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

Speed Curve

Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold.

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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

Social media was relatively quiet, and as always, the Dynatrace Insights team was benchmarking key retailer home pages from mobile and desktop perspectives. By focusing on the server, digital performance has become much more consistent, even under the weight of massive amounts of consumer load.

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Measure What You Impact, Not What You Influence

CSS Wizardry

Improving each of these should hopefully chip away at the timings of more granular events that precede the LCP milestone, but whenever we’re making these kinds of indirect optimisation, we need to think much more carefully about how we measure and benchmark ourselves as we work. one can’t just whack async on a and hope for the best).

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What is infrastructure monitoring and why is it mission-critical in the new normal?

Dynatrace

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

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20X Faster Backup Preparation With Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-28!

Percona

The data is internally inconsistent because the server concurrently modifies the data files while they are being copied. The changes done by an uncommitted transaction can be flushed or written to the redo log by the server. So, given a table_id, how do you get the table schema/definition? For that, we have to use undo logs.

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Impact of Querying Table Information From information_schema

Percona

On MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL , there is a schema called information_schema (I_S) which provides information about database tables, views, indexes, and more. Disclaimer : This blog post is meant to show a less-known problem but is not meant to be a serious benchmark. Results for Percona Server for MySQL 5.7

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Whereas many open source software offerings — like the community version of MySQL — use the GNU General Public License ( GPL ), MongoDB has been under the GNU Affero General Public License ( AGPL ) and more recently under the Server Side Public License ( SSPL ), introduced by MongoDB itself. Is MongoDB free to use?