Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. I mean, why wouldn't we?

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

MachMetrics

JUNE 1, 2020

In fact, failing to run a mobile page speed test is the number 1 speed testing mistake we see our users make! If you’re unsure of how your website performs on a mobile device (or even got a poor result on a speed audit), stick with us. All of these things can be achieved with a faster mobile speed. Of course not.

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Speed Mobile Testing Google 67

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

DZone

OCTOBER 16, 2021

JSON is the accepted standard these days for transmitting data between servers and web applications. This is a scenario that is common in data processing applications running in Hadoop or Spark clusters. Given the size of these files, you can be looking at significant differences in parsing speed between libraries.

Transportation 303

Transportation Speed Servers Processing 303

Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

This article delivers a practical roadmap for using backups and binary logs to achieve accurate MySQL recovery, detailed steps for setting up your server, and tips for managing recovery and backups effectively without overwhelming you with complexity. By harnessing MySQL’s binary logging feature, every event is recorded in real-time.

Database 162

Database Strategy Servers Best Practices 162

Percona

JUNE 15, 2023

Sometimes we might need to install/upgrade Percona Server for MySQL /MySQL 8 to a particular version in a test or production environment. Install Percona Server for MySQL 8 specific version packages via repository. Download specific Percona Server for MySQL 8 tarball packages and install them manually. Setting up curl (7.74.0-1.3+deb11u7).

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Servers C++ Database Systems 83

MachMetrics

APRIL 15, 2020

Using a page speed optimization audit tool like GTmetrix or WebPageTest is a great first step towards assessing how your website loads for visitors. However, you may be making one of the common page speed testing mistakes that often cost website owners engagement, and ultimately, revenue. Mistake #1: Only Testing Desktop.

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Speed Testing Website Mobile 88

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2022

At Dynatrace Perform 2022 , David Walker, a Lockheed Martin Fellow, and William Swofford, a full-stack engineer at Lockheed Martin, discuss how to create a self-diagnosing and self-healing IT server environment using this AIOps combination for auto-baselining, auto-remediation, monitoring as code, and more. An example of the self-healing web.

Artificial Intelligence 186

Artificial Intelligence Innovation Servers Database 186

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Redis Revealed: An Overview Redis, a renowned open-source, in-memory remote dictionary server, stands out for its diverse data structures and advanced features. Data transfer technology.

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. If these rules can be applied to improving speeds at Yahoo! High Performance Images: Shrink, Load, and Deliver Images for Speed. Let’s get started! and the Head Performance Engineer at Google.

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Needless to say, there’s nothing that can beat WebP when it comes to speed while maintaining image integrity. “. Some of these methods let you dictate how your server delivers images based on the restraints of your visitors’ browsers. Suzanne Scacca.

Website 72

Website Speed Cache Google 72

MachMetrics

JULY 15, 2020

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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Speed Website Cache Google 78

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers. This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Improving data processing. Boosting batch processing. Reliability.

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Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 279

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In the past, I tried to understand where in the page-loading process was the majority of time spent. When we look at the combined tests above, the average server-side response time (measured as first byte time, or the amount of time it takes to get the first packet of data in response to a request) is 397 milliseconds.

Retail 218

Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 218

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Extending relational query processing with ML inference , Karanasos, CIDR’10. The vision is that data scientists use their favourite ML framework to construct a model, which together with any data pre-processing steps and library dependencies forms a model pipeline. Static analysis and the IR. " Query execution.

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Processing Hardware Database Azure 72

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 14, 2023

On an abstract level, whenever you use MongoClient to connect, send, or receive a request, it internally uses predefined timeout options to decide how long the application will wait for an initial connection establishment or the response from the server for your request.

Java 130

Java Network Servers Database 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

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. Effective monitoring of key performance indicators plays a crucial role in maintaining this optimal speed of operation. You can pick a smart selection of relevant metrics from these.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

This is precisely the kind of problem that robotic process automation (RPA) aims to address. She’s the vestigial human link in a process—insurance claims processing—that has a mostly automated workflow. Prior to RPA, enterprises used several different techniques to automate workflows and back-office processes.

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Processing Programming Virtualization Technology 82

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2022

“As code” means simplifying complex and time-consuming tasks by automating some, or all, of their processes. In turn, IAC offers increased deployment speed and cross-team collaboration without increased complexity. But this increased speed can’t come at the expense of control, compliance, and security.

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Best Practices Infrastructure Code Speed 207

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In this post, I’m going to break these processes down into each of: ? Concatenating our files on the server: Are we going to send many smaller files, or are we going to send one monolithic file? Connection One thing we haven’t looked at is the impact of network speeds on these outcomes. It’s a balancing act for sure. ?

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Cache Latency Strategy Speed 291

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Computer operations manages the physical location of the servers — cooling, electricity, and backups — and monitors and responds to alerts. So, what is ITOps?

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Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 202

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 28, 2023

One such solution is pagination, which divides large datasets into manageable “pages” of data to be displayed or processed. How to Implement Pagination in MongoDB® Big datasets require efficient data retrieval and processing for effective management. As your offset increases, this process gets slower and slower. The result?

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Best Practices Efficiency Strategy Speed 130

MachMetrics

JANUARY 4, 2019

The way a website is constructed can have a major impact on website speed performance, but developers often have a hard time keeping track of factors that cause slow page loads and other speed-related issues. The PageSpeed Module is one of several free Google tools designed to help assess and improve page load speed times.

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Speed Website Open Source Google 60

Scalegrid

JANUARY 30, 2019

SBM will also be NULL if the IO Thread is stopped, provided the SQL Thread has already processed all events from the relay log. SBM is going to reflect a valid value (>= 0) when the SQL Thread is actively processing events. Slave_SQL_Running_State: Waiting for slave workers to process their queues. Slave_IO_Running: No.

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Speed Azure Network Monitoring 197

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

But when and how does DevOps monitoring fit into the process? The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. In addition, monitoring DevOps processes provide the following benefits: Improve system performance.

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DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 220

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

In the realm of cloud-based business operations, there is an increasing dependence on complex information processing patterns. These include popular technologies such as web servers and web applications, along with advanced solutions like distributed data stores and containerized microservices.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Having MySQL backups for your database can speed up and simplify the recovery process. Differential backups are useful when you want to minimize the amount of data you need to back up each time, but you also want to minimize the complexity of the backup process. Choose the method that works best for your situation.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

IT pros want a data and analytics solution that doesn’t require tradeoffs between speed, scale, and cost. A combination of proprietary and open source technology can speed data ingestion from common and long-tail sources. If data sets are in siloed tools and systems, it slows down the process of delivering precise answers.

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Analytics Software Software Storage 191

Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

Key Takeaways Rollbacks in MongoDB are triggered by disruptions in the replication process due to primary node crashes, network partitions, or other failures, which can lead to substantial data loss and inconsistencies. With direct, actionable insights, prepare to navigate the complexities of rollbacks with confidence.

Database 130

Database Network Servers Monitoring 130

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Keeping a tab on memory usage provides additional insight into the health of operations running through Redis® servers. This Command Line Interface (CLI) can be used for basic activity metrics and offers powerful real-time data analysis tools, giving you more control over the performance of your servers.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Measuring Performance With Server Timing. Measuring Performance With Server Timing. Without being able to measure the speed at which something is working, we can’t tell if the changes being made are improving the performance, having no effect, or even making things worse. That issue is slow server response times.

Servers 87

Servers Performance Metrics Database 87

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

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.

Best Practices 223

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 223

CSS Wizardry

DECEMBER 9, 2023

A trivial performance optimisation to help speed up third-party or other-origin requests is to preconnect them: hint that the browser should preemptively open a full connection ( DNS , TCP , TLS ) to the origin in question, for example: In the right circumstances, this simple, single line of HTML can make pages hundreds of milliseconds faster !

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Speed Network Analytics Availability 234

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

You can choose to save them locally on the same server, stream them to different servers, or store them in object storage. STDOUT Datasink This diagram displays the process of streaming a backup to object storage utilizing the current STDOUT datasink: XtraBackup spawns multiple copy threads.

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Storage Speed Open Source Servers 77