Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

Vitality’s platform is designed to let customers take control of their own wellness by creating insurance and investment frameworks that best meet their needs. First, the company uses synthetic monitoring to develop user experience benchmarks and determine if applications are performing within expected thresholds. DEM in action.

Mobile 170

Mobile Monitoring Benchmarking Best Practices 170

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Benchmark your site against your competitors Our public-facing Industry Benchmarks dashboard gets a lot of visits, but did you know you can create your own custom competitive benchmarking dashboard in SpeedCurve? READ : How to create a competitive benchmark dashboard ––––– 4.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. State Of Mobile 2021. That might come a little bit unexpected. billion by 2026.

Mobile 133

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Typically, the servers are configured in a primary/replica configuration, with one server designated as the primary server that handles all incoming requests and the others designated as replica servers that monitor the primary and take over its workload if it fails.

Availability 104

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

To be clear, these languages were not designed to be fast or space-efficient, but for ease of use. Unfortunately, languages like Python have proven resistant to efficient implementation, partly because of their design, and partly because of limitations imposed by the need to interop with C code. As Leiserson et al.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. ‍At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You've put new rules in place.

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

One of the important attributes of their design was easy and rapid deployment across an existing fleet. Looking across a set of eight Java benchmarks, we find that only two of them are array dominated, the rest having between 40% to 75% of the heap footprint allocated to objects, the vast majority of which are small. Evaluation.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. We took a hybrid head-based sampling approach that allows for recording 100% of traces for a specific and configurable set of requests, while continuing to randomly sample traffic per the policy set at ingestion point.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When designing an architecture, many components need to be considered before deciding on the best solution. It is also clear that traffic is better served under a high number of connections by ProxySQL, but it requires more resources. MySQL Router was never in the game.

Games 118

Games Latency Traffic Cache 118

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

High availability storage options within the context of cloud computing involve highly adaptable storage solutions specifically designed for storing vast amounts of data while providing easy access to it. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. Architecture for fault-tolerant systems Fault-tolerant information systems are designed to offer 100% availability.

Availability 77

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 77

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You've put new rules in place.

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. Chip design choices and silicon economics are the defining feature of the still-growing Performance Inequality Gap. Today, either method returns a similar answer. A 2021 Global Baseline.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

The older devices also have different screen resolutions which mean several features have to be categorically designed for them. Unlike iOS development, Android development requires proper standards and varying benchmarks for performance and optimization. Such information helps us design experiences for a higher retention rate.

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

One of the key strengths of synthetic monitoring solutions is that they can help you assess the performance and user experience (UX) of a site without requiring large volumes of real users driving traffic, a known weakness RUM or APM solutions. Competitive & Industry Benchmarking. And BOOM, you’re done! Start A Free Trial.

Monitoring 59

Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

With its support for MySQL and PostgreSQL, and its automated replication and backup capabilities, it’s designed to deliver high performance, scalability, and availability to meet the needs of mission-critical applications. This eliminates the need for complex or scripted backup procedures and designated backup windows.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

These issues often arise from suboptimal query design, missing or ineffective indexes, or dealing with large datasets. Inefficient query design, such as utilizing SELECT * instead of specifying necessary columns, can escalate data transfer and processing overhead. This does not apply to read (SELECT) traffic.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Vikings fight zombies. With transformer Viking ships.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. ASPLOS’19. Distributed tracing and instrumentation.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Vikings fight zombies. With transformer Viking ships.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Or, maybe, they can succeed as in getting comfy job at IBM, but their designs don't translate into useful products. JavaScript benchmark. . $2 billion : Pokémon GO revenue since launch; 10 : say happy birthday to StackOverflow; $148 million : Uber data breach fine; 75% : streaming music industry revenue in the US; 5.2

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

search traffic. People on your marketing team probably care about traffic and engagement. Here's how to set up ongoing competitive benchmarking and generate comparison videos. Lara Hogan has written an excellent book called Designing for Performance , and she's kindly made the text available online. conversions.

Performance 40

Performance Metrics Traffic Monitoring 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Contended, over-subscribed cells can make “fast” networks brutally slow, transport variance can make TCP much less efficient , and the bursty nature of web traffic works against us.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Design: Performance is the gap between Figma mockups and the user experience of products for many, but not all , users. The extent to which a product performs well, the higher its likelihood of behaving in accordance to the approved design spec. Consistent performance matters just as much as low average latency.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145