensuring they are as impactful as intended. The eBook is available right away (PDF, ePUB, Amazon Kindle). eBook is already available as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Twitter’s Image Pipeline (Case Study). +. This case study focuses on the different steps that Twitter has taken to load images faster while ensuring they are as impactful as intended. eBook is available, too as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle. Let’s take a look at each one of them. ISBN: 978-3-945749-94-4 (print).

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Here, we will look through a case study with an example. Currently, the optimizer hint for the flag ‘ prefer_ordering_index’ is not yet available till version 8.2.0. Prior to MySQL 8.0.21, it was not possible to disable this optimization, but in MySQL 8.0.21 Let’s first understand the problem.

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Efficiency Database Open Source Performance 103

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

However, with limited resources including time, money, and available labor, decisions need to be made: Should the enrollment be mobile friendly? In one of my case studies, I’ll share how we used velcro and felt to have potential users explore the concept of a touch screen kiosk at a zoo exhibit. Case Studies.

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Design Testing Education Processing 98

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. We already have 44 Availability Zones across 16 geographic Regions that customers can use today. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally.

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Cloud Education Energy Government 152

Highly Scalable

JANUARY 31, 2012

Several practical case studies are also provided. Case Study: Simulation of a Digital Communication System. This process is illustrated in the figure below: Case Study: Availability Propagation Through The Tree of Categories. End-of-line category is either available (contains products) or not.

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C++ Network Ecommerce Processing 144

Speed Curve

JULY 10, 2023

This study and a number of other case studies tracked over the years can be found at WPOstats.) Lighthouse scores and audits and Core Web Vitals thresholds ( which are both available in SpeedCurve ) offer guidance on thresholds and optimizations, but they can't show you how performance affects user behavior and outcomes.

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Performance Metrics Traffic Speed 52

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

With this change, we will improve the granularity of pricing information you receive by introducing a Spot Instance price per Availability Zone rather than a Spot Instance price per Region. Customers whose bids exceed the Spot price gain access to the available Spot Instances and run as long as the bid exceeds the Spot Price.

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AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 85

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

The web is streaming, meaning it has none of the resources locally available when you open an app for the first time. Case-Study: PROXX. The main thread is responsible for rendering the DOM (via preact and, if available, WebGL) and capturing UI events. Case Study: Moving A Three.js-Based Large preview ).

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Games Architecture Code C++ 145

Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

Case studies are an awesome way to do this, which is why I've been helping curate WPOstats , a vendor-neutral directory of performance case studies. Case studies are a great way to convert performance skeptics. Case study: Here's how Zillow creates and enforces performance budgets.

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

This is a rough post to share this old but good case study of using these tools, and to help justify their further development. I hope this case study helps show why it is useful and worth the effort. I was asked to help, and used a variety of Linux performance tools to solve this including those that use eBPF and Ftrace.

Cache 40

Cache C++ AWS Systems 40

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

But Vitals have some limitations, such as: They're only available in Chromium-based browsers. For example, this case study explains how we used RUM to A/B test JSONP requests and the preloader. These offers are available until December 31, 2023, so act soon! They don't always correlate to what users see.

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Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

CSS Wizardry

APRIL 25, 2019

Focus less on technologies and syntax and think more about strategic and business-facing case studies from your past. Why Is This Position Available? The Head of Tech likely reports into C-level staff, so they’ll sit pretty close to the business, but might not have as much hands-on technical knowledge as a day-to-day engineer.

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Code Engineering Design C++ 197

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. How to get there?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

WPOStats highlights literally hundreds of case studies showing how a drop in perfrmance — from a few hundreds of milliseconds to seconds — might result in a massive drop in annual sales. There are also other options available. Study the weight of your webpages and the size of their media assets.

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Media Performance Mobile Latency 118

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2022

I was very keen to get feedback on the design, so as soon as Dan was available we went through my workshop draft. I asked myself the question: “is it possible for attendees to learn about a small topic without me providing theory or case studies?”. Dan helped me to see that I had designed the workshop as a consultant.

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