Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

The need for transaction speed in the face of increasing digital customer demand According to Bollampally, the company’s on-premises infrastructure couldn’t support the consolidated reporting it needed while responding to customers’ increasing demand for online shopping. ” Three years ago, Tractor Supply Co.

Cloud 176

Cloud Ecommerce Performance Retail 176

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2023

In 2015, the Spring folks already regarded Dynatrace as the gold standard for performance monitoring. We also use Micrometer to analyze ingest queue processing speed, which helps us make decisions about adding resources. Auto-enrichment is also available in cases where OneAgent is unavailable or unnecessary.

Metrics 203

Metrics Analytics Speed Java 203

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2020

Dynatrace supports full-stack monitoring for Kubernetes, from the application down to the infrastructure layer. However, if you don’t have access to the infrastructure layer, Dynatrace also provides the option of application-only monitoring. Can mount a volume to speed up injection for subsequent pods.

Government 166

Government Innovation Strategy Speed 166

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

To speed up release frequency, they’re investing in delivery-pipeline automation. The flip side of speeding up delivery, however, is that each software release comes with the risk of impacting your goals of availability, performance, or any business KPIs. Build your own Site Reliability Engineering dashboards.

Metrics 154

Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 154

Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2021

Cloud Automation workshop attendees not only get to walk through my Three-step implementation guide to answer-drive SLO-based release validation , but they also get to trigger multi-stage and multi-environment cloud automation including Monitoring As Code , Deployment Automation, and SLO-based Release Validation. Hands-on 2: Codify your SLOs.

Cloud 214

Cloud DevOps Azure Virtualization 214

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

Experience with the recent MOVEit vulnerability illustrated some of the key incomplete data challenges organizations face when trying to find definitive answers to questions like “were we exploited?” Analysts can use AutomationEngine to continuously monitor and respond to IoCs. and “was any sensitive data stolen?”

Analytics 223

Analytics Metrics Database Storage 223

Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

This week my colleague Michael Winkler announced the general availability of Cloud Automation quality gates , a new capability that aims to provide answer-driven release validation as part of your delivery process. We have seen users who joined our preview program “speed up their release validation by 90%”. Expand to more use cases.

DevOps 245

DevOps Open Source Cloud Azure 245

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Workflow Definitions Below you can see a typical file structure of a sample workflow package written in SparkSQL. ??? In every sample workflow package there are three workflow definition files that work together to provide flexible functionality. See an example high water mark job from the main workflow definition. -

Best Practices 358

Best Practices Code Testing Data Engineering 358

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

What these steps have in common is that monitoring tools are not in sync with new changes in code or topology and this observability data is often siloed within different tools and teams. Dynatrace makes this easy by offering a collection of best-practice SLO definitions for various use cases beyond the observability domain.

DevOps 224

DevOps Metrics Engineering Speed 224

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 26, 2020

Stack trace monitoring tools can assist with this, but they can only go so far. This is why it is so critical to implement synthetic application monitoring techniques into your business. A dequate application monitoring focuses on user activity, third-party dependencies, as well as infrastructure.

Monitoring 54

Monitoring C++ Website Programming 54

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

According to the 2022 Dynatrace CIO Report , the average organization uses 10 monitoring tools across its technology stack due to silos and inability to scale. At its core, DevOps encourages collaboration between development and operations teams to speed up software delivery. Who is responsible for that in a modern development team?

DevOps 166

DevOps Engineering Innovation Best Practices 166

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

To get a better handle on this, let’s start with some definitions. These can include business metrics, such as conversion rates, uptime, and availability; service metrics, such as application performance; or technical metrics, such as dependencies to third-party services, underlying CPU, and the cost of running a service.

Metrics 196

Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 196

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

Sample GraphQL Schema Once entities like the above are available in the graph, it’s very common for folks to want to query for a particular entity based on attributes of related entities, e.g. give me all movies that are currently in photography with Ryan Reynolds as an actor. We continue to manage tradeoffs between reindexing speed and load.

Engineering 263

Engineering Architecture Java Infrastructure 263

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

However, with our rapid product innovation speed, the whole approach experienced significant challenges: Business Complexity: The existing SKU management solution was designed years ago when the engagement rules were simple? Rule owners are responsible for making sure the requirements match the rule definition and request context.

Mobile 209

Mobile Engineering Infrastructure Scalability 209

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

Having said that, looking at data over the past ten years, it's safe to make the observation that pages are definitely trending bigger. You can dig deeper into the mechanics of how CLS is calculated, but the human-friendly definition is that CLS helps you understand how likely a page is to deliver a janky, unpleasant experience to viewers.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. In an ideal world, pages served to mobile devices should be under 1 MB – and definitely not more than 2 MB – but I often see pages in excess of 5 MB.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. What is a performance budget? Can I use it?

Performance 133

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 133

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

However, Netflix is available for streaming on thousands of types of devices and it is powered by hundreds of micro-services which are deployed independently, making it extremely challenging to comprehensively test internally. Additionally, this gets us closer to consistent metric definitions in both realtime and offline systems.

Metrics 197

Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 197

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Monitoring The Main Thread If you’re like me, I immediately reach for DevTools and open the Lighthouse tab when I need to look into a site’s performance. Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. The user is forced to wait a whopping 4.1 That’s where INP comes into play.

Google 91

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

While Federico definitely has good points there, there is some truth in these myths too. The open source load testing tools definitely advanced a lot in both maturity and functionality – but there are many areas where they are behind best commercial tools (and if it matters for a specific user is another subject – for some it may not).

Open Source 223

Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Since a SPA is by definition a full app shoved inside a single page, the CLS for a SPA would continue to grow for the lifetime of the app/page. Similar to LCP, Element Timing measures when a DOM element is rendered, and it's available in synthetic and RUM. This is where Element Timing comes in. Learn more here.

Performance 57

Performance Metrics Speed Google 57

Apica

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Any application with a high degree of interactivity and utility – meaning it’s not a simple single-path or low value app like a multiple-choice survey – can have an astronomical number of complex and variable user journeys available to test. Understanding customers starts with active user monitoring of on-screen actions and session data.

Testing 52

Testing DevOps Monitoring Media 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2019

As a full stack monitoring platform, Dynatrace collects a huge number of metrics for each OneAgent monitored host in your environment. With Dynatrace version 1.172, an updated of our metrics API endpoint (version 2) is now available. Dynatrace news. api/v2/metrics/descriptors. Flexible filters for focusing on relevant results.

Metrics 102

Metrics Efficiency Monitoring Azure 102

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you’re reading this before March 2024 and fire up your favorite performance monitoring tool, you’re going to to get a Core Web Vitals report like this one pulled from PageSpeed Insights: ( Large preview ) You’re likely used to seeing most of these metrics. INP will officially replace FID when it becomes an official Core Web Vital metric.

Traffic 95

Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 95

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Content Loaded, Start Render, Speed Index) — but from the experience of the user. Google uses anonymized data from Chrome users to feedback metrics and makes these available in the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX). This field data section is important and we’ll come back to that later.

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Core Web Vital metrics definitions. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective. I know that is a lot of information to unpack in a single sitting, and it definitely took our team time to wrap our minds around what it takes to achieve a low LCP score.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Hot backups vs. cold backups: A hot backup — used to minimize downtime and ensure data availability for critical applications — allows you to create a copy of a database while the system is still actively serving user requests and processing transactions. In a cold backup, the database is taken offline. .”

Database 84

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 84

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

However, Scala does have a number of structures that aren’t currently available in Java. These definitions are usually broke down by behaviors. There are a number of programmers who swear by the speed and performance of Scala. Failing to closely monitor your code can lead to lots of problems in the future.

Java 100

Java Performance Programming Virtualization 100

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 7, 2020

An automated system doesn’t make mistakes in the same way that a human operator might, and it can operate at greater speeds and/or lower costs than a human operator. In an automated system, two roles are left to humans: monitoring that the automated system is operating correctly, and taking over control if it isn’t.

Games 84

Games Monitoring Speed Systems 84

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. If you’re short on time, or want to see all of this in action instead then, please check out my Performance Clinic: Automated SRE-driven Performance Engineering with Dynatrace ” Step #1: Monitoring your test environment.

Engineering 195

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 195

Rigor

OCTOBER 21, 2019

An API typically describes the service’s available functionality, how it can be used and accessed, and what formats it will accept as an input or output. Put simply, Rigor is a web performance and monitoring platform used by businesses to manage the speed and reliability of their digital presence. APIs at Your Service.

Programming 82

Programming Monitoring Database Website 82

Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Legacy performance testing platforms have their place and are still required to ensure past investments can be monitored. Support for capacity planning, including “prescale clustering” –The Cloud, by definition, has no capacity limit, and many organizations rely on dynamic scaling to address usage spikes.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Games 40

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

At launch, an item’s change record is available in the stream for 24 hours after it is created. No matter which mechanism you choose to use, we make the stream data available to you instantly (latency in milliseconds) and how fast you want to apply the changes is up to you. DynamoDB Cross-region Replication. DynamoDB Triggers.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Many previous reading studies investigated the effect of typography on reading speed. But we know that faster speed does not always equate to better comprehension. In fact, better comprehension is often associated with slower reading speed.” — Sofie Beier (legibility expert), “ Bringing together science and typography ”.

Performance 95

Performance Design Speed Testing 95

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Back in May, we shared that SpeedCurve supports Google's Core Web Vitals in both our synthetic monitoring and LUX real user monitoring tools. Two of the Web Vitals – Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and First Input Delay (FID) – were actually available in SpeedCurve for quite a while prior to the announcement.

Retail 80

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 80

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This is my tailored view of it; others will have different definitions. Notice that in this definition, the role of the architect and technology strategist is not to merely serve the business but to play together. So, we will define the role of the architect in order to proceed from common ground. Contain entropy.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Typical examples include adding dedicated hardware accelerators to speed up encryption and decryption computations. Approaches Towards Security.

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98