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What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Dynatrace

By actively monitoring metrics such as error rate, success rate, and CPU load, quality gates instill confidence in teams during software releases. These metrics are latency, traffic, errors, and saturation, all of which must be key considerations when curating user experience. Fewer expensive fixes. The warning threshold is 50-60 ms.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. In fairness, that was in the early 2000s, and site speed was barely on anyone's radar.

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Crucial Redis Monitoring Metrics You Must Watch

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You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor. Effective monitoring of key performance indicators plays a crucial role in maintaining this optimal speed of operation.

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The new normal of digital experience delivery – lessons learned from monitoring mission-critical websites during COVID-19

Dynatrace

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. Monitoring with ?the The following day, a normally mundane Wednesday , traffic soared to 128,000 sessions.

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

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The practice uses continuous monitoring and high levels of automation in close collaboration with agile development teams to ensure applications are highly available and perform without friction. Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed.

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Customer expectations for retail: Beyond digital experience

Dynatrace

While digital experience has many facets, transaction speed usually ranks among the most important. IT teams spend months preparing for the peak traffic they anticipate will arrive with holiday shopping. From first to lasting impressions But there’s more to digital experience than speed.

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

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What was once an onslaught of consumer traffic between Black Friday and Cyber Monday has turned into a weeklong event, with most retailers offering deals well ahead of Black Friday. This had the effect of dramatically speeding up its performance and reducing support costs. Dynatrace has an answer for discovering these types of issues.

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