Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key Takeaways Critical performance indicators such as latency, CPU usage, memory utilization, hit rate, and number of connected clients/slaves/evictions must be monitored to maintain Redis’s high throughput and low latency capabilities. It can achieve impressive performance, handling up to 50 million operations per second.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

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.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

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. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.” Solving for SR.

Engineering 252

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 252

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.

Development 258

Development DevOps Programming Cloud 258

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

For example, data collected on load actions can include navigation start, request start, and speed index metrics. Whereas RUM can capture all the nuances of your real users, providing a true picture into their experience, synthetic monitoring is great for proactive simulation and testing of the expected user experience.

Monitoring 176

Monitoring Latency Mobile Best Practices 176

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. SRE as an application of DevOps.

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DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google 186

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. Storing frequently accessed data in faster storage, usually in-memory caching, improves data retrieval speed and overall system performance. Beyond

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AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 243

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? There's also a test and println() in the loop to, hopefully, convince the compiler not to optimize-out an otherwise empty loop.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 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. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.” Solving for SR.

Engineering 173

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 173

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? There's also a test and println() in the loop to, hopefully, convince the compiler not to optimize-out an otherwise empty loop.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

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. We welcome that DAX is generally available."

Speed 121

Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

service availability with <50ms latency for an application with no revenue impact. Commonly, teams create SLOs because they are simply following what others in the industry are doing, or because they are common best practices. This can create an unnecessary distraction and steal time away from critical tasks.

DevOps 192

DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency 192

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Stable, well-calibrated SLOs pave the way for teams to automate more processes and testing throughout the software delivery life cycle (SDLC). You can set SLOs based on individual indicators, such as batch throughput, request latency, and failures-per-second. SLO best practices. Promote automation.

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Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 187

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. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. .

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Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

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. maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. Latency: 0. It is your test so you can set the options as you see fit. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 3.80 Usage: 10736.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance Hardware 40

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution. As a best practice, It is advisable to have different mounts for MySQL data and log files with specific system configurations.

Performance 106

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

About two decades ago, testing was only limited to the desktop. With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

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. INP logs the latency of all interactions throughout the entire page lifecycle. It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

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. We can test for LCP in a number of ways. The following screenshot is taken from a test I ran through WebPageTest, resulting in an LCP of 2.4

Media 73

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

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. uname -a Linux ubuntu19 5.3.0-rc3-custom

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Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt. These are: Performance Accessibility Best Practices SEO Progressive Web App. In lh.js , you’ll next want to delete the test console.log() and import the Lighthouse module so you can use it in your code. Saving the report.

Google 82

Google Latency Website Metrics 82

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. Improve Site Speed In 2019, having fast site speed is imperative. There are many ways to speed up a slow website.

Ecommerce 41

Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Testing And Monitoring Auditing workflow, proxy browsers, 404 page, GDPR cookie consent prompts, performance diagnostics CSS, accessibility. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!), Quick Wins.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you run Lighthouse, you can choose to receive up to five different scores, including SEO, Best Practices, Progressive Web App (PWA), Accessibility, and Performance , that can provide valuable insight for your dev team to act on. When it comes to network speed, Lighthouse gives you three options – and no others.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

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. Synthetic Tests. In this article, we will use synthetic tests and assume that our project uses GitLab with its built-in CI for project deployment. Let’s install it.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 98

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Testing And Monitoring. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Now you have something measurable to test against.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Testing And Monitoring. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Quick Wins.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( coming up soon! ). This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. Congestion Control.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Pull-the-plug ​​ power ​​ outage testing ​​ Power outage testing ​​ is ​​ a fundamental and critical part of the administrator’s data safety and integrity requirements. ​​ Incorrect configurations lead to data loss.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( current article ). This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is more in-depth and technical. Changes To Pages And Resources.

Network 104

Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Assuming encode/decode speeds meet your needs. Encode/Decode Speed. Degree of compression, image quality, and decoding speed are key factors to be considered when comparing image performance for the web. Some tests have shown that AVIF offers a 50% saving in file size compared to JPEG with similar perceptual quality.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144