Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

This strategy is exemplified by 1990s-era Andreesen's goal to render Windows "a poorly debugged set of device drivers" The idea is that the web is where the action is, and that the browser winning more user Jobs To Be Done follows from increasing the web platform's capability. OS challengers, therefore, strike a bargain.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Security should be an integral part of each stage of the software delivery lifecycle, from development to monitoring in real time. Use SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs as performance benchmarks for newly migrated microservices. This includes when teams refactor applications for microservices architecture.

Architecture 230

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 230

Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

Site reliability engineering (SRE) continues to gain popularity as organizations embrace hybrid cloud strategies and IT automation at scale. By applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure practices, SRE enables organizations to streamline and automate IT processes. Dynatrace news.

DevOps 147

DevOps Innovation Engineering Benchmarking 147

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

If you don’t have insight into the software and services that operate your business, you can’t efficiently run your business. AI-assistance: Use AI to detect anomalies and benchmark your system. It’s not another buzzword; infrastructure monitoring should be at the core of any organization’s IT strategy.

Infrastructure 198

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 198

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key metrics like throughput, request latency, and memory utilization are essential for assessing Redis health, with tools like the MONITOR command and Redis-benchmark for latency and throughput analysis and MEMORY USAGE/STATS commands for evaluating memory. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Traditional self-managed ones give organizations full control over their database infrastructure, such as picking the software and scaling it up. These databases require significant time commitment along with necessary technical skills plus hardware & software costs, all of which are without dedicated team assistance.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Cloud service providers like AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, Cloudflare Load Balancing as well as GCP Cloud Load Balancing offer different methods of implementing load balancing techniques with algorithms such as static or dynamic routing strategies and round-robin approaches. Daunting as this may seem initially.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

Software testing is the process of finding bugs or discrepancies in a software. Even though the job of a software tester is to catch errors committed by developers, software testers themselves are not immune to errors. Introduction. Few Common Testing Mistakes. Starting without a Defined Scope of Testing. Happy Testing!

Software 85

Software Software Testing Open Source 85

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Which software is the best fit for your organization? To achieve this, a substantial commitment is necessary from your team to master effective testing strategies. Additionally, it involves the acquisition or development of specialized testing software, which often comes with its own set of training requirements.

Database 84

Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 84

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

Nonetheless, operating Lambda functions comes with its own unique challenges and—especially when used within enterprise stacks—the operational requirements are the same as for any other piece of software. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. Deployment and orchestration are harder.

Lambda 220

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 220

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

Nonetheless, operating Lambda functions comes with its own unique challenges and—especially when used within enterprise stacks—the operational requirements are the same as for any other piece of software. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. Deployment and orchestration are harder.

Lambda 181

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 181

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In pursuit of this goal, we outlined following storage optimization strategies: Use cheaper Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes instead of SSD instance stores in EC2. The scope and complexity of our software systems continue to increase as Netflix grows. Employ better compression technique to reduce trace data size. What’s next?

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

Availability 109

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 109

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

An unoptimized indexing strategy can impede data insertion and retrieval operations. One effective strategy is query rewriting, where you restructure your SQL queries to be more efficient. Indexing Strategies Indexing plays a pivotal role in database performance, and its impact on query performance cannot be overstated.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2020

As a part of the “ Release better software faster ” breakout track at Perform Las Vegas 2020 , I’ll be presenting a session concentrating on deployment models and how to reduce risk and iterate faster. Using the Davis assistant for comparison and benchmarking. Dynatrace news. Canary Releases. Blue/Green Deployments. Customer story.

Performance 35

Performance Benchmarking Innovation DevOps 35

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Benchmark Against Competitors. Then, they can effectively benchmark their own performance against those key competitors over time. A user could also leverage synthetic monitoring to quantify the impact of switching third-party ad providers or their CDN. About Rigor.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Download our eBook, “ Enterprise Guide to Cloud Databases ” to help you make more informed decisions and avoid costly mistakes as you develop and execute your cloud strategy.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Here, we first cover the basics of MySQL Triggers, and then we take a deeper dive, exploring their impact on memory usage and providing strategies to optimize MySQL server performance. Testing and Benchmarking : Thoroughly test triggers in a staging environment to evaluate their impact on performance. What is a Trigger in MySQL?

Cache 62

Cache Database Games Healthcare 62

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Now, I am advising people to strongly consider AMD for SQL Server workloads as the AMD EPYC "Rome" processors are released in Q3 of 2019.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies. Again, every millisecond counts.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Patrick is a London-based software developer who specializes in web performance and who describes himself as enjoying “working the entire stack, back-end to front-end, CDN to server.” Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what strategies should be used to fix them. Performance Budgets, Pragmatically shows you a strategy to achieve that. Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The project consisted of upgrading the shop software to our own open-source system and redoing the shop’s front end from scratch. Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. Working with jewellerybox on its online store was a welcome change of pace for us. Large preview ).

Performance 116

Performance Cache Website Mobile 116

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

It might be tempting to get into quick "low-hanging-fruits"-optimizations early on — and it might be a good strategy for quick wins — but it will be very hard to keep performance a priority without planning and setting realistic, company-tailored performance goals. when web fonts aren’t loaded yet). Planning, planning, planning.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

No other aspect of modern software is as poorly managed in otherwise functional engineering organisations. Strategy is what you do differently from the competition, and Level 5 teams understand their way of working is a larger advantage than any single optimisation.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

This approach can be expressed in more formal way by the following equation: where is the data available for analysis, is the space of a retailer’s actions and decisions, is an econometric model defined as a function of actions and data, and is the optimal strategy. were a subject of intensive research over the last century, if not longer.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies. Mirroring can be implemented at a software or hardware level. Important This is important because a stale read can quickly invalidate the backup strategy and should be addressed aggressively.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Restore backups on secondary systems ​​ frequently ​​ to make sure that your complete backup strategy is functioning correctly. Make sure that you ​​ understand any ​​ write-caching strategies ​​ that the utility ​​ uses.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

I mean that as your scale grows then design patterns and strategies that used to work 2 years ago and allowed you to go from defensive to offensive positioning may buckle under pressure or becomes cost-prohibitive. What is your storage strategy? What is your object and content caching strategy? Architecture should be malleable.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52