Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

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. The problem card helped them identify the affected application and actions, as well as the expected traffic during that period. Before a crisis. During a crisis.

Airlines 258

Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 258

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

DECEMBER 13, 2024

During the holiday season, an e-commerce platform anticipating a traffic surge could use preventive observability to predict slowdowns or overloads, proactively scale resources, optimize performance, and balance cloud costs. The resurgence of AIOps will redefine industry benchmarks for efficiency and resilience.

Energy 241

Energy Logistics Healthcare Retail 241

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic. A span: Represents a unit of work, such as a network call from one service to another (a client/server relationship) or a purely internal action (e.g., starting and finishing a method).

Latency 298

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 298

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

JavaScript benchmark. . $2 billion : Pokémon GO revenue since launch; 10 : say happy birthday to StackOverflow; $148 million : Uber data breach fine; 75% : streaming music industry revenue in the US; 5.2 billion increase in pure-play foundry market; Quotable Quotes: WhatsApp cofounder : I am a sellout. . $2 How does Apple do it?!

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. billion by 2026. Its CI counterpart not so much. Large preview ).

Mobile 142

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

” The fallacy of networks, or new devices for that matter, fixing our performance woes is old and repetitive. To be fair, each new generation of network connectivity does bring some level of change and transformation to how we interact with the internet. The fastest 4G network clocks in around 10 Mbps, and the slowest around 6.3

Network 61

Network Speed Internet Internet 61

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

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. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. There is a solution though! Large preview ). Large preview ).

Network 144

Network Speed Website Mobile 144

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Number of slow queries recorded Select types, sorts, locks, and total questions against a database Command counters and handlers used by queries give an overall traffic summary Along with this, PMM also comes with Query Analytics giving much detailed information about queries getting executed.

Performance 136

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 136

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

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.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

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 Cache 127

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.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

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

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

For vertical scaling, Memcached allows augmenting existing servers with additional CPU cores and memory, thereby enhancing the capacity of the caching pool to manage higher traffic volumes and larger data loads. The decision to choose between Redis and Memcached is complex due to each offer’s unique advantages.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

Servers 64

Servers Cache Benchmarking Retail 64

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

Availability 98

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 98

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. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The median user is on a slow network.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The OSI Model is like a layer cake of how data moves through networks. This means it specifically looks at the content of the data (like the writing inside our letters from the analogy) rather than just the envelope.So, what is the difference between a Firewall at the application level and network level?Network-level

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Can you test with 3G, 4G, or different networking connections? One of the key strengths of synthetic monitoring solutions is that they can help you assess the performance and user experience (UX) of a site without requiring large volumes of real users driving traffic, a known weakness RUM or APM solutions. Can you specify the location?

Monitoring 59

Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Testing 59

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

Unlike iOS development, Android development requires proper standards and varying benchmarks for performance and optimization. While we need to perform User Interface Testing for crafting an engaging user experience, we’ll need to perform Load Testing to fix app crashes during heavy traffic hours. Hence, we test on real devices. .

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The measured traffic is not of your actual users; it is synthetically generated to collect data on page performance. 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.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The OSI Model is like a layer cake of how data moves through networks. This means it specifically looks at the content of the data (like the writing inside our letters from the analogy) rather than just the envelope.So, what is the difference between a Firewall at the application level and network level?Network-level

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Vikings fight zombies. With transformer Viking ships. A Viking shepherd superhero. An Edward Snowden cameo in which he plays an Irish Monk who persuades a rampaging Viking horde to respect privacy.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. ASPLOS’19. Distributed tracing and instrumentation.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

The spread of where consumers want to consume content, at home, at the office, at the gym, on a plane, at any time where there is connectivity, puts significant pressure on the network and performance monitoring teams for streaming brands. Load and stress-testing benchmark goals for the backend technological components.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Vikings fight zombies. With transformer Viking ships. A Viking shepherd superhero. An Edward Snowden cameo in which he plays an Irish Monk who persuades a rampaging Viking horde to respect privacy.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

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

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 112

Performance Cache Servers Network 112

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

However, when we captured packets on the ZeroMQ socket while reproducing the issue, we didn’t observe heavy traffic on this socket that could cause such blocking. Blame The Network The next theory was that the network between the web browser UI (on the laptop) and the JupyterLab server was slow.

Latency 214

Latency Virtualization Traffic Processing 214

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In fact, for a lot of customers, iOS traffic – which Vitals can't track – is the most popular and has higher conversion rates. If you need to track iOS traffic and other clients, custom metrics let you measure what is most important to your business. Benchmark your site against your competitors. Track your CDN.

Speed 64

Speed Benchmarking Traffic Retail 64