Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

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. Breaking d own performance across U.S. experienced significant performance degradations. seconds to 2.78

Website 215

Website Monitoring Retail Media 215

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Understanding why a user is experiencing transactional or performance issues enables organizations to achieve greater observability that goes beyond metrics, traces and logs. With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings. Endpoint monitoring (EM).

Monitoring 203

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 203

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2021

And we’re talking about accessing the details of so many crashes, that even our most demanding customers like international banking institutes, global car manufacturers, multi-national retail chains or world-spanning recreational networks can cover the timeframes that matter to their businesses. What’s next.

Mobile 245

Mobile Retail Hardware Games 245

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Here are some common questions I’m asked when I talk with people about performance: Which metrics should I care about? Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media. How fast should I be?

Benchmarking 134

Benchmarking Speed Performance Media 134

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Server rendering is also cool—even if that’s just how we say “send HTML over the network” these days. What follows are my findings on React performance as I’ve tried to meet this challenge in a way that’s best for users. Because of this, network performance was not a factor in my measurements. The conditions.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Tech News Gather

JUNE 30, 2023

GIS technology enables users to create maps, perform spatial analyses, and visualize data in a spatial context, making it an invaluable asset for various industries. ESRI and its Pioneering Role ESRI, founded in 1969 by Jack Dangermond, has been a pioneer in the GIS industry.

Technology 52

Technology Technology Development Retail 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). HTML – Typically the smallest resource on the page, HTML's performance risk is usually negligible. More stylesheets equal more risk of performance degradation.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

To this, they responded that as they were in the fashion retail business , they weren’t doing containers and didn’t think they’ll ever make it to become cloud-native. Who manage s the networking aspects? But how will you set up the communication? How do you make this system resilient and fault-tolerant?

Google 132

Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 132

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

To this, they responded that as they were in the fashion retail business , they weren’t doing containers and didn’t think they’ll ever make it to become cloud-native. Who manage s the networking aspects? But how will you set up the communication? How do you make this system resilient and fault-tolerant?

Google 130

Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 130

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

HTML – Typically the smallest resource on the page, HTML's performance risk is usually negligible. And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. In other words, images comprised almost 75% of the total page weight. More on that later.)

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Six months in, I've had a chance to gather and look at a lot of data, talk with customers, and learn from our friends in the performance community. SpeedCurve's Industry Benchmarks dashboard – which tracks the performance of top sites in retail, media, travel, and other industries – is a good place to start.

Retail 80

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 80

Rigor

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

These focus areas are integrally linked with website performance, so it’s essential that brands also work to improve their digital experience. As a retailer, you know that conversion rates are the lifeblood of your business. But, as a web performance professional, I also know that they can majorly impact site speed. Conclusion.

Retail 40

Retail Ecommerce Website Performance Mobile 40

Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

I’m delighted to be joining some of my favourite web performance people at SpeedCurve! I’ve been a full-time web performance consultant for around nine years. We were already using both synthetic and network-based real user monitoring (RUM) tools to measure how fast our site was, so we knew we had room to improve.

Retail 52

Retail Internet Internet Education 52

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

While current network speeds may be enough to meet the latency requirements of 4G applications, 5G will necessitate a change, if only because the continental US is ~60ms wide, meaning that a datacenter on one coast communicating with another datacenter on the opposite coast will be too slow for 5G. This requires 1 ms network latency.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

While current network speeds may be enough to meet the latency requirements of 4G applications, 5G will necessitate a change, if only because the continental US is ~60ms wide, meaning that a datacenter on one coast communicating with another datacenter on the opposite coast will be too slow for 5G. This requires 1 ms network latency.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

Particular Software

JANUARY 18, 2021

What if the end boss is a network error, power outage, concurrency conflict, or even squirrels ? Real-life end bosses Let’s get a bit more concrete with some simple pseudo-code for a retail order processing system: // Some API invoked by the customer (e.g. We can't lose that information now.}HandleMessage<UpdateWareHouse>()

Games 64

Games Retail Network Code 64

Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

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?”. Instead of asking that question, I asked them this: “Are you a network or hosting provider?

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

We were going through Adobe Retail Shopping Insights (2020) and found out that more than 42% of consumers have done their holiday shopping via smartphones. Mobile web testing is a form of test that’s performed to check if websites or web apps perform uniformly across various browsers and screen resolutions.

Mobile 65

Mobile Testing Website Speed 65

Apica

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Indeed, there was a time when applications were vertical stacks of software atop networks and servers wholly owned by the company. The procedural ways we formerly conducted user acceptance testing, functional validation and performance testing are not holding up at the scale and change rate of today’s distributed cloud applications.

Retail 52

Retail Website Infrastructure Software Architecture 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

Control loop SLOs express the active management actions a provider will take, e.g. shedding of low-priority load will occur on over-utilised network links. Is a performance brownout an outage? As a simple example, an SLO around network throughput might rely on the customer running software capable of driving the network fast enough.

Metrics 79

Metrics Cloud Google Network 79

Edge Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2019

Let me start by clarifying that the transformation I’m focused on isn’t the transformation involved in moving from one business to another (let’s say, moving from being a retailer to becoming a clothing manufacturer). Performance metrics: Shift from financial results to addressing unmet needs.

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Efficiency Mobile 104

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Users who opened a PWA from a smartphone’s browser might even not be aware that they’re using a progressive web app, assuming that it’s just a well-performing site. Again, PWAs are sites that run in browsers. Large preview ).

Code 75

Code Cache Retail Mobile 75

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. One such example is activity recognition in motion video (such as LRCN , Convnets ) which may entail running combinations of both convolutional as well as recurrent neural networks simultaneously.

Wireless 54

Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture 54

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The primary task machines can perform are learning, reasoning and perception. Also known as Weak AI, the machines are designed to perform a specific set of tasks. At this stage, the machine does not possess any thinking ability, they just perform a set of pre-defined functions. Artificial Narrow Intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Programming Logistics 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For example, someone might web scrape all the product pages of a competitor’s retail site to harvest information about products being offered and current pricing to try to gain a competitive edge. Some services deliver a web page in altered form for either improved performance or improved display characteristics. among many others).

Website 90

Website Analytics Cache Google 90

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Technocracy was, too: "best practice" was derived from people performing narrowly defined tasks in rigid processes that yielded poor quality products at a high cost. Frederick Taylor defined and measured performance down to the task level. In the 1980s, it seemed we were on the cusp of a revolution in management. What happened?

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Fashion magazines are launching electronic retail sites. Companies break-up all the time when the whole is less than the sum of the parts: Motorola into handset and network businesses, Kraft into snacks and grocery brands companies. It is most evident among firms such as publishers and retailers caught up in a technology arms race.

Ecommerce 45

Ecommerce Social Media Retail Airlines 45

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. In such cases, content delivery network (CDN) is typically used to cache majority of the content and shield the system from high workload. Maintenance operations can consume a lot resources and impact performance of business requests.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

The Agile Manager

JULY 9, 2010

Retail banking serves largely a utilitarian purpose in an economy. While they're still not robust enough for every business, we're seeing advances in things like networking and encryption technology that provide a greater level of accessibility and assurance. We'll buy it like tap water, metered and regulated.

Retail 45

Retail Technology Technology Small Business 45

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Today, we added two important choices for customers running high performance apps in the cloud: support for Redis in Amazon ElastiCache and a new high memory database instance (db.cr1.8xlarge) for Amazon RDS. AWS offers its customers a choice of different database services, each optimized for different workloads.

Cache 129

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 129

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. The importance of the network. Each of those workloads have unique requirements when it comes to the network.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. Retail: $20 trillion. They'll love you even more.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

In supply chain management, connections between airports, warehouses, and retail aisles are critical for cost and time optimization. A concrete example is generating a product recommendation based on purchase interests of a user’s friends, where the relevant social connections are a small subset of the total network.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134