Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To address these challenges, architects must design robust and scalable MongoDB databases and adopt appropriate sharding strategies that can efficiently handle increasing workloads while ensuring continuous availability. Each replica set can have multiple mongod processes (up to 50), but avoid using arbiters or zero-priority members.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. The speed of backup also depends on allocated IOPS and type of storage since lots of read/writes would be happening during this process. Best practice tip : Use PBM to time huge backup sets.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic testing is an IT process that uses software to discover and diagnose performance issues with user journeys by simulating real-user activity. Web-performance testing Web-performance testing evaluates metrics including page loading speed, the performance of specific page elements, and the occurrence rate of site errors.

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Testing Best Practices Testing Tools Monitoring 204

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

By leveraging the power of the Dynatrace ® platform and the new Kubernetes experience, platform engineers are empowered to implement the following best practices, thereby enabling their dev teams to deliver best-in-class applications and services to their customers. Automation, automation, automation.

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Engineering DevOps Best Practices Infrastructure 270

Tech News Gather

MAY 27, 2024

Designed with simplicity and scalability in mind, ACI allows developers and IT professionals to swiftly deploy containers without the complexity of managing virtual machines or higher-level services like Kubernetes.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

Executing PITR requires restoring from the full backup and then applying binary log events in sequence up to the desired point in time, with advanced techniques and third-party tools available to optimize large dataset handling and automate the recovery process. Use the ‘–log-bin’ option to designate a base name for the binary log files.

Database 162

Database Strategy Servers Best Practices 162

Dynatrace

JUNE 14, 2023

While last year was deemed “The Year of Innovation” for launching Grail , our causal data lakehouse with massively parallel processing (MPP), along with AppEngine , AutomationEngine , Notebooks , and more, 2023 is about extending these innovations to more customers through our partners.

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Programming Analytics Innovation Best Practices 177

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

However, getting reliable answers from observability data so teams can automate more processes to ensure speed, quality, and reliability can be challenging. This drive for speed has a cost: 22% of leaders admit they’re under so much pressure to innovate faster that they must sacrifice code quality.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 28, 2023

One such solution is pagination, which divides large datasets into manageable “pages” of data to be displayed or processed. How to Implement Pagination in MongoDB® Big datasets require efficient data retrieval and processing for effective management. As your offset increases, this process gets slower and slower. The result?

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Best Practices Efficiency Strategy Speed 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Staying ahead of customer needs requires speed and agility from all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC). Automating tasks throughout the SDLC helps software development and operations teams collaborate while continuously improving how they design, build, test, deploy, release, and monitor software applications.

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DevOps Innovation Speed Monitoring 184

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Cloud-native environments bring speed and agility to software development and operations (DevOps) practices. But with that speed and agility comes new complications and complexity, all while maintaining performance and reliability with less than 1% down-time per year. Both practices live by the same overarching tenets.

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DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google 186

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

Deriving business value with AI, IT automation, and data reliability When it comes to increasing business efficiency, boosting productivity, and speeding innovation, artificial intelligence takes center stage. Teams face siloed processes and toolsets, vast volumes of data, and redundant manual tasks.

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Performance DevOps Innovation Artificial Intelligence 182

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

In the realm of cloud-based business operations, there is an increasing dependence on complex information processing patterns. High availability storage options within the context of cloud computing involve highly adaptable storage solutions specifically designed for storing vast amounts of data while providing easy access to it.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

ACM is the culmination of our best practices and learning that we share every day with our customers to help them automate their enterprise, innovate faster, and deliver better business ROI. Cloud native” is not just architecture; it also means bringing cloud-centric best practices to software and IT generally.

Games 159

Games Cloud Best Practices Innovation 159

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2023

For this, best practices would be to segregate commands from data, use parameterized SQL queries, and eliminate the interpreter by using a safe application program interface, if possible. Use a safe development life cycle with secure design patterns and components. Apply threat modeling and plausibility checks.

Open Source 194

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Internet Internet 194

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Effectively automating IT processes is key to addressing the challenges of  complex cloud environments. Relying on manual processes results in outages, increased costs, and frustrated customers. These three types of AI used together enable more effective IT automation than a single form of AI on its own. But what is AIOps, exactly?

AWS 205

AWS Artificial Intelligence Analytics Cloud 205

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

Just as DevOps requires a lifestyle shift to integrate two teams at opposite ends of the delivery lifecycle, DevSecOps requires a similar mindset shift as teams integrate security tools and practices into this cadence. Security is by design, not tacked on. The result is security by design. Security is a shared responsibility.

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DevOps Speed Infrastructure Best Practices 153

MachMetrics

JUNE 18, 2019

Many people reach out to us asking what is the #1 most important bang-for-your-buck tip on optimizing your website’s speed. The most important thing you can do to speed up your site is: Optimize your images! This trend shows no signs of slowing down, and underscores a huge responsibility for web designers and site owners.

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Speed Website Social Media Media 81

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. This includes response time, accuracy, speed, throughput, uptime, CPU utilization, and latency. So, what is ITOps? How does ITOps create business value?

Artificial Intelligence 198

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 198

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In a classic 1983 paper , cognitive psychologist Lisanne Bainbridge drew attention to a curious irony: so-called “automated” systems were, in practice, usually attended by one or more human operators. Bainbridge believed that automation designers were in denial about this, however. RPA explained. Workflow and back-office automation.

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Processing Programming Virtualization Technology 83

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. As a result, developers can address operational concerns earlier in the software delivery process and streamline efforts.

DevOps 159

DevOps Engineering Innovation Best Practices 159

Speed Curve

APRIL 14, 2024

A consent management platform (CMP) is a tool that helps organizations handle user consent for data collection and processing, following privacy rules like GDPR or CCPA. It's common to see the consent scripts blocking by design. What are CMPs and how do they work? On websites, CMPs handle cookie popups.

Performance 126

Performance Best Practices Metrics Internet 126

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

And why have SLOs and SLIs become so important as teams automate processes to consistently meet SLAs and error budgets? 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.

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Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 187

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Container security is the practice of applying security tools, processes, and policies to protect container-based workloads. If containers are run with privileged flags, or if they receive details about host processes, they can easily become points of compromise for corporate networks. Best practices for container security.

Open Source 246

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 246

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. This process enables you to continuously evaluate software against predefined quality criteria and service level objectives (SLOs) in pre-production environments.

AWS 243

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 243

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Google’s PageSpeed Insights tools may be just what you need to leverage data collected through speed testing. Having too many large images, files, and plugins may slow down site speed or server response times and that is where PageSpeed testers come in. Here’s your process: Measure your page load time. Otherwise revert it.

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Speed Best Practices Google Website 49

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

A broken SLO with no owner can take longer to remediate and is more likely to recur compared to an SLO with an owner and a well-defined remediation process. Establish the relevant service level indicators (SLIs) that need to be monitored, the process for remediating any issues, the relevant tools required, and timeframes for resolution.

DevOps 192

DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency 192

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets organizations can use to evaluate architecture and implement designs that will scale over time. The Framework is built on five pillars of architectural best practices: Cost optimization. Design applications to recover from errors gracefully. Reliability.

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Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 184

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Early in my career, I was headed full speed towards life as a clinical researcher. There was not enough scope to explore the distributed and large-scale computing challenges that usually come with big data processing. Furthermore, engineering velocity was often sacrificed owing to rigid processes. What drew you to Netflix?

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Data Engineering Engineering Big Data Healthcare 130

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things.

Engineering 131

Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about a user’s interaction with an application. For example, data collected on load actions can include navigation start, request start, and speed index metrics. Best practices for RUM.

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Monitoring Latency Mobile Best Practices 176

Tim Kadlec

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Instead, they adjusted the design, switching from spinners to a skeleton screen that incrementally filled in as content arrived back from the server. People stopped complaining about wait times, and a new perceived performance “best practice” was born. Used the wrong way, even best practices can be detrimental.

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Best Practices Network Mobile Speed 145

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Most organizations are embracing DevSecOps, a term that covers processes and tooling enabling security to be integrated into the application development life cycle rather than treated as a separate process. This marks the end of an era of chaos, paving the way for efficiency gains, quicker innovation, and standardized practices.

Cloud 79

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 79

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

Designing For Micro-Moments. Designing For Micro-Moments. A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. In Myriam Jessier’s " Things Designers Should Know About SEO In 2018 ", she sums up Google’s four micro-moments: “I want to know.”. “I

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Design Google Website Small Business 62

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In a post detailing the thought process behind the planned feature, the Chrome team explains that “In the future, Chrome may identify sites that typically load fast or slow for users with clear badging ”. If you’re using best practices and keeping web performance in mind, you shouldn’t need to worry about being badged.

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Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results. Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52