The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic. Data Sharding strategy in elasticsearch is updated to provide low search latency (as described in blog post) Design of new Cassandra reverse indices to support different sets of queries.

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Media Traffic Processing Design 237

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

We’ll answer that question and explore cloud migration benefits and best practices for how to go through your migration smoothly. In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Likewise, you can scale down when your application experiences decreased traffic.

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Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 163

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance. In this blog, we will explore various MySQL KPIs that are basic and essential to track using monitoring tools like PMM.

Performance 108

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

As businesses compete for customer loyalty, it’s critical to understand the difference between real-user monitoring and synthetic user monitoring. These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. What is real user monitoring?

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Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 172

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic. Bottlenecks can occur, for example, if you have a sudden surge in traffic that your servers are not equipped to handle. Many testing tools let you monitor user behavior in great detail.

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In one of our previous articles , we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. Monitoring. Saturation.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Monitor Resource Utilization Monitoring and analyzing resource utilization in your MySQL database is crucial for maintaining optimal performance and preventing potential bottlenecks.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time. Both latency and response time are critical to ensure reliability. Latency typically refers to the time it takes for a single request to travel from its source to its destination. Latency primarily focuses on the time spent in transit.

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time. Both latency and response time are critical to ensure reliability. Latency typically refers to the time it takes for a single request to travel from its source to its destination. Latency primarily focuses on the time spent in transit.

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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 174

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

SLOs cover a wide range of monitoring options for different applications. If you’re new to SLOs and want to learn more about them, how they’re used, and best practices, see the additional resources listed at the end of this article. Service-performance template Latency is often described as the time a request takes to be served.

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Performance Latency Traffic Metrics 171

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

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. The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees.

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously.

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Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. They state in the blog that this was quick to build, which is the point.

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Serverless Lambda Best Practices Traffic 145

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Azure and found that DigitalOcean performance was in line with, if not better, on both high throughput and low latency in the deployment. While adequate for low-traffic applications, small databases, and dev/test environments, we recommend against leveraging shared clusters for your MongoDB production deployments.

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Azure AWS Latency Database 187

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.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Another category that forms a critical part of many businesses operations is monitoring tools. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Another category that forms a critical part of many businesses operations is monitoring tools. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

To this vital function is workload automation which optimizes scheduling, execution, and monitoring processes for each individual task or process within cloud-based workflows. Ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and best practices also poses a significant obstacle for workload management in the realm of cloud computing platforms.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Kubernetes can be complex, which is why we offer comprehensive training that equips you and your team with the expertise and skills to manage database configurations, implement industry best practices, and carry out efficient backup and recovery procedures.

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Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 107

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

As illustrated above, ProxySQL allows us to set up a common entry point for the application and then redirect the traffic on the base of identified sharding keys. It will also allow us to redirect read/write traffic to the primary and read-only traffic to all secondaries. I will eventually increase them if I see the need.

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Traffic Scalability Database Servers 127

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This metric is important, but quite vague because it can include anything — starting from server rendering time and ending up with latency problems. This saves clients traffic — sometimes traffic which the client is paying for. There are performance score, a11y score, best practices score, SEO score.

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Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 98

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 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. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. Quick Wins.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Testing And Monitoring. Good for raising alarms and monitoring changes over time, not so good for understanding user experience. Good for describing the user experience and monitoring, not so good for knowing what happens between the milestones. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Setting Realistic Goals. Assets Optimizations.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Testing And Monitoring. To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145