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Top Redis Use Cases by Core Data Structure Types

Scalegrid

Redis , short for Remote Dictionary Server, is a BSD-licensed, open-source in-memory key-value data structure store written in C language by Salvatore Sanfillipo and was first released on May 10, 2009. Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker.

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Performance Hero: Sergey Chernyshev

Speed Curve

Back in 2009, he started the first web performance meetup group in New York City, which is still running strong today. The first event was in May 2009 with my own presentation about the Tools of the Trade, I still have the deck for it here – it's fun to reminisce about it. Among other things.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

In fact, Stockholm was the first city in installing 4G back in 2009. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. There is a lot research on how performance optimization improves key metrics and sites like WPO Stats are a good source of case studies. Not even close. Well, not so fast. That’s how you can convince your boss.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

The basic idea of the framework is to use an economic metric such as gross margin as the optimization objective and consider it a function of possible retailer’s actions such as marketing campaigns or assortment adjustments. Moreover, gross margin is not the only performance metric that is important for retailers. The model (2.1)

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I've joined SpeedCurve! Here's why

Speed Curve

My first foray into the performance space was at the Velocity Conference in 2009. As already mentioned, for the past eight years I focused on how web performance intersects with user experience and business metrics. I never stop being curious about these differences, and there are always new metrics to create and new things to learn.

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Top 13 Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Tools

Dotcom-Montior

Golang, or Go, is an open-source programming language created by Google in 2009 that is used to create software programs. These monitoring and analyticcs tools need to also be able to send immediate alerts if any applications go down or these performance metrics fails to meet the predefined thresholds.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

In fact, Stockholm was the first city in installing 4G back in 2009. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. Again, it’s easy to fake performance optimization by leaving out the bad metrics, blocking users who spoil the stats. Lots of case studies where changes in performance led to key metric improvement.