The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Hence we built the data pipeline that can be used to extract the existing assets metadata and process it specifically to each new use case. Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic. For asynchronous processing, events are sent to Apache Kafka topics to be processed.

Media 237

Media Traffic Processing Design 237

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. Observability is typically achieved by collecting three types of data from a system, metrics, logs and traces. The elasticity of serverless services helps organizations scale as needed.

Serverless 203

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 203

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

To ensure high standards, it’s essential that your organization establish automated validations in an early phase of the software development process—ideally when code is written. These examples can help you define your starting point for establishing DevOps and SRE best practices in your organization.

DevOps 183

DevOps Traffic Latency Best Practices 183

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

However, many teams struggle with knowing which ones to use and how to incorporate them into the processes. Below, several Dynatrace customers shared their SLO management journey and discussed the resulting dashboards they rely on daily to manage their mission-critical business processes and applications. What are SLOs?

Automotive 267

Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 267

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Metrics, logs , and traces make up three vital prongs of modern observability. Together with metrics, three sources of data help IT pros identify the presence and causes of performance problems, user experience issues, and potential security threats. These two processes feed into one another.

Systems 183

Systems Cloud Analytics DevOps 183

Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, observability data—telemetry from applications and infrastructure, including logs, metrics, and traces—and security data are converging. It requires an understanding of cloud architecture and distributed systems, with the goal of automating processes. Incomplete.

Analytics 182

Analytics Java Infrastructure Cloud 182

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. Quantitative performance testing looks at metrics like response time while qualitative testing is concerned with scalability, stability, and interoperability.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index. That said, it should also be monitored for usage, which will exhibit the traffic pressuring them. This is not an exhaustive list but an example of what we can watch for.

Performance 108

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

65% of businesses report that 40% of their customers now engage with them through mobile devices , and 70% of digital businesses will require IT and Ops to report digital metrics by 2025. Putting omnichannel user experience into practice. In practice, error data tells companies where to prioritize their efforts.

Mobile 164

Mobile Monitoring Benchmarking Best Practices 164

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on. Why Are User-centric Metrics Essential for Ecommerce? Which Metrics Matter for Ecommerce? ” The short answer is, “ It depends.

Ecommerce 87

Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. RUM gathers information on a variety of performance metrics. RUM is ideally suited to provide real metrics from real users navigating a site or application. What is real user monitoring?

Best Practices 172

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 172

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results. Inefficient query design, such as utilizing SELECT * instead of specifying necessary columns, can escalate data transfer and processing overhead. To maximize indexing benefits, be sure to follow best practices.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

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.

Engineering 130

Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. or above for the checkout process.

Traffic 173

Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain SLOs can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. or above for the checkout process. This SLO enables a smooth and uninterrupted exercise-tracking experience.

Latency 174

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 174

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

LoadView – Best Practices and Process. It helps assess how a site, web application, or API will respond to various traffic, without adding any additional infrastructure. Use baseline metrics to identify performance degradation by reviewing elements provided by waterfall charts.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously. implement a M-CDN, organizations can use traffic management tools or Multi-CDN switching solutions that distribute and route content across the various CDN providers. Even minor misconfigurations can lead to disruptive traffic interruptions.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

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. These signals ( latency, traffic, errors, and saturation ) provide a solid means of proactively monitoring operative systems via SLOs and tracking business success.

Performance 171

Performance Latency Traffic Metrics 171

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience.

Media 69

Media Tuning Metrics Google 69

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. Best practices to consider. Cloud-server monitoring.

Cloud 220

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 220

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously. implement a M-CDN, organizations can use traffic management tools or Multi-CDN switching solutions that distribute and route content across the various CDN providers. Even minor misconfigurations can lead to disruptive traffic interruptions.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Streamline development and delivery processes Nowadays, digital transformation strategies are executed by almost every organization across all industries. Additionally, you can easily use any previously defined metrics and SLOs from your environments.

DevOps 215

DevOps Latency Traffic Best Practices 215

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Organizations can now accelerate innovation and reduce the risk of failed software releases by incorporating on-demand synthetic monitoring as a metrics provider for automatic, continuous release-validation processes. This metric indicates how quickly software can be released to production.

Monitoring 197

Monitoring Software Software DevOps 197

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic testing is an IT process that uses software to discover and diagnose performance issues with user journeys by simulating real-user activity. Web-performance testing Web-performance testing evaluates metrics including page loading speed, the performance of specific page elements, and the occurrence rate of site errors.

Testing 204

Testing Best Practices Testing Tools Monitoring 204

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Tracking changes to automated processes, including auditing impacts to the system, and reverting to the previous environment states seamlessly. Allowing architectures to be nimble and evolve over time, allowing organizations to take advantage of innovations as a standard practice. Fully conceptualizing capacity requirements.

AWS 143

AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 143

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

Which metrics should I use?” Which values of these metrics are acceptable?”. The metrics selection is outside of the scope of this article and depends highly on the project context, but I recommend that you start by reading User-centric Performance Metrics by Philip Walton. Adding 20% to them and set as your next goals.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 98

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

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process. This will enable deep monitoring of those Java,NET, Node, processes as well as your web servers.

Engineering 189

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 189

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Total Blocking Time One thing I know would be more helpful than a set of Core Web Vitals scores from Lighthouse is knowing the time it takes to go from the First Contentful Paint (FCP) to the Time to Interactive (TTI), a metric known as the Total Blocking Time (TBT). You can see that Lighthouse does indeed provide that metric.

Google 90

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Hot backups vs. cold backups: A hot backup — used to minimize downtime and ensure data availability for critical applications — allows you to create a copy of a database while the system is still actively serving user requests and processing transactions. In a cold backup, the database is taken offline.

Database 93

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 93

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric. The company had to compensate customers for their losses, including reimbursement for flights, accommodation, and $135,000 over tarmac delays.What Is The Process For Calculating Availability?By

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric. The company had to compensate customers for their losses, including reimbursement for flights, accommodation, and $135,000 over tarmac delays.What Is The Process For Calculating Availability?By

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

A well-established metric we provide is APDEX , which tell us how users are perceiving page load times (time to the first byte, page speed, speed index), errors (JavaScript errors, crashes,) and also factors in the overall user journey (each user interaction) including their environment (browser, geolocation, bandwidth).

Cache 195

Cache Architecture Database Government 195

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. Please note that these are presented as general best practices.

Availability 112

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 112

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].

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. Researchers and major companies have been publishing case studies for years , proving that slower page load experiences impact business metrics, including conversion rate, revenue, bounce rate, and more. Large preview ). What To Measure.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

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. Conclusion.

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Website Media Mobile Network 103