Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed.

Best Practices 219

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 219

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. Not the best way to get a high-level view of performance.

Speed 81

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDNs cache content on edge servers distributed globally, reducing the distance between users and the content they want.‍CDNs use load-balancing techniques to distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers called Points of Presence (PoPs) which distribute content closer to end-users and improve overall performance.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 104

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 104

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDNs use load-balancing techniques to distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers called Points of Presence (PoPs) which distribute content closer to end-users and improve overall performance. When an edge server goes down, end users in the affected region may experience an increase in latency for that specific location.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It's being reposted here for completeness, but if you care about web performance, make sure to check out the whole series and get subscribed to the RSS feed to avoid missing any of next year's posts. The predominant answer: a unified theory of web performance. What, in particular, is "web performance"? How do we do it?

Performance 104

Performance Latency Architecture Network 104

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis and Memcached both provide high performance with sub-millisecond response times. Choosing between Redis and Memcached hinges on specific application requirements.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content.Â

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. What is real user monitoring?

Best Practices 172

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 172

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., What is the end-to-end throughput and latency, and where are the bottlenecks? Throughput and latency. For UDP , the authors achieved 880 Mbps dowload and 130 Mbps upload speeds. Application performance.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. How would you time time?

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

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. With this new POP, our performance in Latin America has significantly improved and provides a better web experience.

Latency 111

Latency Tuning Cache Traffic 111

KeyCDN

MARCH 10, 2021

It's our mission to continuously improve web performance and each POP contributes to it. The image below shows a significant drop in latency once we've launched the new point of presence in Israel. The image below shows a significant drop in latency once we've launched the new point of presence in Israel. With a population of 2.5

Latency 110

Latency Internet Internet Tuning 110

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

Back in the day I wrote a lot of benchmarks in order to look for places where the actual performance of the CPU didn’t match what we expected. This lead to me rewriting the heap so that it would use 64-KiB pages, thus avoiding most of the TLB misses and restoring the expected performance. So, anyway. I wrote a lot of benchmarks.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. This will get us straight to the application page, where we get more insight on how our front end actually performs.

Metrics 168

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 168

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

As the amount of data grows, the need for efficient data compression becomes increasingly important to save storage space, reduce I/O overhead, and improve query performance. Block compression can improve performance by allowing data to be read and written in smaller chunks. Snappy is a compression library developed by Google.

Storage 107

Storage Network Open Source Latency 107

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?

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What This increased server load can strain server resources, especially during high-traffic periods. What is Static Content?Static

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

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.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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?

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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. This frustration is hardwired, as you can learn in this post about the psychology of site speed and human happiness.)

Mobile 81

Mobile Google Metrics Monitoring 81

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What is Static Content?Static This increased server load can strain server resources, especially during high-traffic periods.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). Here I assumed a particular analytical function for the amount of memory traffic as a function of cache size to scale the bandwidth time.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

People say JAMstack sites are fast — let’s find out why by looking at real performance metrics! State of the real user web performance. TTFB mobile speed distribution (CrUX, July 2019). FCP mobile speed distribution (CrUX, July 2019). FID mobile speed distribution (CrUX, July 2019). First Contentful Paint.

Speed 46

Speed Mobile Metrics Scalability 46

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?

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. These crucial elements act as conductors in a symphony, coordinating the performance of all aspects related to cloud workloads.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018. I mean, why wouldn't we?

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This query is performed by a Domain Name Server (DNS server) or servers nearby that have been assigned responsibility for that hostname. A quick way to fix this is simply by temporarily changing the TTL (time to live) setting for the DNS record, and route your traffic to the second DNS server until the outage is fixed.

Cache 134

Cache Website Internet Internet 134

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. Each operation performed by the client will be taken as a web request and the result will be a full page reload at the client-side. Network latency. Performance during a load.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

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.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55