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Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters

CSS Wizardry

A lot of people surmise that TTFB is merely time spent on the server, but that is only a small fraction of the true extent of things. TTFB isn’t just time spent on the server, it is also the time spent getting from our device to the sever and back again (carrying, that’s right, the first byte of data!). Expect closer to 75ms.

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User-centric Metrics Matter to Ecommerce. Start with These Five.

Rigor

Reading Time: 8 minutes Whether your ecommerce business is 100% online or you supplement with bricks and mortar, your website is a critical revenue driver. But if you’re a performance expert working in ecommerce, you’re looking at the performance of your site. Why Are User-centric Metrics Essential for Ecommerce?

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COVID-19 and Digital Services: An Action Plan for the Unexpected

Dynatrace

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against.

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Top Redis Use Cases by Core Data Structure Types

Scalegrid

Redis , short for Remote Dictionary Server, is a BSD-licensed, open-source in-memory key-value data structure store written in C language by Salvatore Sanfillipo and was first released on May 10, 2009. Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. Redis Sets Use Cases. Who uses Redis?

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Improved PHP monitoring with even less overhead!

Dynatrace

Anything you want to do on a web server, you can do with PHP. Here are some statistics: PHP now accounts for about 79% of the server-side programming used on the Internet. Dynatrace news. This is why PHP is such a popular programming language for web development. Compare that to the two next-highest languages: 11.1%

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Most Common RabbitMQ Use Cases

Scalegrid

Use cases for RabbitMQ encompass areas like order processing in eCommerce, real-time notifications, and multiplayer gaming, showcasing its adaptability to different operational needs. As a potent message broker, RabbitMQ is pivotal in spreading tasks among various web servers to maintain equilibrium and optimize efficiency.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer. The Amazon.com ecommerce platform consists of hundreds of decoupled services developed and managed in a decentralized fashion.