InfoQ

MARCH 20, 2024

Expedia made flight search faster by up to 52% (page usable time) by applying a range of optimizations to web and mobile applications. To support these improvements, the company improved the observability of its applications.

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Speed Mobile Architecture Tuning 85

DZone

JULY 10, 2019

This article provides the top 10 tips for performance tuning for real-world workloads when running Spark on Alluxio with data locality, giving the most bang for the buck. A Note on Data Locality. High data locality can greatly improve the performance of Spark jobs.

Best Practices 133

Best Practices Latency Storage Tuning 133

Percona

APRIL 14, 2023

Tune and optimize to improve performance Even if you consider your database platform modern, simple database tuning and optimization can speed up your processes significantly. Although it may take a few days or weeks, tuning and optimizing your environment eases your workload and can substantially decrease your overall costs.

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Database Serverless Tuning Cloud 86

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Increasing the server selection timeout value can help improve network connectivity as well as speed up the overall performance of your system by modifying connectTimeoutMS option present inside the MongoDB driver. Fine-tuning these settings would lead to improved performance and provide an enhanced user experience. <p>The

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In today’s world, the speed of innovation is key to business success. We will further enhance the detection and blocking capability to cover additional attack types, so stay tuned for updates! Dynatrace news. Cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes and OpenShift, help organizations accelerate innovation and drive agility.

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Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 235

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Encoding Technologies team took a first stab at this problem by fine-tuning the encoding recipe. With multiple iterations, the team arrived at a recipe that significantly speeds up the encoding with negligible compression efficiency changes. Stay tuned! Another exciting direction we are exploring is AV1 with HDR.

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Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective monitoring of key performance indicators plays a crucial role in maintaining this optimal speed of operation. Throughput Ensuring optimal performance and efficient handling of many queries is crucial for Redis, as it offers exceptional speed and minimal delay.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Did this issue result from the order in which the user added the data or the speed with which they selected the UI controls? . The masking API we provide allows you to fine-tune the masking configuration to your needs. What makes this session different from other sessions that follow the same path?

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Mobile Tuning Monitoring Storage 195

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2020

These metrics are tightly connected to the perceived load speed of your application. Options are now available for you to fine-tune Visually complete calculation: You can now control various thresholds and timeouts as well as exclude specific elements from the calculation—see our Help page for details on configuration settings.

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Metrics Monitoring Performance Benchmarking 217

Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

We have seen users who joined our preview program “speed up their release validation by 90%”. You have automated tests as part of delivery, monitored by Dynatrace, and you want to automatically validate to speed up your delivery pipeline (Lead Time). Stay tuned, stay connected, stay healthy!

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KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Alternatively, If you would like to request a POP in a certain location or a new feature please let us know and stay tuned for more exciting announcements. In this case, the POP's identifier is mxmc. The first two letters stand for the country TLD , while the 3rd and 4th letters are for the city.

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Latency Tuning Cache Traffic 111

KeyCDN

JANUARY 25, 2023

According to the Speedtest Global Index, Peru has an average internet connection speed of just over 67.5 The connection speed has room to grow compared to other countries in the region. If you want to see a POP in another location or a new feature, please let us know and stay tuned for more exciting announcements.

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Latency Tuning Cache Speed 60

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Stay tuned for part two of this blog series, where we will continue with more examples such as Dynatrace Monitoring as Code , and SLO release validation using Dynatrace SaaS Cloud Automation. Keeping business stakeholders in the loop with end-to-end observability with deep insight and continuous feedback loops?. #2 2 Confidence: .

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Software Software Open Source Azure 246

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Establishing clear, consistent, and effective quality gates that are automatically validated at each phase of the delivery pipeline is essential for improving software quality and speeding up delivery. Automating quality gates creates reliable checks and balances and speeds up the process by avoiding manual intervention.

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Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 185

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Once established, chaos engineering becomes an effective way to fine tune service-level indicators and objectives, improve alerting, and build more efficient dashboards, so you know you are collecting all the data you need to accurately observe and analyze your environment. Speeds incident response. Improves customer satisfaction.

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 228

Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The idea behind this is to speed up cluster resources such as garbage collection, reduce image transfer over the network, and accelerate the application launch. Manual flame graphs collection Although the tool is excellent and automatically provides flame graphs, we don’t have much control over tuning the selected profiler.

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Code Tuning C++ Benchmarking 114

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Consequently, they might miss out on the benefits of integrating security into the SDLC, such as enhanced efficiency, speed, and quality in software delivery. This fully automated scaling and tuning will enable a serverless-like experience in our Operators and Everest. It’s worry-free and doesn’t require human intervention.

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Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 83

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. For now, I’m usually sat with a coffee, some tunes on, and an old-school pen and paper making notes. Now, let’s move on to gaps between First Contentful Paint and Speed Index.

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Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 292

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Perhaps the most interesting lesson/reminder is this: it takes a lot of effort to tune a Linux kernel. Google’s data center kernel is carefully performance tuned for their workloads. This task is carried out by a team of over 100 engineers, and for each new kernel, the effort can also take 6-18 months.”.

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Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Reads and writes to your Primary, and even reads from Slave-1 will work at SSD speed. For some of the tests on the ScaleGrid deployment, MySQL configuration binlog_group_commit_sync_delay is tuned so that the slave replication lag does not go beyond 30s. No more network-based EBS, just blazing-fast local SSD.

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AWS Latency Performance Benchmarking 183

KeyCDN

JUNE 16, 2021

We're excited to announce that we've launched a new point of presence to help further supercharge our network's content delivery speeds. Alternatively, If you would like to request a POP in a certain location or a new feature please let us know and stay tuned for more exciting announcements.

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Tuning Cache Network Speed 52

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Linux OS Tuning for MySQL Database Performance. In this post we will review the most important Linux settings to adjust for performance tuning and optimization of a MySQL database server. We’ll note how some of the Linux parameter settings used OS tuning may vary according to different system types: physical, virtual or cloud.

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Database Tuning Performance AWS 41

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

GHz 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) Up to 20% higher compute performance than z1d instances Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) We can also verify these capabilities by running some simple benchmarks on the different subsystems.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Tasktop

MARCH 30, 2021

Our customers know the 496% is important, but really is a drop in the bucket when compared to a world where their economic survival is determined by their ability to deliver software that customers want with speed and quality. Make sure you stay tuned for future product announcements by subscribing to Mik’s list. .

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Transportation Tuning Metrics Analytics 90

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

It also offers 9 levels of compression, so that the amount of compression and the time it takes to compress can be fine-tuned. Brotli offers a significant speed advantage over Gzip, which is why the Brotli vs Gzip debate has really picked up steam. Let us know what page speed benefits you notice after implementing HTTP compression!

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Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Gathering and analyzing metrics over time will help you determine the overall effectiveness of your SLOs so you can tune them as your processes mature and improve. SLOs also set the stage for automating processes so you can speed up issue discovery and remediation before customers are impacted. SLO best practices.

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Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 193

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Web Performance Tuning.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Storage mount points in a system might be larger or smaller, local or remote, with high or low latency, and various speeds. Stay tuned for upcoming news about these changes. Operating Systems are not always set up in the same way. Until now, all OneAgent runtime files were stored in a fixed, hard-coded location.

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Storage Latency Operating System Network 148

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 2, 2010

By no means is this a replacement for taking the time to fine-tune the performance of your site. Pastel colors (high value) result in a more relaxed state, and therefore a shortened perception of time, than lower value colors (darker colors).

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Try changing the kernel clocksource. As (C) looked like a kernel rebuild, I started with (D) and (E). ## 5. This would help confirm that these calls really were slower on Ubuntu.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. This machine has four i7 CPUs (hyperthreaded to 8) with a base speed of 2.4GHz. Having a wide range of tools available is generally speaking a good thing when tuning queries. Test Environment. The cost threshold for parallelism is set to 50.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

KeyCDN

JANUARY 31, 2019

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. According to Wikipedia , Romania ranked 5th place worldwide for the average connection speed of 38.60Mb/s. million Romanian eCommerce users who spend an average of $237.38

Internet 48

Internet Internet Ecommerce Speed 48

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2019

How does the customers’ browser version impact the speed of our website? Stay tuned! With user session queries, you can see exactly when your customers expressed frustration in the form of rage clicks (repeated clicks on a non-functioning button or screen region). You can then easily identify the errors that caused the frustration.

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Website Metrics Tuning Analytics 103

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. In terms of Internet speed, Finland ranks as one of the fastest countries in the world. According to Wikipedia , the average connection speed in Q1 of 2017 was 20.5Mbps.

Internet 48

Internet Internet Speed Network 48

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

the brilliant synth-pop score or the perfectly mixed soundscape of a high speed chase?—?is We answered these questions via experimentation that led to fine-tuning the adaptive streaming for audio algorithm in order to increase audio quality without degrading the video experience. Imagine this scene without the sound.

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Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Instead, you want a library that is tuned for your target hardware architecture and ready for par_unseq vectorized algorithms, for blazing speed. If you want to do efficient linear algebra, you don’t want to write your own code by hand; that would be slow. This is that library.

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C++ Lambda Network Programming 107

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. As a final, delightful touch, the page is itself a live, ongoing experiment, randomly working its way through increasingly complex tunes. Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. Frederick O’Brien.

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Design Internet Internet Mobile 131