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

Dynatrace

What was once an onslaught of consumer traffic between Black Friday and Cyber Monday has turned into a weeklong event, with most retailers offering deals well ahead of Black Friday. This had the effect of dramatically speeding up its performance and reducing support costs. Below is an example of a Dynatrace log and event viewer.

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2022 in review: New dashboards, Core Web Vitals enhancements, third-party tracking & more!

Speed Curve

Jumped into in-person events, and were so happy to catch up with some of you at SmashingConf and performance.now() (You can watch videos of my talk about performance budgets and Andy Davies' talk about third parties.). Your current competitive benchmarks status. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks. RUM update: Page labels.

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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. Tools may be limited.

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Redis vs Memcached in 2024

Scalegrid

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. On the other hand, an append-only file ensures data safety by recording every write operation that modifies the dataset, allowing for complete data reconstruction in the event of a restart.

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

Dynatrace

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.”

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Edgar: Solving Mysteries Faster with Observability

The Netflix TechBlog

With request tracing and additional data from logs, events, metadata, and analysis, Edgar is able to show the flow of a request through our distributed system?—?what Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic. Is this an anomaly or are we dealing with a pattern?

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From Heavy Metal to Irrational Exuberance

ACM Sigarch

I suggest it’s long past time to move beyond C and SPEC benchmarks and our exclusive focus on “metal” languages. There are already standard benchmark suites for JavaScript performance in the browser, and we can include applications written in node.js (server-side JavaScript), Python web servers, and more.

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