Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

I love conversations about performance, and I'm fortunate enough to have them a lot. I hope this post can serve that purpose and cover a few of the fundamental areas of web performance that I’ve found to be most useful while honing the craft of product management. How is performance measured? The audience varies.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

“Because of the uncertainty of the times and the likely realities of the ‘new normal,’ more and more organizations are now charting the course for their journeys toward cloud computing and digital transformation,” wrote Gaurav Aggarwal in a Forbes article the impact of COVID-19 on cloud adoption.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

For two decades, Dynatrace NAM—Network Application Monitoring, formerly known as DC RUM—has been successfully monitoring the user experience of our customers’ enterprise applications. Performance has always mattered. SNMP managed the costs of network links well, but not the sources of those costs (i.e., Dynatrace news.

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Particular Software

AUGUST 19, 2019

In one such organization I've heard of, there existed two separate networks. To get data from a different network, you needed to browse in a separate room, as workstations did not have access to the Internet. Design secure systems: See what Udi has to say in Day 1 of his Advanced Distributed Systems Design video course.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 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. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

We work with millions of merchants, and as many companies, we obsess about storefront performance. We obsess even more about finding the optimal balance between performance, capabilities, and merchants’ business objectives. With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

We’ll also cover how to instrument the services using OpenTelemetry, and some best practices for how to define spans and traces manually. Best practices for defining traces and spans manually When you’re using automatic instrumentation, the platform and the libraries will already cover a fair share of tracing.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. DRM-free, of course. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Large view.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. Barry Pollard.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The secret sharer: evaluating and testing unintended memorization in neural networks Carlini et al., The objective when training a model is to teach it to generalise, as evidenced by performance on held out validation data. Of course, we’ll be dealing with random spaces much larger than the set of numbers from zero to nine.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. DRM-free, of course. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Get the eBook.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We introduced Digital Business Analytics in part one as a way for our customers to tie business metrics to application performance and user experience, delivering unified insights into how these metrics influence business milestones and KPIs. For these tools, metadata without performance relevance is considered uninteresting and ignored.

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Analytics Metrics Best Practices Servers 206

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Server rendering is also cool—even if that’s just how we say “send HTML over the network” these days. What follows are my findings on React performance as I’ve tried to meet this challenge in a way that’s best for users. Because of this, network performance was not a factor in my measurements.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

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Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Reading time 9 min When it comes to managing web performance, it’s vital to be proactive rather than reactive. To accomplish this goal, an organization needs to build internal processes and procedures that can operationalize a performance-first culture. The first step is to establish and implement web performance budgets.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Choosing the right backup frequency: The appropriate frequency, of course, will vary from one organization to another. Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN): This enables users of Oracle databases to perform full, incremental, and differential backups. In a cold backup, the database is taken offline.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. Perhaps the biggest win when it comes to making websites more sustainable is that performance, user experience and sustainability are all neatly intertwined. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. That’s practically an eternity when talking about page speed performance. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

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Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Since that time, the SRE role has evolved as the industry has changed and shifted from the traditional monolithic structures to large, widely distributed networks and microservices. SLIs are the actual performance metrics of your services. The actual performance, or measurements, of your SLOs that determine the level of compliance.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

With MongoDB, you can set read-only privileges in which users can query data but cannot perform write operations. This helps prevent the possibility of a single point of failure, which could cause downtime or slow performance. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Members gain access to custom courses, tailored workshops, c-level roundtables and exclusive content that harvests Tasktop’s deep and profound market-leading knowledge that will enable you to baseline your IT portfolios and rebalance them to adapt quickly to the increasing pace of economic and market change. . Flow Institute Highlights.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right?

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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Our goal with this post is to equip you with a comprehensive understanding of the steps, best practices, and pros and cons to ensure a smooth — and successful — transition to an open source database environment. Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.)

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Here’s the thing: performance is more than a one-off task. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. Lighthouse.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. Signals For Customizing Website User Experience.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

It enables businesses and organizations to meet uptime and service level objectives, protect business-critical data, and maintain performant databases. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), The upside is enhanced performance, but there can be data loss in the event of a failure.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Lazy-load offscreen images (reduce network contention for key resources). For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS. While not render-blocking, they can indirectly impact render performance. We’ll cover this later. Large preview ). MB of images.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product. that a lot of people used.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

So far, it’s been a painless shift in power, which as Eric Matthes, author of Python Crash Course , argues, should come as no surprise, since “Guido has carried himself, and his role in the community, with such poise for so long.” And as Rust expert Nathan Stocks notes, “You get light sandboxing as well!”

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors. Teachers can interact with their colleagues in professional learning networks.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started  ‍Of course, the latter.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Most sites were all hosted on a single physical server somewhere on our own hosting infrastructure, and it was the server we thought about defending when it came to security best practices. This remains a good, practical way to work, but it does introduce a potential vector for attack. What Could Go Wrong? Large preview ).

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SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

That is, does SQL Server perform a substitution process whereby it converts the original nested code into one query that goes directly against the base tables? Even if you don’t end up with bugs, you could end up generating unnecessary network traffic by returning columns that the application doesn’t really need.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

There are many tools available that can help you monitor, manage, and optimize your website and application performance: APM, synthetics, RUM, alerting, alert integrations, and more. How are you monitoring end-user performance today? Rigor’s free performance report. Next, look into the tools you are already using.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Of course, the latter. It not only gives them the power to manage infrastructure but also ensures that their CDN configurations are optimal, secure, and scalable.‍‍Common Practices in Terraform‍Picture this: We have two expert teams in a company - the DevOps team and the DevSecOps team.‍1.

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