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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Additionally, it became easy to provide deep links to different monitoring and deployment systems in Edgar due to consistent tagging. In 2019 our stunning colleagues in the Cloud Database Engineering (CDE) team benchmarked EBS performance for our use case and migrated existing clusters to use EBS Elastic volumes.

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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

As an ad publisher, your revenue depends on two main factors: traffic to your site and ad optimization. A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of driving traffic to your site from an SEO perspective, but what if when visitors get to your site, they have a less than ideal experience? Dotcom-Monitor Website Monitoring.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

As businesses compete for customer loyalty, it’s critical to understand the difference between real-user monitoring and synthetic user monitoring. However, not all user monitoring systems are created equal. What is real user monitoring? RUM gathers information on a variety of performance metrics.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Monitor Resource Utilization Monitoring and analyzing resource utilization in your MySQL database is crucial for maintaining optimal performance and preventing potential bottlenecks. Key metrics such as CPU usage, memory usage, and disk I/O offer insights into how efficiently your database server operates.

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

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. Quantitative performance testing looks at metrics like response time while qualitative testing is concerned with scalability, stability, and interoperability.

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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.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance poverty line is the plateau at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

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. Integrate infrastructure monitoring on a single AIOps platform. But is five nines availability attainable?

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Labeling your pages in your synthetic and real user monitoring (RUM) tools is a crucial step in your performance monitoring setup. There are so many benefits to labeling your pages in both your synthetic and real user monitoring (RUM) tools. Compare and benchmark similar pages across different sites.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance plateau is the point at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In an earlier blog post, we discussed Telltale , our health monitoring system. Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic. Tracing as a foundation Logs, metrics, and traces are the three pillars of observability. Is this an anomaly or are we dealing with a pattern?

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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. That means having a primary system and a secondary system.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

It goes without saying that you'll want to make sure you're using the right tools to monitor, measure, and optimize your site. search traffic. Over the years, I've learned that performance can be mapped to all of these metrics – and almost any other business metric you can think of. Identify what people care about.

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc. AWS handles essential administrative tasks, including database setup, configuration, backups, monitoring, and scaling, making it easier for businesses to manage complex database infrastructures.

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Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Teams I've consulted are too often wrenched between celebration over "the big rewrite" launch and the morning-after realisation that the new stack is tanking business metrics. Competent managers will begin to look for more general "industry standard" baseline metrics to report against their data. Photo by Jay Heike.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. Researchers and major companies have been publishing case studies for years , proving that slower page load experiences impact business metrics, including conversion rate, revenue, bounce rate, and more. Design Optimizations.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Tools and CI systems help them monitor progress & prevent regressions. This helps support executive sponsors who then have meaningful metrics to point to in justifying the investments being made. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-01-11T15:30:13+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Testing And Monitoring. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about.

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