High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. Related Articles. What's changed ? They are about creating the future.

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 14, 2012

In this article I describe a technique we used to speed up a Pig build from 9 hours to 1 hour 30 minutes using 6 Jenkins nodes. This technique is generic and can be considered as a general way to speed up maven or ant builds on Jenkins CI server or other CI systems. Solution Overview.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Over the years, more and more articles have been published about clocksource in virtual machines, and it's now a well-known issue.

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MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

These authors are experts and many have a ton of additional articles and resources that you can check out. If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. If these rules can be applied to improving speeds at Yahoo! Let’s get started! – Aurel V.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

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. In Redis, we have strings, lists, sets, sorted sets, and hashes, which we are going to cover in this article. Data Structures in Redis.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more … Why Performance doesn’t get Prioritized Web performance at organizations is a real challenge. Ideally, shoot for 30% speed improvements. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

These intermediates fall outside of the scope of this article, but if you’ve ever run a traceroute , you’re on the right lines. That’s exactly what this article is about. Reduce Transfer Size Broadly simplified… Web servers don’t send whole files at once—they chunk them into packets and send those. How Can I See RTT Information?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. Lighthouse results. One type is called lab data.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

As I see it, there are two main issues when it comes to measuring performance changes (note, not improvements , but changes) in the lab: Site-speed is nondeterministic 1. We can take reasonable measures (always refresh from a cold cache; throttle to a constant network speed), but we can’t account for everything. Isolate Your Impact.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In comparison, the AIOps approach discussed within this article, is built upon a radically different deterministic AI engine – at Dynatrace known as Davis – that yields precise, actionable results in real-time. Another huge advantage of that approach is speed. This is now the starting node in our tree. How a deterministic AI works.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This query is performed by a Domain Name Server (DNS server) or servers nearby that have been assigned responsibility for that hostname. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. A DNS server maintains a directory of domain names and translates them to IPs. So DNS services definitely go down!

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Measuring Performance With Server Timing. Measuring Performance With Server Timing. Without being able to measure the speed at which something is working, we can’t tell if the changes being made are improving the performance, having no effect, or even making things worse. That issue is slow server response times.

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Servers Performance Metrics Database 88

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

This article delivers a practical roadmap for using backups and binary logs to achieve accurate MySQL recovery, detailed steps for setting up your server, and tips for managing recovery and backups effectively without overwhelming you with complexity. This isn’t merely about taking a full backup or enabling binary logging.

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CSS Wizardry

JANUARY 31, 2019

Where bandwidth deals with capacity, latency is more about speed of transfer 2. This is the column we want to focus on for this article. If I wanted to speed up the delivery of these images, I am unlikely to get any real gains through optimising them further. To help demystify it, look at the Server Timing API. ↩

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

When exploiting the vulnerability, attackers can gain remote code injection capabilities in the MOVEit server and modify or steal sensitive data from its database. The problem with the IIS server access logs was the headers. This article was developed in conjunction with Robin Wyss. Just ask your Dynatrace account rep.

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SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One initial, easy step to moving your SQL Server on-premises workloads to the cloud is using Azure VMs to run your SQL Server workloads in an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) scenario. You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario.

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Testsigma

JUNE 10, 2021

In this article, we will only discuss testing the OTP based authentication for obvious reasons. Rate Limit Algorithm – The rate limit algorithm is used to test whether a user session (or IP address) should be limited in the number or speed of authentication attempts being sent, and under what circumstances this happens.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Here’s another article about reducing JavaScript dependencies and the bundle size sent to the client. This article is about a couple of things that Bookaway faced and we (as a company in the traveling industry) managed to optimize our pages, so that the HTML we send is smaller. Why Is Speed Improvement Necessary To Our SEO Efforts?

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. This article will explore how they handle data storage and scalability, perform in different scenarios, and, most importantly, how these factors influence your choice. Data transfer technology.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While speeding up development processes and reducing complexity does make the lives of Kubernetes operators easier, the inherent abstraction and automation can lead to new types of errors that are difficult to find, troubleshoot, and prevent. Both health checks are running perfectly fine and it seems that there is no problem.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In this article, we will check how page load time affects your site revenue and also the importance of even just one second in page loading. They get even MORE impatient when it comes to website speed. drop in the number of articles a visitor read The three-second delay resulted in a 7.9% Want proof? Want proof?

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. In this article, we’ll walk through the tools and some of the steps you can take to optimize your videos for playback — all of it to avoid stalls and impress your precious customers!

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

HTTP Preload and HTTP/2’s feature “Server Push” are both methods that can be used to improve the loading efficiency of your web application. In this article, we’ll go over the similarities and differences between HTTP Preload vs HTTP/2 Push and discuss when it makes sense to use each.

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MachMetrics

MAY 2, 2020

Our most recent article identified (and remedied) the 4 most common page speed testing mistakes we see website owners making, and it inspired us to do even more to help those who make mistake #2: Only testing from 1 location. If you’ve never considered other locations when speed testing your site, now is a great time to start.

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SQL Shack

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This article explains some of the popular SQL Server monitoring tools and techniques. Database monitoring: a quick reminder Database monitoring is a set of tools and techniques used to create and maintain an application infrastructure that is highly available and performs at high speed.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Karthik Yagna , Baskar Odayarkoil , and Alex Ellis Pushy is Netflix’s WebSocket server that maintains persistent WebSocket connections with devices running the Netflix application. What if we wanted to move past Pushy’s pattern of delivering server-side messages?

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Scalegrid

JUNE 14, 2024

In this article, we will explore the process of how to connect MySQL to Power BI, a leading business intelligence tool. MySQL Server Credentials To establish a connection between Power BI and MySQL, you’ll need the necessary server credentials, such as server address, port number, username, and password.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. I mean, why wouldn't we?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 25, 2021

Dynomite is a high-speed in-memory database, providing highly available cross datacenter replication while preserving Redis-like semantics. See our integration with Metrics later in this article.) The diagram below shows the server-side architecture. The server is a Node.js most commonly to augment messages somehow (e.g.,

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Then again, a newer but less widely known framework may more effectively suit your needs, so it's worth it to get up to speed about today's most popular options. Prototypes - The ideal frontend framework allows you to quickly produce wireframes and prototypes to speed up the overall design and development process.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. The service workers also retrieve the latest data once the server connection is restored. Application shell architecture. Let’s look at each one.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. Client Side Rendering, Server Side Rendering And Jamstack. To run it, you have to make another API call to the server and retrieve any data you want to load. Jump to online workshops ?.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Our solution doesn't require any change on the origin server. How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. WebP delivery doesn't require any change on the origin server with the WebP caching feature. We won't go into detail in this article.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. Importance of page loading speed – Google checks your website load time and they like it as fast with a better user experience.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Or even on a plane. Ford, et al., “TCP

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