Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

To understand the market and this massive growth in applications, you’ll need a modern performance testing platform that will ensure you can test streaming API-based and XML-based applications including set-top boxes and game stations among other application types. The short answer is that they aren’t.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Games 40

Apica

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Understanding the market and this massive growth in applications, having a modern performance testing platform will ensure you can test streaming, API-based, and XML-based applications including set-top boxes and game stations among other application types in DevOps friendly way.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Software 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The time and effort saved with testing and deployment are a game-changer for DevOps. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Containers can be replicated or deleted on the fly to meet varying end-user traffic. What is Docker?

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 295

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Identifying which resources you can trim to reduce your monthly bill can be difficult, but looking at the right metrics will help you understand the application’s actual requirements. Configuration of the CPU metrics can be changed in the dashboard. Don’t pay for capacity you don’t use or need.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

VoltDB

JUNE 9, 2017

Change the telco game from the ground up. These systems drive deep insights into network engineering and planning, capacity management, customer retention, and other key metrics. But think of the richness of data – Steve Jobs might say data and insights like this are “insanely great!” So, what can we do with such incredibly rich data?

Analytics 40

Analytics Strategy Network Games 40

VoltDB

JUNE 9, 2017

Change the telco game from the ground up. These systems drive deep insights into network engineering and planning, capacity management, customer retention, and other key metrics. But think of the richness of data – Steve Jobs might say data and insights like this are “insanely great!” So, what can we do with such incredibly rich data?

Analytics 40

Analytics Strategy Network Games 40

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you’re reading this before March 2024 and fire up your favorite performance monitoring tool, you’re going to to get a Core Web Vitals report like this one pulled from PageSpeed Insights: ( Large preview ) You’re likely used to seeing most of these metrics. INP will officially replace FID when it becomes an official Core Web Vital metric.

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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 97

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Many games, like Fortnite or World of Warcraft, have worldwide fanbases that expect the ability to play at any time.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Many games, like Fortnite or World of Warcraft, have worldwide fanbases that expect the ability to play at any time.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Total Blocking Time One thing I know would be more helpful than a set of Core Web Vitals scores from Lighthouse is knowing the time it takes to go from the First Contentful Paint (FCP) to the Time to Interactive (TTI), a metric known as the Total Blocking Time (TBT). You can see that Lighthouse does indeed provide that metric.

Google 93

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 93

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Queues: Any application that deals with traffic congestion, messaging, data gathering, job management, or packer routing should consider a Redis Queue , as this can help you manage your queue size by rate of arrival and departure for resource distribution.

Cache 232

Cache Ecommerce Social Media Database 232

Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2021

In their case, this is specifically about the pensions element of their platform which had seen 6-7x as much traffic during the pandemic. With this new inclusion of very technical metrics, this is creating a stronger collaboration between technical teams and the marketing or SEO teams,” Carl explained.

Games 244

Games Traffic Virtualization Google 244

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

Which metrics should I use?” Which values of these metrics are acceptable?”. The metrics selection is outside of the scope of this article and depends highly on the project context, but I recommend that you start by reading User-centric Performance Metrics by Philip Walton. Adding 20% to them and set as your next goals.

Performance 100

Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 100

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. This reduces friction and commensurately increases "engagement" metrics. [6]. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). How can that be?

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Teams I've consulted are too often wrenched between celebration over "the big rewrite" launch and the morning-after realisation that the new stack is tanking business metrics. Competent managers will begin to look for more general "industry standard" baseline metrics to report against their data. Photo by Jay Heike.

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Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

From game development to machine learning projects to neural networks to automation testing- everything is on the cloud. Obviously, the application will see a huge spike in traffic and testers would have already made the application scale-proof. I remember what cloud meant to the people 10 years back and what it means now.

Cloud 52

Cloud Testing Infrastructure Testing Tools 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. Since then, the metrics conversation has moved forward significantly, culminating in Core Web Vitals , reported via the Chrome User Experience Report to reflect the real-world experiences of users. Baselines And Budgets Remain Vital.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

For example, users can install browser plugins to suggest coupon codes when they are shopping, to scan web pages for malware, to play games or message friends, or do any number of other things. They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. Design Optimizations.

Website 133

Website Design Network Best Practices 133

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. Collecting some critical metrics at one second intervals, with a total observability latency of ten seconds or less matches the human attention span much better.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. In practice, UDP is mostly used for live traffic that updates at a high rate and thus suffers little from packet loss because missing data is quickly outdated anyway (examples include live video conferencing and gaming).

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. Collecting some critical metrics at one second intervals, with a total observability latency of ten seconds or less matches the human attention span much better.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

This metric is a little difficult to comprehend, so here’s an example: if the average cost of broadband packages in a country is $22, and the average download speed offered by the packages is 10 Mbps, then the cost ‘per megabit per month’ would be $2.20. For reference, the metric is $1.19 in the UK and $1.26 in the USA.

Cache 97

Cache Google Mobile Network 97

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

For web-page loading, this slow-start approach can also affect metrics such as the first contentful paint, because only a small amount of data (tens of to a few hundred KB) can be transferred in the first few round trips. You might have heard the recommendation to keep your critical data to smaller than 14 KB.). WebTransport.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 107

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

After the latest redesign in late 2017, it was Ilya Pukhalski on the JavaScript side of things (part-time), Michael Riethmueller on the CSS side of things (a few hours a week), and yours truly, playing mind games with critical CSS and trying to juggle a few too many things. Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. DOM complete, time to first byte, first input delay, client CPU and memory usage. Get a free trial of LogRocket today.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104