Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. Traditionally, organizations have relied solely on logging to monitor how applications perform, and that – generally – works fine in many cases.

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Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 180

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It's being reposted here for completeness, but if you care about web performance, make sure to check out the whole series and get subscribed to the RSS feed to avoid missing any of next year's posts. The predominant answer: a unified theory of web performance. What, in particular, is "web performance"? How do we do it?

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. Step-by-step guide: SRE-driven performance analysis with Dynatrace. This is what this blog is all about.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. Performing steps like switching from a single-CDN setup to a multi-CDN or separating strategies for content types can make the benefits twofold! Those days are long gone.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. Performing steps like switching from a single-CDN setup to a multi-CDN or separating strategies for content types can make the benefits twofold! Those days are long gone.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

PostgreSQL supports sharding, which allows data to be distributed across multiple servers, making it ideal for high-traffic websites and applications. It has a proven track record of handling large volumes of data and high-traffic websites. Reliability PostgreSQL is known for its reliability and stability.

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Database Open Source Traffic Small Business 119

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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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Sometimes it even lead to conclusions like “performance testing hitting the wall” just because load generation may be a challenge. – Cloud.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

Nothing is impossible; however, the performances will be so impacted that each operation may take seconds instead of milliseconds or a fraction of it unless lifting some of the rules breaks the relational model. In the MySQL open source ecosystem, we have only two consolidated ways to perform sharding — Vitess and ProxySQL.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Adoption As of writing this blog, Conductor orchestrates 600+ workflow definitions owned by 50+ teams across Netflix. While we’re not (yet) actively measuring the nth percentiles, our production workloads speak for Conductor’s performance. The ability to dynamically create and execute workflows removes this friction.

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Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

In this case, we have a quite well-defined scenario that can resemble the image below: In this scenario, the proxies must sit inside Pods, balancing the incoming traffic from the Service LoadBalancer connecting with the active data nodes. However, HAProxy and ProxySQL have interesting behavior. CPU load while ProxySQL is at 2.50

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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

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This query is performed by a Domain Name Server (DNS server) or servers nearby that have been assigned responsibility for that hostname. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. A DNS server maintains a directory of domain names and translates them to IPs.

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Cache Website Internet Internet 134

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In contrast, a server application runs on servers which are typically identical and a routing abstraction can serve sampled traffic to new versions. And the signals to evaluate a new version are derived from comparatively few thousands of homogenous servers instead of millions of heterogeneous devices.

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Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 197

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Do you have a web server? Is the web server running? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? By definition, a distributed system is any system that comprises of multiple components on variety of machines that work together to appear as a single, organized system. Peer-to-Peer.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 22, 2020

Table-valued parameters have been around since SQL Server 2008 and provide a useful mechanism for sending multiple rows of data to SQL Server, brought together as a single parameterized call. Add ( "Date" , typeof ( DateTime ) ) ; You can also create the DataTable using the inline definition as follows: System.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Failover testing: If you have a high availability setup or a secondary data center, test to ensure the failover process switches over to the backup database server. Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN): This enables users of Oracle databases to perform full, incremental, and differential backups. This includes both data and log backups.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 90

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Our solution doesn't require any change on the origin server. How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website.

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Processing Cache Website Servers 127

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Sometimes it’s easy enough to find the answer to that question and the site just needs to invest in performance. Sometimes though, it’s a little trickier and, despite thinking your site was great on the performance for some reason it still fails. Many developers have been asking themselves that question lately. Interesting….

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

The tooling to get a report with details from the time it takes to establish a server connection to the time it takes for the full page to render is out there. Large preview ) I don’t know about you, but it often feels like I’m missing something when measuring page speed performance. The key word here is “monitoring” performance.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

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

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

So we still need to move things from the server they were compiled at to the edges of the network. Under the hood, it simplifies a lot of the work to the server-side. Building performance, deploy performance, caching, developer experience. Our heaviest traffic pages are always ready for our users. Number of Pages.

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Cache Website Strategy Traffic 129

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Server-generated assets, since client-side generation would require the retrieval of many individual images, which would increase latency and time-to-render. We can leverage high performance VMs in AWS to generate the assets. Even with high performance VMs, generating 1000s of assets can take a long time.

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Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165

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

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. Definitions. The two types of Django deployments are: Single-Server. Here’s where I wish I could say (without caveats): “Don’t worry, Django has your back!”

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Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. Making performance improvements to a client’s site could result in happier clients who send more business our way. Performance Mode” sounds a lot more appealing than “Eco Mode”, which sounds like something is being taken away.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

PBM is a fully-supported community backup tool capable of performing cluster-side consistent backups in MongoDB for replica sets and sharded clusters. Best practice tip : It is always advisable to use secondary servers for backups to avoid unnecessary performance degradation on the PRIMARY node.

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Percona

MARCH 7, 2019

I’ll show you how we approached the resolution of a MySQL performance issue and used Percona Monitoring and Management PMM to support troubleshooting. The customer had noticed a linear high CPU usage in one of their MySQL instances and was not able to figure out why as there was no much traffic hitting the app.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

When I think of network speeds, I tend to rely on WebPageTest ’s traffic profiles: Traffic profiles to keep in mind on WebPageTest : ranging from Cable and DSL to 3G Slow and 2G. That night, you get a text from your carrier that you used a lot more data than you imagined (and definitely way more than you originally planned!).

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Nobody is trying to do a poor job, and yet the results of a “completed” PWA project often require weeks or months of painstaking rework to deliver minimally acceptable performance. Partner meetings are illuminating.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

When your website isn’t performing optimally, you risk not only your revenue but also your reputation as a trusted resource. Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

In my coverage of the physical treatment of named table expressions in the series I focus on the treatment in Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. Recall that what triggered this series is some confusion that exists in the SQL Server community around named table expressions.

C++ 109

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Thanks to its reliable performance, extensive documentation and dedicated user community, PHP is one of the preferred server-side scripting language of many web developers. Thanks to the built-in PHP server and debugging tool, you can integrate your other PHP tools to build and test PHP apps in one environment.

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SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

In my coverage of the physical treatment of named table expressions in the series I focus on the treatment in Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. Recall that what triggered this series is some confusion that exists in the SQL Server community around named table expressions.

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C++ Database Servers Code 93

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

However, we cannot outline the best, but we can definitely analyze which is the best framework to choose in which situations. Performance. Server rendering in Angular vs React. In addition, React JavaScript framework uses server-side rendering to give a flexible, performance-oriented solution. So, Angular or React?

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