Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

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. The key word here is “monitoring” performance.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring , in combination with Real User Monitoring and Session Replay , makes Dynatrace the market-leading digital experience monitoring solution. With Synthetic Monitoring, you can easily check the availability and performance of your applications as well as your APIs. Zurich (Switzerland).

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2019

As microservices and automation continue to drive API usage, most organizations have either already introduced, or plan to introduce, an API testing process. With Dynatrace Synthetic you can easily create API tests with synthetic monitors. Now we’re making it easier for you to test APIs that are secured by OAuth 2.0!

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

Credits on content go to him and the work he has been doing around performance & resiliency testing automation. Our Application Performance Management (APM) and load test team at T-Systems MMS helps our customers reduce the risk of failed releases. Automation : Single load test executions can be repeated and tracked.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Modern enterprises today use a myriad of enterprise Software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and productivity suites to run business operations, such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Slack, Zendesk, Zoom, GitHub, and many more. Leckenby, senior director worldwide alliance sales at Dynatrace.

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Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One free tool has become prominent in the space – Google Lighthouse – and one question often bubbles up: “I use Google Lighthouse for one-off snapshots of my site’s performance, so why do I need a performance monitoring solution?” Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks? If so, test against the response time objective under the same Site Reliability Guardian. If both objectives pass, you have achieved your cost reduction on CPU size.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2023

With the platform hosting more than 3,000 technical users and millions of end users, Dimitris sheds light on his experience with site reliability engineering (SRE), user experience, and service monitoring. One way the agency saves money and resources is by shutting down the test environment every night and on the weekends.

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Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

My post Good Times for Load Testing was published in 2014. It is difficult to believe that 5 years passed… Are times still good for load testing? If we speak about commercial load testing tools, we see rather a shrinking market and not too much innovation recently. Well, yes and no. I am not so upbeat as I was in 2014.

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Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

I’ve been speaking to customers over the last few months about our new cloud architecture for Synthetic testing locations and their confusion is clear. And the last thing you want to do with synthetic is introduce false positives (the bane of all synthetic testing) into the system, and yet this was happening too often.

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

It’s easy to see why, with benefits such as better testing, easier deployment, faster performance, and more. While microservices vs. monolithic architecture is a common debate, organizations have other considerations, like service-oriented architecture (SOA), tools, monitoring solutions, and potential migration issues. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Although some people may think of observability as a buzzword for sophisticated application performance monitoring (APM) , there are a few key distinctions to keep in mind when comparing observability and monitoring. What is the difference between monitoring and observability? Is observability really monitoring by another name?

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DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Saving several hours preparing and doing a design review will cost hundreds (if not thousands of hours) of fixing issues down the road.nn> unit testsnnI don’t believe that I have to say that in 2021, but I have never seen a quality product without unit tests. We live in a time when everybody is irked by manual testing.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Hundreds of thousands of companies use Google Cloud’s GKE to build and run their applications. Advancing a cool component to the mix, did you know Google Cloud does all the manual work and more with GKE Autopilot ? Dynatrace makes monitoring your Kubernetes infrastructure — and everything else in your cloud environment — simple.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The term “site reliability engineering” was coined in 2003 by Google VP of Engineering Ben Sloss , who famously noted on his LinkedIn profile that “if Google ever stops working, it’s my fault.” ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Integrations with cloud services and custom models such as OpenAI, Amazon Translate, Amazon Textract, Azure Computer Vision, and Azure Custom Vision provide a robust framework for model monitoring. For model explainability, they can implement custom regression tests, providing indicators of model reputation and behavior over time.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 14, 2023

These sources can include the website or app itself, a data warehouse or a customer data platform (CDP), or social media monitoring tools. By installing a tracking code on its website or integrating its analytics tool with a third-party e-commerce platform, CMS, or Google Analytics.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. What is Google Lighthouse? Lighthouse is an open source project run by a dedicated team from Google Chrome.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It may even be something you do regularly with Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools, where testing is freely available and produces a very attractive-looking report. The linked-up explainer provides more details, from how scores are weighted to why scores may fluctuate between test runs. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The time and effort saved with testing and deployment are a game-changer for DevOps. Just as people use Xerox as shorthand for paper copies and say “Google” instead of internet search, Docker has become synonymous with containers. Built-in monitoring. Needs third party tools for monitoring. What is Docker?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

Microservices are run using container-based orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and Docker or cloud-native function-as-a-service (FaaS) offerings like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions, all of which help automate the process of managing microservices. Test early and often using multiple methods.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

Microservices are run using container-based orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and Docker or cloud-native function-as-a-service (FaaS) offerings like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions, all of which help automate the process of managing microservices. Test early and often using multiple methods.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Kubernetes (k8s) provides basic monitoring through the Kubernetes API and you can find instructions like Top 9 Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes as a “do it yourself guide”. End-user monitoring. 4 AWS EFS monitoring. Dynatrace news. Full-stack observability. End-to-end code-level tracing. Service mash insights.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

Keptn: A reference implementation of Google’s SRE principles. Software engineer Taras Tsugrii of Meta (formerly Facebook) paid Keptn a high compliment, saying it feels like a reference implementation of Google’s SRE principles , which are the search giant’s techniques for ensuring the integrity of its sites and services.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 11, 2024

After years of development and testing, Google has added Interaction to Next Paint (INP) to its trifecta of Core Web Vitals – the performance metrics that are a key ingredient in its search ranking algorithm. According to Google, an INP of 200 milliseconds or less is ideal. Not sure what INP means or why it matters?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The term “site reliability engineering” was coined in 2003 by Google VP of Engineering Ben Sloss , who famously noted on his LinkedIn profile that “if Google ever stops working, it’s my fault.” ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Stable, well-calibrated SLOs pave the way for teams to automate additional processes and testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle. In what follows, we explore some of these best practices and guidance for implementing service-level objectives in your monitored environment. SLOs promote automation. SLOs minimize downtime.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

By defining success rate SLOs, organizations can monitor and improve the success rate of important processes to enhance user experience and overall service quality. By monitoring the success rate against this SLO, the website can ensure that its search functionality is performing optimally and delivering satisfactory results to users.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

It also entails secure development practices, security monitoring and logging, compliance and governance, and incident response. Cloud application security practices enable organizations to follow secure coding practices, monitor and log activities for detection and response, comply with regulations, and develop incident response plans.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Consolidate log management tools into a unified observability platform As businesses increasingly shift toward software-centric models, the number of specialized IT monitoring tools to manage cloud environments has proliferated. The first best practice is to consolidate log management with application monitoring in a single platform.

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MachMetrics

APRIL 15, 2020

However, you may be making one of the common page speed testing mistakes that often cost website owners engagement, and ultimately, revenue. Often, their test results are good, but visitors are reporting slow load times (or they see a high bounce rate ). Mistake #1: Only Testing Desktop. That’s only half of the story!

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Let’s start with the four most common metrics Google’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team established known as “ The Four Keys.” Two important ways to improve this metric are to implement quality assurance testing throughout multiple development environments and to automate testing and DevOps processes.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

By defining success rate SLOs, organizations can monitor and improve the success rate of important processes to enhance user experience and overall service quality. By monitoring the success rate against this SLO, the website can ensure that its search functionality is performing optimally and delivering satisfactory results to users.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I recently joined two industry veterans and Dynatrace partners, Syed Husain of Orasi and Paul Bruce of Neotys as panelists to discuss how performance engineering and test strategies have evolved as it pertains to customer experience. Different teams have their own siloed monitoring solution. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

To get started – just follow the new Keptn Quickstart with a special gift from our friends at Google Cloud Platform! We want to say “Thank you Google” for your support on our mission towards Autonomous Cloud and helping us grow the user base of Keptn! Keptn Quickstart on GKE with $500 GCP credits. Keptns Bridge.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 1, 2020

In fact, failing to run a mobile page speed test is the number 1 speed testing mistake we see our users make! We’ll show you how to run a mobile page speed test with MachMetrics.com, and how to make improvements based on your results. In addition, Google has made it clear that page speed is being used as a ranking factor.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and Web Application Monitoring. Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. HTTP Monitoring. HTTP monitoring allows you to test availability and performance from around the world. DNS resolving error.

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