Speed Curve

JANUARY 27, 2025

This is a potential cause for concern for anyone who cares about metrics like Largest Contentful Paint, which measures the largest visual element on a page – including videos. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking. More on that below.)

Mobile 97

Mobile Best Practices Google Metrics 97

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. Redis returns a big list of database metrics when you run the info command on the Redis shell. You can pick a smart selection of relevant metrics from these.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. for unplanned downtime, resource saturation, network intrusion. AI-assistance: Use AI to detect anomalies and benchmark your system. Dynatrace news.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The app’s advanced algorithms and real-time data analytics translate utilization metrics into their CO2 equivalent (CO2e). These metrics include CPU, memory, disk, and network I/O. Using Carbon Impact, we can now implement efficiency measures driven by the app’s benchmarks and recommendations.

Energy 264

Energy Cloud Airlines Strategy 264

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

RUM gathers information on a variety of performance metrics. Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). Real user monitoring limitations.

Best Practices 244

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 244

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In this session, we discuss the technologies used to run a global streaming company, growing at scale, billions of metrics, benefits of chaos in production, and how culture affects your velocity and uptime. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

AWS 38

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin. But is five nines availability attainable? Each decimal point closer to 100 equals higher uptime.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 246

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

Dynatrace offers various out-of-the-box features and applications to provide a high-density overview of system health for all hosts and related metrics in a single view. Foundation and Discovery provide essential metrics and topology discovery, making it useful to quickly identify and recover affected hosts. Before a crisis.

Airlines 258

Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 258

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What do the different metrics mean? While the focus in most cases tends to be directed toward front-end developers, it's important to remember the back-end as well if you see higher than normal start render times or increases in more basic metrics like time to first byte. What do the different metrics mean? Let's get started.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This PoC demonstrates how to install and configure pg_stat_monitor in order to extract useful and actionable metrics from a PostgreSQL database and display them on a Grafana dashboard. This allows for much better data accuracy, especially in the case of high-resolution or unreliable networks.

Benchmarking 141

Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 141

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

It can be measured based on real data from users visiting your sites ( field metric ) or in a lab environment ( lab metric ). In fact, several user-centric metrics are used to quantify web vitals. While most of the tools covered below only rely on field metrics, others use a mix of both field and lab metrics.

Performance 134

Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 134

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. The process started with manual pull of member account information that was part of the session.

Infrastructure 238

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Clearly we need to keep talking about it.

Mobile 145

Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. The neural network (NN)-based agent uses a deep net with fully connected layers.

Testing 164

Testing AWS Lambda Network 164

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Tracing as a foundation Logs, metrics, and traces are the three pillars of observability. Metrics communicate what’s happening on a macro scale, traces illustrate the ecosystem of an isolated request, and the logs provide a detail-rich snapshot into what happened within a service. starting and finishing a method).

Latency 298

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 298

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. HammerDB has always used stored procedures as a design decision because the original benchmark was implemented as close as possible to the example workload in the TPC-C specification that uses stored procedures. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 63

High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC!; They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

Internet 123

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Adrian Cockcroft

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Most publications have simply reported the benchmark improvement claims, but if you stop to think about them, the numbers dont make sense based on a simplistic view of the technology changes. So first thing to understand is that the benchmark skips a generation and compares product that differs over about a two year interval.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Energy Architecture Latency 52

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index. Replication lag can occur due to various factors such as network latency, system resource limitations, complex transactions, or heavy write loads on the primary/master database.

Performance 136

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 136

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The gotcha here is that, if your mobile experience isn’t optimized for various devices and network conditions, these customers will never appear in your analytics — just because your website or app will be barely usable on their devices, and so they are unlikely to return. Driving Business Metrics. billion by 2026. Large preview ).

Mobile 142

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In this session, we discuss the technologies used to run a global streaming company, growing at scale, billions of metrics, benefits of chaos in production, and how culture affects your velocity and uptime. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In this session, we discuss the technologies used to run a global streaming company, growing at scale, billions of metrics, benefits of chaos in production, and how culture affects your velocity and uptime. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The newcomer to the scene was Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and, not surprisingly, it's the metric that's gotten the most questions. Does it correlate to user behaviour or business metrics in any measurable way? While I understand why score-based metrics add value, I'm a visual person. How is it calculated? is considered poor.

Retail 88

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 88

HammerDB

APRIL 4, 2023

tpcorg/hammerdb:postgres and start the image Copy Code Copied Use a different Browser hammerdb@REDPOLL:~$ sudo docker run --network=host -it --name hammerdb-postgres tpcorg/hammerdb:postgres bash root@REDPOLL:/home/hammerdb/HammerDB-4.7# hammerpost will also gather system level metrics that you can use to analyze your tests.

Benchmarking 85

Benchmarking Database Metrics Code 85

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

However, that pesky 20% on the back end can have a big impact on downstream metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and any other 'loading' metric you can think of. The use of server-timing headers by content delivery networks closes a big gap. But what happens when it doesn't?

Servers 64

Servers Cache Benchmarking Retail 64

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. For the network, we can use Iperf to assess the network bandwidth between the client and the database server to ensure it will be enough to meet our peak requirement.

Performance 55

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 55

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. This helps support executive sponsors who then have meaningful metrics to point to in justifying the investments being made. Partner meetings are illuminating.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources. Sometimes, the visitor’s browser itself can be the origin of network activity.

Website 138

Website Design Network Testing 138

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. A simple sysbench benchmark on MySQL shows an overhead between six and 10 percent on CPU-bound systems when running perf with the default sampling frequency of 4000 Hz.

Code 124

Code Tuning C++ Benchmarking 124

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

” Here are additional metrics used to determine the reliability of a database, make adjustments that minimize downtime, and set benchmarks for meeting business continuity requirements. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), Networking equipment (switches, routers, etc.)

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Having a slow site might leave you on page 452 of search results, regardless of any other metric. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018.

Cache 94

Cache Social Media Media Website 94

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Another window into this question is provided by the Web Confluence Metrics project.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

While throughput performance is important, especially in data-centers, single threaded performance remains a pivotal metric for a large swath of application domains (HPC, Finance etc.). Instead, the focus has been on boosting aggregate performance by increasing core count.

Architecture 69

Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 69

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. Are you using a content delivery network (CDN) to bring elements like images closer to your users, so that delivery times are faster? Are images optimized?

Performance 78

Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 78

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Reduced network and device capacity correlate with other access challenges. Teams I've consulted are too often wrenched between celebration over "the big rewrite" launch and the morning-after realisation that the new stack is tanking business metrics. Accessibility: Performance is the foundation of access. Photo by Jay Heike.

Performance 99

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 99

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications. Time is Money.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75