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Site-Speed Topography Remapped

CSS Wizardry

This is an update to my 2020 article Site-Speed Topography. Around two and a half years ago, I debuted my Site-Speed Topography technique for getting broad view of an entire site’s performance from just a handful of key URLs and some readily available metrics. What Is Site-Speed Topography? Are any metrics over budget?

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

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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. From first to lasting impressions But there’s more to digital experience than speed. Let’s shift our focus to the backend systems and business processes, the behind-the-scenes heroes of end-to-end customer experience.

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Best Web Performance Books to Learn Site Speed Optimization

MachMetrics

If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. Souders presents his 14 rules throughout the course of the book while discussing the importance of front-end performance. If these rules can be applied to improving speeds at Yahoo! Source: Amazon.

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Automating Success: Building a better developer experience with platform engineering

Dynatrace

At the 2024 Dynatrace Perform conference in Las Vegas, Michael Winkler, senior principal product management at Dynatrace, ran a technical session exploring just some of the many ways in which Dynatrace helps to automate the processes around development, releases, and operation. Ortner reviewed the process of solving these issues. “We

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What is GitOps?

Dynatrace

The DevOps playbook has proven its value for many organizations by improving software development agility, efficiency, and speed. This method known as GitOps would also boost the speed and efficiency of practicing DevOps organizations. GitOps improves speed and scalability. Dynatrace news. What is GitOps?

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How to Optimize CSS for Speed

MachMetrics

However, if utilized carelessly, CSS can greatly affect our page speed. When a user requests a website, the browser must process all the information available to determine the layout and style. That’s good to know, but I know you’re looking for a css speed test, or techniques for optimizing your css for speed.

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