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. In the U.S.,

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Site reliability engineering first emerged to address cloud computing’s new performance needs. Today, the platform engineer role is gaining speed as the newest byproduct of scaling DevOps in the emerging but complex cloud-native world. What is this new discipline, and is it a game-changer or just hype?

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Games Engineering DevOps Education 238

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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Availability Tuning Speed Network 113

CSS Wizardry

DECEMBER 9, 2023

A trivial performance optimisation to help speed up third-party or other-origin requests is to preconnect them: hint that the browser should preemptively open a full connection ( DNS , TCP , TLS ) to the origin in question, for example: In the right circumstances, this simple, single line of HTML can make pages hundreds of milliseconds faster !

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Speed Network Analytics Availability 234

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. Overall, 20x or more performance improvement is reported in the community. ready files are handled. Better monitoring of WAL archiving. Thanks to Community!

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Speed Monitoring Availability Code 111

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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Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture 270

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. While Federico definitely has good points there, there is some truth in these myths too. How did you get into performance engineering? At first, we were using LoadRunner, but we quickly moved to Performance Center.

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Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

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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Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

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. Background: How performance budgets work 1. What is a performance budget? What should a performance budget look like? Let's get started!

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

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.

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Metrics Analytics Speed Java 200

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

All of this convenient visibility is available with just a few clicks. To help you speed up MTTR, there are several levels of visualization to help slice and dice through information: Instances. Start monitoring in minutes. Begin network monitoring by simply deploying an extension with just a few clicks. Pool nodes. Virtual servers.

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Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 213

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. What is a performance budget? Here are mine.

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 134

Speed Curve

JULY 10, 2023

Demonstrating the impact of performance on your users – and on your business – is one of the best ways to get your company to care about the speed of your site. Setting up conversion tracking in SpeedCurve RUM is fairly simple and definitely worthwhile. This is where conversion tracking comes in.

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Performance Metrics Traffic Speed 52

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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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

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. Dynatrace makes this easy by offering a collection of best-practice SLO definitions for various use cases beyond the observability domain.

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DevOps Metrics Engineering Speed 221

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Ten years is a lot of time to reflect, and over this past year our team has been thinking a lot about not just the "what" and "how" of web performance, but also the "why". In that time, we've seen people's interest in performance dramatically increase, especially in the world of SEO. Among other things, we turned ten !

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Performance Metrics Speed Google 57

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.

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 152

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%”.

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DevOps Open Source Cloud Azure 245

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

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. Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. Step-by-step guide: SRE-driven performance analysis with Dynatrace. This is what this blog is all about.

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Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 193

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 2). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 2). Therefore, how well does it perform when compared to other typefaces that are considered to be historically well done or have been revived well? Thomas Bohm. 2022-06-10T08:00:00+00:00. 2022-06-10T12:33:17+00:00.

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Performance Design Speed Testing 94

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. Performing steps like switching from a single-CDN setup to a multi-CDN or separating strategies for content types can make the benefits twofold! Those days are long gone.

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Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. Performing steps like switching from a single-CDN setup to a multi-CDN or separating strategies for content types can make the benefits twofold! Those days are long gone.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The Scala system does have its own compiler, but it does not perform as the javac compiler does. However, Scala does have a number of structures that aren’t currently available in Java. These definitions are usually broke down by behaviors. The Performance Factor. Available Tools and Frameworks. Source- Pixabay.

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Java Performance Programming Virtualization 100

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

SLOs, together with service-level indicators (SLIs), deliver the performance promised in service-level agreements (SLAs) and other business level objectives (BLOs) while staying within error budgets. To get a better handle on this, let’s start with some definitions. availability of a website over a year, your error budget is.05%.

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Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 193

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

In the podcast, Grabner recalled his interview with Kelsey Hightower at the Perform 2023 conference. At its core, DevOps encourages collaboration between development and operations teams to speed up software delivery. One of the main roadblocks that arises with a broader definition for DevOps is responsibility.

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DevOps Engineering Innovation Best Practices 163

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2020

Building on past incidents to speed up the resolution of future incidents. Perform Post Incident Review (PIR)? —?Review Review how the incident process was performed, tracking actions to be performed after the incident, and driving learning through structuring informal knowledge. Life Cycle Management ?—?Providing

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AWS Open Source Google Speed 204

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface? Reasons To Measure The Performance Of Typefaces? Measuring Typefaces And The Resulting Performance Data. Thomas Bohm.

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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This query is performed by a Domain Name Server (DNS server) or servers nearby that have been assigned responsibility for that hostname. So DNS services definitely go down! Speed Speed also plays a role with DNS. You can test the DNS lookup time and TTFB with a website speed test tool.

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Cache Website Internet Internet 134

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 14, 2012

In this article I describe a technique we used to speed up a Pig build from 9 hours to 1 hour 30 minutes using 6 Jenkins nodes. This technique is generic and can be considered as a general way to speed up maven or ant builds on Jenkins CI server or other CI systems. Available tests are divided into batches according to the statistics.

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Speed Testing Java Lambda 100

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

INSERT performance is not a priority. CAVEAT: You cannot perform UPDATE, DELETE operations on a columnar table. The key goals of OLTP applications are availability, speed, concurrency, and recoverability. But while eminently capable of performing OLAP, it’s not quite as efficient. speeds up scans, .

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Database Analytics Storage Processing 92

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2019

Resolve performance problems rooted in the Oracle database layer. With additional data from the database server, you’ll be able to resolve performance problems that are rooted deep in the database layer. Davis tells you which statements need to be improved to speed up your application. Oracle performance metrics.

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Database Metrics Cache Servers 128

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). HTML – Typically the smallest resource on the page, HTML's performance risk is usually negligible. More stylesheets equal more risk of performance degradation.

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145