Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Before one can design an optimal security approach, it helps to understand what kinds of vulnerabilities are commonly present in web applications. Most common vulnerabilities commonly present in web applications. SAST tools identify problematic coding patterns that go against best practices.

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Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 261

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

During a breakout session at Dynatrace’s Perform 2021 event, Senior Product Marketing Manager Logan Franey and Product Manager Dominik Punz shared mobile app monitoring best practices to maximize business outcomes. Watch the full Perform 2021 presentation from Logan Franey and Dominik Punz using the local links below.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

DevOps best practices include testing within the CI/CD pipeline, also known as shift-left testing. Synthetic CI/CD testing simulates traffic to add an outside-in view to the analysis. Running tests early and often helps DevOps teams catch issues before they impact users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

The idea CFS operates by very frequently (every few microseconds) applying a set of heuristics which encapsulate a general concept of best practices around CPU hardware use. We are working on multiple fronts to extend the solution presented here. For services, the gains were even more impressive.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

In order to understand, reduce and optimize your systems, I recommend you watch my presentation on Top Performance Challenges in Distributed Architectures , where I highlight the most common performance problems: Too many roundtrips between services, e.g. N+1 Query Pattern. Impressive results I have to say!

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

This operational component places some cognitive load on our engineers, requiring them to develop deep understanding of telemetry and alerting systems, capacity provisioning process, security and reliability best practices, and a vast amount of informal knowledge about the cloud infrastructure.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Of course, Hydrogen also comes with a set of pre-built and optimized components that know how to speak to the Shopify Storefront API and allow you to focus on presentation — the differentiated merchant value — instead of plumbing. With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away.

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 139

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. For example: $ /opt/mongodb/4.0.6/bin/mongos

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Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

If you are using the open-source Percona Distribution for MongoDB , you also have extra features such as LDAP authentication support, which is present in the Enterprise and Atlas MongoDB versions. Encrypting traffic ensures that no one can “sniff” sensitive data on the network.

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CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

What follows is overall best-practice advice for designing with latency in mind. They don’t currently have a CDN , yet they do experience high traffic levels from all over the globe: Being geographically close to your audience is the biggest step in the right direction. An inefficiency present in HTTP/1.0

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Latency Cache Transportation Mobile 244

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. Please note that these are presented as general best practices.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

It enhances scalability and manages traffic surges, though it requires specific client support and limits multi-key operations to a single hash slot. Redis Sharding: An Overview Consider Redis Cluster as a multi-lane highway where the lanes represent hash slots, and traffic symbolizes data.

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Scalability Java Efficiency Database 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

While managing cloud workloads offers numerous benefits, it also presents several challenges such as security risks, compliance issues, and resource optimization, which can be addressed effectively with tools like ScaleGrid, offering features like encryption, disaster recovery, and real-time resource optimization for diverse databases.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Here are the talks from my immediate colleagues in building F, level 2 at Netflix: - Vadim Filanovsky (perf team) co-presented Auto Scaling Made Easy: How Target Tracking Scaling Policies Hit the Bullseye. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 53

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Here are the talks from my immediate colleagues in building F, level 2 at Netflix: - Vadim Filanovsky (perf team) co-presented Auto Scaling Made Easy: How Target Tracking Scaling Policies Hit the Bullseye. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Rather than buying racks and racks of servers that need to handle the maximum potential traffic and be idle most of the time, it seems that serverless’ method of paying by compute is proving to be beneficial to the bottom lines of organizations. When asked about the benefits of adopting serverless, there were some stand-out issues.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. In practice, it turns out that an enormous number of active middleboxes make certain assumptions about TCP that no longer hold for the new extensions. We will discuss these features in more depth later in this article.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. Best Practices for Redis Performance Tuning Optimizing memory allocation is essential for improving Redis’s performance.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. Such a proxy acts as the traffic cop between the applications and the database servers. Configure load balancing.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 98

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s about ensuring that your front-end is also working perfectly, that your site can deliver a delightful experience to your users or customers, and that it is functional – even when it’s experiencing up to seven or more times the typical traffic load. Traffic patterns outside of normal [RUM or Analytics].

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. Amazon even provides an official [recommendation] (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Our goal with this post is to equip you with a comprehensive understanding of the steps, best practices, and pros and cons to ensure a smooth — and successful — transition to an open source database environment. Rollout Opting for a gradual rollout of the new open source database can present several advantages.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This opens up a lot of opportunity to do things like: Present both datasets on a single chart. Your Improve dashboard aggregates performance recommendations from synthetic testing and identifies the percentage of your RUM traffic that would benefit. How do I set up page labels in SpeedCurve? Synthetic page labels.

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Benchmarking Best Practices Monitoring Traffic 64

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Google and Bing teamed up to present results from their respective experiments with page load time. Shopzilla presented information detailing how they were able to speed up their site from 4-6 seconds to 1.5 Based on their daily traffic, they estimated that this increase translated to an astonishing 10.28 21% less searches.

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Performance Energy Google Internet 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. Amazon even provides an official recommendation (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

The Supermarket After slicing my way through the supermarket-trolly traffic jam at the main entrance, I shimmied my way around the dawdling potato connoisseurs in the vegetable aisles, and majestically faked to the right and went left around a confused pensioner who wasn’t sure whether he wanted to look at dairy products or cooked meats.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍This workflow not only streamlines processes but also ensures that any changes are in line with the organization's best practices and compliance standards.‍Advantages ‍Terraform, on the other hand, presents a stark contrast. How confident can one be about the exact settings applied through a series of clicks?‍Terraform,

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Infrastructure 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. Amazon even provides an official [recommendation] (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Terraform, on the other hand, presents a stark contrast. This workflow can be configured to automatically block or allow changes based on predefined criteria, ensuring that security configurations align with operational requirements. How confident can one be about the exact settings applied through a series of clicks?‍Terraform,

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Open Source DevOps AWS Infrastructure 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

Although DORA helps banking and financial institutions prevent, respond to, and recover from critical cybersecurity incidents, DORA compliance could present many hurdles for financial institutions. The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) adopted by the EU addresses the digital and cybersecurity resilience of financial institutions.

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Best Practices Government DevOps Analytics 290

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

Based on what Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, presented at re:Invent 2018, it seems that the majority is moving their workloads to AWS: These stats tell us that there are a lot of Microsoft related workloads in the public cloud that can be optimized! Are they receiving traffic? #3: Dynatrace news.

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AWS Database Best Practices Traffic 186

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

While adequate for low-traffic applications, small databases, and dev/test environments, we recommend against leveraging shared clusters for your MongoDB production deployments. DigitalOcean specialized in SSD-based virtual machines called Droplets that are broken down into four simple categories. MongoDB Replication Strategies.

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Azure AWS Database Latency 187

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Load balancing: Load balancers distribute traffic evenly across multiple servers or data centers. In DR, load balancers route traffic to the secondary data center when a failover occurs. If carbon monoxide or other dangerous gasses were present, the gasses would kill the canary, signaling the miners to leave the tunnels immediately.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 107

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This saves clients traffic — sometimes traffic which the client is paying for. Let’s write a script that allows us to measure performance, a11y, best practices, and provide us with an SEO score. There are performance score, a11y score, best practices score, SEO score. It’s up to you! Using Lighthouse.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

At the moment, around 35% of our mobile traffic is on iOS , so those users wouldn’t be getting the images faster, but encoding a large JPEG image only, or encoding both AVIF and JPEG files would unnecessarily bloat HTML which we wanted to avoid. Are Modern Best Practices Bad For The Web? New Online Workshops on Smashing.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

In reality, these are actually TLS features that were already present in some form in TLS 1.2 As such, one best practice or optimization can end up undoing another. Additionally, QUIC enforces security and privacy best practices in the background, which benefit all users everywhere. And it gets worse.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 109