CSS Wizardry

DECEMBER 9, 2023

A trivial performance optimisation to help speed up third-party or other-origin requests is to preconnect them: hint that the browser should preemptively open a full connection ( DNS , TCP , TLS ) to the origin in question, for example: In the right circumstances, this simple, single line of HTML can make pages hundreds of milliseconds faster !

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Percona

JANUARY 4, 2023

The following comments in the PostgreSQL code can tell the whole story. /* * pgarch_readyXlog * * Return name of the oldest xlog file that has not yet been archived. * Overall, 20x or more performance improvement is reported in the community. ready files are handled. Better monitoring of WAL archiving. Thanks to Community!

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. Recently, I spent some time checking on the Performance (not a very detailed study) of the various programming languages. Ahem, Slow! Ahem, Slow!

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Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2023

In 2015, the Spring folks already regarded Dynatrace as the gold standard for performance monitoring. We also use Micrometer to analyze ingest queue processing speed, which helps us make decisions about adding resources. Either way, the Dynatrace Micrometer Registry adds proper topology without modifying your code.

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Metrics Analytics Speed Java 200

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. While Federico definitely has good points there, there is some truth in these myths too. How did you get into performance engineering? At first, we were using LoadRunner, but we quickly moved to Performance Center.

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Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A data lakehouse features the flexibility and cost-efficiency of a data lake with the contextual and high-speed querying capabilities of a data warehouse. This data lands in its original, raw form without requiring schema definition. What is a data lakehouse? These include application programming interfaces, streaming, and more.

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Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Government 211

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. Setting up conversion tracking in SpeedCurve RUM is fairly simple and definitely worthwhile. This post covers: What is a conversion?

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Performance Metrics Traffic Speed 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Further, it builds a rich analytics layer powered by Dynatrace causational artificial intelligence, Davis® AI, and creates a query engine that offers insights at unmatched speed. High-performance analytics—no indexing required. A schema is a fixed definition to organize data in certain fields. Ingest and process with Grail.

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Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture 270

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

We have seen users who joined our preview program “speed up their release validation by 90%”. Many of our users are performance engineers using Cloud Automation Quality Gates to automate the analysis of their performance and load tests – saving hours of analysis time for each test they run. GitOps: Cloud automation as code.

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DevOps Open Source Cloud Azure 245

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

2021 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer: Application Performance Monitoring. Observability isn’t simply a new name for application performance monitoring (APM). The general agreed-upon definition of. 2021 ISG Provider Lens Container Services & Solutions Report. 2021 GigaOm Radar for AIOps Solutions.

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DevOps Innovation Cloud Programming 220

Alex Podelko

DECEMBER 19, 2019

So you need to understand what is going on there – and Debbie is definitely an authority in that area. ITIL Version 4 Capacity and Performance Management in an Agile Container World by Chris Molloy, IBM. – System performance management is an important topic – and James is going to share a practical method for it. .

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Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

Reading time 8 min In a constantly changing environment, brands are likely to be iterating on sites and applications to make them bigger, faster, fancier, and more engaging while pushing the new and updated code out as quickly as possible. Five Common Myths About Web Performance Budgets. Five Common Myths About Web Performance Budgets.

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Performance Mobile Metrics Speed 122

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

A thing I see developers do time and time again is make performance-facing changes to their sites and apps, but mistakes in how they measure them often lead to incorrect conclusions about the effectiveness of that work. Problems When Measuring Performance. For example, continuing our task to reduce CSS size: performance.

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Benchmarking Metrics Cache Network 212

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The Size and Quality of the Code. If you decide to use Java to write your programs with, be prepared to write longer lines of code to accomplish even the smallest tasks. With the use of Scala, you will be able to accomplish these same tasks without having to write such long lines of code. The Overall Complexity of the Code.

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Java Performance Programming Virtualization 100

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But, manual steps — such as reviewing test results and addressing production issues resulting from performance, resiliency, security, or functional issues — often hinder these efforts. Dynatrace makes this easy by offering a collection of best-practice SLO definitions for various use cases beyond the observability domain.

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DevOps Metrics Engineering Speed 221

Professor Beekums

AUGUST 19, 2017

One thing that tripped me up early on in my career was the difference between performance and scalability. I was quite surprised when my first project to scale a system actually made my code run slower… in my dev environment at least. Let’s get definitions out of the way. Performance is about speed.

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Scalability Performance Traffic Speed 63

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

In the podcast, Grabner recalled his interview with Kelsey Hightower at the Perform 2023 conference. At its core, DevOps encourages collaboration between development and operations teams to speed up software delivery. One of the main roadblocks that arises with a broader definition for DevOps is responsibility.

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Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

Let’s look at the definition of quality to see how test automation isn’t quality assurance. One of the popular definitions of Quality is that it is “value” to someone “who” matters. By performing checks through tools, Test Automation will help you find information. Thus, quality is a multidimensional concept.

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Testing Open Source IoT Programming 95

Testsigma

JUNE 10, 2021

In a 2FA system, a user has to enter a password and an OTP or a code obtained from a different app. Finally, we will also talk about how Testsigma can help you perform automated testing for 2FA. Definition of 2 Factor Authentication : Authentication by means of both – a password and an OTP. Register for the webinar here.

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FinTech Mobile Speed Testing 140

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right?

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The data comes from making queries to the HTTP Archive and is broken down into various sections, such as Performance, Security, and the languages themselves, including how folks wrote HTML or CSS. Mobile pages do use slightly less CSS code across all percentiles, but only by 4 to 7 KB. Direct Link to Article — Permalink.

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Latency Mobile Website Speed 98

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 2). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 2). Therefore, how well does it perform when compared to other typefaces that are considered to be historically well done or have been revived well? Thomas Bohm. 2022-06-10T08:00:00+00:00. 2022-06-10T12:33:17+00:00.

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CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Yet, this criticism of React isn’t completely unwarranted: React and ReactDOM total about 120 KiB of minified JavaScript, which definitely contributes to slow startup time. It makes organizing code easier. What follows are my findings on React performance as I’ve tried to meet this challenge in a way that’s best for users.

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Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

SLOs, together with service-level indicators (SLIs), deliver the performance promised in service-level agreements (SLAs) and other business level objectives (BLOs) while staying within error budgets. To get a better handle on this, let’s start with some definitions. But what are SLOs? What are SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets?

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Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 193

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

When I first started learning about web page performance, I always use to focus solely on the time that it took a page to load. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The total is your Speed Index score!"

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Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

When I first started learning about web page performance, I always use to focus solely on the time that it took a page to load. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The total is your Speed Index score!"

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

When I first started learning about web page performance, I always use to focus solely on the time that it took a page to load. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The total is your Speed Index score!"

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 14, 2012

In this article I describe a technique we used to speed up a Pig build from 9 hours to 1 hour 30 minutes using 6 Jenkins nodes. This technique is generic and can be considered as a general way to speed up maven or ant builds on Jenkins CI server or other CI systems. Solution Overview. The similar thing can done for maven builds.

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Speed Testing Java Lambda 100

Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

With the continued growth of applications being used in and out of an organization, getting a firm grasp on the performance of these devices and its impact on your IT environment is important. With this growth and added complexity, how are your legacy performance testing solutions keeping up? The short answer is that they aren’t.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Games 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. High-performing fast sites attract and preserve users better than low-performing ones. The screenshot below explains that page load time and lighthouse performance scores are not the same, yet they are really close to each other.

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