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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. In fairness, that was in the early 2000s, and site speed was barely on anyone's radar.

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Unlock end-to-end observability insights with Dynatrace PurePath 4 seamless integration of OpenTracing for Java

Dynatrace

To address potentially high numbers of requests during online shopping events like Singles Day or Black Friday, it’s crucial that this online shop have a memory storage strategy that allows for speed, scaling, and resilience of all microservices, especially the shopping cart service.

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Automated Change Impact Analysis with Site Reliability Guardian

Dynatrace

Streamline development and delivery processes Nowadays, digital transformation strategies are executed by almost every organization across all industries. Thus, Site Reliability Guardian supports DevOps and SREs in speeding up release delivery and improving release quality.

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Update of our SSO services incident

Dynatrace

These include improving API traffic management and caching mechanisms to reduce server and network load, optimizing database queries, and adding additional compute resources, just to name some. Accelerate the Dynatrace Status portal update delivery speed and review our accessibility to Tech Support in such cases [In Progress].

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What is synthetic testing?

Dynatrace

Web-performance testing Web-performance testing evaluates metrics including page loading speed, the performance of specific page elements, and the occurrence rate of site errors. This is because each of these traffic vectors comes with unique challenges. The following are three strategies worth considering.

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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. IT teams spend months preparing for the peak traffic they anticipate will arrive with holiday shopping. From first to lasting impressions But there’s more to digital experience than speed. Technology to the rescue?

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Redis vs Memcached in 2024

Scalegrid

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. For vertical scaling, Memcached allows augmenting existing servers with additional CPU cores and memory, thereby enhancing the capacity of the caching pool to manage higher traffic volumes and larger data loads.

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