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Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds

The Morning Paper

Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds Mogul & Wilkes, HotOS’19. The VM is reachable from the Internet? It also treats all outages as equal, whereas an outage on Black Friday for a retailer is much worse than an outage on a quiet day of the year. What is ‘up’? The VM is provisioned?

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed. Mandatory disclosure of ad load and other operating metrics might have helped to prevent Facebook, for example, from exploiting its users’ privacy in order to maximise ad dollars from harvesting each user’s data.

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Monitoring: Why focus on the end user experience?

Rigor

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. Or are you an eCommerce retailer?” They quickly understood my point. Need for Alignment Between IT and Business KPIs.

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The Fine Line Between "Stretch Role" and "Unqualified", Part II: The Growth Mask

The Agile Manager

Because there is little history of tracking these types of metrics in business, it isn't clear how they truly relate to the long-term valuation of a business. By comparison, well established businesses in industries like air travel or retail banking are expected to be predictable.

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Easily measure and manage user experience with more flexible Apdex calculations

Dynatrace

One recent public example is Zalando, a German retailer. A lot of websites have been optimized for Internet Explorer 7 , so in many companies, Internet Explorer 11 is still the standard browser (with IE7 compatibility mode). Customers enjoy using your digital channels more and buy more from your company. See example below.

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Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch

Smashing Magazine

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Moreover, Garten-und-Freizeit, a German e-commerce store that sells furniture, saw an amazing improvement in their metrics after getting a PWA. And frankly, the feature set of progressive web applications for online retail continuously expands.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) And, of course, you should follow him on Twitter @ igrigorik for in-depth insights on web performance metrics, user experience, and industry news. Maximiliano Firtman.