Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This article outlines the key differences in architecture, performance, and use cases to help determine the best fit for your workload. Architecture Comparison RabbitMQ and Kafka have distinct architectural designs that influence their performance and suitability for different use cases.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In a previous article , we explained how we built benchmarks to keep track of those three metrics: precision, recall, and the most important here, speed. These benchmarks taught us a lot about the true internals of our engine at runtime and led to our first improvements.

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CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint. Or are they…?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 21, 2024

They collect data from multiple sources through real user monitoring , synthetic monitoring, network monitoring, and application performance monitoring systems. It also enables ITOps to identify performance issues in real time for fast mean time to detect/repair and to continuously optimize performance to improve the overall user experience.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

These insights help organizations plan for cloud scalability, performance improvements, and business alignment. Vastly improved performance. Additionally, with an improved deployment model, applications can run faster and perform better. Application performance improvement reduces costs and deployment time.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

I love conversations about performance, and I'm fortunate enough to have them a lot. I hope this post can serve that purpose and cover a few of the fundamental areas of web performance that I’ve found to be most useful while honing the craft of product management. How is performance measured? The audience varies.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

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Rigor

JUNE 14, 2019

It’s true that what might be considered the “most important” or “best” web performance metrics can vary by industry. These six metrics were not chosen at random – they work together to give you a snapshot of your site’s performance and overall user experience so you can set a baseline and improve speed and usability.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Performance is usually a primary concern when using stream processing frameworks. See more about the performance of stream processing frameworks in our published paper. ShuffleBench i s a benchmarking tool for evaluating the performance of modern stream processing frameworks. Recovery time of the throughput metric.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

At Perform 2021 , Dynatrace’s Kristof Renders, Services Practice Manager for Autonomous Cloud Enablement, joined Sumit Nagal, Principal Engineer at Intuit, to demonstrate how service-level objectives (SLOs) and business-level objectives (BLOs) can “shift left.” Nearly 42% do not perform manual or automated checks.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 27, 2025

HTML – Typically the smallest resource on the page, HTML's performance risk is usually negligible. 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. More on that below.)

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. What is real user monitoring?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

In AIOps , this means providing the model with the full range of logs, events, metrics, and traces needed to understand the inner workings of a complex system. Additionally, teams should perform continuous audits to evaluate data against benchmarks and implement best practices for ensuring data quality.

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HammerDB

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

We will provide a brief summary of the article and its conclusions, and demonstrate a better way to analyze PostgreSQL performance with HammerDB itself. The key findings of the article were as follows: This server had a HammerDB benchmark running against it. But why are we running a COPY operation during a benchmark anyway?

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Benchmarking Performance Metrics Database 68

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Service-level objectives (SLOs) are key to the SRE role; they are agreed-upon performance benchmarks that represent the health of an application or service. SREs need SLOs to measure and monitor performance, but many organizations lack the automation and intelligence to streamline data.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

We’re talking about a few hundred milliseconds, but this can have a considerable performance impact when cold starts occur too often. On the other hand, features needed for monitoring large applications, like memory dumps, code-level-visibility, or event loop metrics on Node.js Why metrics alone aren’t enough.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. Recently, I spent some time checking on the Performance (not a very detailed study) of the various programming languages. Ahem, Slow!

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions have evolved in recent years, and organizations now have plenty of options to choose from when selecting the right tools for their needs. APM solutions track key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As IT infrastructure has become increasingly distributed and complex, organizations face the challenge of aligning business objectives and end-user experience with the availability and performance of the IT infrastructure. Performance is mission-critical to these organizations. Why is this important and why do you need it?

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

65% of businesses report that 40% of their customers now engage with them through mobile devices , and 70% of digital businesses will require IT and Ops to report digital metrics by 2025. Peter Vinh (Solution Lead of Digital Experience at Dynatrace) during Perform 22 session. ” These answers are now critical for business success.

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Mobile Monitoring Benchmarking Best Practices 242

Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2021

And we know as well as anyone: the need for fast transformations drives amazing flexibility and innovation, which is why we took Perform Hands-on Training (HOT) virtual for 2021. This year, we’re offering a special Perform 2021 discounted rate. You can register for Perform 2021 HOT sessions within our Dynatrace University portal. *

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

The crisis has emphasized the importance of having a strategy for maintaining stability and performance. Real-time monitoring with out-of-the-box features Real-time data and monitoring are crucial for maintaining situational awareness of IT environment stability and performance, especially during a crisis.

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Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 258

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2021

Based on survey results gathered during the Dynatrace Perform 2020 conference, we learned that just 10% of organizations have implemented automatic quality gates in their release pipelines. Only 10% of organizations have implemented automatic quality gate validation (Source: Perform 2020 survey). What are quality gates?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

However, it’s common that teams need to refactor an application to help with performance after the lift-and-shift operation. Components that are already loosely coupled and have few dependencies will be easier to migrate, with less chance of impacting application performance.

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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.

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Energy Cloud Airlines Strategy 264

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. The agent watches as each process loads a file or makes a call to a certain function that is performed by an open-source library. Use scripts to configure hosts properly based on the CIS benchmarks.

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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. pg_stat_monitor About pg_stat_monitor is a Query Performance Monitoring tool for PostgreSQL. About the environment Grafana: version 10.0.0

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Beyond quantifying achievable benefits, the report describes common key performance indicators and service-level objectives that organizations use to evaluate the success of automation. These metrics can serve as a framework for other organizations looking to create their own automation models.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. How can I demonstrate the business value of performance to people in my organization?" If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then you could find the answers in identifying and understanding the performance poverty line for your site.

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 128

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

FinOps helps engineering, development, finance, and business teams meet critical key performance indicators (KPIs) and fulfill service-level agreements. Additionally, include benchmarks for stakeholders and best practices that support the anticipated growth of the organization as a whole. FinOps company culture.

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Cloud Strategy Retail Energy 246

Tasktop

JULY 22, 2021

That’s why I’m so excited to see Flow Metrics added to the latest SAFe iteration. Are they meeting their benchmarks for adoption, are their outcomes improving, are the KPIs different? outlines three core metrics : Outcomes : Are your solutions meeting the needs of customers and business? “As © Scaled Agile, Inc. Mik Kersten.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. SLOs define the performance margins you need to achieve, such as five-nines uptime.

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 246

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. So over at Phoronix some database benchmarks were published showing PostgreSQL 12 Performance With AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Benchmarks . 3834 2696 .

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site.

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