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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

When we look at the combined tests above, the average server-side response time (measured as first byte time, or the amount of time it takes to get the first packet of data in response to a request) is 397 milliseconds. This had the effect of dramatically speeding up its performance and reducing support costs.

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Dynatrace

Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed. Maintaining reliable uptime and consistent service quality has become more complex as organizations expand their computing footprints across multiple data centers and in the cloud.

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Tutorial: Guide to automated SRE-driven performance engineering

Dynatrace

While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process. This will enable deep monitoring of those Java,NET, Node, processes as well as your web servers.

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Smashing Magazine

In addition to MVC separation, we can (for security reasons or speed improvements) place the JS App on a separate server like in the schema below: Decoupled WordPress diagram. There are a lot of other things you can do with REST API (you can find more details in the REST API handbook ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Podcast Episode 42 With Jeff Smith: What Is DevOps?

Smashing Magazine

Somehow you’ve got a server out there running somewhere. Jeff: Now, what are the things that we can do to speed this up? Jeff: Those are the types of things that we did as part of our automation effort was simply, how do we speed up the turnaround time of this and reduce the level of effort on our part? ” Right. .”

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