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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. Below is a Dynatrace honeycomb chart depicting the performance of the synthetics tests tracked by the Dynatrace Business Insights team. This had the effect of dramatically speeding up its performance and reducing support costs.

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7 Best Performance Testing Tools to Look Out for in 2021

DZone

Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application. Numerous kinds of performance testing imitate several possible user scenarios and know the behavior of the apps. Performance testing is mainly a subset of Performance engineering and is also referred to as ' Perf Tests.'

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How multicloud observability boosts cloud performance at Tractor Supply Co.

Dynatrace

Managing cloud performance is increasingly challenging for organizations that spread workloads across a greater variety of platforms. Moreover, organizations have to balance maintaining security, retaining cloud management expertise, and managing infrastructure performance. Rural lifestyle retail giant Tractor Supply Co.

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Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring

Smashing Magazine

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. Not the best way to get a high-level view of performance.

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Best Web Performance Books to Learn Site Speed Optimization

MachMetrics

Luckily we’ve recommended some of the best web performance books to read while stuck at home. High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge For Front-End Engineers. If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. Need a good distraction?

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5G Will Definitely Make the Web Slower, Maybe

CSS - Tricks

as it matures 5G is predicted to improve network speeds dramatically. Carriers are predicting download speeds in 2019 for anywhere from 100Mb to 1 Gbit per second on average. Numbers like this make it seem as though the web’s performance problems are merely a matter of infrastructure. This is.bonkers!

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Radically speed up your code by fixing slow or frequent garbage collection

Dynatrace

— Excerpt from How Garbage Collection works in the Dynatrace Performance eBook) . However, garbage collection is one of the main sources of performance and scalability issues in any modern Java application. Any significant reduction in allocations will inevitably speed up your code. Speed up application code itself.

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