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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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The Power of Caching: Boosting API Performance and Scalability

DZone

Caching is the process of storing frequently accessed data or resources in a temporary storage location, such as memory or disk, to improve retrieval speed and reduce the need for repetitive processing. Bandwidth optimization: Caching reduces the amount of data transferred over the network, minimizing bandwidth usage and improving efficiency.

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7 Best Performance Testing Tools to Look Out for in 2021

DZone

The system could work efficiently with a specific number of concurrent users; however, it may get dysfunctional with extra loads during peak traffic. Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application. Confirming scalability, dependability, stability, and speed of the app is crucial.

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

Dynatrace

Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed. The growing amount of data processed at the network edge, where failures are more difficult to prevent, magnifies complexity. However, cloud complexity has made software delivery challenging.

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New Network Fallacies

Tim Kadlec

” 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. In theory, the maximum downlink speed is 100 Mbps.

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What is vulnerability management? And why runtime vulnerability detection makes the difference

Dynatrace

” Moreover, as modern DevOps practices have increased the speed of software delivery, more than two-thirds (69%) of chief information security officers (CISOs) say that managing risk has become more difficult. For example, an attacker could exploit a misconfigured firewall rule to gain access to servers on your network.

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Update of our SSO services incident

Dynatrace

These include improving API traffic management and caching mechanisms to reduce server and network load, optimizing database queries, and adding additional compute resources, just to name some. Accelerate the Dynatrace Status portal update delivery speed and review our accessibility to Tech Support in such cases [In Progress].