DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Benefits of Caching Improved performance: Caching eliminates the need to retrieve data from the original source every time, resulting in faster response times and reduced latency. Reduced server load: By serving cached content, the load on the server is reduced, allowing it to handle more requests and improving overall scalability.

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DZone

MAY 31, 2022

As a result, it has an advantage over others in terms of visibility, brand image, and driving traffic. However, to tactically assess the website's performance , it needs to be measured in a well-thought-out manner. This article will learn about web performance testing and how Core Web Vitals plays a crucial and strategic part in it.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. What was once an onslaught of consumer traffic between Black Friday and Cyber Monday has turned into a weeklong event, with most retailers offering deals well ahead of Black Friday. This is where many retailers have matured over the years.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. Breaking d own performance across U.S. On Thursday of that week, traffic increased to 153,000 sessions. .

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Application servers use connection pools to maintain connections with the databases that they communicate with. Connection pools are also a great way to improve performance. New extensions enable AI-powered monitoring of connection pool performance. Application server configurations.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

With the advent of cloud computing, managing network traffic and ensuring optimal performance have become critical aspects of system architecture. Amazon Web Services (AWS), a leading cloud service provider, offers a suite of load balancers to manage network traffic effectively for applications running on its platform.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

This powerful tool can be leveraged across various environments, including production, to enhance development processes and ensure robust application performance. Performance benchmarking Performance benchmarking is one of the unresolved mysteries of software engineering. Load generators simulate traffic.

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Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic. Below is a step-by-step guide on how to do so, but if you’d prefer to watch the steps check out my Performance Clinic here. Step #3 Get an overview of the campaign traffic.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. Step-by-step guide: SRE-driven performance analysis with Dynatrace. If you use your own application and it was already running before you installed the OneAgent, please restart your application and web servers.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is an application delivery controller (ADC) that ensures the availability, security, and optimal performance of network traffic flows. Detect and respond to security threats like DDoS attacks or web application attacks by monitoring application traffic and logs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

By: Ankush Gulati , David Gevorkyan Additional credits: Michael Clark , Gokhan Ozer Intro Netflix has more than 220 million active members who perform a variety of actions throughout each session, ranging from renaming a profile to watching a title. This helps limit the outgoing traffic footprint considerably.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

PostgreSQL 17 improves performance, backups, JSON handling, and security. Heres what stands out: Key Takeaways Better Performance: Faster write operations and improved vacuum processes help handle high-concurrency workloads more smoothly. Key Benefits: Smaller Storage Footprint: Saves only modified data, cutting down backup size.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. What is Docker? Container deployment.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

These events are promptly relayed from the client side to our servers, entering a centralized event processing queue. This approach ensures high availability by isolating regions, so if one becomes degraded, others remain unaffected, allowing traffic to be shifted between regions to maintain service continuity.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

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. So how do you know what to prepare for?

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

It enables users to perform any maintenance actions by providing pause/resume functionality. All of these tests were performed while the application was running and inserting data to the PostgreSQL database. Standby Server Tests. Reboot the server. patronictl list did not display this server. Reboot the server.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

Organizations that want a high-performance language with a great ecosystem for their applications often use Golang , an open-source programming language. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control. TCP Server. // Start TCP server. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This article outlines the key differences in architecture, performance, and use cases to help determine the best fit for your workload. Architecture Comparison RabbitMQ and Kafka have distinct architectural designs that influence their performance and suitability for different use cases.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

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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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Validation tasks are then extended left to cover performance testing and release validation in a pre-production environment. While the first guardian validates the traffic, the second guardian checks the business transactions generated during the observation period. The functionality is implemented via an automated workflow.

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Managing High Availability (HA) in your PostgreSQL hosting is very important to ensuring your database deployment clusters maintain exceptional uptime and strong operational performance so your data is always available to your application. The primary server is responsible for handling all write operations and maintaining data accuracy.

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

The crisis has emphasized the importance of having a strategy for maintaining stability and performance. Real-time monitoring with out-of-the-box features Real-time data and monitoring are crucial for maintaining situational awareness of IT environment stability and performance, especially during a crisis.

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DZone

JULY 31, 2019

In the web hosting service industry, it is commonly used for balancing the HTTP traffic across multiple servers which act together as a web front-end. A Load Balancer allows the users to distribute the traffic to a single IP across several servers by using a set of different protocols. How Does a Load Balancer Work?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

For example, an attacker could exploit a misconfigured firewall rule to gain access to servers on your network. Scanning the runtime environment of your services can help to identify unusual network traffic patterns. Not burden performance. The vulnerability management process.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Likewise, you can scale down when your application experiences decreased traffic. For example, as traffic increases, costs will too. Improved performance and availability. Inconsistent performance.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

Performance has always mattered. With sniffers, network performance engineers were ultimately able to relate wire data performance to what business owners expected from the networks they financed. The network performance engineer who managed the sniffer was the guru. The DC RUM wave. Technology developments come in waves.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. It helps developers and operators identify and troubleshoot issues, optimize performance and improve user experience. However, serverless applications have unique characteristics that make observability more difficult than in traditional server-based applications.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Minimized cross-data center network traffic. – A Dynatrace customer, Head of Performance Engineering. A similar analysis can be performed on your GRO. By utilizing embedded smart routing capabilities, Dynatrace minimizes cross-region network traffic—OneAgent traffic stays within the same network region.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This helps significantly in automatically answering complex questions such as “ Is the CPU saturation of my F5 device caused by any of the virtual servers running on it? Virtual servers. The built-in unified analysis pages offer real-time comparison of key performance indicators while applying a topology-first approach to the data.

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Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2021

In February 2021, Dynatrace announced full support for Google’s Core Web Vitals metrics , which will help site owners as they start optimizing Core Web Vitals performance for SEO. Not everyone has expertise in performance optimization and how it can impact SEO. But you may be wondering, “how do I get started?”. 28-day lookbacks.

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Traffic Mobile Metrics Analytics 264

Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

These include traditional on-premises network devices and servers for infrastructure applications like databases, websites, or email. One change to send syslog to Dynatrace You can now use the syslog ingestion endpoint on Dynatrace Environment ActiveGate for performant network and system monitoring.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

To keep infrastructure and bare metal servers running smoothly, a long list of additional devices are used, such as UPS devices, rack cases that provide their own cooling, power sources, and other measures that are designed to prevent failures. While not the newest protocol, SNMP is still actively used and popular. Events and alerts.

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Metrics Network Infrastructure Traffic 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

A web application is any application that runs on a web server and is accessed by a user through a web browser. Dynamic Application Security Tests (DAST) analyze running code, including the underlying application frameworks and servers. Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect a web application against malicious HTTP traffic.

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Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 261

DZone

APRIL 26, 2019

As a result, the number of servers and the quantity of traffic have been exploding exponentially. In the era of Digital Transformation (DX) the IT landscape has expanded to environments that rely extensively on virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), and cloud computing.

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