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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. In fairness, that was in the early 2000s, and site speed was barely on anyone's radar.

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What is synthetic testing?

Dynatrace

Synthetic testing simulates real-user behaviors within an application or service to pinpoint potential problems. Here’s a look at why this testing matters, how it works, and what companies need to get the most from this approach. What is synthetic testing? Each offers its own strengths and abilities for different needs.

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What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites

Smashing Magazine

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. She understood how important mobile page speeds were to the user experience and, by proxy, SEO.

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How Dynatrace empowers performance engineering teams to test at scale

Dynatrace

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). How can organizations address this process bottleneck and run more tests in less time?

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Microservices vs. monolithic architecture: Understanding the difference

Dynatrace

As a result, organizations are weighing microservices vs. monolithic architecture to improve software delivery speed and quality. As developers move to microservice-centric designs, components are broken into independent services to be developed, deployed, and maintained separately. Easier to test. Better testing.

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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

Testing for mishaps you can predict is essential. Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior.

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What is infrastructure as code? Discover the basics, benefits, and best practices

Dynatrace

In turn, IAC offers increased deployment speed and cross-team collaboration without increased complexity. But this increased speed can’t come at the expense of control, compliance, and security. Making the move to IAC offers multiple benefits, including the following: Speed. Test, test, test.