Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

With the continued growth of applications being used in and out of an organization, getting a firm grasp on the performance of these devices and its impact on your IT environment is important. With this growth and added complexity, how are your legacy performance testing solutions keeping up? The short answer is that they aren’t.

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Apica

OCTOBER 29, 2019

With the continued growth of applications being used in and out of an organization, getting a firm grasp on the performance of these devices and its impact on your environment is important. Legacy performance testing platforms have their place and are still required to ensure past investments can be monitored.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

Each drone is rated with a game mechanic and gets special privileges based on performance (just kidding). 40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S, Hey, it's HighScalability time: 4 th of July may never be the same.

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Apica

MAY 10, 2019

To top it all off, consumers are very excited about the much-anticipated climaxes of franchises like Avengers, Star Wars, and Game of Thrones. One thing is clear: when planning for the consumer experience to be simple and easy to use, the backend infrastructure and performance becomes much more complicated.

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Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. So, anyway. I wrote a lot of benchmarks.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Past swings away from OS default browsers have hinged on the superior features , better performance , improved security , and adequate site compatibility that come from switching. Without the ability to differentiate on features, security, performance, and privacy, what's to sell? What are those mechanisms? A slightly different UI ?

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The second is one where an application is hosted behind an app store, for example mobile phones or even game consoles. In contrast, a server application runs on servers which are typically identical and a routing abstraction can serve sampled traffic to new versions.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Of all traffic, 53.3% Yes, SEO is a long-term approach, but it offers some unparalleled advantages to businesses in terms of brand recognition, visibility, reputation, and of course, web traffic and revenues. You can stop such practices now and focus on your specific domain to get more traffic and leads. of all clicks.

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DZone

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This open-source software, lauded for its reliability and high performance, is a vital tool in the arsenal of network administrators, adept at managing web traffic across diverse server environments. This functionality enhances web applications' overall performance and responsiveness and ensures a seamless user experience.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Often it is hidden from the consumer’s eye as it empowers applications rather than being the end game but analytics is becoming more prevalent. The City of Chicago is one of the first to bring sensors throughout the city that will permanently measure air quality, light intensity, sound volume, heat, precipitation, wind and traffic.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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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. Here are some of the tasks orchestration platforms are challenged to perform. What is Docker? Networking.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

They help organizations streamline and automate complex and time-consuming procedures and improve overall performance. Best Buy is designing its journey to cut through the noise of its multicloud and multi-tool environments to immediately pinpoint the root causes of issues during peak traffic loads. Improved customer experience.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Error tracking is a vital component to any web project because it helps you pinpoint performance problems before they get out of hand. Monitoring errors on the front-end requires a bit more work because front-end performance is highly dependant on the user’s hardware, software and connection. What is Error Tracking?

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Gaming‍With millions of players worldwide often playing simultaneously, online gaming companies cannot afford significant downtime without risking player satisfaction and potential revenue.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

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VoltDB

JUNE 9, 2017

The performance requirements for telco networks are staggering – the ability to process millions of transactions per second, the ability to manage billions of events per day, and the ability to manage tens of millions of devices simultaneously – and to do so without any perceptible downtime. Change the telco game from the ground up.

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VoltDB

JUNE 9, 2017

The performance requirements for telco networks are staggering – the ability to process millions of transactions per second, the ability to manage billions of events per day, and the ability to manage tens of millions of devices simultaneously – and to do so without any perceptible downtime. Change the telco game from the ground up.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 8, 2018

It was the first new Pokémon game in years, the first official Pokémon smartphone game, and Niantic’s first project in concert with a major entertainment company. Prior to launch, they load-tested their software stack to process up to 5x their most optimistic traffic estimates. Figure 11-5.

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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. MySQL Router was never in the game. However, HAProxy and ProxySQL have interesting behavior.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

How To Make Performance Visible With GitLab CI And Hoodoo Of GitLab Artifacts. How To Make Performance Visible With GitLab CI And Hoodoo Of GitLab Artifacts. Performance degradation is a problem we face on a daily basis. Performance is a competitive advantage that can bring and retain customers. Anton Nemtsev.

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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. The first thing the team did was make sure system performance and responsiveness were front of mind and visible to all stakeholders.

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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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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Examples include real-time video conferencing, gaming, or personalized web pages. Today, 40% of the online traffic is made up of dynamic content, CDN also did their part of the effort to adopt this new reality. ‍Dynamic Content - Online GamingImagine a video gaming match. There is no predefined moveset.Â

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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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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Management textbooks dating at least as far back as the 1980s included stories of employees performing tasks the reasons for which they didn't really understand. But disruption is also a means of rebuilding lost business knowledge: if we change the rules of the game, we're less restrained by our current assets and procedures.

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Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Despite advances in browser tooling , automated evaluation , lab tools , guidance , and runtimes , however, teams struggle to deliver even decent performance with today's popular frameworks. What is Performance? It may seem a silly question, but what is performance, exactly?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. ‍But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Examples include real-time video conferencing, gaming, or personalized web pages. Today, 40% of the online traffic is made up of dynamic content, CDN also did their part of the effort to adopt this new reality. Dynamic Content - Online GamingImagine a video gaming match. There is no predefined moveset.

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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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Robin Marx. 2021-08-23T06:20:00+00:00.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. Thanks to cloud-based virtual servers, LoadView can send traffic to your site or application from around the world. This review will focus on performing a simple load test with LoadView.

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