Percona

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In this blog post, we will explore how network partitions impact group replication and the way it detects and responds to failures. In case you haven’t checked out my previous blog post about group replication recovery strategies, please have a look at them for some insight.

Network 113

Network Strategy Benchmarking 113

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

Dynatrace

AUGUST 26, 2024

The DORA five pillars and implications for application security and reliability The DORA regulation establishes uniform requirements regarding the security and reliability of network and information systems that support the business processes of financial entities. DORA encourages a more holistic approach to security.

Government 264

Government Best Practices Infrastructure Analytics 264

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. Synthetic monitoring is well suited for catching regressions during development lifecycles, especially with network throttling. The result is a more comprehensive and robust monitoring strategy that will have a longer-lasting impact on user performance and experience.

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Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 244

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

The crisis has emphasized the importance of having a strategy for maintaining stability and performance. Many businesses rely on third-party services, such as payment processors, content delivery networks (CDNs), and ticketing systems to get through their day-to-day operations. Before a crisis. During a crisis.

Airlines 258

Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 258

The Morning Paper

JUNE 11, 2019

Beyond data and model parallelism for deep neural networks Jia et al., The goal here is to reduce the training times of DNNs by finding efficient parallel execution strategies, and even including its search time, FlexFlow is able to increase training throughput by up to 3.3x SysML’2019. compared to state-of-the-art approaches.

Network 81

Network Strategy Hardware Benchmarking 81

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

To evaluate and benchmark our dataset, we manually labeled 20 audio tracks from various TV shows which do not overlap with our training data. We adapted the SOTA convolutional recurrent neural network ( CRNN ) architecture to accommodate our requirements for input/output dimensionality and model complexity.

Architecture 233

Architecture Energy Benchmarking Processing 233

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. And we need to have strategies in place to understand and manage our pages. Don't assume hardware and networks will mitigate page bloat.

Mobile 145

Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

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. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known.

Mobile 142

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This is sometimes referred to as using an “over-cloud” model that involves a centrally managed resource pool that spans all parts of a connected global network with internal connections between regional borders, such as two instances in IAD-ORD for NYC-JS webpage DNS routing. This also aids scalability down the line.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key metrics like throughput, request latency, and memory utilization are essential for assessing Redis health, with tools like the MONITOR command and Redis-benchmark for latency and throughput analysis and MEMORY USAGE/STATS commands for evaluating memory. It depends upon your application workload and its business logic.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Benchmarking Cache Speed Memcached is optimized for high read and write loads, making it highly efficient for rapid data access in a basic key-value store. Redis’s support for pipelining in a Redis server can significantly reduce network latency by batching command executions, making it beneficial for write-heavy applications.

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources.

Website 138

Website Design Network Testing 138

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The merge strategy should work differently for the mergeable and non-mergeable components, so we need a way to tell the two cases apart. ” The authors also implemented four large application benchmarks (TPC-C, TPC-E, RUBiS, and Twissandra) as a collection of MRDTs.

C++ 98

C++ Storage Benchmarking Efficiency 98

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

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.)

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies. Again, every millisecond counts.

Cache 94

Cache Social Media Media Website 94

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. This rework delays launch which, in turn, delays gathering data about the viability of a PWA strategy. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. The median user is on a slow network. Where to start?

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

Systems researchers are doing an excellent job improving the performance of 5-year old benchmarks, but gradually making it harder to explore innovative machine learning research ideas. Use transformation passes over the IR to lower it to a concrete common sub-expression elimination strategy, with layouts for each materialised intermediate.

Systems 87

Systems Programming Tuning Innovation 87

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

As a result, she came back to me concerned with publishing a post on a strategy her agency had yet to adopt successfully. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. second benchmark for mobile loading. She was torn though. seconds too long. Which I wholeheartedly agree with.). Host Fonts From A CDN.

Website 111

Website Speed Mobile Design 111

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

Unlike iOS development, Android development requires proper standards and varying benchmarks for performance and optimization. Pick Testing Tools & Strategies That Best Fit Your Requirement: It goes without a saying — every feature or app may require a testing technique or strategy. Hence, we test on real devices. .

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Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. The waterfall of network activity helped a lot here, but so did thinking of user flows. With network and CPU throttling enabled, we finally saw it in the screenshots! Large preview ). But even in the planning phases, traps await.

Performance 132

Performance Cache Website Mobile 132

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

Before defining the scope, the requirements should be well understood and test strategy should be defined keeping the timelines in mind. an environment variable like network connectivity changed over time and is not aligned with the assumption with which test automation was built initially. Starting without a Test Plan.

Software 85

Software Software Testing Open Source 85

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 16, 2020

SaaS businesses are built upon the simplicity of computing, storage, and networking they provide to their users. Termination and exit strategy with an easy and smooth transition. Web and mobile applications provided by SaaS businesses are meant to be straight forward to consume for users. Data portability among different vendors.

Mobile 52

Mobile Monitoring Infrastructure Benchmarking 52

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Synthetic monitoring actively allows users to monitor the performance of their website or application with a set of controlled variables (geography, network, device, browser, cached vs. uncached) over time. Benchmark Against Competitors. Then, they can effectively benchmark their own performance against those key competitors over time.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Detailed optimization analysis and guidance are necessary for operationalizing your performance strategy and driving time-to-market improvements. This allows your teams baseline, benchmark, review (including retroactively reviewing past data), report, and compare and contrast your data month-over-month or even year-over-year.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Reduced network and device capacity correlate with other access challenges. Folks with powerful laptops, new iPhones, and low-latency networks are noticing, which is a very bad sign. Do they have a device-class or network condition target ? Accessibility: Performance is the foundation of access. sales, marketing, etc.)?

Performance 99

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 99

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Observability becomes mandatory for any serious sustainability strategy in IT. By integrating observability into security strategies, organizations can foster the trust needed to operate confidently in an era of heightened risk. The resurgence of AIOps will redefine industry benchmarks for efficiency and resilience.

Energy 241

Energy Logistics Healthcare Retail 241

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies. Important This is important because a stale read can quickly invalidate the backup strategy and should be addressed aggressively. SQLIO.exe SQLIO.exe is a SQL Server 2000 I/O utility used to establish basic benchmark testing results.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Speed Curve

JANUARY 27, 2025

These numbers should NOT be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Making your pages as small as possible is in the best interest of your users who don't have access to fast networks and devices. And we need to have strategies in place to understand and manage our pages. I'll go into this more below. Questions or feedback?

Mobile 97

Mobile Best Practices Google Metrics 97

Speed Curve

JULY 8, 2024

With many synthetic monitoring tools, you can benchmark your site against your competitors. Competitive benchmarking is a great way to see how you stack up – and how much you need to improve. Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive set of dashboards that anyone can explore and use for their own research.

Speed 139

Speed Cache Benchmarking Metrics 139

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Content Delivery Networks (CDN) like Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, Cloudfront can sometimes have a big impact on performance. You can hold them accountable and maintain a strategy for keeping them in line. Benchmark yourself. Another great tool to have in your bag is benchmarking. The internet.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Amazon is a good example of a site that serves large, fast pages, as you can see in this recent look at our Retail Page Speed Benchmarks : In the waterfall chart for this test run , you can see why the Amazon home page ranks fastest for Start Render.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

One of the top players in web performance, Ilya is a web performance engineer at Google, co-chair of the W3C Web Performance Working Group , and author of High Performance Browser Networking. Prior to founding start-ups, Luke was an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Benchmark Capital , the Chief Design Architect (VP) at Yahoo!,

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/sparse_files.asp ) ​​ on the ​​ Microsoft Developer Network ​​ (MSDN). Restore backups on secondary systems ​​ frequently ​​ to make sure that your complete backup strategy is functioning correctly.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what strategies should be used to fix them. Performance Budgets, Pragmatically shows you a strategy to achieve that. Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

It might be tempting to get into quick "low-hanging-fruits"-optimizations early on — and it might be a good strategy for quick wins — but it will be very hard to keep performance a priority without planning and setting realistic, company-tailored performance goals. when web fonts aren’t loaded yet). Planning, planning, planning.

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Performance Cache Servers Network 112