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What are SLOs? How service-level objectives work with SLIs to deliver on SLAs

Dynatrace

To get a better handle on this, let’s start with some definitions. Error budgets allow development teams to make informed decisions between new development vs operations and polishing existing software. Generally, SLOs are important because they: Improve software quality. It is inevitable that software can break.

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Fallacy #3: Bandwidth is infinite

Particular Software

We now live in an age when it's possible to stream high definition TV, and yet we are not satisfied. We become annoyed when we run a speed test on our broadband provider only to find that, on a good day, we are getting maybe half of the rated download speed we are paying for, and the upload speed is likely much worse.

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Accessibility and web performance are not features, they’re the baseline

CSS - Tricks

Similarly, this post by Craig Mod, on why software should be lightning fast , had me thinking along the same lines: I love fast software. That is, software speedy both in function and interface. Software with minimal to no lag between wanting to activate or manipulate something and the thing happening.

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Performance testing in CI: Let's break the build!

Speed Curve

Continuous integration ("CI") is a stepping stone on the journey to streamlined software delivery. Here's a short (and definitely not exhaustive) list of things that you may want to consider when running performance tests on an integration environment: Caches may need to be warmed up beforehand. Break the build! I know, I know.

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What is a data lakehouse? Combining data lakes and warehouses for the best of both worlds

Dynatrace

A data lakehouse features the flexibility and cost-efficiency of a data lake with the contextual and high-speed querying capabilities of a data warehouse. This data lands in its original, raw form without requiring schema definition. Data lakehouses deliver the query response with minimal latency. What is a data lakehouse?

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Software-defined far memory in warehouse scale computers

The Morning Paper

Software-defined far memory in warehouse-scale computers Lagar-Cavilla et al., This boils down to a single digit µs latency toleration in the tail for far memory, and in addition to security and privacy concerns, rules out remote memory solutions. ASPLOS’19.

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Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. I’m going to update my referenced URL to the new site to help decrease latency that adds drag to the initial page load.

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