Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

These organizations rely heavily on performance, availability, and user satisfaction to drive sales and retain customers. Availability Availability SLO quantifies the expected level of service availability over a specific time period. Availability is typically expressed in 9’s, such as 99.9%. or 99.99% of the time.

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CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Let’s start with the four most common metrics Google’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team established known as “ The Four Keys.” Two important ways to improve this metric are to implement quality assurance testing throughout multiple development environments and to automate testing and DevOps processes.

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DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 189

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The time and effort saved with testing and deployment are a game-changer for DevOps. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Containers can be replicated or deleted on the fly to meet varying end-user traffic. What is Docker?

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

This becomes even more challenging when the application receives heavy traffic, because a single microservice might become overwhelmed if it receives too many requests too quickly. Istio is a popular Kubernetes-native mesh developed by Google, IBM, and Lyft that helps manage deployments, breeds resilience, and improves security in Kubernetes.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

It enhances scalability and manages traffic surges, though it requires specific client support and limits multi-key operations to a single hash slot. It offers automatic data sharding, master-replica configurations for high availability, and a scalable and flexible architecture to maintain consistent performance.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Stable, well-calibrated SLOs pave the way for teams to automate additional processes and testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle. First, it helps to understand that applications and all the services and infrastructure that support them generate telemetry data based on traffic from real users. Availability.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 252

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

So, Smashing Magazine knows about web performance, and if they were struggling, then this could be an interesting test case to look at! LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. Large preview ).

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

With this approach, teams can scale testing for all environments, which reduces efforts in replicating, updating, and maintaining test scripts. The ability to scale testing as part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) has proven difficult. No external tools or additional configurations are needed.

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Monitoring Software Software DevOps 189

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. Lighthouse results. And kept doing that over time.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the newest metric of the bunch and is set to formally be a ranking factor in Google search results beginning in March 2024. The fact that INP is already available in performance reports means we have an opportunity to familiarize ourselves with it today, in advance of its release.

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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 97

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing. Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing. The ability to modify the headers of traffic that pass through your browser is a great tool to have. Selenium is widely used as a test automation framework for end-to-end testing of web applications.

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Testing Network Website Google 102

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For some background, Kubernetes was created by Google and is currently maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Maintaining high availability Kubernetes also makes it easier for applications to scale in response to changing workloads to maintain high availability. have adopted Kubernetes.

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Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 99

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

If that service is slow, failing, or not available at all it results in frustration mentioned in some of the comments on social media and the app store. It’s the same concept as Test Driven Development (TDD) where you start with tests that will fail until you finish implementing the code so tests will succeed.

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DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics 193

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It may even be something you do regularly with Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools, where testing is freely available and produces a very attractive-looking report. The linked-up explainer provides more details, from how scores are weighted to why scores may fluctuate between test runs. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Speed Google Website Metrics 99

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 28, 2022

The important thing to note here is that Google doesn’t care how you get to LCP, as long as you get there fast. Plan in suitable buffer time for traffic issues, etc. Google doesn’t (currently) care about your TTFB, but a good TTFB is going to help get closer to a good LCP. LCP is a milestone timing—it measures….

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Virtualization Google Metrics Testing 330

Percona

APRIL 20, 2023

As for FDE, there are multiple options available for PostgreSQL. For example, in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), you need to create the key in Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) and set it in the StorageClass: apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1beta1 They are absolutely fantastic for testing new configurations, including compute and storage.

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Storage AWS Cloud Database 119

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. MongoDB Replication Strategies.

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Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

About two decades ago, testing was only limited to the desktop. With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing.

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. Mobile-first design should be accompanied with mobile website testing for delivering a flawless web experience to your target audience. Why should you focus on Mobile Website Testing? Mobile-first indexing. Speed and Accuracy.

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Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Testsigma

JUNE 5, 2021

As the number of websites has increased with time, so has the source of traffic leading to that website. In 2015, 35% of the internet traffic came from mobile devices, 6 years later, the number is 54.8%. Mobiles have become a priority and subsequently, the testing of websites that are rendered on it. Source: Business Journals.

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Mobile Testing Website Testing Tools 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. We can get a better view if we run the same test in another service, like SpeedCurve , which digs deeper into the metric. Analytics is a good example.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 93

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Artificial intelligence can automate tasks ranging from: data analysis resource provisioning system maintenance decision-making natural language processing This not only improves accuracy and reliability but also frees up valuable time for IT teams to focus on strategic tasks, such as resource management on platforms like Google Cloud.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

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 141

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Snappy is a compression library developed by Google. So, it becomes very important to test for the optimal required use case before implementing it in production. Here, we are going to test snappy and zstd compression with the following configurations. provides higher compression rates.

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 105

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Testing And Monitoring. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Quick Wins.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 132

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

And, precisely due to this diversity, the need for testing on many devices is paramount. As of September 2020, Statista reports that around 30,40,000 apps are available on Google Playstore. With the ever-increasing and evolving sector of Android users, Android device testing is of the essence. .

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Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

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. Typical Dynatrace use cases cover SLOs for service availability, web application performance, mobile application availability, and synthetic availability.

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 147

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Defenders of Apple's monopoly offer hard-to-test claims, but many boil down to the idea that Apple's product is inferior by necessity. Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. Cui bono? —

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

As an ad publisher, your revenue depends on two main factors: traffic to your site and ad optimization. A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of driving traffic to your site from an SEO perspective, but what if when visitors get to your site, they have a less than ideal experience? Optimize Your Pages.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

But then, quickly advances to contextual pricing, juggling complexity of large and frequently updated product catalog, managing continuously running multivariate tests and promotion campaigns, and serving customer-tailored dynamic recommendations. The journey, often, starts “simple” with localization. Large preview ).

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 137

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. HTTP monitoring allows you to test availability and performance from around the world. If that is available, then a positive response is received. The list goes on and on.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. Concept testing is a research method that involves getting user feedback during the upfront part of the design process to give feedback on potential solutions. What Is Concept Testing? Victor Yocco.

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Design Testing Education Processing 100

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

There are four main parts to the story here: The testing environment that runs apps in a ‘honeypot’ and figures out which of those apps are leaking data they don’t have permission to obtain. Google, to their credit, have announced that they are addressing many of the issues that we reported to them. most apps).

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Systems Traffic Network Google 74