CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint. Or are they…?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2020

With Dynatrace, you can also validate your findings against Real User Monitoring data or even drill down to the code level to pinpoint the root cause of a change in performance. Recently introduced improvements to Visually complete and new web performance metrics for Real User Monitoring are now available for Synthetic Monitoring as well.

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Metrics Monitoring Performance Benchmarking 220

Jos

MARCH 29, 2018

I was browsing Tim Kadlec’s website and I noticed he had added page load time metrics in the footer. Stoyan Stefanov also realized and wrote “This page loaded in X seconds” , a blog post describing the code used for this. First Paint and First Contentful Paint Page load time is a metric that tells us part of the story.

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Metrics Google Analytics Code 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

These functions are executed by a serverless platform or provider (such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions) that manages the underlying infrastructure, scaling and billing. Observability is typically achieved by collecting three types of data from a system, metrics, logs and traces.

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Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 213

Jos

MARCH 30, 2018

I was browsing Tim Kadlec’s website and I noticed he had added page load time metrics in the footer. Stoyan Stefanov also realized and wrote “This page loaded in X seconds” , a blog post describing the code used for this. First Paint and First Contentful Paint Page load time is a metric that tells us part of the story.

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Metrics Google Analytics Code 100

Tasktop

JANUARY 5, 2022

Flow Metrics are a major pillar of how we measure improvement in value streams. . As organizations begin to adopt Flow Metrics , our natural tendencies emerge to massage the newfound visibility to make the metrics “look good”. Flow Metrics anti-pattern: Excluding part of the value stream. Chop up the value stream.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

For example, poorly written code can consume a lot of resources, or an application can make unnecessary calls to cloud services. Hyperscaler cloud service providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform can do this, too. Suboptimal architecture design. Poorly designed cloud solutions can become costly over time.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

As a result, organizations are turning to AI to automate tasks—from code development to incident response—to reduce manual effort and human error, and to boost workforce efficiency. Artificial intelligence, including more recent advances in generative AI , is becoming increasingly important as organizations look to modernize how IT operates.

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Artificial Intelligence DevOps Strategy Open Source 188

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks? Using an interactive no/low code editor, you can create workflows or configure them as code. which shows your operational efficiency in your software delivery pipeline.

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AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 252

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At Dynatrace, we measure the DORA metrics from Google. These include: Deployment frequency: How often is code deployed? Lead time for changes: How long does it take to get committed code into production? The first DORA metric is rather easy; we simply look at the throughput of the main branch. Sneak-peek time!

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Open Source Analytics Metrics Cloud 191

DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It sits at the very beginning of the process before the code is written and can save an immense amount of time down the road (of somebody spending tons of time just to get to a dead-end). I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. Important note.

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Software Software Code Energy 245

Dynatrace

JANUARY 9, 2022

Symptoms : No data is provided for affected metrics on dashboards, alerts, and custom device pages populated by the affected extension metrics. Impact : This issue affects only those extensions that use native libraries called from Python code distributed with the extension. Linux: Google Container-Optimized OS 81 LTS.

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Operating System Google Java Virtualization 225

DZone

MARCH 13, 2023

SRE, which was popularized by the 2016 publication of Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems, often means proactively writing code and developing internal applications to combat reliability and performance concerns.

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Software Engineering DevOps Google Engineering 130

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. The following three metrics are commonly used to measure success: Service-level agreements (SLAs). These metrics are the factors and service levels that must be achieved for each activity, function, and process to deliver on the SLA.

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Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 227

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Last year, Google made two significant changes to their search indexing and ranking algorithms : In March, indexing became based on the mobile version of a page , rather than desktop. What is Google Lighthouse?

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

” In recent years, cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM, and Google began offering Kubernetes as part of their managed services. Without having to worry about underlying infrastructure concerns, such as storage, security, and lifecycle management, developers can focus on writing code.

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Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 212

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

If you’re not a developer/designer, you may not be familiar with the Chrome DevTools and the extremely powerful Google Lighthouse Audits that can be found inside. However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Performance. Conclusion.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By implementing service-level objectives, teams can avoid collecting and checking a huge amount of metrics for each service. According to Google’s SRE handbook , best practices, there are “ Four Golden Signals ” we can convert into four SLOs for services: reliability, latency, availability, and saturation.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 269

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It affects only those extensions that use native libraries called from Python code distributed with the extension. Symptoms : Metrics provided by affected extensions may stop working, such that no data is provided for affected metrics on dashboards, alerts, and custom device pages populated by the affected extension metrics.

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Operating System Java Metrics Google 210

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Principal engineer at Google and co-founder of KubeCon, Hightower advocates simplicity and automation. If you’re going to have an SLO, you should have a story in mind of why you’re setting up all these alerts and collecting all these metrics. Infrastructure as code vs infrastructure as data. Dynatrace news.

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Technology Technology Cloud Infrastructure 215

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Leveraging cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift in multicloud ecosystems across Amazon Web Services (AWS) , Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for faster digital transformation introduces a whole host of challenges. Dynatrace news. Collecting data requires massive and ongoing configuration efforts.

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Cloud Azure Analytics Open Source 261

Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Modern enterprises today use a myriad of enterprise Software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and productivity suites to run business operations, such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Slack, Zendesk, Zoom, GitHub, and many more. This section shows how to analyze AWS AppFabric logs with Notebooks and DQL.

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AWS Analytics Government Monitoring 250

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. Loosely defined, Observability boils down to inferring the internal health and state of a system by looking at the external data it produces, which most commonly are logs, metrics, and traces. Dynatrace news.

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Open Source Metrics Google Java 188

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In the webinar “ Intelligent Kubernetes observability and automation ,” Dynatrace expert Henrik Rexed and GCP experts Gari Singh and Alisha Stull provide insights into leveraging AI-powered observability and automation to gain granular insights into Kubernetes environments on Google Cloud Platform at an enterprise scale.

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Google Cloud Infrastructure Metrics 230

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. Moreover, Garten-und-Freizeit, a German e-commerce store that sells furniture, saw an amazing improvement in their metrics after getting a PWA. Alex Husar. 2021-11-02T12:00:00+00:00.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Chances are, you're here because of Google's update to its search algorithm , which affects both desktop and mobile, and which includes Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor. The metrics that comprise Web Vitals are still evolving. These metrics will (I think) always be in a state of evolution. When Google talks, people listen.

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Performance Google Metrics Mobile 96

Dynatrace

MARCH 8, 2021

Added system performance metrics and JVM metrics to the Z Java code module. Added connection pool metrics, thread pool metrics, and servlet metrics to the WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Liberty. Linux: Google Container-Optimized OS 77 LTS. IBM Integration Bus. Operating systems.

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Operating System Java Metrics Google 106

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Originally initiated at Google, Go—often referred to as Golang—is an open source programming language. With no required recompilation or code changes, you can: Monitor web-scale and highly dynamic microservice architectures including statically as well as dynamically linked Go applications and platform components. Dynatrace news.

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Transportation Monitoring Metrics Code 186

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. Loosely defined, Observability boils down to inferring the internal health and state of a system by looking at the external data it produces, which most commonly are logs, metrics, and traces. Dynatrace news.

Open Source 130

Open Source Metrics Google Java 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

According to Google G-Suite researchers , a good availability metric should be meaningful (captures user experience), proportional (change in the metric should be proportional to the change in user-perceived availability), and actionable (insight into why the metric is low or high).

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DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency 201

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

“The three pillars of observability at the time were metrics, logs, and traces,” Wilson said. Observability was built on the original concepts [of metrics, logs, and traces] but expanded for modern needs,” he continued. According to Thair, SREs are critical because simply shipping code is not enough.

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DevOps Engineering Innovation Best Practices 165

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A few weeks ago, I saw a tweet that said “Writing code isn’t the problem. Anyone who works in programming has seen the source code for some project evolve from something short, sweet, and clean to a seething mass of bits. Saying “yes, adding security made the code more complex” is wrong on several fronts.

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Software Software Development Programming 122

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

With the arrival of this release candidate (RC), the community’s focus now shifts to providing tracing RC component releases, as well as producing a metrics specification RC. I worked on providing code-level insights for Java and.NET services and applications before shifting gears and joining the OpenTelemetry community back in May 2019.

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Open Source Software Engineering Government Java 152

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 28, 2022

This genuinely surprises me, because LCP is the simplest metric to improve. The important thing to note here is that Google doesn’t care how you get to LCP, as long as you get there fast. The metrics above don’t matter in and of themselves, but it’s going to help your LCP if you can get them as low as possible. First Paint.

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Virtualization Google Metrics Testing 330

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

There was something gratifying in taking a code that takes minutes to run and make it run in a handful seconds. Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

If you have read about observability, you have been told that collecting the measurements of metrics, distributed traces, and logs are the three key pillars to achieving success. Metrics can originate from a variety of sources, including infrastructure, hosts, services, as well as cloud platforms and external sources.

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IoT Infrastructure Monitoring Innovation 162

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This gives us a relatively unique opportunity to analyse and aggregate performance metrics to gain some interesting insights. In this post, I'm going to analyse some browser-based paint timing metrics: First Paint & First Contentful Paint (defined in the Paint Timing spec and implemented in Chromium). What are paint timing metrics?

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