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. At its core, DevOps encourages collaboration between development and operations teams to speed up software delivery.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

To get a better handle on this, let’s start with some definitions. SLOs are best understood as part of a framework for tracking service levels that also includes service level agreements (SLAs), service-level indicators (SLIs), and error budgets. SLO best practices. What are SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets?

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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. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video. However, all the other connections have a downlink speed that’s significantly lower than 20 MBPS. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Rest assured, all these definitions (and others) would be correct, provided the right context. As of 2022, there are three Core Web Vitals — First Contentful Paint (speed), Cumulative Layout Shift (stability), and First Input Delay (interactivity). Other times it’s about how fast a task is performed. Large preview ).

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Google Lighthouse is an open-source tool that checks your page against rules for Performance, PWA, Accessibility, Best Practice, and SEO. In an ideal world, pages served to mobile devices should be under 1 MB – and definitely not more than 2 MB – but I often see pages in excess of 5 MB. > Speed Index (Synthetic).

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Easier to fight regressions Integrating SpeedCurve into your development pipeline – so you can take advantage of performance budgets and alerts to catch issues before (or right after) they go into production – has been a popular practice over the last several years. Learn more here.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

Having said that, looking at data over the past ten years, it's safe to make the observation that pages are definitely trending bigger. You can dig deeper into the mechanics of how CLS is calculated, but the human-friendly definition is that CLS helps you understand how likely a page is to deliver a janky, unpleasant experience to viewers.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. To pass information such as Test Step Name (TSN), Load Test Name (LTN), Load Script Name (LSN), Virtual User Id (VU) and others we can follow the load testing integration best practice as documented in Dynatrace and load testing tools integration.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. That’s a lifetime in web seconds, particularly considering that this test is based on a desktop experience on a high-speed connection. It’s true; they can definitely make the page size balloon as more and more scripts are injected.

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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. What is the “Novel Economy”? It’s new, unusual, and there’s no playbook for what we should do moving forward.

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. In an ideal world, pages served to mobile devices should be under 1 MB – and definitely not more than 2 MB – but I often see pages in excess of 5 MB.

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. It’s is a Google service that audit things performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices.

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Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

Reality: While it’s true that when there’s a web performance budget in place, teams need to keep it in mind when updating code or site design, this doesn’t have to impact the speed at which these updates happen. While this article is from a few years ago, it is in every respect on par with most modern best practices.

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Performance Mobile Metrics Speed 122

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Core Web Vital metrics definitions. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective. I know that is a lot of information to unpack in a single sitting, and it definitely took our team time to wrap our minds around what it takes to achieve a low LCP score.

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

If there is a newer file available on the server, we definitely want to download it. Cache invalidation is hard— famously so —so there’s a spec currently underway that helps developers quite definitively clear the entire cache for their site’s origin in one fell swoop: Clear-Site-Data. Caching best practices & max-age gotchas.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. It is a very interesting idea that builds on previous best practices to find an optimal solution.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Many previous reading studies investigated the effect of typography on reading speed. But we know that faster speed does not always equate to better comprehension. In fact, better comprehension is often associated with slower reading speed.” — Sofie Beier (legibility expert), “ Bringing together science and typography ”.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt. These are: Performance Accessibility Best Practices SEO Progressive Web App. If not, then check your Node installation is working and you’re definitely in the correct project directory. You should see: $ node lh.js

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Workflow Definitions Below you can see a typical file structure of a sample workflow package written in SparkSQL. ??? In every sample workflow package there are three workflow definition files that work together to provide flexible functionality. See an example high water mark job from the main workflow definition. -

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Common components of DR and HA architectures By definition, there are differences between high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR). So, enterprises might need dedicated high-speed connections or WAN optimization solutions to mitigate network congestion during backup operations.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 87

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

The Time to First Byte (TTFB) metric (also known as First Byte) measures the speed with which your server delivers content to the user. <200 ms “fast” TTFB is based on the server responsiveness best practice recommendation.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

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. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

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. Using SRI In Your Own Projects. But it’s not limited to big projects on CDNs, you can use this yourself for your own sites.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

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. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

It definitely is. We definitely have a lot more need for UI than marketing stuff. There’s accessibility, best practices, performance and one fourth one. I’ve definitely seen it. People are definitely enjoying it. Next.js, it simplifies a lot of speed related issues and accessibility related issue.

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CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Yet, this criticism of React isn’t completely unwarranted: React and ReactDOM total about 120 KiB of minified JavaScript, which definitely contributes to slow startup time. While I think startup time is crucial, it’s probably inevitable that you’ll trade some amount of speed for a better developer experience.

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Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

However, with our rapid product innovation speed, the whole approach experienced significant challenges: Business Complexity: The existing SKU management solution was designed years ago when the engagement rules were simple? Rule owners are responsible for making sure the requirements match the rule definition and request context.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

The development team has analyzed and pinpointed the weaknesses in the CSS codebase and has set target goals for the refactor (file size, specificity, color definitions, and so on). We’ll develop the card component in isolation and use the agreed standards and best practices. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Drew McLellan: He’s an engineer at Skypack and a major contributor to a new project called Astro, which aims to combine performance best practices with the developer experience improvements we see from component based approaches. Matthew: Yeah, there’s definitely a lot of people using it in production. Transcript. Is that right?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

Always offering services that will allow us to optimize our assets and the speed of response with which they are served to us. Connecting these two things, a Headless CMS and a static site builder are considered as a set of web development best practices focused on providing the highest performance, security and lowest cost.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air. Congestion Control. Did You Know?

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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 ).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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