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What is real user monitoring (RUM)?

Dynatrace

Some examples include: Monitoring a retailer’s online catalog to detect any increase in page load times. Providing insight into the service latency to help developers identify poorly performing code. Especially when used together, RUM and synthetic monitoring provide comprehensive insight into the digital experience.

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How digital experience monitoring helps deliver business observability

Dynatrace

STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables). One use case for STM is to model the behavior of a customer in the form of a flow of transactions along the buyer’s journey.

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Scaling Amazon ElastiCache for Redis with Online Cluster Resizing

All Things Distributed

Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. Four years ago, as part of our AWS fast data journey, we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed, in-memory data store that operates at microsecond latency. Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

Many of those failure scenarios can be anticipated beforehand, but many more are unknown at design and build time. This was a lesson we had already learned from our experiences with Amazon retail, but it became even more important for AWS’s API-centric business. Systems need to keep running even if the “house is on fire.”

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Expanding the Cloud: More memory, more caching and more performance for your data

All Things Distributed

Certain parts of our architecture used to run on relational databases but we just couldn’t scale them fast enough to meet the demands of our fast growing online retail business, particularly during the holiday shopping seasons. In a relational database, the memory working set size is critical for database performance.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. Proactive monitoring aids in detecting performance bottlenecks, latency difficulties, and other anomalies that may influence availability.