Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This is where Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices are applied. SREs use Service-Level Indicators (SLI) to see the complete picture of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across various systems, especially revenue-critical systems.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

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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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DevOps Best Practices Innovation Strategy 197

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As software delivery tasks traditionally performed at the end of the software delivery lifecycle – such as testing and deployment – have shifted to the beginning of the lifecycle, developers are now working with Kubernetes more directly. Dynatrace enables teams to specify SLOs, such as latency, uptime, availability, and more.

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Development DevOps Programming Cloud 261

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

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DZone

JULY 10, 2019

In addition, compute and storage are increasingly being separated causing larger latencies for queries. Alluxio is leveraged as compute-side virtual storage to improve performance. But to get the best performance, like any technology stack, you need to follow the best practices. A Note on Data Locality.

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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. The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

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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. Background: How performance budgets work 1. What is a performance budget? What should a performance budget look like? Let's get started!

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

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. Synthetic monitoring is also useful for developing baselines of performance.

Monitoring 179

Monitoring Latency Mobile Best Practices 179

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. SRE applies DevOps principles to developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.

Engineering 254

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 254

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The primary goal of ITOps is to provide a high-performing, consistent IT environment. Organizations measure these factors in general terms by assessing the usability, functionality, reliability, and performance of products and services. Performance. What does IT operations do? ITOps vs. AIOps.

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Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 201

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. Reduced latency. Efficiency.

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DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google 188

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. How would you time time?

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. These crucial elements act as conductors in a symphony, coordinating the performance of all aspects related to cloud workloads.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. Saving crucial milliseconds. Fully managed cache for DynamoDB.

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. SRE applies DevOps principles to developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.

Engineering 175

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 175

HammerDB

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This post gives a HOWTO guide on system configuration for achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB PostgreSQL TPC-C test. Firstly for system choice a 2 socket system is optimal for PostgreSQL OLTP performance at the time of writing. Make sure that your CPU is configured for optimal performance. Setting cpu: 0.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance Hardware 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. As is exactly the same with PostgreSQL for system choice a 2 socket system is optimal for MySQL OLTP performance. current CPU frequency: 1.99

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Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This demand creates an increasing need for DevOps teams to maintain the performance and reliability of critical business applications. service availability with <50ms latency for an application with no revenue impact. But there are SLO pitfalls. Pitfall 3: Using SLOs reactively vs. proactively.

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DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency 195

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

SLOs, together with service-level indicators (SLIs), deliver the performance promised in service-level agreements (SLAs) and other business level objectives (BLOs) while staying within error budgets. In layman’s terms, SLOs represent the performance or health of a service. But what are SLOs? Watch webinar now! Promote automation.

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Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 190

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 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. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Nevertheless in this blog sometimes we do publish performance data to highlight best practices or potential configuration pitfalls and although we’ve mentioned this one before it is worth dedicating an entire post to it as this issue seems to appear numerous times running database workloads on Linux. 3834 2696 .

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

How To Make Performance Visible With GitLab CI And Hoodoo Of GitLab Artifacts. How To Make Performance Visible With GitLab CI And Hoodoo Of GitLab Artifacts. Performance degradation is a problem we face on a daily basis. Performance is a competitive advantage that can bring and retain customers. Anton Nemtsev.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Again, every millisecond counts.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt. Here’s what a full report looks like.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. That’s practically an eternity when talking about page speed performance. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

Media 73

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing. Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities. The reason behind being the speed and convenience of using mobile phones.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

The lower conversion rate on mobile could be due to a variety of reasons including the website not being responsive for mobile devices, the speed isn’t up to par, etc. Having high-quality images on your site can however slow down the performance of your site overall as the image size grows.

Ecommerce 41

Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright. Google Lighthouse has a lot going for it.

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Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. There are further requirements for high performance in the following: Telecom: vEPC or 5G Core. In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget.

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Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40