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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. Let's take a look at some of the causes of negative impacts on performance testing and some quick resolutions that will help smooth everything out.

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Three Front-End Auditing Tools I Discovered Recently

Smashing Magazine

Are all the caching headers set correctly? The number of included performance tests and checks is outstanding! Yellow Lab Tools runs a number of audits, from CSS to JavaScript to performance and provides a detailed overview of issues and how to fix them. Three Front-End Auditing Tools I Discovered Recently. Stefan Judis.

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Consistent caching mechanism in Titus Gateway

The Netflix TechBlog

We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe. We started seeing increased response latencies and leader servers running at dangerously high utilization. of the data.

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An approach to index tuning – Part 2

SQL Performance

His version can be used for the plan cache – the only challenge there is the information is transient, so you may not capture every query that uses a particular index. If possible, I'll also consider execution counts (from Query Store or the plan cache) to not just understand what query uses an index, but how frequently that query executes.

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AWS EKS Monitoring as a Self-Service with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

REDIS for caching. Robert’s development team has started using Dynatrace to optimize their server-side implementation on a regular basis, which ensures they’re not introducing any bad performing code, unnecessary calls to depending services or querying the same data multiple times in the same transaction instead of fetching it from a cache.

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PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 4 – PgBouncer vs. Pgpool-II

Scalegrid

However, these must be set up outside the PostgreSQL system, while PgBouncer can offload this to the PostgreSQL server. Performance Testing. So, we pitted the two connection poolers head-to-head, using the standard pgbench tool, to see which one provides better transactions per second throughput through a benchmark test.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

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