Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure. MySQL on AWS Performance Test. No more network-based EBS, just blazing-fast local SSD. Amazon RDS.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

Our Dedicated Hosting plans are all-inclusive, including all machine, disk, and network costs, as well as 24/7 support. Does it affect latency? Yes, you can see an increase in latency. So, if you’re hosting your application in AWS or Azure and move your database to DigitalOcean, you will see an increase in latency.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Migration Testing Infrastructure Our monolith had been around for many years and hadn’t been created with functional and unit testing in mind, so those were independently bolted on by each UI team. For the migration, testing was a first-class citizen. Replay Testing Enter replay testing.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 14, 2023

MongoDB drivers provide several options for Mongo clients to handle different network timeout errors that may occur during usage. The default time-outs can significantly influence the behavior of your application when there are network errors.

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

” The fallacy of networks, or new devices for that matter, fixing our performance woes is old and repetitive. To be fair, each new generation of network connectivity does bring some level of change and transformation to how we interact with the internet. The fastest 4G network clocks in around 10 Mbps, and the slowest around 6.3

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

By Benson Ma , Alok Ahuja Introduction At Netflix, hundreds of different device types, from streaming sticks to smart TVs, are tested every day through automation to ensure that new software releases continue to deliver the quality of the Netflix experience that our customers enjoy. In this blog post, we will focus on the latter feature set.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Application developers can spin up isolated test environments that pose no risk to current operations. Then, they can apply DevSecOps best practices to fully test new code and see what breaks without affecting current operations. Reduced latency. Difficult to test. Optimizes resources. Difficult to monitor.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Site Reliability Guardian helps automate release validation based on SLOs and important signals that define the expected behavior of your applications in terms of availability, performance errors, throughput, latency, etc. If so, test against the response time objective under the same Site Reliability Guardian.

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

Penalty: Network Negotiation. Every new origin we need to visit needs a connection opening, and that can be very costly: DNS resolution, TCP handshakes, and TLS negotiation all add up, and the story gets worse the higher the latency of the connection is. On a slower, higher-latency connection, the story is much, mush worse.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

In summary, the Dynatrace platform enables banks to do the following: Capture any data type: logs, metrics, traces, topology, behavior, code, metadata, network, security, web, and real-user monitoring data, and business events. Automate stress-testing and regulatory reporting requirements. Break down data silos.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational.

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 27, 2018

A lot of companies—even if they are aware that performance is key to their business—are often unsure of how, when, or where performance testing sits within their development lifecycle. Each kind of testing is listed chronologically—that is, you should do them in order—but all complement each other, and will ultimately feed into one another.

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 19, 2020

It’s widely accepted that self-hosted fonts are the fastest option: same origin means reduced network negotiation, predictable URLs mean we can preload , self-hosted means we can set our own cache-control. I ran the same suite of tests against the harry.is font-display: swap; For this test, I added the &display=swap back in.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. Using simple lookup indices in Cassandra gives us the ability to maintain acceptable read latencies while doing heavy writes.

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Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2020

Continuous Testing is the process of testing at all stages of software development – one after the another- without any human intervention. Continuous Testing is key to faster delivery of Agile products to the market. But the path to achieving Continuous Testing has its own challenges, most common of which are mentioned below.

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KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The POP is strategially located within the country and lowers latency overall. KeyCDN is always on the lookout for ways to minimize latency and accelerate asset delivery worldwide. For more POPs planned, check our current network for a list of both active and planned edge server locations. Hola Mexico!

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings. STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables).

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DZone

JUNE 20, 2019

On Sunday June 2nd, Google Cloud Platform had an extended networking-based outage. LightStep Research's ongoing synthetic testing shows that the impact was longer than the advertised incident report and provides an example of the type of evidence you can share with a cloud provider when discussing an outage. Summary of Findings.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. CFS is widely used and therefore well tested and Linux machines around the world run with reasonable performance.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) come into play. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), web browsers, and proxy servers can store static files in their caches. This increased bandwidth consumption can affect server costs, network performance, and user data usage.‍How How Can You Boost Website Performance?To

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. The client MWW combines these estimates with an estimate of the input/output transmission time (latency) to find the worker with the minimum overall execution latency. The opencv app has the largest state (4.6

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With a simple example such as this, it would not necessarily be expected for the additional network traffic to be significant between the 2 approaches. However, with more complex application logic this network round trip soon becomes a key focus area for improving performance. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X performance advantage.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

About two decades ago, testing was only limited to the desktop. With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

A vast majority of the features are the same, outside of these advanced features available through the BYOC model: Virtual Private Clouds / Virtual Networks. Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) and Azure Virtual Networks (VNET) are private, isolated sections of the cloud infrastructure where you can launch resources. Security Groups.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) come into play. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), web browsers, and proxy servers can store static files in their caches. This increased bandwidth consumption can affect server costs, network performance, and user data usage.‍How Can You Boost Website Performance?To

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Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

By enabling direct execution of AI algorithms on edge devices, edge computing allows for real-time processing, reduced latency, and offloading processing tasks from the cloud. This results in faster response times and reduced network traffic, enhancing the overall efficiency and effectiveness of cloud services.

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Compressing them over the network: Which compression algorithm, if any, will we use? In one test, I concatenated it all into one big file, and the other had the library split into 12 files. Read the complete test methodology. 4,362ms of cumulative latency; 240ms of cumulative download. That’s almost 22× more!

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Scalegrid

JUNE 18, 2019

servers.mongodirector.com:27017/test?replicaSet=RS-example-0&ssl=true" database: test # Provide the hosts the default client can connect to. default: admin) auth_source: test. Testing Failover Behavior. 1305:12 @(shell):1:1 2019-04-18T19:44:42.261+0530 I NETWORK [thread1] trying reconnect to SG-example-1.servers.mongodirector.com:27017

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As developers, we rightfully obsess about the customer experience, relentlessly working to squeeze every millisecond out of the critical rendering path, optimize input latency, and eliminate jank. Ilya Grigorik. 2021-11-08T14:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-08T19:34:34+00:00. The journey, often, starts “simple” with localization. Large preview ).

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Speed Curve

JUNE 18, 2019

With sufficient automated testing, you can have a high level of confidence that an isolated change can be built and integrated without breaking anything else. If any of the automated tests fail, then the build is broken and the change cannot be integrated. So where in a CI/CD pipeline do we put performance testing?

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Indexing efficiency Monitoring indexing efficiency in MySQL involves analyzing query performance, using EXPLAIN statements, utilizing performance monitoring tools, reviewing error logs, performing regular index maintenance, and benchmarking/testing. This KPI is also directly related to Query Performance and helps improve it.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Latency is traditionally worse on mobile Despite improved network conditions in some parts of the world, round trip time is still much worse for mobile than desktop. However, if that were the case, why do we see a smaller divide between mobile and desktop on metrics that are certainly more sensitive to network conditions?

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Since that time, the SRE role has evolved as the industry has changed and shifted from the traditional monolithic structures to large, widely distributed networks and microservices. As defined by the Google SRE initiative, the four golden signals of monitoring include the following metrics: Latency.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. We can test for LCP in a number of ways. The following screenshot is taken from a test I ran through WebPageTest, resulting in an LCP of 2.4

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

By moving to AWS, Lamborghini was able to prepare the development and test environment in a couple of days. This helps support over 50 million searches every month on its networks across Italy. AWS also has a vibrant partner ecosystem in Italy as part of the AWS Partner Network (APN).

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Particular Software

JUNE 3, 2019

We become annoyed when we run a speed test on our broadband provider only to find that, on a good day, we are getting maybe half of the rated download speed we are paying for, and the upload speed is likely much worse. That data must then be transferred across the network, even if only some of it is used.

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