SQL Shack

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In this article, we will discuss the performance details of the SQL TOP statement, and we will also work on a performance case study. Pre-requirement In this article, we will use the Adventureworks2019 sample database.

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InfoQ

APRIL 12, 2024

Yao Yue recapitulates scaling a project at Twitter while summarizing some key lessons learned about effective performance engineering. By Yao Yue

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Engineering Performance Design Scalability 97

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Web Performance is important for user experience and business metrics. This post explains several ways of assessing the potential performance gains with little effort and, more importantly, without actually implementing fixes. What is the business opportunity for web performance improvements? I would repeat over and over.

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CSS - Tricks

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Geez, leave it to Patrick Brosset to talk CSS performance in the most approachable and practical way possible. Not that CSS is always what’s gunking up the speed , or even the lowest hanging fruit when it comes to improving performance. Head to the Performance Tab. This tripped me up in the process. Record a page load.

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 8, 2020

Here’s a fantastic case study where Ivan Akulov looks at the rather popular writing app Notion and how the team might improve the performance in a variety of ways; through code splitting, removing unused vendor code, module concatenation, and deferring JavaScript execution. Yay for making things fast while being nice about it!

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DZone

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

To prove this theory, we conducted this simple case study. Load Average Study. BuggyApp is an open-source Java project that can simulate various performance problems. ‘Load Average’ not only indicates CPU demand, but also the I/O demand (i.e., network read/write, file read/write, disk read/write).

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SQL Server Performance

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Recently we started experiencing a very strange issue in our production reporting environment where the Re-indexing and Update Statistics operation suddenly began taking more than 2 days to complete and was thus causing blockage in the database which in turn caused impairment in application performance.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). It was at this point that we realized we needed to make a significant change in our approach towards performance, and that we must embrace performance as part of our culture.

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Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Web Performance is important for user experience and business metrics. This post explains several ways of assessing the potential performance gains with little effort and, more importantly, without actually implementing fixes. What is the business opportunity for web performance improvements? I would repeat over and over.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 11, 2024

After years of development and testing, Google has added Interaction to Next Paint (INP) to its trifecta of Core Web Vitals – the performance metrics that are a key ingredient in its search ranking algorithm. This lets you see at a glance the relationship between performance, user engagement, and your business. Let's dive in!

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Simform

JULY 20, 2020

How do we migrate a web application frontend to Reactjs and still maintain a responsive yet fast performance without compromising the existing SEO and authority? With this article, we aim to put together a case study on React Migration and explain the steps to convert your web app frontend to React.js.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

As an application architect, Smith noted it was challenging to ensure software quality and performance when making large-scale changes, including a cloud infrastructure migration and front-end modernization to their unemployment insurance application. The stakes were high. At times, this process extended into weeks and months.

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Government Strategy Cloud Traffic 205

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

The team can “catch more bugs and performance problems before the code is deployed to the production environment,” Smith said. State agencies measurably reduce outage severity and costs In the event of a performance problem, observability can reduce MTTR. Dynatrace truly helps us do more with less. Register to listen to the webinar.

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Innovation Speed Artificial Intelligence Government 183

Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2021

However, with dynamic containers running in microservices, with increasingly frequent code pushes, and levels of abstraction away from the cloud infrastructure, how do you know how your applications are performing at any given time? With these dynamic environments, you need visibility into the cluster performance and application health.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2021

However, with dynamic containers running in microservices, with increasingly frequent code pushes, and levels of abstraction away from the cloud infrastructure, how do you know how your applications are performing at any given time? With these dynamic environments, you need visibility into the cluster performance and application health.

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Cloud Infrastructure Operating System Monitoring 242

Speed Curve

JULY 10, 2023

Demonstrating the impact of performance on your users – and on your business – is one of the best ways to get your company to care about the speed of your site. In 2010, the Performance and Reliability team I was fortunate enough to lead at Walmartlabs shared our findings around the impact of front-end times on conversion rates.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. If you're just getting started with performance budgets – or if you've been using them for a while and want to validate your work – this post is for you.

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 135

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Keep reading to find out: How much does web performance matter when it comes to SEO? Which performance metrics should you focus on for SEO? How can you track performance for SEO? How much does web performance matter when it comes to SEO? Performance has had an impact on SEO long before Web Vitals came along.

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Performance Google Metrics Mobile 96

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. Barry Pollard. 2022-05-09T10:30:00+00:00. 2022-05-09T17:34:14+00:00. webperf #perfmatters.

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

Peter Vinh (Solution Lead of Digital Experience at Dynatrace) during Perform 22 session. Case study: The value of DEM for Vitality. First, the company uses synthetic monitoring to develop user experience benchmarks and determine if applications are performing within expected thresholds. DEM in action.

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Percona

JANUARY 17, 2023

Some case studies will also be covered in this blog. Case studies. In the case of index corruption, it gives different results as per the position where the data is corrupted. The reason to get the correct result is that it performs an “index-only scan” because the index exists on the id column.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 9, 2020

Here, I want to demonstrate how some of our Dynatrace customers in LATAM are using our platform to adapt, change and improve their processes to confront this unique situation with case study examples from various industries: 1.

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Retail Government Infrastructure Mobile 177

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). Code evolves over time with more features, new or changing dependencies, or maybe a goal of performance improvements. Better performance across the board. Carson Shold.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). From the moment we went live, we experienced performance issues. performance improvement can lead to a 10% increase in conversion. Jonne Kats.

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Website Code Servers Analytics 113

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study). How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study). Performance is a core feature of our company, Instant Domain Search —it’s in the name. The Chrome DevTools are excellent , and a good place to start when chasing performance issues. Beau Hartshorne.

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DZone

MAY 13, 2019

This article is also part of my recent case study session that I drew from my latest project. At that time, I had never heard it before. Now you are maybe in the same shoes, so I decided to write a small fact-finding article about how to use logback with Spring. Check my first one here: Spring Boot with external tomcat.

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Tech News Gather

MAY 16, 2023

Overlooking Portfolio and Case Studies The portfolio and case studies of an app development firm serve as valuable indicators of their capabilities and expertise. They offer valuable feedback on the firm’s professionalism, communication, adherence to deadlines, and overall performance.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

What I love about talking with this crowd is that – like me – they're super focused on user-perceived performance. Here's an overview of the most common performance issues on retail sites, and how you can track them down and fix them. However, poorly executed stylesheets can create a host of performance problems.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Reducing HTML Payload With Next.js (Case Study). Reducing HTML Payload With Next.js (Case Study). If HTML is turning out big, we have no room left for CSS resources or javascript in our performance budget. Performance Impact. Liran Cohen. 2021-05-05T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-05-05T16:06:35+00:00.

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CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

So, for the last several years, I, along with other performance engineers like me, have been recommending that our clients move over from Gzip and to Brotli instead. A lot of web performance case studies—not all, but a lot—aren’t based on improvements, but are often extrapolated and inferred from the opposite: slowdowns.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. It offers a full range of performance grades and suggestions where we outline the performance potential in detail. Further down, there are detailed performance grades for various topics.

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

A service team was debugging a performance issue and noticed it coincided with a high rate of paging. I was asked to help, and used a variety of performance tools to solve this including those that use eBPF and Ftrace. I hope this case study helps show why it is useful and worth the effort. These are rough notes.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

A while back, our friends at Shopify published this great case study , showing how they optimized one of their newer themes from the ground up – and how they worked to keep it fast. Create performance budgets and fight regression. Build a performance culture that embraces collaboration between design and dev.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

Optimizing your images is often the very first suggestion that any performance writer or consultant will make when it comes to optimizing a website. However, what do you do when you optimize your images and still don’t see a noticeable improvement in the performance of your site? We’re no exception.

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Speed Website Metrics Cache 89

Tim Kadlec

MAY 14, 2015

In addition, we have numerous case studies showing that improved performance improves engagement. Sure, all of those areas have plenty of room for improvement, but it’s entirely possible to build a site that performs well today. No, if a website is slow it’s because performance was not prioritized. Spoiler: No.

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