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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services.

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HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). This is one of the main reasons why content delivery networks (CDNs) exist: They place servers physically closer to the end user in order to reduce latency, and thus delay, as much as possible. and prior (a)).

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HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). This difference by itself doesn’t do all that much (it mainly reduces the overhead on the server-side), but it leads to most of the following points. Server Sharding and Connection Coalescing.

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

One wireless company for example has an international plan that will charge you $25 per month for 50MB after which they will charge you $20 per MB. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. They are complex and ridiculously expensive. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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Generative AI in the Enterprise

O'Reilly

If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? Now we expect wireless everywhere, and even that’s not correct.