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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Dynatrace

In what follows, we explore some of these best practices and guidance for implementing service-level objectives in your monitored environment. Best practices for implementing service-level objectives. Latency is the time that it takes a request to be served. So how can teams start implementing SLOs? Reliability.

Software 269
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MongoDB Database Backup: Best Practices & Expert Tips

Percona

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Best practice tip : It is always advisable to use secondary servers for backups to avoid unnecessary performance degradation on the PRIMARY node. Best practice tip : Use PBM to time huge backup sets.

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Automated Change Impact Analysis with Site Reliability Guardian

Dynatrace

This is where Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices are applied. SREs use Service-Level Indicators (SLI) to see the complete picture of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across various systems, especially revenue-critical systems.

DevOps 224
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Maximizing Performance of AWS RDS for MySQL with Dedicated Log Volumes

Percona

DLVs are particularly advantageous for databases with large allocated storage, high I/O per second (IOPS) requirements, or latency-sensitive workloads. Overall, adopting this practice promotes a structured and efficient storage strategy, fostering better performance, manageability, and, ultimately, a more robust database environment.

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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. System setup is covered on the PostgreSQL Best Practice post so it will not be repeated here as the steps are the same.

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Using Modern Image Formats: AVIF And WebP

Smashing Magazine

Tip: When evaluating quality, compression and fine-tuning of modern formats, Squoosh.app ’s ability to perform a visual side-by-side comparison is helpful. Here, you can see a size comparison between a JPEG image and its corresponding (lossy) AVIF image converted using the Squoosh app: ( Large preview ). Large preview ).

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. As I'm interested in the relative comparison I can just compare the total runtimes (the "real" time) for the same result. I've shared many posts about superpower observability tools, but often humble hacking is just as effective.

Speed 126