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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing?

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MySQL Key Performance Indicators (KPI) With PMM

Percona

A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance. As a best practice, It is advisable to have different mounts for MySQL data and log files with specific system configurations.

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An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. The tricky part comes when you try to put them into practice. The easiest way to do this is to look at rendering filmstrips in your synthetic test data.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

How would we test to see if there is any difference between a good sans serif and a serif typeface with users? What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

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Optimizing Video For Size And Quality

Smashing Magazine

To figure out what exactly is the problem, we can use FFMPEG , which is open source and free, and proves to be one of the most reliable tools to optimize videos. In FFMPEG, the principal quality/size benchmark is the Constant Rate Factor (CRF) compression, with values ranging from 0 (no compression) to 50 (high compression).

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PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: Optimizing Database Parameters for Maximum Efficiency

Percona

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

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Container security: What it is, why it’s tricky, and how to do it right

Dynatrace

Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. In fact, the market research firm Forrester says that the average container image is comprised of 70% open-source software.[1] 1] And unfortunately, open-source software is often fraught with security vulnerabilities.