KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Our solution doesn't require any change on the origin server. Properly size images: Scaled images will definitely reduce the overall website size. WebP means faster loading times and less traffic. WebP delivery doesn't require any change on the origin server with the WebP caching feature.

Processing 127

Processing Cache Website Servers 127

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

There are many ways of measuring your Core Web Vitals , but the definitive way — even if it’s not the best way, as we’ll see soon — is in Google Search Console (GSC). This is an attempt to fill in missing data for those pages that don’t get enough traffic to have meaningful user experience data. Large preview ).

Google 143

Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

So we still need to move things from the server they were compiled at to the edges of the network. Under the hood, it simplifies a lot of the work to the server-side. architecture is built so it better fits Netlify’s and is available by default to every new project that Netlify can identify is using Next.js. Number of Pages.

Cache 129

Cache Website Strategy Traffic 129

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 2016

While protocol-level recording/playback was (and still is) the mainstream approach to testing applications, it is definitely just one type of load testing using only one type of load generation; such equivalency is a serious conceptual mistake, dwarfing load testing and undermining performance engineering in general. LoadRunner) or Java (e.g.

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Technology Technology Testing 100

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Before GraphQL: Monolithic Falcor API implemented and maintained by the API Team Before moving to GraphQL, our API layer consisted of a monolithic server built with Falcor. A single API team maintained both the Java implementation of the Falcor framework and the API Server. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

Traffic 353

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

When I think of network speeds, I tend to rely on WebPageTest ’s traffic profiles: Traffic profiles to keep in mind on WebPageTest : ranging from Cable and DSL to 3G Slow and 2G. In general, the bitrate of your video should be about 80% of the available throughput on the network. Large preview ). of the entire data consumed.

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on. The Time to First Byte (TTFB) metric (also known as First Byte) measures the speed with which your server delivers content to the user.

Ecommerce 87

Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

MachMetrics

JULY 27, 2018

Here’s 10 pretty typical sites (including Amazon and Bing, not just mom-and-pop sites): Nope, there’s definitely a problem across the board. The pricing for Windows servers on Amazon EC2 is over twice as much as the Linux alternative. large server in the US East region: Windows: $0.177 per Hour. per month, per agent!

Speed 40

Speed Hardware Internet Internet 40

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

I am excited that today both the Route 53 , the highly available and scalable DNS service, and the Elastic Load Balancing teams are releasing new functionality that has been frequently requested by their customers: Route 53 now GA : Route 53 is now Generally Available and will provide an availability SLA of 100%.

Internet 114

Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

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 93

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 93

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

When it comes to enterprise-level databases, there are several options available in the market, but PostgreSQL stands out as one of the most popular and reliable choices. PostgreSQL supports sharding, which allows data to be distributed across multiple servers, making it ideal for high-traffic websites and applications.

Database 120

Database Open Source Traffic Small Business 120

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

All of this convenient visibility is available with just a few clicks. This helps significantly in automatically answering complex questions such as “ Is the CPU saturation of my F5 device caused by any of the virtual servers running on it? Virtual servers. Start monitoring in minutes. Pool nodes. Interfaces.

Network 210

Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 210

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

Normally this solution requires a full code redesign and could be quite difficult to achieve when it is injected after the initial code architecture definition. In shard-nothing, each shard can live in a totally separate logical schema instance / physical database server/data center/continent. The POC Why this POC?

Traffic 127

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 127

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

During the logical backups, using client API, the data gets read from the server and returned back to the same API, which will be serialized and written into respective “ bson”, “ json” or “ csv” backup files on disk depending upon the type of backup utilities used. Records backup progress logging.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 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. ‍What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Those days are long gone.

Architecture 52

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. What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Those days are long gone.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

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. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. A DNS server maintains a directory of domain names and translates them to IPs. So DNS services definitely go down!

Cache 134

Cache Website Internet Internet 134

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

In this case, we have a quite well-defined scenario that can resemble the image below: In this scenario, the proxies must sit inside Pods, balancing the incoming traffic from the Service LoadBalancer connecting with the active data nodes. Anyhow, we are here to talk about Proxies. CPU load while ProxySQL is at 2.50 and MySQL Router around 2.

Games 125

Games Latency Traffic Cache 125

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. Monitoring Interaction to Next Paint There’s going to be a new way to gain insights into main thread traffic when Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is released as a new core vital metric in March 2024. What’s so important about that?

Google 90

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

The tooling to get a report with details from the time it takes to establish a server connection to the time it takes for the full page to render is out there. Even with all of the available tools at my disposal, I still find myself reaching for several of them. Lighthouse results. See the “Prettify Code” option? ?(

Speed 81

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

SQL Performance

JANUARY 22, 2020

Table-valued parameters have been around since SQL Server 2008 and provide a useful mechanism for sending multiple rows of data to SQL Server, brought together as a single parameterized call. Add ( "Date" , typeof ( DateTime ) ) ; You can also create the DataTable using the inline definition as follows: System.

Servers 55

Servers Azure Hardware Network 55

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Do you have a web server? Is the web server running? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? By definition, a distributed system is any system that comprises of multiple components on variety of machines that work together to appear as a single, organized system. Peer-to-Peer.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It was heralded as an amazing performance revolution, with exciting new features such as server push, parallel streams, and prioritization. We would have been able to stop bundling resources, stop sharding our resources across multiple servers, and heavily streamline the page-loading process. In older versions of TLS (say, version 1.2

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. If you have a distributed environment with multiple servers hosting your webservers, app servers, and database, I suggest you install the OneAgent on all these servers to get full end-to-end visibility. SimpleNodeJsService.

Engineering 192

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 192

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

That user preference is available in two (hopefully soon to be three!) This is available behind a flag in Chrome, but not yet on by default while it finishes standardization. However, the above table is not actually representative of total traffic, and that’s another point to note about this data. Save Data API. More after jump!

Website 103

Website Media Mobile Network 103

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). This difference by itself doesn’t do all that much (it mainly reduces the overhead on the server-side), but it leads to most of the following points. Server Sharding and Connection Coalescing.

Network 104

Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. Definitions. The two types of Django deployments are: Single-Server. We’ll also discuss the costs and benefits of CDNs and dedicated file storage solutions.

Media 69

Media Cache Storage AWS 69

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Thanks to its reliable performance, extensive documentation and dedicated user community, PHP is one of the preferred server-side scripting language of many web developers. Consequently, there are so many free and premium PHP tools available online that it’s difficult for developers to determine which ones are worthwhile.

Development 57

Development Open Source Java AWS 57

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). This is one of the main reasons why content delivery networks (CDNs) exist: They place servers physically closer to the end user in order to reduce latency, and thus delay, as much as possible.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

However, we cannot outline the best, but we can definitely analyze which is the best framework to choose in which situations. Two-way Data Binding Availability. Server rendering in Angular vs React. In addition, React JavaScript framework uses server-side rendering to give a flexible, performance-oriented solution.

Development 52

Development Google Open Source Servers 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

A website today receives a large chunk of its traffic from evergreen browsers — most of which have good support for ES6+, new JavaScript standards, new web platform APIs and CSS attributes. Modern web application development has been simplified due to the availability of a plethora of new browser APIs. Shubham Kanodia.

Code 58

Code Retail Mobile Website 58

Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

It is well hidden in the Optimization: Optimizing the MySQL Server chapter. Resource groups permit assigning threads running within MySQL to particular groups so that threads execute according to the resources available to this group. MySQL determines, at startup, how many virtual CPUs are available. Conclusion.

Tuning 46

Tuning Virtualization Testing Servers 46

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Modern network performance and availability. CrUX data collection and first-party RUM analytics of these metrics require live traffic, meaning results can be predicted but only verified once deployed. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset. Advances in browser content processing. Content Is Dead, Long Live Content.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Late-loading JavaScript can cause “server-side rendered” pages to fail in infuriating ways. The server sends it as a stream of bytes and when the browser encounters each of the sub-resources referenced in the document, it requests them. Any DOM or UI created in JS is not available for use until the script runs.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145