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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

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For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. Cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) , can offer infrastructure with five-nines availability by deploying in multiple availability zones and replicating data between regions.

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

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Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

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Monitor dynamic application workflows with placeholders and synthetic location context

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Synthetic clickpath monitors are a great way to automatically monitor and benchmark business-critical workflows 24/7. Checking out of a retail site. location.cloudPlatform "AWS") {. Dynatrace news. Some common examples of such business-critical workflows include: Sign-up processes. Contact forms. Pricing calculators. click(); }.