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How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing

Smashing Magazine

How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing Saad Khan 2025-01-07T14:00:00+00:00 2025-01-07T22:04:48+00:00 This article is sponsored by Cloudways Product launches and sales typically attract large volumes of traffic.

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Dynatrace supports SnapStart for Lambda as an AWS launch partner

Dynatrace

The new Amazon capability enables customers to improve the startup latency of their functions from several seconds to as low as sub-second (up to 10 times faster) at P99 (the 99th latency percentile). This can cause latency outliers and may lead to a poor end-user experience for latency-sensitive applications.

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Self-Host Your Static Assets

CSS Wizardry

One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure. On a slower, higher-latency connection, the story is much, mush worse. We get access to a CDN. to just 3.6s.

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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

In reality, only highly scalable RUM solutions can collect data on all user actions, while less scalable tools must sample user actions and make inferences from partial data. RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services. connectivity, access, user count, latency) of geographic regions.

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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. Lambda’s toolbox of automated processes helps developers streamline to build fast, robust, and scalable applications on accelerated timelines.

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

Lamborghini, the world-famous manufacturer of elite, luxury sports cars based in Italy, has been using AWS to reduce the cost of their infrastructure by 50 percent, while also achieving better performance and scalability. The company decided it wanted the scalability, flexibility, and cost benefits of working in the cloud.

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A one size fits all database doesn't fit anyone

All Things Distributed

As I have talked about before, one of the reasons why we built Amazon DynamoDB was that Amazon was pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and we were unable to sustain the availability, scalability, and performance needs that our growing Amazon.com business demanded. The opposite is true.

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