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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). For example, the ability to test against a wireless provider in a remote area.

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What is continuous delivery and what are best practices for implementing it?

Dynatrace

CD depends on automated testing, and test pass rate helps you fine tune testing methods and improve the effectiveness of your developer feedback loop. Best practices for adopting continuous delivery. Here are some best practices to consider for automating delivery effectively. Watch our webinar.

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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

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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What is synthetic testing?

Dynatrace

Availability testing Availability testing helps organizations confirm that a site or application is responding to user requests. 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.

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How to boost SRE productivity with observability-driven DevOps

Dynatrace

Dynatrace makes this easy by offering a collection of best-practice SLO definitions for various use cases beyond the observability domain. For instance, for a performance test window of 10 minutes, SLOs targets are evaluated and SLO health scores are visualized build-over-build. Reduce MTTR through SLO-driven remediation.

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A guide to ASP.NET web service observability, diagnostics and performance optimization with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

The screenshot below shows a PurePath that was shared with me by our partner triscon from Vienna, which specializes in Load and Performance testing for large enterprise applications. Having this additional context as part of the PurePath speeds up the analysis and diagnostics work for performance engineers, developers, or architects.

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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

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. System setup is covered on the PostgreSQL Best Practice post so it will not be repeated here as the steps are the same.