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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

Concatenating our files on the server: Are we going to send many smaller files, or are we going to send one monolithic file? Caching them at the other end: How long should we cache files on a user’s device? Caching them at the other end: How long should we cache files on a user’s device? Cache This is the easy one.

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Crucial Redis Monitoring Metrics You Must Watch

Scalegrid

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. Redis returns a big list of database metrics when you run the info command on the Redis shell. You can pick a smart selection of relevant metrics from these.

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MySQL Data Caching Efficiency

Percona

A shared characteristic in most (if not all) databases, be them traditional relational databases like Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL or some kind of NoSQL-style database like MongoDB, is the use of a caching mechanism to keep (a copy of) part of the data in memory. How do you know if your MySQL database caching is operating efficiently?

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The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces

Dynatrace

That is, relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and where it’s running into snags. When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. In addition to tracing, observability also defines two other key concepts, metrics and logs. What is OpenTelemetry?

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Cache and Prizes

Alex Russell

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Browsers now understand the classic shared HTTP cache behaviour as a privacy bug.

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

However, that pesky 20% on the back end can have a big impact on downstream metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and any other 'loading' metric you can think of. Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB).

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Key Performance Measurements for App Servers: Cause, Impact, and Resolution

DZone

Below are some of the key metrics that need to be monitored during performance testing: CPU utilization. Server page faults/second. Cache hit ratio. Heap memory utilization. Number of active/daemon threads. Number of classes loaded. Active total sessions. SSL transactions/second. Active/total DB pool connections. Load balancing.

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