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Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) vs. Dedicated Hosting at ScaleGrid

Scalegrid

In this post, we compare ScaleGrid’s Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) plan vs. the standard Dedicated Hosting model to help you determine the best strategy for your MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis™ and MongoDB® database deployment. Both AWS EC2 instances and Azure VM instances are available as Reserved Instances, and can be used through the BYOC plan.

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Site-Speed Topography

CSS Wizardry

In a separate sheet—available at the same link as before —I’ve simply graphed the data by page type. The whole point of the exercise that follows is to allow me to move quickly, spotting patterns from afar, and not having to do any slow or meticulous work yet. This is basically how many render blocking resources each page has.

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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

This includes development, user acceptance testing, beta testing, and general availability. Synthetic monitoring is well suited for catching regressions during development lifecycles, especially with network throttling. For example, in e-commerce, you can validate and test checking out a shopping cart. Synthetic monitoring drawbacks.

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. Functional Testing Functional testing was the most straightforward of them all: a set of tests alongside each path exercised it against the old and new endpoints.

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What is APM?

Dynatrace

Practitioners use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. Application performance monitoring focuses on specific metrics and measurements; application performance management is the wider discipline of developing and managing an application performance strategy.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle.

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Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools. Lighthouse.

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