Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Reduced Resource Usage Optimizing resource-intensive queries and configurations can lead to a reduced burden on your server. Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video. However, all the other connections have a downlink speed that’s significantly lower than 20 MBPS. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

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). RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services.

Best Practices 175

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 175

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

This operational component places some cognitive load on our engineers, requiring them to develop deep understanding of telemetry and alerting systems, capacity provisioning process, security and reliability best practices, and a vast amount of informal knowledge about the cloud infrastructure.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. The speed of backup also depends on allocated IOPS and type of storage since lots of read/writes would be happening during this process. Why are MongoDB database backups important? mongorestore --host=mongodb1.example.net

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2022

Here, we’ll tackle the basics, benefits, and best practices of IAC, as well as choosing infrastructure-as-code tools for your organization. Infrastructure as code is a practice that automates IT infrastructure provisioning and management by codifying it as software. Exploring IAC best practices. Consistency.

Best Practices 209

Best Practices Infrastructure Code Speed 209

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

Essentially, all traffic between China and the rest of the world goes through a few national level and a handful of core level access points in different regions. This makes censorship of domestic traffic faster. . Message timestamps are also affected due to the time zone differences with the country where the VPN server is located.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds. LoadView – Best Practices and Process. Analyzing server performance (CPU, memory, bandwidth, disk I/O) and database response times.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

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. The Time to First Byte (TTFB) metric (also known as First Byte) measures the speed with which your server delivers content to the user.

Ecommerce 87

Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Sharding in MongoDB is a technique used to distribute a database horizontally across multiple nodes or servers, known as “shards.” Sharding enables horizontal scaling, where more servers or nodes are added to the cluster to handle increasing data and user demands. Learn more: View our webinar on How to Scale with MongoDB.

Best Practices 73

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 73

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! The CentOS flame graph: The Ubuntu flame graph: Darn, they didn't work.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Large Seasonal Peaks – Our largest community supports TurboTax where the peak traffic during February or April is often 100s of times greater than a quiet day in June. Troy: We moved our service from internal servers to AWS. Schools and districts can claim unique Edmodo web addresses for added communication and customization.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

These include popular technologies such as web servers and web applications, along with advanced solutions like distributed data stores and containerized microservices. Memory Allocation: Allocating sufficient memory linked directly to the assigned CPU ensures effective utilization resulting in better system speed.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! The CentOS flame graph: The Ubuntu flame graph: Darn, they didn't work.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

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

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 198

Cache Architecture Database Government 198

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Failover testing: If you have a high availability setup or a secondary data center, test to ensure the failover process switches over to the backup database server. SQL Server Management Studio: This software includes backup and recovery tools for use with Microsoft SQL Server. This includes both data and log backups.

Database 91

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 91

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! The CentOS flame graph: The Ubuntu flame graph: Darn, they didn't work.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. That’s a lifetime in web seconds, particularly considering that this test is based on a desktop experience on a high-speed connection.

Google 90

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

If you have a distributed environment with multiple servers hosting your webservers, app servers, and database, I suggest you install the OneAgent on all these servers to get full end-to-end visibility. This will enable deep monitoring of those Java,NET, Node, processes as well as your web servers. SimpleNodeJsService.

Engineering 192

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 192

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Shopzilla presented information detailing how they were able to speed up their site from 4-6 seconds to 1.5 Based on their daily traffic, they estimated that this increase translated to an astonishing 10.28 Server side optimizations. In fact, you can implement all 35 of the best practices for performance as recommended by Yahoo!

Performance 40

Performance Energy Google Internet 40

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This metric shows how much time it takes for the server to respond with something. 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.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 98

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. Server Sharding and Connection Coalescing. However, if you’re still on HTTP/1.1,

Network 104

Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Your Improve dashboard aggregates performance recommendations from synthetic testing and identifies the percentage of your RUM traffic that would benefit. As a best practice, page labels should be unique for each URL if you are planning on comparing them in your benchmarks or correlating them with your RUM data. RUM page labels.

Benchmarking 57

Benchmarking Best Practices Monitoring Traffic 57

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business. High speed, on the other hand, improves your customers’ user experience, and results in an increased conversion rate and income. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business. High speed, on the other hand, improves your customers’ user experience, and results in an increased conversion rate and income. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business. High speed, on the other hand, improves your customers’ user experience, and results in an increased conversion rate and income. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Real-time monitoring can help detect any anomalies as soon as they happen, thereby increasing the speed at which problems can be diagnosed and solved. When you codify infrastructure, you can integrate it with DevOps pipelines to automate various tasks like server provisioning, database scale, and security audits.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). and prior (a)).

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Real-time monitoring can help detect any anomalies as soon as they happen, thereby increasing the speed at which problems can be diagnosed and solved. ‍It When you codify infrastructure, you can integrate it with DevOps pipelines to automate various tasks like server provisioning, database scale, and security audits.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. You’ve thought of everything… or have you?

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2019

A taste of what’s to come at Perform 2020’s “Release Better Software Faster” track – we highlighted what you can expect to learn about best practices for sessions 1 – 4 at Perform 2020. The technical aspect has evolved over time, and we can see that in the tooling and technology, as well as in the number of best practices.

DevOps 103

DevOps Software Software Best Practices 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

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. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Start Render time, Speed Index ). Rendering metrics provide an estimate of how fast content renders (e.g.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103