Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The fact is, Reliability and Resiliency must be rooted in the architecture of a distributed system. Fact #1: AWS EC2 outage properly documented. This number was so low because the automatic traffic redirect was so fast it kept the impact so low. Ready to learn more? Then read on! Let’s start with some facts.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

All of this puts a lot of pressure on IT systems and applications. In this article, I will share some of the best practices to help you understand and survive the current situation — as well as future proof your applications and infrastructure for similar situations that might occur in the months and years to come.

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Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

and later v15 versions Cost of enabling Dedicated Log Volumes (DLV) in RDS The documentation doesn’t say much about additional charges for the Dedicated Log Volumes, but I reached out to AWS support, who responded exactly as follows: Please note that there are no additional costs for enabling a dedicated log volume (DLV) on Amazon RDS.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍TLS Certificate Breach - A TLS certificate is a digital document that authenticates the identity of a website or server and enables secure encrypted communication. Hence, when attackers manage to infiltrate the CDN, they can effortlessly access and read the data as it has already been decrypted by the CDN.‍‍TLS

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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. In addition, changing that database system often requires code modifications to ensure seamless compatibility.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Without data backup mechanisms, there can be data loss or system downtime. Even worse, entire operating systems can crash, also resulting in data loss. Data consistency: Verify that data consistency between the primary and secondary systems will exist after recovery. Similarly, accidental deletion is a culprit.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Hence, when attackers manage to infiltrate the CDN, they can effortlessly access and read the data as it has already been decrypted by the CDN.‍‍TLS Certificate Breach - A TLS certificate is a digital document that authenticates the identity of a website or server and enables secure encrypted communication.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

The main reason behind this is that MySQL is a relational database system (RDBMS), and any data that is going to be written in it must respect the RDBMS rules. As well, very few cases are in need to have a full system/solution to provide scalability with sharding. I will eventually increase them if I see the need.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. RUM systems embed a small JavaScript payload onto every page of your site. For this reason, best practice advice is to load CSS resources as early as you can in the page load , so the browser has all the information to render the page as soon as possible.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Howard sat down with Rigor’s CTO Billy Hoffman to discuss best practices for holiday and peak-load readiness from a user experience and web performance perspective. ” Then, use that data to determine whether the site can handle that volume of traffic and to start planning for how to prepare the site.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

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. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run. Being a more advanced database management system, PostgreSQL is well-suited for performing complex queries in a large environment quickly.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This saves clients traffic — sometimes traffic which the client is paying for. Let’s write a script that allows us to measure performance, a11y, best practices, and provide us with an SEO score. For more precise configuration, check the documentation. title, value: report.categories['best-practices'].score,

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s about ensuring that your front-end is also working perfectly, that your site can deliver a delightful experience to your users or customers, and that it is functional – even when it’s experiencing up to seven or more times the typical traffic load. Traffic patterns outside of normal [RUM or Analytics].

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Rather than buying racks and racks of servers that need to handle the maximum potential traffic and be idle most of the time, it seems that serverless’ method of paying by compute is proving to be beneficial to the bottom lines of organizations. When asked about the benefits of adopting serverless, there were some stand-out issues.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍AutomationCode-based systems also shine in automation. ‍This workflow not only streamlines processes but also ensures that any changes are in line with the organization's best practices and compliance standards.‍Advantages This level of granularity is not found in UI-managed systems. ‍What Happened Two Weeks Ago?‍Earlier

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This level of granularity is not found in UI-managed systems. AutomationCode-based systems also shine in automation. The Terraform scripts you write not only serve as documentation but also as a disaster recovery plan. ‍If RedundancyRedundancy is all about having an automated, replicable backup.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Large Seasonal Peaks – Our largest community supports TurboTax where the peak traffic during February or April is often 100s of times greater than a quiet day in June. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. Comments ().

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

However, the above table is not actually representative of total traffic, and that’s another point to note about this data. Perhaps this is a best practice even for those using Save Data, as perhaps they’re unaware or had forgotten that they turned this setting on, and so are getting a different experience.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV. For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). From Fast By Default: Modern Loading Best Practices by Addy Osmani (Slides 18, 19). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. Large preview ). Unless they don't.

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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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Some options for doing this are described in the IETF’s proposed document. As such, one best practice or optimization can end up undoing another. Passing this data is done using kernel APIs (system calls), which involves a certain amount of overhead per API call. Both systems deliver the same feature (i.e.

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