Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2023

IT teams spend months preparing for the peak traffic they anticipate will arrive with holiday shopping. Let’s shift our focus to the backend systems and business processes, the behind-the-scenes heroes of end-to-end customer experience. Order processing workflow is triggered by customer orders. Multi-channel logistics.

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Retail Logistics Innovation Analytics 202

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Setting aside APRA’s mandate and the heavy fines and penalties of non-compliance – it’s in companies’ best interests to undergo the process of identifying, assessing, and mitigating operational risk within the business. These capabilities help with identifying and remediating security and performance risks within APRA time constraints.

Cloud 221

Cloud Infrastructure Strategy Hardware 221

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The challenge, then, is to be able to ingest and process these events in a scalable manner, i.e., scaling with the number of devices, which will be the focus of this blog post. As such, we can see that the traffic load on the Device Management Platform’s control plane is very dynamic over time.

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Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

What’s the problem with Black Friday traffic? But that’s difficult when Black Friday traffic brings overwhelming and unpredictable peak loads to retailer websites and exposes the weakest points in a company’s infrastructure, threatening application performance and user experience. These kinds of problems are unacceptable.

Traffic 192

Traffic Strategy Retail Ecommerce 192

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

Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

It enables users to perform any maintenance actions by providing pause/resume functionality. The yaml configuration file must be present using these high level configuration settings: Global/Universal. All of these tests were performed while the application was running and inserting data to the PostgreSQL database. How it Works.

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Availability Servers Network Open Source 277

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

Improved performance of Licensing and Environments overview page for clusters running dozens of environments. To improve management of node capabilities , we added Enable/disable Web UI traffic operation for cluster node in Cluster Mission Control UI. Self-service update packages management is now available. APM-290353).

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Operating System AWS Metrics Storage 230

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2020

Thomas has set up Dynatrace Real User Monitoring in a way for it to monitor internal and external traffic separately. Splitting traffic into two separate applications also allows you to: Enforce different SLAs for internal vs external. If that system is not performing as expected it impacts all our engineers around the globe.

DevOps 174

DevOps Traffic Monitoring Engineering 174

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

As we will see, both the present and future of browser engine choice are squarely within Cupertino's control. Past swings away from OS default browsers have hinged on the superior features , better performance , improved security , and adequate site compatibility that come from switching. What are those mechanisms? Cui bono? —

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

However, the key insight here is that these caches are partially shared among the CPUs, which means that perfect performance isolation of co-hosted containers is not possible. Traditionally it has been the responsibility of the operating system’s task scheduler to mitigate this performance isolation problem. Linux to the rescue?

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. desc="Time to process request at origin" NOTE: This is not a new API. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018. processing = Duration from the time the request reaches the Storefront until processing of the request is complete.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

As a micro-service owner, a Netflix engineer is responsible for its innovation as well as its operation, which includes making sure the service is reliable, secure, efficient and performant. In the last section, we will attempt to feed your curiosity by presenting a set of opportunities that will drive our next wave of impact for Netflix.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. In a paper published this week at SIGMOD'17 , the Amazon Aurora team presents the design considerations for the new database engine and how they addressed them.

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Database Design Cloud Storage 117

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007.

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Commonly applied to development processes, technical debt accrues overtime when we choose an inefficient path of least resistance. Zittrain points out that they “traffic in byzantine patterns with predictive utility, not neat articulations of relationships between cause and effect.” What does intellectual debt look like?

Artificial Intelligence 149

Artificial Intelligence Traffic Efficiency Innovation 149

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 21, 2022

At #SmashingConf San Francisco , Robin Marx gave a presentation about HTTP/3. Scalemates.com flipped the switch to enable HTTP/3 and almost immediately HTTP/3 traffic rose to ~13% of all requests on the landing page, ~49% for all pages in total. Testing the Performance of HTTP/3. Protocol performance is rarely low0hanging fruit.

Network 64

Network Mobile Google Cache 64

Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Of all traffic, 53.3% Yes, SEO is a long-term approach, but it offers some unparalleled advantages to businesses in terms of brand recognition, visibility, reputation, and of course, web traffic and revenues. You can stop such practices now and focus on your specific domain to get more traffic and leads. of all clicks.

Google 52

Google Traffic Social Media Website 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The key insight was that by assuming a latent Gaussian Process (GP) prior on the key business metric actions like viral engagement, job applications, etc., He also talked about common pitfalls of stream-processed data like out of order processing. They used Bayesian Optimization to perform multi-metric optimization?—?e.g.,

Infrastructure 126

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. In this blog, we would like to present the latest updates to Conductor, address some of the frequently asked questions and thank the community for their contributions. Validations and Testing Dry runs, i.e

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work.

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

COM201 Being ethical in tech: Sustainability tips for work and life — no video, but here is a video of Aerin Booth presenting an earlier version of the talk. This is the AWS Professional Services built tooling that customers can use to track the carbon footprint of their operations and processes, along with a customer example.

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AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The key insight was that by assuming a latent Gaussian Process (GP) prior on the key business metric actions like viral engagement, job applications, etc., He also talked about common pitfalls of stream-processed data like out of order processing. They used Bayesian Optimization to perform multi-metric optimization?—?e.g.,

Infrastructure 100

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 27, 2018

At #PerfMatters , Jessica Chan, Sarah Dapul-Weberman, and Michelle Vu gave a presentation about building Pinterest’s first dedicated performance team and the challenges involved. First Dedicated Performance team. They saw a 20% improvement in performance and 10-20% improvement in engagement. Here are my notes.

Metrics 49

Metrics Traffic Strategy Testing 49

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

From retail recommendations to genomics based product development, from financial risk management to start-ups measuring the effect of their new products, from digital marketing to fast processing of clinical trial data, all are taken to the next level by cloud based analytics. Video is analyzed to help stores understand traffic patterns.

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Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Instead of presenting you with a handful of random screenshots from our demo environment I reached out to Robert, a close friend of mine, who leads a development team with the current task to re-architect and re-platform their multi-tenant SaaS-based eCommerce platform. Best data to start your optimization! 2: Distributed code optimization.

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AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

Overall, this UX audit and redesign concept would be of great use to UX designers, business owners, and marketing people because it presents a way to audit and fix a product’s most obvious usability issues. The tool analyzes edX’s rank, traffic sources, advertising, and audience interests. So, welcome to my edX audit. More after jump!

Education 84

Education Website Google Design 84

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 28, 2015

But if you’ve followed along you know that I am extremely passionate about improving performance on the web. Getting a chance push for better performance from within a company that handles 20% of the web’s traffic and is full of people who are after the same goal was too good an opportunity to pass up. I will not be marketing.

Education 72

Education Traffic Performance Processing 72

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. To understand how these changes affect us from a performance perspective, we need to grasp the underlying technology.

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember reading articles about how 3G connectivity was going to transform performance and, more generally, the way we used the internet altogether. I remember how, later on, a common question I would get in after giving performance-focused presentations was: “Is any of this going to matter when 4G is available?”

Network 61

Network Speed Internet Internet 61

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

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

Traffic 215

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 215

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Exploratory data analytics is an analysis method that uses visualizations, including graphs and charts, to help IT teams investigate emerging data trends and circumvent issues, such as unexpected traffic spikes or performance degradations. Discovery using global search.

Analytics 210

Analytics Metrics Media Monitoring 210

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Performance optimization is the Rodney Dangerfield of web development–it “don’t get no respect” In spite of its great importance in the overall user experience, it is all too often pushed aside and treated as an afterthought. Performance optimization isn’t that necessary. Performance matters.

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Performance Energy Google Internet 40