Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

SLOs, together with service-level indicators (SLIs), deliver the performance promised in service-level agreements (SLAs) and other business level objectives (BLOs) while staying within error budgets. To get a better handle on this, let’s start with some definitions. But what are SLOs? What are SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets?

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Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 196

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

However, such observation periods come with a disadvantage: incidents can pile up and there is a delay between those incidents and the corresponding health metrics ultimately dropping low enough to trigger a warning. Most monitoring tools offer only a single SLO metric. Get up and running in under a minute with SLO templates.

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Best Practices Metrics Mobile Engineering 162

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But, manual steps — such as reviewing test results and addressing production issues resulting from performance, resiliency, security, or functional issues — often hinder these efforts. We refer to this culture and practice as observability-driven DevOps and SRE automation. The collected set of metrics are queries for some timeframe.

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DevOps Metrics Engineering Speed 224

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Ten years is a lot of time to reflect, and over this past year our team has been thinking a lot about not just the "what" and "how" of web performance, but also the "why". In that time, we've seen people's interest in performance dramatically increase, especially in the world of SEO. Among other things, we turned ten !

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Performance Metrics Speed Google 57

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

In the free ebook “ A Beginner’s Guide to DevOps ,” DevOps is defined as a set of software development and delivery best practices to close the gap between software development and IT operations. In the podcast, Grabner recalled his interview with Kelsey Hightower at the Perform 2023 conference.

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DevOps Engineering Innovation Best Practices 166

Dynatrace

MARCH 10, 2020

Overall statistics like the number of users, user sessions, or the crash rate definitely are a good starting point. From that point on, Dynatrace starts writing timeseries metrics that can be used for custom charting. Different user actions also have different performance requirements.

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Mobile Monitoring Retail Tuning 181

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

Without a set plan in place, any new script can damage performance, affecting user experience, and, therefore, business KPIs. We noticed a few common misperceptions about web performance budgets that can impact their adoption and setting that we would like to address. Five Common Myths About Web Performance Budgets.

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Performance Mobile Metrics Speed 122

Dynatrace

JULY 10, 2019

Dynatrace monitors your full stack and offers you thousands of metrics with almost zero configuration. This article we help distinguish between process metrics, external metrics and PurePaths (traces). What Dynatrace deployment is the best fit for your technology stack, and is the OneAgent compatible with your system?

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Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

When your website isn’t performing optimally, you risk not only your revenue but also your reputation as a trusted resource. Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

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. LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

With another year winding down, it’s time for us to take stock of how our site performance compares to the average page load times for 2020. Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average.

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

In that context, I’ll focus on C++ and try to: highlight what needs attention (what C++’s problem “is”), and how we can get there by building on solutions already underway; address some common misconceptions (what C++’s problem “isn’t”), including practical considerations of MSLs; and leave a call to action for programmers using all languages.

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C++ Programming Code Java 139

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? I've been writing about page size and complexity for years. How does page bloat hurt your business?

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Lighthouse is a free and open-source tool for assessing your website’s performance, accessibility, progressive web app metrics, SEO, and more. It’s offers a great way to enforce performance budgets, and also helps you keep track of each reported metric so you can see how they have changed over time. Conclusion.

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Performance Storage Servers Virtualization 78

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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Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2020

Gone are the days for Christian manually looking at dashboards and metrics after a new build got deployed into a testing or acceptance environment: Integrating Keptn into your existing DevOps tools such as GitLab is just a matter of an API call. Automate Performance aka Performance as a Self-Service: Watch SRE-Driven Performance Engineering.

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Cloud DevOps Azure Architecture 192

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. We will, however, also be somewhat skeptical of the impact we can expect from these new features in practice.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

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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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 29, 2021

Maybe it’s part of a performance review to identify critical CSS and reduce unused selectors. Generally, code auditing involves analyzing code to find bugs or other irregularities, like possible performance issues. To truly audit CSS, we would need to dig deeper and find places that are not considered best practices.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Definition. Now that we’ve sorted out the definitions, let’s quickly give an overview of my arguments. Moreover, the practice of “keep it simple stupid” (KISS) has become somewhat of a design truism. A cluttered design, by definition, overwhelms its users. Utilizable of color connotations, and alignment with brand values.

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Design Best Practices Efficiency Testing 94

SQL Performance

MARCH 15, 2021

This wasn't for performance reasons, directly, or to simply follow Microsoft's documented best practices, but revolved more around the decisions you might make when you only have access to some of the data. In my last post , I illustrated one reason you should stop using deprecated system tables like sysprocesses.

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Servers Azure Best Practices Monitoring 64

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. Having a slow site might leave you on page 452 of search results, regardless of any other metric. Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Tasktop

MAY 13, 2020

The Novel Economy is unique in that it’s true to its definition. No real best practices or case studies to guide us because the new market conditions are yet to be fully identified or understood. Organizations should look to build a bi-modal approach that looks at operations and business performance. Subscribe now.

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Internet Internet Innovation DevOps 86

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt. Here’s what a full report looks like.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL server performance can sometimes be perplexing, and if you’ve ever wondered about the role of triggers in influencing your MySQL server’s memory allocation, this post is for you. This can affect the overall performance of your database system, potentially leading to slower response times. What is a Trigger in MySQL?

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Cache Database Games Healthcare 58

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN): This enables users of Oracle databases to perform full, incremental, and differential backups. Percona XtraBackup performs online non-blocking, tightly compressed, highly secure backups on transactional systems. This tool also provides point-in-time recovery.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 84

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites written by Dan Shappir. We last talked to him in July 2020 , where we asked if modern best practices about for the web. So we’re throwing a ton of client-side JS at people, and that introduces a ton of agility and performance issues. The Lean Web book. Chris Ferdinandi on the web.

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Technology Technology Servers Code 94

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

In evaluating our exposure metric, we find unintended memorization to be both commonplace and hard to prevent. The objective when training a model is to teach it to generalise, as evidenced by performance on held out validation data. So clearly it doesn’t need to memorise training examples.

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Network Testing Strategy Google 55

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. In the past, Chrome used to perform changes to the website by proxying requests via their servers (similar to how Opera Mini works), but doing that is usually frowned upon these days.

Website 103

Website Media Mobile Network 103

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” Office staff usually perform tasks like invoice processing by filling in a web form. Should it be? What’s required?

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Games Healthcare Processing Retail 114

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2019

Dynatrace gives automatic insights into all runtime metrics. In our case here we get to see all relevant JVM memory, GC, threads, … metrics. The metrics clearly indicate that the Garage Collector kicked in and suspended all active threads while trying to free up some memory as the used memory reached the available limit.

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Java Metrics Best Practices Media 30

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

If after the previous two parts — HTTP/3 history and core concepts and HTTP/3 performance features — you’re convinced that starting to use the new protocols is a good idea (and you should be!), HTTP/3 performance features. then this final piece includes all you need to know to get started!

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Often they make it seem as if HTTP/3 is a revolution in performance, while it is really a more modest (yet still useful!) This is dangerous, because the new protocol will probably not be able to live up to these high expectations in practice. HTTP/3 performance features ( coming up soon! ). This is more in depth and technical.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To simplify this behavior, a best practice is to ensure your styles include resetting all elements to use border-box. Then, we can see that the color property for just p is crossed-out as an extra indicator that that rule definition is not applied. Large preview ). Cumulative Layout Shift.

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Design Availability Mobile Website 145