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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. What I have seen is a maturing of the online retail channels when it comes to delivering customer experiences. This year we saw few, if any, major issues with online retailers. This is where many retailers have matured over the years.

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold.

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Massively speed up OneAgent lifecycle management with the enhanced REST API (Preview)

Dynatrace

All this can be done centrally from your Dynatrace cluster, regardless if you’re monitoring physical hosts, AWS EC2 server instances, services running in Kubernetes Pods, virtual machines under VMware, or any supported operating system or technology that can be monitored using Dynatrace. A few customer use cases. More use cases to come.

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The new normal of digital experience delivery – lessons learned from monitoring mission-critical websites during COVID-19

Dynatrace

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. Additionally, increases in server-side response times (Time to First Byte) caused high response times, leading to failures. .

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

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. Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL.

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

Dynatrace

Mobile retail e-commerce spending in the U. Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed. As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. trillion by 2027, up from $800 billion in 2021.

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How Target.com Could Make Their Site 3.1s Faster

MachMetrics

Target is one of the most well-known retailers around, and they’ve recently increased their focus on the e-commerce portion of their business – Target.com. In fact, they just cracked into the top 10 list of US e-commerce retailers. ” This is because Target.com does an excellent job of improving user-perceived speed.

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