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How multicloud observability boosts cloud performance at Tractor Supply Co.

Dynatrace

Kiran Bollampally, site reliability and digital analytics lead for ecommerce at Tractor Supply Co., shifted most of its ecommerce and enterprise analytics workloads to Kubernetes-managed software containers running in Microsoft Azure. “We monitor all services that produce metrics in the top three clouds,” he said.

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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Smashing Magazine

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway? Barry Pollard.

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Top Redis Use Cases by Core Data Structure Types

Scalegrid

Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. Session Cache: Many websites leverage Redis Strings to create a session cache to speed up their website experience by caching HTML fragments or pages. It’s important to note that Redis is a NoSQL database system. Redis Sets.

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The Ultimate Low-Quality Image Placeholder Technique

CSS Wizardry

Passing LCP for metrics’ sake is unwise and against the spirit of web performance. Poor quality images, particularly for ecommerce is concerned, are particularly harmful. View full size) And from a cold cache, over train wifi as I was writing this post, I got a 2.1s I managed to get my LQIP–LCP down to just 1.1s

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Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters

CSS Wizardry

However, one metric I feel that front-end developers overlook all too quickly is Time to First Byte (TTFB). only to find that the resource they’re requesting isn’t in that PoP ’s cache. can all provide valuable insights. can all provide valuable insights. Routing: If you are using a CDN—and you should be!—a

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AWS EKS Monitoring as a Self-Service with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Instead of presenting you with a handful of random screenshots from our demo environment I reached out to Robert, a close friend of mine, who leads a development team with the current task to re-architect and re-platform their multi-tenant SaaS-based eCommerce platform. REDIS for caching. NGINX as an API Gateway. 3 Log Analytics.

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Performance audit: Lego.com

Speed Curve

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. Are you compressing and caching the right things? It shows how key metrics align with the rendering timeline (the filmstrip view at the top of the chart).