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Six causes of major software outages–And how to avoid them

Dynatrace

Possible scenarios A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms servers with traffic, making a website or service unavailable. Possible scenarios A retail website crashes during a major sale event due to a surge in traffic. These attacks can be orchestrated by hackers, cybercriminals, or even state actors.

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

CSS Wizardry

This is understandable—forgivable, almost—when you consider that TTFB begins to move into back-end territory, but if I was to sum up the problem as succinctly as possible, I’d say: While a good TTFB doesn’t necessarily mean you will have a fast website, a bad TTFB almost certainly guarantees a slow one. Demystifying TTFB.

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What is AWS Lambda?

Dynatrace

These include website hosting, database management, backup and restore, IoT capabilities, e-commerce solutions, app development tools and more, with new services released regularly. As a bonus, operations staff never needs to update operating systems or hardware, because AWS manages servers with no stoppage of application functionality.

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QA Mentor Helps Clients Optimize Apps and Websites

QAMentor

The technology industry has made leaps and bounds in the last decade- in fact, so much that it’s hard to make sure all the new software and hardware available is safe and of good quality.

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What is a message queue? How an observability platform eases message queue monitoring

Dynatrace

A user visiting a website that supports RSS can cut and paste a URL into a reader or compatible email client. In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources. Message queue software options to consider.

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What is a message queue? How an observability platform eases message queue monitoring

Dynatrace

A user visiting a website that supports RSS can cut and paste a URL into a reader or compatible email client. In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources. Message queue software options to consider.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.