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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold.

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

Mobile retail e-commerce spending in the U. At the lowest level, SLIs provide a view of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across systems. As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. The volume of travel spending booked online is expected to reach nearly $1.5

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How digital experience monitoring helps deliver business observability

Dynatrace

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). PC, smartphone, server) or virtual (virtual machines, cloud gateways). Endpoints can be physical (i.e.,

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Separating Utility from Value Add

The Agile Manager

Retail banking serves largely a utilitarian purpose in an economy. This includes things like data storage, servers, e-mail, office productivity applications, virus protection, security and so forth. Whether it's appropriate or not for banking isn't the purpose of this blog post.

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Scaling Amazon ElastiCache for Redis with Online Cluster Resizing

All Things Distributed

Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. Four years ago, as part of our AWS fast data journey, we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed, in-memory data store that operates at microsecond latency. Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple.

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Expanding the Cloud: More memory, more caching and more performance for your data

All Things Distributed

Certain parts of our architecture used to run on relational databases but we just couldn’t scale them fast enough to meet the demands of our fast growing online retail business, particularly during the holiday shopping seasons. We offer high availability options called Amazon RDS Multi-AZ and commit to an availability SLA of 99.95%.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

A good litmus test has been that if you need to SSH into a server or an instance, you still have more to automate. This was a lesson we had already learned from our experiences with Amazon retail, but it became even more important for AWS’s API-centric business. APIs are forever. No gatekeepers.

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