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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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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Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It shows which code paths are more busy on the CPU in given samples. The idea behind this is to speed up cluster resources such as garbage collection, reduce image transfer over the network, and accelerate the application launch. Flame graphs are a graphical representation of function calls.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

When an incident occurs, developers need to know what data to look at, where the incident occurred, and other relevant metrics. But developers need code-level visibility and code-level data.” That’s not how I envision code-level observability,” Laifenfeld said. KubeCon North America is this week.

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Tasktop

MAY 28, 2020

“I feel the need — the need for speed” – Peter “Maverick” Mitchell . Just like the sky-soaring heroes of Top Gun, Cubic has only one speed — fast. Flow Metrics , as set out in the Flow Framework, are helping Cubic to see into their product value streams with a language that everyone can understand. Subscribe now.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed. The following three metrics are commonly used to measure success: Service-level agreements (SLAs).

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Rigor

JUNE 14, 2019

It’s true that what might be considered the “most important” or “best” web performance metrics can vary by industry. These six metrics were not chosen at random – they work together to give you a snapshot of your site’s performance and overall user experience so you can set a baseline and improve speed and usability.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is packaging application code along with its libraries and dependencies within an executable software unit. Dynatrace container monitoring supports customers as they collect metrics, traces, logs, and other observability-enabled data to improve the health and performance of containerized applications.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Staying ahead of customer needs requires speed and agility from all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC). DevOps automation tools speed up delivery cycles by reducing human error and bottlenecks, resulting in fewer and shorter feedback loops. It helps to assess the long- and short-term efficiency and speed of DevOps.

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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. And for DevOps, it means accelerating DevOps processes, improving agility, and speeding time to market.

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Tasktop

DECEMBER 12, 2022

By adopting value stream management practices, including Flow Metrics, and leveraging insights from Planview Tasktop Viz, this company turned the tides, reducing Flow Time by 70%, improving quality, and leaving customers much happier. The financial services provider focused their attention on three Flow Metrics in Planview Tasktop Viz: .

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MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2020

Chrome’s DevTools suite contains some of the most powerful tools available to help you analyze and improve the speed of your website (or web app). However, the DevTools performance tab goes well beyond the typical metrics that you’ll see when you test your site’s loading speed. Using the Performance Results.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

Deploy risk-based estimates and models with confidence, accuracy, transparency, and speed. This enables banks to manage risk with the speed and precision mandated by their markets. Grail drives insights and decisions that preserve earnings and strengthen balance sheets.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Network metrics have been around for decades, but rendering metrics are newer. Speed Index. These are a few of the rendering metrics that currently exist. A brief history of performance metrics. Metrics quantify behavior. Metrics quantify behavior. Gaps in today's performance metrics.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But with many organizations relying on traditional, manual processes to ensure service reliability and code quality, software delivery speed suffers. DevOps automation is necessary to increase speed and efficiency in the software development pipeline. Automation is a crucial aspect of achieving DevOps excellence.

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MachMetrics

JULY 15, 2020

However, if utilized carelessly, CSS can greatly affect our page speed. That’s good to know, but I know you’re looking for a css speed test, or techniques for optimizing your css for speed. Simply take the code from your various CSS files and paste them into 1 file. Perform an Audit of Your Site.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. While PageSpeed Insights focuses solely on speed/performance, Lighthouse offers even more. Finally, decide if you want to throttle your test to a certain speed, and run the audit. Performance.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

From generating new code and boosting developer productivity to finding the root cause of performance issues with ease, the benefits of AI are numerous. Organizations that miss out on implementing AI risk falling behind their competition in an age where software delivery speed, agility, and security are crucial success factors.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

IT pros need a data and analytics platform that doesn’t require sacrifices among speed, scale, and cost. Therefore, many organizations turn to a data lakehouse, which combines the flexibility and cost-efficiency of a data lake with the contextual and high-speed querying capabilities of a data warehouse. Learn more. Learn more.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

As I see it, there are two main issues when it comes to measuring performance changes (note, not improvements , but changes) in the lab: Site-speed is nondeterministic 1. As noted above, it’s not actually possible to improve certain metrics in their own right. There are myriad reasons for this that I won’t cover here. duration ).

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

As our experience with MOVEit shows, IoCs that remained hidden in logs alone quickly revealed themselves with observability runtime context data, such as metrics, traces, and spans. This approach addresses classic security-driven log analysis and SIEM use cases, and includes threat hunting and looking for anomalies or IoCs.

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Analytics Metrics Database Storage 223

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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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

And for observability to be successful, it requires much more than just logs, metrics, and traces. We start with metrics, traces, and logs (that’s table stakes) but also provide context and enrichment through topology, behavior, code, metadata, and network, combined with data from application programming interfaces (API) and OpenTelemetry.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Using an interactive no/low code editor, you can create workflows or configure them as code. Storing frequently accessed data in faster storage, usually in-memory caching, improves data retrieval speed and overall system performance. Beyond  Beyond efficiency, validating performance thresholds is also crucial for revenues.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As they increase the speed of product innovation and software development, organizations have an increasing number of applications, microservices and cloud infrastructure to manage. Further, many organizations—more than 90%—have turned to cloud computing to navigate the highwire act of balancing speed and quality.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2022

In response, organizations have adopted additional security tools, such as software composition analysis, that scan code libraries for vulnerabilities. Traditionally, companies tracked these vulnerabilities manually or sifted through volumes of code. SCA tools work by running scans on a code base and creating a vulnerability analysis.

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Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2021

With all the technology changes through the past three years, with the world moving to K8s, the rise of GitOps, everything as code, event-driven automation, and many new open standards in the cloud-native space, it was time to update our workshop. Last week we kicked it off with a three-hour virtual hands-on workshop.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 3, 2024

The reality is that, as critical as site speed is, it’s also very easy to overlook. We need guardrails to help protect us from shipping code that will result in unexpected regressions. We need breadcrumbs that we can follow back to the source to help us identify why a metric may have changed. Hey there, npm install.)

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

It’s also common for teams, as part of their log monitoring practice, to write business metrics to a log that can then be tracked on a dashboard or trigger an alert. Better-quality code. A modern observability platform approach can automatically contextualize logs and metrics with traces, topology, and user sessions.

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Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 220

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Organizations need to release software at a high velocity to stay competitive as the pace of business accelerates, but they can’t sacrifice software quality for speed. Agile companies that adopt continuous software delivery have increasingly enlisted feature flagging to enable more frequent code releases. What is a feature flag?

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Dynatrace

JULY 12, 2022

Several team members had to pore through logs, metrics, and other data to identify issues. “We IT automation speeds code development. To do so, organizations often succumb to a “hamster wheel” of having to release code more quickly to innovate effectively. We want to make sure we are evolving our code and fixing issues.”.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

But with this speed, agility, and innovation come new challenges. Open source code, for example, has generated new threat vectors for attackers to exploit. Considering open source software (OSS) libraries now account for more than 70% of most applications’ code base, this threat is not going anywhere anytime soon.

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2021

Establishing clear, consistent, and effective quality gates that are automatically validated at each phase of the delivery pipeline is essential for improving software quality and speeding up delivery. Shift left your SRE practices. based Financial Services Institution who reached 400x reduction in performance evaluation time.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

It’s also common for teams, as part of their log monitoring practice, to write business metrics to a log that can then be tracked on a dashboard or trigger an alert. Better-quality code. A modern observability platform approach can automatically contextualize logs and metrics with traces, topology, and user sessions.

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Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 186

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

These can include business metrics, such as conversion rates, uptime, and availability; service metrics, such as application performance; or technical metrics, such as dependencies to third-party services, underlying CPU, and the cost of running a service. What are error budgets? For example, if your SLO guarantees 99.5%

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Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 196

Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

For example, the open source Java library at the heart of the Log4Shell crisis in 2021 was patched within days given the pervasiveness of the code. How vulnerabilities are evaluated – platform module Learn the mechanism that Dynatrace Application Security uses to generate third-party vulnerabilities and code-level vulnerabilities.

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Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail 192

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). Let’s take service availability for example.

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