Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. For the HTTP request, we add the request headers we sent, as well as certain details from the response, such as the status code, the length of the response, and server information.

Metrics 192

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 192

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

the ipykernel process) of the jupyter-lab server process , which means the main event loop being injected by pystan is that of the ipykernel process, not the jupyter-server process. 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 217

Latency Virtualization Traffic Processing 217

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In contrast, a server application runs on servers which are typically identical and a routing abstraction can serve sampled traffic to new versions. And the signals to evaluate a new version are derived from comparatively few thousands of homogenous servers instead of millions of heterogeneous devices.

Metrics 209

Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 209

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

PostgreSQL supports sharding, which allows data to be distributed across multiple servers, making it ideal for high-traffic websites and applications. It has a proven track record of handling large volumes of data and high-traffic websites. Reliability PostgreSQL is known for its reliability and stability.

Database 121

Database Open Source Traffic Small Business 121

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This query is performed by a Domain Name Server (DNS server) or servers nearby that have been assigned responsibility for that hostname. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. A DNS server maintains a directory of domain names and translates them to IPs. So DNS services definitely go down!

Cache 134

Cache Website Internet Internet 134

All Things Distributed

APRIL 11, 2018

Having a consistent, immutable unit of deployment to work with lets you abstract away all the complexities of configuring your servers and deployment pipelines every time you change your code or want to run your app in a different place. But containers also put another layer between your code and where it runs. Getting Started.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Innovation Traffic 118

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2023

There was a comment on Twitter today from Rafael Gonzaga expressing disappointment in what he sees as a tendency to focus on the frontend solely in performance discussions, while neglecting the server-side aspect. I broke the percentages down by page rank (based on traffic to the site). First up, the mobile results. 1,001 - 10,000 12.5%

Performance 111

Performance Servers Mobile Metrics 111

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

Normally this solution requires a full code redesign and could be quite difficult to achieve when it is injected after the initial code architecture definition. In shard-nothing, each shard can live in a totally separate logical schema instance / physical database server/data center/continent. The POC Why this POC?

Traffic 128

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 128

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Our solution doesn't require any change on the origin server. Properly size images: Scaled images will definitely reduce the overall website size. WebP means faster loading times and less traffic. WebP delivery doesn't require any change on the origin server with the WebP caching feature.

Processing 127

Processing Cache Website Servers 127

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It was heralded as an amazing performance revolution, with exciting new features such as server push, parallel streams, and prioritization. We would have been able to stop bundling resources, stop sharding our resources across multiple servers, and heavily streamline the page-loading process. In older versions of TLS (say, version 1.2

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. If you have a distributed environment with multiple servers hosting your webservers, app servers, and database, I suggest you install the OneAgent on all these servers to get full end-to-end visibility. SimpleNodeJsService.

Engineering 200

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 200

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. How Does Redis Sharding Work?

Scalability 130

Scalability Efficiency Java Database 130

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I propose four key ingredients: Definition: What is "performance" beyond page speed? Tim Berners-Lee tweets that 'This is for everyone' at the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony using the NeXT computer he used to build the first browser and web server. The predominant answer: a unified theory of web performance.

Performance 113

Performance Latency Architecture Network 113

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

In this case, we have a quite well-defined scenario that can resemble the image below: In this scenario, the proxies must sit inside Pods, balancing the incoming traffic from the Service LoadBalancer connecting with the active data nodes. This is due to the multiplexing and the very efficient way ProxySQL uses to deal with high load.

Games 126

Games Latency Traffic Cache 126

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Server-generated assets, since client-side generation would require the retrieval of many individual images, which would increase latency and time-to-render. However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires.

Engineering 174

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 174

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. I mean, why wouldn't we?

Servers 60

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 60

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

When I think of network speeds, I tend to rely on WebPageTest ’s traffic profiles: Traffic profiles to keep in mind on WebPageTest : ranging from Cable and DSL to 3G Slow and 2G. That night, you get a text from your carrier that you used a lot more data than you imagined (and definitely way more than you originally planned!).

Network 144

Network Speed Website Mobile 144

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

So we still need to move things from the server they were compiled at to the edges of the network. Under the hood, it simplifies a lot of the work to the server-side. If an app has a medium to a large amount of routes, it is definitely worth considering the ODB strategy. Our heaviest traffic pages are always ready for our users.

Cache 132

Cache Website Strategy Traffic 132

O'Reilly

JUNE 18, 2024

Google and others have rightly pointed out that search drives traffic to sites, which the sites can then monetize as they will, by their own advertising (or advertising in partnership with Google), by subscription, or just by the recognition the creators receive when people find their work.

Social Media 141

Social Media Media Open Source Traffic 141

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 2016

While protocol-level recording/playback was (and still is) the mainstream approach to testing applications, it is definitely just one type of load testing using only one type of load generation; such equivalency is a serious conceptual mistake, dwarfing load testing and undermining performance engineering in general. LoadRunner) or Java (e.g.

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Technology Technology Testing 100

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.

Performance 75

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). This difference by itself doesn’t do all that much (it mainly reduces the overhead on the server-side), but it leads to most of the following points. Server Sharding and Connection Coalescing.

Network 108

Network Servers Cache Traffic 108

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

See the Route 53 detail page for the exact definitions and how SLA violations will be handled. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. Route53 support for WRR load balancing. Elastic Load Balancing support for IPV6. To support the continuous growth of the Internet it is essential that IPv6 will be enabled.

Internet 96

Internet Internet AWS Scalability 96

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Do you have a web server? Is the web server running? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? By definition, a distributed system is any system that comprises of multiple components on variety of machines that work together to appear as a single, organized system. Peer-to-Peer.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

SQL Performance

JANUARY 22, 2020

Table-valued parameters have been around since SQL Server 2008 and provide a useful mechanism for sending multiple rows of data to SQL Server, brought together as a single parameterized call. Add ( "Date" , typeof ( DateTime ) ) ; You can also create the DataTable using the inline definition as follows: System.

Servers 55

Servers Azure Hardware Network 55

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Over those years, we have seen the technology stack evolve from server-rendered pages with some minor JavaScript and CSS to full-blown JavaScript applications. Although mixing the concepts of a server web framework like ASP.NET with a client-side web framework like React made things more complicated, we were quite happy with the solution.

Website 116

Website Code Servers Analytics 116

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. Definitions. The two types of Django deployments are: Single-Server. Here’s where I wish I could say (without caveats): “Don’t worry, Django has your back!”

Media 70

Media Cache Storage AWS 70

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. Monitoring Interaction to Next Paint There’s going to be a new way to gain insights into main thread traffic when Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is released as a new core vital metric in March 2024. What’s so important about that?

Google 94

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 94

SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

In my coverage of the physical treatment of named table expressions in the series I focus on the treatment in Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. Recall that what triggered this series is some confusion that exists in the SQL Server community around named table expressions.

C++ 109

C++ Database Servers Code 109

VoltDB

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In this fast-paced ecosystem, two vital elements determine the efficiency of this traffic: latency and throughput. THROUGHPUT: THE DATA HIGHWAY’S CAPACITY Throughput, on the other hand, is the highway’s capacity to handle traffic. It’s like a well-maintained highway where you can cruise without any traffic jams.

Latency 52

Latency Games Traffic Network 52

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on. The Time to First Byte (TTFB) metric (also known as First Byte) measures the speed with which your server delivers content to the user.

Ecommerce 87

Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

In my coverage of the physical treatment of named table expressions in the series I focus on the treatment in Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. Recall that what triggered this series is some confusion that exists in the SQL Server community around named table expressions.

C++ 93

C++ Database Servers Code 93

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

The tooling to get a report with details from the time it takes to establish a server connection to the time it takes for the full page to render is out there. It’s another type of real-user monitoring takes real traffic from your site and sends the information over for extremely accurate results. See the “Prettify Code” option? ?(

Speed 82

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 82

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Thanks to its reliable performance, extensive documentation and dedicated user community, PHP is one of the preferred server-side scripting language of many web developers. Thanks to the built-in PHP server and debugging tool, you can integrate your other PHP tools to build and test PHP apps in one environment.

Development 57

Development Open Source Java AWS 57

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

CrUX data collection and first-party RUM analytics of these metrics require live traffic, meaning results can be predicted but only verified once deployed. If the server takes a long time to respond, the referring page will be displayed for as long as it takes for the destination server to return with minimally parseable HTML content.

Performance 127

Performance Network Metrics Cache 127

MachMetrics

JULY 27, 2018

Here’s 10 pretty typical sites (including Amazon and Bing, not just mom-and-pop sites): Nope, there’s definitely a problem across the board. The pricing for Windows servers on Amazon EC2 is over twice as much as the Linux alternative. large server in the US East region: Windows: $0.177 per Hour. per month, per agent!

Speed 40

Speed Hardware Internet Internet 40

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

During the logical backups, using client API, the data gets read from the server and returned back to the same API, which will be serialized and written into respective “ bson”, “ json” or “ csv” backup files on disk depending upon the type of backup utilities used.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52