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. When the word “performance” is heard, most people immediately think of speed. What is Performance Testing?

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Providing standardized self-service pipeline templates, best practices, and scalable automation for monitoring, testing, and SLO validation. Stay tuned for part two of this blog series, where we will continue with more examples such as Dynatrace Monitoring as Code , and SLO release validation using Dynatrace SaaS Cloud Automation.

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Software Software Open Source Azure 246

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Consequently, they might miss out on the benefits of integrating security into the SDLC, such as enhanced efficiency, speed, and quality in software delivery. This marks the end of an era of chaos, paving the way for efficiency gains, quicker innovation, and standardized practices.

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Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 76

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective monitoring of key performance indicators plays a crucial role in maintaining this optimal speed of operation. Throughput Ensuring optimal performance and efficient handling of many queries is crucial for Redis, as it offers exceptional speed and minimal delay.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Amazon even provides an official [recommendation] (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Gathering and analyzing metrics over time will help you determine the overall effectiveness of your SLOs so you can tune them as your processes mature and improve. SLO best practices. Here are some best practices to help you achieve the goals set out in your SLOs: Less is more.

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Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 196

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

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Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Web Performance Tuning.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

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. A tl;dr of recommendations can be found below. A complex decoding process can slow down the rendering of images.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

Each partition holds data that falls within a specific range, optimizing data handling and query speed. This version also notably integrates native backing for range and list partitioning of spatial indexes, amplifying geospatial query speed for substantial datasets. Additionally, MySQL 8.0 Documentation : Always be documenting!

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. It is a very interesting idea that builds on previous best practices to find an optimal solution.

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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 111

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

While hardware such as intelligent SANs, Solid State Disk, and other advancements have helped speed things up, wasted space in index can translate to wasted space in the buffer pool as well as wasting more I/O. There are exceptions to every rule or best practice. Some patterns of data access lead to constant fragmentation.

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Servers Azure Hardware Database 49

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

Some of the metrics we use to measure performance on the Netflix TV app include animation frames per second (FPS), key input responsiveness (the amount of time before a member’s key press renders a change in the UI), video playback speed, and app start-up time. One such area is our graphics memory management.

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Cache Design Testing Development 166

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

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. (Yes

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

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”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air. Did You Know?

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Source: Guy Podjarny However, we do now have a full set of techniques to effectively deliver highly performative sites that not only visually scale across devices but also deliver code and assets tuned to the width of a device. There are great tools available to monitor the actual in browser speed and benchmark your site against others.

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Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In this article, we’re going to cover code-splitting best practices and showcase some examples using React, so we load the minimum JavaScript necessary to render a page and dynamically load sizeable non-critical bundles. How quickly the file is downloaded depends on the connection speed and the size of the file itself.

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Code Performance Network Website 89

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ However, the ​​ algorithm ​​ has been ​​ tuned ​​ and the resulting ​​ affect ​​ is ​​ minimal. ​​ For example, ​​ the I/O speed of a snapshot database could limit certain query scalabilities.

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Servers Cache Database Media 40