Technology Performance Pulse

Benchmark (YCSB) numbers for Redis, MongoDB, Couchbase2, Yugabyte and BangDB

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Application example: photo tagging; add a tag is an update, but most operations are to read tags. Application example: user profile cache, where profiles are constructed elsewhere (e.g., This workload has a 95/5 reads/write mix. Workload C: Read only. This workload is 100% read. Hadoop).

Benchmarking

Benchmarking Latency C++ Database

Improved Alerting with Atlas Streaming Eval

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

Moreover, common database optimizations like caching recently queried data don’t really work for alerting queries because, generally speaking, the last received datapoint is required for correctness. It became clear to us that we needed to solve the scalability problem with a fundamentally different approach.

Storage

Storage Cache Metrics Database

Dynatrace supports SnapStart for Lambda as an AWS launch partner

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Lambda then takes a snapshot of the memory and disk state of the initialized execution environment, persists the encrypted snapshot, and caches it for low-latency access. Saving your cloud operations and site reliability engineering teams hours of guesswork and manual tagging, the Davis AI engine analyzes billions of events in real time.

Lambda

Lambda AWS Serverless Latency

Automate configuration changes by leveraging the extended Real User Monitoring APIs

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 23, 2020

User tags (web) : Set the rules for how Dynatrace applications capture your user’s tags to identify users and enrich your session analysis. JavaScript tag injection settings (web) : Configure injection-related settings such as cache settings. What’s next.

Monitoring

Monitoring Mobile Cache Testing

Dynatrace Support for AWS Lambda Functions Powered by x86 and AWS Graviton2

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

For example, you can apply filters on different tag values by using a combination of AWS tags to identity Graviton2 versus x86 Lambda functions as shown below. According to the official AWS announcement, Graviton2-based Lambda functions offer up to 34% better price-performance improvement. Dynatrace Data explorer.

Lambda

Lambda AWS Serverless Metrics

Fast memcpy, A System Design

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

We assume a base multi-core processor four-way-issue load/store machine with 64-bit integer/address registers Rx, 128-bit (16-byte) data registers Vx, and an L1 D-cache that can do two operations per cycle, each reading or writing an aligned 16-byte memory word. Cache pollution is addressed in a section below.). Cache Underpinning.

Design

Design Systems Cache Network

A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

percent of pages contain at least one <img> tag, and 99.9 According to the analysis carried out in the performance section of Web Almanac , the img tag represents 42% of the LCP elements of websites, while 71-79% of the pages have an image as an LCP element, because they can also be applied as background using CSS.

Media

Media Cache Website Mobile

Measure What You Impact, Not What You Influence

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

What if another file on the critical path had dropped out of cache and needed fetching from the network? We can take reasonable measures (always refresh from a cold cache; throttle to a constant network speed), but we can’t account for everything. What if we incurred a DNS lookup this time that we hadn’t the previous time?

Benchmarking

Benchmarking Metrics Cache Network

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You can adjust what browser is used, the kind of network connection to employ, the locations to test from, whether or not the browser’s cache is empty or full, how frequently to take the measurements, and more. By far, the most impactful change you can make is to remove any obsolete, unused, or unnecessary third-party tags from your site.

Website

Website Design Network Best Practices

Optimizing The Image Element LCP

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

I’ll cover the following: How to improve the LCP Resource load time subpart with the help of the <img> tag and a focus on proper LCP image sizing. Some explanations on the browsers’ behavior for this <img> tag and its attributes, so you can really understand and integrate your LCP image correctly. Large preview ).

Media

Media Mobile Website Metrics

Best practices for accelerating Dynatrace APIs within large monitoring environments

Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2019

Best practice: Filter results with management zones or tag filters. If your environment is organized with tags, you can add tag filters to further reduce the result set and to speed up the query. Best practice: Reduce bandwidth consumption by caching and keeping information.

Best Practices

Best Practices Monitoring Cache Speed

Setting Up CloudFront to Host Your Web App

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 28, 2022

While CloudFront’s edge caching does offer benefits, serving your app’s resources from these multiple locations is not without a cost of its own. That HTML is parsed, the browser sees script and link tags for the JavaScript and CSS assets that reside on the CDN, and requests them. Notice the large connection times for lines 2-4.

Cache

Cache AWS Servers Traffic

Optimize Images for Web

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

KeyCDN’s Cache Enabler plugin is fully compatible the HTML attributes that make images responsive. It also allows for additional control over the caching of your images as well as hotlink protection. The Cache Enabler plugin then delivers WebP images based to supported browsers. jpg 480 KB 407 KB 43 KB 89% jpg-to-webp-2.jpg

Social Media

Social Media Media Google Website

Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

The most common critical resources are: A <script> tag that is in the <head> and doesn’t contain an async , or defer , or module attribute. The <async> tag is what allows the browser to download the JavaScript asset asynchronously. Compressing, minifying and caching assets. Text-based assets.

Cache

Cache Social Media Media Website

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. This improves page load time and caching during navigations.

Performance

Performance Cache Media Metrics

Google PageSpeed Insights - Scoring 100/100 with WordPress

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

In the plugin’s settings you will want to check the following: Optimize HTML Code Optimize JavaScript Code Optimize CSS Code We are also using KeyCDN’s free Cache Enabler plugin to deliver the WebP formatted images we converted earlier for faster download times. Google Fonts The third issue is with our Google Fonts. location ~*.(js|css|png|jpg|svg|jpeg|gif|ico)$

Google

Google Cache Speed Analytics

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

If, during this process, the browser encounters a <script> or <style> tag that lacks either an async or deferred attribute, the rendering of the webpage comes to a halt. It also opens up the possibility for more effective use of caching strategies, potentially enhancing load times further.

Performance

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics

AWS EKS Monitoring as a Self-Service with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

REDIS for caching. In order to filter these dashboards by tenant all they need is a Dynatrace Management Zone , which is based on meta data extracted by Dynatrace from e.g. k8s tags, container labels or process environment variables. They can be converted to tags which act for filtering and access control. 3 Log Analytics.

AWS

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda

Headless WordPress: The Ups And Downs Of Creating A Decoupled WordPress

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

For that reason, we utilized two WordPress features that can help you out when serving simple JSON data out: Transients API for caching, Loading the minimum necessary WordPress using SHORTINIT constant. There are a lot of other things you can do with REST API (you can find more details in the REST API handbook ).

Cache

Cache Website Speed Database

Increase your system's observability with OpenTelemetry support in NServiceBus

Particular Software

MAY 8, 2023

However, distributed systems are inherently complex and consist of many components: message brokers, databases, distributed caches, integration points, REST APIs, front-ends, and more. NServiceBus already adds a span when ingesting a message from the queue, at which point we could add any other relevant tags.

Systems

Systems C++ Azure Metrics

Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website?

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They all generally are instrumented as JavaScript processes that are loaded onto your site’s web pages through a tag or snippet of loader code. Search Engine And Web Archive Cached Results. Another common category of imposter domains are domains used by search engines for delivering cached results or archived versions of page views.

Website

Website Analytics Google Cache

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

And while you can usually cache the full page of an article, the same is not true of many shop pages and elements. Some are user-specific, like the shopping cart in the header or the wish list, and due to the personal nature of the data, they should never be cached. But even in the planning phases, traps await. Large preview ).

Performance

Performance Cache Website Mobile

Google Lighthouse Audits – How to use Chrome’s built-in speed testing tool

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

For example: The page isn’t blocked from indexing All images have alt tags robots.txt is valid The document has a meta description. Similar to the SEO test, your site will be checked for tags that make a screen reader’s job easier. Alt tags, title tags, and accessible button names are all checked, to name a few.

Google

Google Speed Testing Tools Testing

CSS and Network Performance

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

We’re bound to an inefficient caching strategy: a change to, say, the background colour of the currently-selected day on a date picker used on only one page, would require that we cache-bust the entirety of app.css. This reduces the size of the blocking CSS on the Critical Path.

Network

Network Performance Media Cache

SpeedCurve Recipes: Multi-step test scripting made easy!

Speed Curve

JUNE 4, 2023

Insert the script into your synthetic test settings You can add a script to any URL in your synthetic settings by opening up the site, and then clicking the tag icon to the right of the URL. Customize the script template For example, in the sample above, you would add your own URLs for the first and last pages in the user flow.

Testing

Testing Cache Metrics Processing

Make Jamstack Slow? Challenge Accepted.

CSS - Tricks

JULY 15, 2020

This is not available in the src directory until we run a command to copy over the default from the cache: cp.cache/default-html.js Next, we are going to look at marketing tags and how these third-party scripts can affect performance. Well, the main advantage of Jamstack — or using static site generators in general — is caching.

Cache

Cache Google Analytics Servers

The Future Of Frontend Build Tools

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

As a result, users can enjoy more capable and feature-rich applications that remain performant through techniques like code-splitting, caching, prefetching, and other resource optimization techniques — with some applications that are even able to work offline. There are two major ways to load JavaScript in the browser.

Code

Code Processing Cache Development

What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Nevertheless, strategies like using content delivery networks (CDNs), implementing effective caching mechanisms for data retrieval efficiency, refining network traffic routing methods, and incorporating compression technologies can help overcome these obstacles.

Storage

Storage Systems Big Data Azure

Scale Your Liferay Application by Clustering

Enprowess

MARCH 4, 2018

Enable cluster link for cache replication. 4) Enabling cluster link: By enabling cluster link it automatically activates distributed caching. The cache is distributed across multiple Liferay Portal nodes running concurrently. With load test, you may find that the default distributed cache settings aren’t optimized for your site.

Cache

Cache Transportation Media Traffic

What is? OpenTelemetry??An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

This occurs once data is safely stored within a local cache. This is common in on-premises or hybrid deployments, where time series data and tags are transmitted to the cloud. Ingestion is critical to gathering the data we care most about. There are two principal ways to go about this: Local ingestion.

Open Source

Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation

Why you need Dynatrace on Azure Workloads

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

User analysis – Adding a JavaScript tag into the applications front end pages enables the collection of front-end load times of the applications. Application Insights – Collects performance metrics of the application code. This requires the installation of an instrumentation package into the code making it a hands-on approach to monitoring.

Azure

Azure Artificial Intelligence Metrics Innovation

Turbocharge Your Content Delivery With CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer!

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

â€A CDN, or Content Delivery Network, is a network of servers strategically positioned across various locations to expedite content delivery to users based on their geographic location.These patterns split into two main forms of traffic:Static Traffic: When a user request targets static content, the CDN first checks its cache.

Traffic

Traffic Cache Servers Latency

I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

MB , that suggests I’ve got around 29 pages in my budget, although probably a few more than that if I’m able to stay on the same sites and leverage browser caching. Chrome devtools screenshot of the DOM, where I’ve expanded one inline style tag. Let’s talk about caching. We’re going to check out Cache-Control.

Cache

Cache Google Mobile Network

Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Moreover, caching utility may decrease the waiting time. The user must involve the contents of those files directly in the HTML via inline, , or tags. Empty Cache (First View): The user access the website for the first time and has no cached data. One of the important things to realize is that the empty cache takes 6.8

Performance

Performance Cache Website Speed

How to prevent hidden images from loading on responsive designs

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The <picture> tag works in the same way that CSS media queries do. In the above code, the <img> tag is used as the default. Other advantages of <picture> This tag also offers other web performance advantages by giving us an easy way to handle browser compatibility. Lazy loading (native or with a plugin).

Design

Design Media Mobile Website

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

The idea is quite straightforward: Push the minimal code needed to get interactive for the initial route to render quickly, then use service worker for caching and pre-caching resources and then lazy-load routes that you need, asynchronously. An application shell is the minimal HTML, CSS, and JavaScript powering a user interface.

Performance

Performance Cache Network Metrics

10 Steps to Prepare Your Website for High-Load Days: Are You Ready for Black Friday?

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Prior to any peak event, take the time to review your CDN’s cache design and offload metrics to determine what improvements can be made. Ultimately, the key to surviving a peak event is to have very good CDN cache designs. A key to surviving a peak event is to have very good #CDN cache designs.

Website

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic

Turbocharge Your Content Delivery With CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer!

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN, or Content Delivery Network, is a network of servers strategically positioned across various locations to expedite content delivery to users based on their geographic location.These patterns split into two main forms of traffic:Static Traffic: When a user request targets static content, the CDN first checks its cache.

Traffic

Traffic Cache Network Servers

Git Cheat Sheet - a Collection of the Most Useful Commands

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Repository Git repositories hold all of your project’s files including branches, tags and commits. Tags Tags provide a way to keep track of important commits. Tags Tags provide a way to keep track of important commits. Lightweight tags simply serve as pointers while annotated tags get stored as full objects.

Best Practices

Best Practices Open Source Cache Systems

Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

Moreover, caching utility may decrease the waiting time. The user must involve the contents of those files directly in the HTML via inline <script>, <code>, or <style> tags. Empty Cache (First View): The user access the website for the first time and has no cached data. Queued request.

Performance

Performance Cache Website Speed

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

The idea is quite straightforward: Push the minimal code needed to get interactive for the initial route to render quickly, then use service worker for caching and pre-caching resources and then lazy-load routes that you need, asynchronously. An application shell is the minimal HTML, CSS, and JavaScript powering a user interface.

Performance

Performance Cache Metrics Network

Optimizing Video Streaming CDN Architecture for Cost Reduction and Enhanced Streaming Performance

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Given its unchanging nature, static content is ideal for caching. But quality comes at a cost, and the very nature of video streaming, with its large file sizes, means CDNs, while offering unparalleled performance, also bring along a significant price tag. By the time the player needs it, the content is already cached and ready to go.

Architecture

Architecture Performance Internet Internet

Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

The browser caches the results of these lookups, but they can be slow. The first of these is prefetching, and its link tag might look like this: <link rel="prefetch" href="[link] as="document"> This tells the browser that it can go ahead and fetch a page in the background so that it’s ready to go when requested. a web page).

Performance

Performance Games Servers Cache

Debugging Interaction to Next Paint (INP)

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Guest profiles also start with empty caches, empty cookie stores, empty browser storage, etc. This illustrates the dramatic difference in processing time between the two approaches: H&M processing time: 303ms French Connection procession time: 22ms (of which nearly half is sending an analytics event to Google Tag Manager!)

Analytics

Analytics Processing Google Mobile

Benchmark (YCSB) numbers for Redis, MongoDB, Couchbase2, Yugabyte and BangDB

Improved Alerting with Atlas Streaming Eval

Trending Sources

Dynatrace supports SnapStart for Lambda as an AWS launch partner

Automate configuration changes by leveraging the extended Real User Monitoring APIs

Dynatrace Support for AWS Lambda Functions Powered by x86 and AWS Graviton2

Fast memcpy, A System Design

A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites

Measure What You Impact, Not What You Influence

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Optimizing The Image Element LCP

Best practices for accelerating Dynatrace APIs within large monitoring environments

Setting Up CloudFront to Host Your Web App

Optimize Images for Web

Fixing a slow site iteratively

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Google PageSpeed Insights - Scoring 100/100 with WordPress

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

AWS EKS Monitoring as a Self-Service with Dynatrace

Headless WordPress: The Ups And Downs Of Creating A Decoupled WordPress

Increase your system's observability with OpenTelemetry support in NServiceBus

Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website?

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study)

Google Lighthouse Audits – How to use Chrome’s built-in speed testing tool

CSS and Network Performance

SpeedCurve Recipes: Multi-step test scripting made easy!

Make Jamstack Slow? Challenge Accepted.

The Future Of Frontend Build Tools

What is a Distributed Storage System

Scale Your Liferay Application by Clustering

What is? OpenTelemetry??An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

Why you need Dynatrace on Azure Workloads

Turbocharge Your Content Delivery With CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer!

I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget

Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

How to prevent hidden images from loading on responsive designs

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

10 Steps to Prepare Your Website for High-Load Days: Are You Ready for Black Friday?

Turbocharge Your Content Delivery With CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer!

Git Cheat Sheet - a Collection of the Most Useful Commands

Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Optimizing Video Streaming CDN Architecture for Cost Reduction and Enhanced Streaming Performance

Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints

Debugging Interaction to Next Paint (INP)

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