CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Let me address that by combining my two favourite topics: CSS and performance. It’s really, really bad for Start Render performance. The introduction of the Preload Scanner improved web page performance by around 19%, all without developers having to lift a finger. What’s the Big Problem? Avoid using @import in your CSS files.

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Network Performance Media Cache 278

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As a discipline, SRE focuses on improving software system reliability across key categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.” SRE focuses on automation.

Engineering 252

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 252

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

Andreas Grabner, DevOps Activist at Dynatrace, took to the virtual stage at the recent Dynatrace Perform conference to describe how the open source Keptn project automates the configuration of observability tools, dashboards, and alerting based on service-level objectives (SLOs). Dynatrace developed and released Keptn to open source in 2020.

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Open Source DevOps Cloud Metrics 184

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

While off-the-shelf models assist many organizations in initiating their journeys with generative AI (GenAI), scaling AI for enterprise use presents formidable challenges. This blog post explores how AI observability enables organizations to predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability.

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Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 201

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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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

New development frameworks from the key players Apple, Google, and Microsoft, among others, are heavily invested in development tools and frameworks. They also need to assess and optimize the performance of both their apps and the back end services that support them. In many cases, an alternative app is installed.

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Mobile Monitoring Entertainment Innovation 259

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

I love conversations about performance, and I'm fortunate enough to have them a lot. I hope this post can serve that purpose and cover a few of the fundamental areas of web performance that I’ve found to be most useful while honing the craft of product management. How is performance measured? The audience varies.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

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

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

The key to accomplishing both these goals is having effective mobile app monitoring that quickly identifies the root cause of performance issues. App developers and digital teams typically rely on separate analytics tools, such as Adobe and Google Analytics, that may aggregate user behavior and try to understand anomalies in traffic.

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Mobile Monitoring Analytics Google 168

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As a discipline, SRE focuses on improving software system reliability across key categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.” SRE focuses on automation.

Engineering 173

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 173

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Organizations are constantly being measured against the best available digital experiences — coming from Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other industry leaders. Some of the factors that affect user experience include: Availability : Is the touchpoint available when the user wants to use it? Soft fails and speedbumps.

Mobile 213

Mobile Social Media Monitoring Metrics 213

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

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.

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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 94

MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2020

Chrome’s DevTools suite contains some of the most powerful tools available to help you analyze and improve the speed of your website (or web app). However, we often get asked about another area of the DevTools – the ‘Performance’ tab. Accessing the DevTools Performance Tab. Recording Runtime Performance.

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Speed Performance Google Mobile 99

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Tailoring resource allocation efficiently ensures faster application performance in alignment with organizational demands. This evaluation should also consider possible cost reductions and enhancements in performance that could be realized within the cloud environment. It should offer user-friendly operation.

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Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

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

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Although Kubernetes simplifies application development while increasing resource utilization, it is a complex system that presents its own challenges. What challenges does it present, and how can you overcome them? Kubernetes forged by the rise of Google. But what is Kubernetes exactly? Where does it come from?

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Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 132

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

It negatively affects the lead time for changes (LT) , a DORA metric 1 that DevOps teams use to measure platform and team performance. Utilizing a collection of tools for synthetic CI/CD testing can identify an issue while still leaving DevOps and SRE teams responsible for root cause analysis, which they often have to perform manually.

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Monitoring Software Software DevOps 197

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Luckily we’ve recommended some of the best web performance books to read while stuck at home. And if you absolutely have to have it on a device, most of them are available via Kindle as well. High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge For Front-End Engineers. and the Head Performance Engineer at Google.

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations Ren et al., For example: “Red Hat and Suse normally required 6-18 months to optimise the performance an an upstream Linux kernel before it can be released as an enterprise distribution”, and. Google’s data center kernel is carefully performance tuned for their workloads.

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Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. The report also reveals the leading programming languages practitioners use for application workloads.

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 340

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2024

To wit: somebody has to hold management accountable for keeping delivery and operations performing within investment parameters and, if it is not, either fix the performance with or without that management or negotiate a change in parameters with investors. None of these definitions are correct, though. I appreciate your tolerance.

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Government Best Practices Google Software 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

In this way, Davis can link defined SLOs to those anomalies that present potential negative impact. The Google Site Reliability Engineering page is a great read for understanding and embracing the idea of defining SLOs for reliable global IT services. SLO templates for the most popular use cases are available out-of-the-box.

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Best Practices Metrics Mobile Engineering 156

Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

With so many different metrics available to measure dozens of different aspects of a web page, it can be a struggle to know how best to quantify that page’s overall web performance. In the early days of performance monitoring, there were far fewer metrics than we have today. Which page is “the best” in terms of performance?

Metrics 89

Metrics Performance Media Google 89

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

It is one of the most complete “state of the web” reports currently available. Offering 20 chapters with insights into Page Content, User Experience, Content Publishing, and Content Distribution, it can also be overwhelming, so we’ll be summarizing the web performance section in an easy-to-understand manner.

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Performance Speed Website Mobile 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

While you may assume a great majority of the cloud database deployments are run on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, small to medium-sized businesses in particular are gravitating towards the developer-friendly cloud provider, DigitalOcean , for their hosting for MongoDB® needs. DigitalOcean Droplets. DigitalOcean Disk Types.

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Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Speed Curve

AUGUST 18, 2020

Adding to a string of recent announcements including Lighthouse v6 and Core Web Vitals, Google has introduced Fast page labelling in Chrome 85 for Android. Ilya Grigorik, developer advocate and web performance engineer at Google, discussed this concept during his Q&A session following his talk. What is it? Ilya delivers!).

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Google Strategy Metrics Speed 98

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

As the amount of data grows, the need for efficient data compression becomes increasingly important to save storage space, reduce I/O overhead, and improve query performance. When this data block is read, it decompresses it in memory and presents it to the incoming request. Snappy is a compression library developed by Google.

Storage 111

Storage Network Open Source Latency 111

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. Spurious reports of "10x worse" performance merit intense scepticism. Steve & Tim's Close-up Magic.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

If we talk about commercial vendors targeting the corporate market, I guess only Neotys remains independent and active (I mean contributing into the performance testing ecosystem – innovation, publishing content, participating in events, etc). Microfocus acquired both LoadRunner from HP and Silk Performer (as a part of Borland).

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Testing Open Source Testing Tools Performance Testing 243

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

What follows are my findings on React performance as I’ve tried to meet this challenge in a way that’s best for users. You might remember a little while ago when Tim Kadlec did some research on HTTPArchive about web framework performance, and came to the conclusion that React wasn’t exactly a stellar performer.

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Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

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

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. In fact, most (if not all) of those terms are present on any technology website you visit. There are numerous backends available with different capabilities depending on your specific needs. . Dynatrace news.

Open Source 179

Open Source Metrics Google Java 179

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Engine diversity is essential, as it is the mechanism that causes competition to deliver better performance, capability, privacy, security, and user controls. Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] More on that when we get to iOS. How can that be?

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Percona

APRIL 28, 2023

The multitude of checks and balances places a premium on how the code affects performance. Here’s a small sampling of leading corporations that use open source software: Amazon, Audi, BMW, Google, IBM, and Facebook ( CodeSnail, August 2022 ). Another part of this myth is that open source can’t be enterprise-grade.

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Open Source Database Software Software 115

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

At Neotys PAC 2019 in Chamonix, France, I presented approaches on how to solve this problem by looking at examples from companies such as Intuit, Dynatrace, Google, Netflix, T-Systems and others. You can read my blog supporting my session titled “ Performance as Code: Lets make it a Standard ” on the Neotys PAC blog.

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Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 125