Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. We help where we can. Check them out. html [Introducing Nitro]: [link]

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. We help where we can. Check them out. html [Introducing Nitro]: [link]

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. Evaluating factors like hit rate, which assesses cache efficiency level, or tracking key evictions from the cache are also essential elements during the Redis monitoring process.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

Observability challenges in serverless applications can be therefore categorized into: Data collection : how to collect metrics, logs and traces from serverless functions efficiently, reliably, and consistently? Understanding cold-start behavior is essential to tune your cloud applications cost or performance to meet your operational needs.

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Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 209

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Consequently, they might miss out on the benefits of integrating security into the SDLC, such as enhanced efficiency, speed, and quality in software delivery. Customers will increasingly prioritize AI efficiency and education to tackle legal and ethical concerns. It’s worry-free and doesn’t require human intervention.

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Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 77

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Focus on making your infrastructure more efficient before you even think about investing in more. What is Performance Testing? Consider optimizing before investing.

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Getting fast initial render with streaming server-side rendering, efficient component-level updates and state transitions, while also setting up a performant loading and bundling strategy for all the assets is hard and time-consuming technical work. Stay tuned for more in 2022! Oxygen is in early access preview with select merchants.

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 135

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

SUS101: Sustainability innovation in AWS Global Infrastructure AWS is determined to make the cloud the cleanest and most energy-efficient way to run customers’ infrastructure and business. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This is done without the need to create custom dashboards and is complemented by efficient analysis capabilities that automatically guide SREs to potential root causes of anomalies, enabling more efficient work and freeing up time for essential workflows. How to prevent this with K8s best practices.

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Efficiency Best Practices DevOps Open Source 237

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

In my previous article about continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) , I defined CI/CD and explained how these practices work together to help DevOps teams deliver quality software faster. As automation improves quality and efficiency, the simplest result — and perhaps the most noticeable — is getting features to users faster.

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Best Practices DevOps Open Source Cloud 130

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X tcp_fin_timeout = 30 net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_intvl

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? Stay tuned!

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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Communicating security insights efficiently across teams in your organization isn’t easy Security management is a complex and challenging task; effectively communicating security insights is even more so. You work with the DevSecOps teams on one hand, guiding them through the best practices of secure development and deployment.

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Efficiency Best Practices Tuning Internet 213

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Operations refers to the processes of managing software functionality throughout its delivery and use life cycle, including monitoring system performance, repairing defects, testing after updates and changes, and tuning the software release system. Application security has historically been addressed after development is completed.

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DevOps Best Practices Open Source Tuning 270

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Well-Architected Reviews are conducted by AWS customers and AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners to evaluate architectures to understand how well applications align with the multiple Well-Architected Framework design principles and best practices. Stay tuned. AWS 5-pillars.

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AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 144

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. Performance tuning The first critical move in performance tuning is query optimization.

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 89

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

Embracing cloud native best practices to increase automation. Onboarding teams using self-service Kubernetes selectors is one of the best examples of how Dynatrace embraces cloud native technologies to increase automation, reduce bureaucracy, and encourage agility. A look to the future.

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Availability Scalability Cloud Metrics 319

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

In certain scenarios exactly-once semantics is possible but the best you can do is at-least-once or at-most-once. If tuned for performance, there is a good change reliability is compromised - and vice versa. This can be efficient at the beginning but counter-productive in a long run.

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Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Author Steve Souders writes about the best practices that he gained as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices For Web Developers. High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge For Front-End Engineers. and the Head Performance Engineer at Google. – Aurel V.

Speed 85

Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Percona

JULY 6, 2023

In PostgreSQL, there are different ways it can leverage the indexes to produce the most efficient plan. I included a sequence creation statement for the id column since one best practice is always to have a primary key column, but for the specific examples we will go through, we don’t need it.

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Best Practices Tuning Database Testing 87

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

Various partition types, like RANGE, LIST, HASH, and KEY, are used for specific needs, from range-based data to custom criteria, to ensure efficient data handling and the optimization of queries. ensures that only relevant partitions are accessed, further enhancing query efficiency. Partition pruning, a feature in MySQL 5.7,

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Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Percona

JULY 2, 2023

Backup Testing and Validation: To ensure backups are reliable and can be efficiently used for recovery, DBAs regularly perform backup testing and validation. Security and Access Control : DBAs are responsible for securing backup files and implementing security measures to protect backups from unauthorized access.

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Strategy Database Storage Open Source 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

That’s right; I’ve parked day-to-day design work in favor of becoming someone very active in the design community, focusing on best practice design advice and scalable systems. Maybe you worked in partnership with the engineering lead on X to increase the efficiency of Y — I’d love to hear more about this during an interview.

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Design Social Media Website Best Practices 126

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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Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Source: Guy Podjarny However, we do now have a full set of techniques to effectively deliver highly performative sites that not only visually scale across devices but also deliver code and assets tuned to the width of a device. Sites need to be built utilising these techniques from a mobile first (and performance first) perspective.

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Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Never assume that most businesses are well run, and that they represent some sort of “best practice.” That kind of loop might be somewhat more efficient, because software would look up information and fill in forms automatically. But the gain in efficiency would be relatively small. Is retraining needed?

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Games Healthcare Processing Retail 117

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In this article, we’re going to cover code-splitting best practices and showcase some examples using React, so we load the minimum JavaScript necessary to render a page and dynamically load sizeable non-critical bundles. This automatization often leads developers to treat a framework and build tools as a black box.

Code 89

Code Performance Network Website 89

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

One aspect of performance is about how efficiently a transport protocol can use a network’s full (physical) bandwidth (i.e. As such, tuning congestion logic is usually only done by a select few developers, and evolution is slow. As such, one best practice or optimization can end up undoing another. Congestion Control.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

QUIC is needed because TCP, which has been around since the early days of the Internet, was not really built with maximum efficiency in mind. It combines decades of deployment experience and best practices of TCP with some core new features. Stay tuned! (vf, vf, il, al).

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

KB ​​ boundaries efficiently. ​​ Although ​​ SQL Server ​​ tries ​​ to use the log space as efficiently as possible, ​​ certain application patterns cause the log-block fill percentages to remain small. ​​ This creates 8?KB

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Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Users appreciate high-quality visuals, but care needs to be taken to deliver those hero images, product photos and cat memes as efficiently and effectively as possible. The efficiency of a codec can be mainly measured by how much compression it can achieve. Images are the most popular resource type on the web and are often the largest.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144