Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time. SLOs aid decision making.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 259

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When serving and storing files on the web, there are a number of different things we need to take into consideration in order to balance ergonomics, performance, and effectiveness. Plotted on the same horizontal axis of 1.6s, the waterfalls speak for themselves: 201ms of cumulative latency; 109ms of cumulative download. It gets worse.

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Cache Latency Strategy Speed 291

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

This blog post explores how AI observability enables organizations to predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability. For example, a Stanford University and UC Berkeley team noted in a research study that ChatGPT behavior deteriorates over time. Consequently, AI model drift and hallucinations emerge as primary concerns.

Cache 201

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 201

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Common Infrastructure ExpensesYour first step in optimizing CDN expenses isn’t to look for the best-priced solution but to remember that a cheaper price isn’t always the best deal. A low-cost CDN may not always be as reliable and high-performing as a high-cost one. For example, the first 10TB to South America cost $0.11.Source:

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Traffic Cache Strategy 52

Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2022

This extension provides fully app-centric Cassandra performance monitoring for Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra. Because of its scalability and distributed architecture, thousands of companies trust it to run their cloud and hybrid-based workloads at high availability without compromising performance.

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Azure Latency Metrics Infrastructure 234

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples? SLOs are a valuable tool for organizations to ensure the health and performance of their applications.

Latency 174

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 174

Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

That is because Kubernetes provides several benefits from a performance perspective. Its ability to densely schedule containers into the underlying machines translates to low infrastructure costs. Kubernetes microservices applications are a striking example of the complexity of today’s modern application and IT stacks.

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Latency Tuning Efficiency AWS 200

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. There are now many more applications, tools, and infrastructure variables that impact an application’s performance and availability.

Best Practices 219

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 219

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Furthermore, tools like LangChain leverage large language models (LLM) as one of their basic building blocks for creating AI agents (think of AI agents as APIs that perform a series of chat interactions that target a desired outcome) which perform complex and potentially large queries against an LLM like GPT-4.

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Monitoring Latency Metrics Azure 162

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Common Infrastructure ExpensesYour first step in optimizing CDN expenses isn’t to look for the best-priced solution but to remember that a cheaper price isn’t always the best deal. A low-cost CDN may not always be as reliable and high-performing as a high-cost one. For example, the first 10TB to South America cost $0.11.Source:

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Traffic Cache Strategy 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks?

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AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 243

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDNs cache content on edge servers distributed globally, reducing the distance between users and the content they want.‍CDNs use load-balancing techniques to distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers called Points of Presence (PoPs) which distribute content closer to end-users and improve overall performance.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Popular examples include AWS Lambda and Microsoft Azure Functions , but new providers are constantly emerging as this model becomes more mainstream. Reduced latency. By using cloud providers with multiple server sites, organizations can reduce function latency for end users. No infrastructure to maintain.

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Serverless Infrastructure Lambda Latency 163

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

While infrastructure has historically been treated as a bottleneck where proper scaling and compute power are applied to improve performance, these aspects are now typically addressed by hyperscalers that offer cloud-based infrastructure and infrastructure as a service.

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Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 186

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

They also care about infrastructure: SREs require system visibility and incident management. As software delivery tasks traditionally performed at the end of the software delivery lifecycle – such as testing and deployment – have shifted to the beginning of the lifecycle, developers are now working with Kubernetes more directly.

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Development DevOps Programming Cloud 258

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2021

But your infrastructure teams don’t see any issue on their AWS or Azure monitoring tools, your platform team doesn’t see anything too concerning in Kubernetes logging, and your apps team says there are green lights across the board. This scenario has become all too common as digital infrastructure has grown increasingly complex.

Cloud 156

Cloud Monitoring Latency Games 156

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Buckle up as we delve into the world of Redis® monitoring, exploring the most important Redis® metrics, discussing essential tools, and even peering into the future of Redis® performance management. Key Takeaways Redis® monitoring is essential for safeguarding performance, reliability, and security.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

AWS Lambda functions are an example of how a serverless framework works: Developers write a function in a supported language or platform. When an application is triggered, it can cause latency as the application starts. Services tend to run on warehouse-scale computers meant more for edge applications than high-performance computing.

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Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 242

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

For example, we invest in next-generation, royalty-free codecs and sophisticated video encoding optimizations. Video downscaling is the most pertinent example herein, which tailors our encoding to screen resolutions of different devices and optimizes picture quality under varying network conditions. A visual example is shown below.

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Network Media Innovation Efficiency 292

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. It helps developers and operators identify and troubleshoot issues, optimize performance and improve user experience. Enable faster development and deployment cycles by abstracting away the infrastructure complexity.

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Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 203

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about a user’s interaction with an application. For example, data collected on load actions can include navigation start, request start, and speed index metrics. Synthetic monitoring is also useful for developing baselines of performance.

Monitoring 176

Monitoring Latency Mobile Best Practices 176

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. After that, the various services (e.g.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

For example, in a three-node cluster, one node can go down; in a cluster with five or more nodes, two nodes can go down. The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. – A Dynatrace customer, Head of Performance Engineering. A similar analysis can be performed on your GRO.

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Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 244

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., There are high hopes for 5G , for example unlocking new applications in UHD streaming and VR, and machine-to-machine communication in IoT. What is the end-to-end throughput and latency, and where are the bottlenecks?

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

For example, consider an e-commerce website that automatically sends personalized discount codes to customers who abandon their shopping carts. Let’s examine a few examples of answer-driven automation using AI and context. DevOps automation example #2: Threat detection and response Let’s build on the previous example.

DevOps 217

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 217

CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure. I’m going to use an example taken straight from Bootstrap’s own Getting Started. What Am I Talking About?

Cache 274

Cache Latency Infrastructure Website 274

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As an example, to render the screen shown here, the app sends a query that looks like this: paths: ["videos", 80154610, "detail"] A path starts from a root object , and is followed by a sequence of keys that we want to retrieve the data for. For the migration, testing was a first-class citizen.

Latency 233

Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Organizations can offload much of the burden of managing app infrastructure and transition many functions to the cloud by going serverless with the help of Lambda. Real-time stream processing to perform live activity tracking, data cleansing, metrics generation, and more. Optimizing Lambda for performance.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 178

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. CFS is widely used and therefore well tested and Linux machines around the world run with reasonable performance.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

The first—and often most surprising for people to learn—thing that I want to draw your attention to is that TTFB counts one whole round trip of latency. The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections. Armed with this knowledge, we can soon understand why TTFB can often increase so dramatically on mobile.

Latency 269

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Understanding why a user is experiencing transactional or performance issues enables organizations to achieve greater observability that goes beyond metrics, traces and logs. With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings. Endpoint monitoring (EM).

Monitoring 200

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 200

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. We have not collected any of that yet, even though all of this data may be particularly useful when debugging an issue.

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Metrics Monitoring Database Network 168

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2021

API monitoring is the process of collecting and analyzing data about the performance of an API in order to identify problems that impact users. Modern applications use many independent microservices instead of a few large ones, and one poor-performing service can adversely impact the overall performance of an application.

Monitoring 175

Monitoring Latency Metrics Availability 175

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

SLOs, together with service-level indicators (SLIs), deliver the performance promised in service-level agreements (SLAs) and other business level objectives (BLOs) while staying within error budgets. For example, an SLA between a web host provider and customer can guarantee 99.95% uptime for all web services of a company over a year.

Metrics 187

Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 187