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Site-Speed Topography

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. Now, let’s move on to gaps between First Contentful Paint and Speed Index. More interestingly, let’s take a look at Speed Index vs. Largest Contentful Paint.

Speed

Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics

Speeding Up Async Snippets

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 12, 2022

There are a couple of times when we can’t avoid async snippets, and therefore can’t really speed them up. Interestingly, the script itself took 297ms longer to download with this newer syntax, but still executed 787ms sooner! This is the power of the Preload Scanner. When We Can’t Avoid Async Snippets. Dynamic Script Locations.

Speed

Speed Government Performance Code

Automating DevOps practices fuels speed and quality

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Still, while DevOps practices enable developer agility and speed as well as better code quality, they can also introduce complexity and data silos. Software development is often at the center of this speed-quality tradeoff. Automating DevOps practices boosts development speed and code quality.

DevOps

DevOps Speed Artificial Intelligence Innovation

How Does the Internet Speed Test Work?

DZone

JUNE 12, 2022

Everyone deserves the right internet speed and everyone wants the best bang for a buck. To ensure our internet bandwidth, we all run speed tests from our Internet Speed Provider or public speed test tools like fast.com or speed.cloudflare.com and more. But do we know how the speed got measured under the hood?

Internet

Internet Internet Speed Testing

4 Software QA Metrics To Enhance Dev Quality and Speed

DZone

APRIL 16, 2021

In an attempt to hold their place within the market, developers are having to speed their process up whilst delivering products of ever-increasing quality. Often speed and quality seem at odds with one another, but in reality, this isn’t the case. In 2019, according to Evans Data Corporation, there were 23.9

Speed

Speed Software Software Metrics

Speed up your security investigations with DPL Architect

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 12, 2023

DPL Architect enables you to quickly create DPL patterns, speeding up the investigation flow and delivering faster results. Summary When performing security investigations or threat-hunting activities, it’s important to have precision in place to get reliable results.

Speed

Speed AWS C++ Availability

Speed up evidence-driven security investigations and threat hunting with Dynatrace Security Investigator

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Character precision on a petabyte scale Security Investigator increases the speed of investigation flows and the precision of evidence, leading to higher efficiency and faster results. The post Speed up evidence-driven security investigations and threat hunting with Dynatrace Security Investigator appeared first on Dynatrace news.

Speed

Speed Games Efficiency Processing

What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the context of Easytravel, one can measure the speed at which a specific page of the application responds after a user clicks on it. How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale appeared first on Dynatrace news. The passing threshold is anything below 50 ms. The warning threshold is 50-60 ms.

Speed

Speed Software Software Latency

State and local agencies speed incident response, reduce costs, and focus on innovation

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

The post State and local agencies speed incident response, reduce costs, and focus on innovation appeared first on Dynatrace news. Whether public or private, if you’re re-platforming, rehosting, refactoring, or hybrid—for any cloud platform you choose—Dynatrace ensures success through every step of your migration journey.

Innovation

Innovation Speed Artificial Intelligence Government

Low-Level Optimizations in ClickHouse: Utilizing Branch Prediction and SIMD To Speed Up Query Execution

DZone

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In data analysis, the need for fast query execution and data retrieval is paramount. Among numerous database management systems, ClickHouse stands out for its originality and, one could say, a specific niche, which, in my opinion, complicates its expansion in the database market.

Speed

Speed Database Systems

CDNs: Speed Up Performance by Reducing Latency

DZone

MAY 3, 2023

Welcome back to this series all about file uploads for the web. In the previous posts, we covered things we had to do to upload files on the front end, things we had to do on the back end, and optimizing costs by moving file uploads to object storage.

Latency

Latency Speed Performance Storage

Performance of ULID and UUID in Postgres Database

DZone

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

These are measurements of search speed by key and data types for the key on the database side. I will use a PostgreSQL database and a demo Java service to compare query speeds. In this article, I want to share my knowledge and opinion about the data types that are often used as an identifier. Today we will touch on two topics at once.

Database

Database Java Performance Speed

Speed Trino Queries With These Performance-Tuning Tips

DZone

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

An open-source distributed SQL query engine, Trino is widely used for data analytics on distributed data storage. Optimizing Trino to make it faster can help organizations achieve quicker insights and better user experiences, as well as cut costs and improve infrastructure efficiency and scalability. But how do we do that?

Tuning

Tuning Speed Performance Open Source

Essential Techniques for Performance Tuning in Snowflake

DZone

MARCH 11, 2024

Performance tuning in Snowflake is optimizing the configuration and SQL queries to improve the efficiency and speed of data operations. It involves adjusting various settings and writing queries to reduce execution time and resource consumption, ultimately leading to cost savings and enhanced user satisfaction.

Tuning

Tuning Performance Speed Efficiency

Your Guide to Automated Testing [Article and Tutorials]

DZone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

DZone Refcard: Automated Testing: Improving Application Speed and Quality — Learn more about mobile testing in Kotlin, go beyond what Selenium provides for web application testing, and take a deep dive into trends such as Behavioral-Driven Development and Visual Regression. It's time to automate you testing process! What Is Automated Testing?

Testing

Testing Mobile Speed Processing

The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Connection One thing we haven’t looked at is the impact of network speeds on these outcomes. Larger files compress much more effectively and thus download faster at all connection speeds. It’s a balancing act for sure. ? Let’s introduce a fourth C — Connection. I ran all of the tests over the following connection types: 3G: 1.6

Cache

Cache Latency Strategy Speed

10 Rules To Integrate Third-Party Scripts

DZone

MAY 26, 2021

This update will increase the importance of a page’s loading speed as a contributing factor to a web page’s overall ranking on Google’s search results page. In reflection of this belief, Google has planned the gradual release of a major update to its search algorithm that is scheduled for June through August of 2021.

Google

Google Speed Design Monitoring

Transforming Business Outcomes Through Strategic NoSQL Database Selection

DZone

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Factors like read and write speed, latency, and data distribution methods are essential. But if your application primarily revolves around batch processing of large datasets, then focusing on write speed could mislead your selection process. The New Decision Matrix: Beyond Performance Metrics Performance metrics are pivotal, no doubt.

Database

Database Latency Speed Metrics

Secrets Detection: Optimizing Filter Processes

DZone

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While increasing both the precision and the recall of our secrets detection engine, we felt the need to keep a close eye on speed. In a gearbox, if you want to increase torque, you need to decrease speed. So it wasn’t a surprise to find that our engine had the same problem: more power, less speed.

Processing

Processing Benchmarking Speed Engineering

The Ultimate JSON Library: JSON.simple vs. GSON vs. Jackson vs. JSONP

DZone

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Given the size of these files, you can be looking at significant differences in parsing speed between libraries. This is a scenario that is common in data processing applications running in Hadoop or Spark clusters.

Transportation

Transportation Speed Servers Processing

Observability Architecture: Financial Calculations Example

DZone

JULY 11, 2023

This series will take a look at fixing that omission with an open-source standards-based cloud-native observability platform that helps DevOps teams control the speed, scale, and complexity of a cloud-native world for their financial payments architecture.

Architecture

Architecture Open Source DevOps Cloud

Data Storage Formats for Big Data Analytics: Performance and Cost Implications of Parquet, Avro, and ORC

DZone

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

They define how data is stored, read, and written directly impacting storage efficiency, query performance, and data retrieval speeds. Introduction to Storage Formats in Big Data Data storage formats are the backbone of any big data processing environment.

Big Data

Big Data Storage Analytics Benchmarking

API Design Principles for Optimal Performance and Scalability

DZone

JUNE 22, 2023

The goal is to help developers, technical managers, and business owners understand the importance of API performance optimization and how they can improve the speed, scalability, and reliability of their APIs. API performance optimization is the process of improving the speed, scalability, and reliability of APIs.

Scalability

Scalability Design Best Practices Performance

SQream Accelerates Time to Insight Across Massive Datasets

DZone

OCTOBER 24, 2023

SQream offers a purpose-built solution to help companies fully harness all their data to drive unprecedented speed and scale in analytics. Valuable insights are often buried across massive, complex datasets too large and unwieldy for traditional analytics tools to handle.

Analytics

Analytics Speed

Core Web Vitals for Search Engine Optimisation: What Do We Need to Know?

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google do strongly encourage you to focus on site speed for better performance in Search, but, if you don’t pass all relevant Core Web Vitals (and the applicable factors from the Page Experience report) they will not push you down the rankings. While Core Web Vitals can help with SEO, there’s so much more to site-speed than that.

Engineering

Engineering Google Speed Mobile

Legacy Code Refactoring: Tips, Steps, and Best Practices

DZone

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Legacy code is usually always associated with technical debt—the cost of achieving fast release and optimal speed-to-market time; however, at the expense of providing quality and durable code that will still need to be revamped later. But do we now live with the huge repercussions and costs of retaining and utilizing legacy codes as they are?

Best Practices

Best Practices Code Speed Efficiency

From Elasticsearch to Apache Doris: Upgrading an Observability Platform

DZone

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The key to upgrading an observability platform is to increase data processing speed and reduce costs. However, I might have gone too far with that metaphor, because till these days, we have never invented a system as sophisticated as the human body, but we can always make advancements. This is based on two reasons:

Speed

Speed Architecture Systems Processing

Revolutionizing Software Testing

DZone

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

By leveraging AI algorithms, machine learning (ML), and advanced analytics, software testing has undergone a remarkable transformation, enabling organizations to achieve unprecedented levels of speed, accuracy, and coverage in their testing endeavors.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Software Software Testing

Dynatrace again named a Leader in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for APM, received highest scores in 4 of 5 use cases in 2021 Gartner Critical Capabilities for APM

Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2021

Dynatrace enables our customers to tame cloud complexity, speed innovation, and deliver better business outcomes through BizDevSecOps collaboration. Whether it’s the speed and quality of innovation for IT, automation and efficiency for DevOps, or enhancement and consistency of user experiences, Dynatrace makes it easy.

DevOps

DevOps Innovation Speed Infrastructure

Best Practices for Picking PostgreSQL Data Types

DZone

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Determining the most appropriate data types to store the information depends on various factors, including the required precision of float-point values, the content of the values (such as text), compressibility, and query speed. Choosing the right data types in PostgreSQL can significantly impact your database's performance and efficiency.

Best Practices

Best Practices Speed Database Efficiency

Redis vs. Memcached – 2021 Comparison

Scalegrid

APRIL 23, 2021

Both Redis and Memcached are: NoSQL in-memory data structures Written in C Open source Used to speed up applications Support sub-millisecond latency In 2014, Salvatore wrote an excellent StackOverflow post on […]. Redis stands for REmote DIctionary Server, created in 2009 by Salvatore Sanfilippo.

Open Source

Open Source Latency C++ Speed

Time Data Series: Getting Started With PHP Zmanim

DZone

MARCH 7, 2024

I owe a huge debt of gratitude to both Zachary and Eliyahu — not only for the work they put into developing those libraries but also for the support they have given me as I came up to speed on both the technical and Jewish religious guidelines (halacha) needed to use them.

Java

Java Speed Development

Billion-dollar problem solved through 21-day digital transformation

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The scale and speed of the program triggered challenges for these banks that they had never before imagined. Speed up loan processing to deliver critically needed relief to small businesses? Full speed ahead. How can we… Scale to previously unheard-of loan volumes?

Small Business

Small Business Programming Analytics Speed

Testing Your Monitoring Configurations

DZone

MARCH 9, 2023

If we want to test the configuration, we need to play log events in as if the system was really running, which means realistic logs at the right speed so we can make sure that our configuration prevents alerts or mail storms. This is what the open-source LogGenerator (aka LogSimulator ) does.

Monitoring

Monitoring Testing Open Source Speed

The Power of Caching: Boosting API Performance and Scalability

DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Caching is the process of storing frequently accessed data or resources in a temporary storage location, such as memory or disk, to improve retrieval speed and reduce the need for repetitive processing.

Cache

Cache Scalability Performance Latency

Performance and Scalability Analysis of Redis and Memcached

DZone

JULY 2, 2024

Speed and scalability are significant issues today, at least in the application landscape. Among the critical enablers for fast data access implementation within in-memory data stores are the game changers in recent times, which are technologies like Redis and Memcached. However, the question arises of choosing the best one.

Scalability

Scalability Performance Benchmarking Games

Empowering Cyber Security by Enabling 7 Times Faster Log Analysis

DZone

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This is about how a cyber security service provider built its log storage and analysis system (LSAS) and realized 3X data writing speed, 7X query execution speed, and visualized management. Log Storage and Analysis Platform In this use case, the LSAS collects system logs from its enterprise users, scans them, and detects viruses.

Storage

Storage Speed Systems

Unblock Your Software Engineers With Unblocked

DZone

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Getting up to speed in a new codebase takes time. Developers spend weeks or even months onboarding at a new company. During this time, the developer will have many questions (as they should)! However, those questions interrupt other team members who must stop what they’re doing to provide answers.

Software Engineering

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software

Snyk + Dynatrace + AWS: Continuous delivery needs continuous security, observability and security

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving business and technology landscape, organizations often prioritize the speed of development over security. Modern solutions like Snyk and Dynatrace offer a way to achieve the speed of modern innovation without sacrificing security.

AWS

AWS Innovation Speed Efficiency

Leetcode: Improving String Performance in Swift

DZone

JANUARY 19, 2022

Let's see how we can speed up solving a difficulty with strings. By solving a task on Leetcode, you can also compare your solution with other solutions in terms of performance and memory usage. I have experience solving issues with strings, and my task execution time is often better than 100% of other users' solutions. Strings in Swift.

Performance

Performance Programming Speed Development

Dynatrace on Microsoft Azure in Australia enables regional customers to leverage AI-powered observability

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This local SaaS presence minimizes latency and maximizes the speed and reliability of data access. By keeping data within the region, Dynatrace ensures compliance with data privacy regulations and offers peace of mind to its customers.

Azure

Azure Latency Infrastructure Cloud

The top eight DevSecOps trends in 2022

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In order for software development teams to balance speed with quality during the software development cycle (SDLC), development, security, and operations teams (or DevSecOps teams) need to ensure that their practices align with modern cloud environments. That can be difficult when the business climate can prioritize speed.

Serverless

Serverless Infrastructure Innovation DevOps

SRE Opportunities Grow as Businesses Reopen and Reacclimate

DZone

AUGUST 4, 2021

Since then, I’ve been seeing several key shifts in the industry that signal that this role is only going to grow as the economy picks up speed again post-pandemic.

Software Engineering

Software Engineering Speed Engineering Monitoring

Mobile Performance Metrics You Should Know: Part 1

DZone

AUGUST 21, 2021

Speed, UX, availability, and frequency of updates are increasingly important with mobile apps. Consumers and enterprises alike expect more from software. The responsibility of developers keeps growing, and as mobile apps get more complex, new tools for mobile performance monitoring and testing are being born.

Mobile

Mobile Metrics Performance Speed

Site-Speed Topography

Speeding Up Async Snippets

Trending Sources

Automating DevOps practices fuels speed and quality

How Does the Internet Speed Test Work?

4 Software QA Metrics To Enhance Dev Quality and Speed

Speed up your security investigations with DPL Architect

Speed up evidence-driven security investigations and threat hunting with Dynatrace Security Investigator

What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

State and local agencies speed incident response, reduce costs, and focus on innovation

Low-Level Optimizations in ClickHouse: Utilizing Branch Prediction and SIMD To Speed Up Query Execution

CDNs: Speed Up Performance by Reducing Latency

Performance of ULID and UUID in Postgres Database

Speed Trino Queries With These Performance-Tuning Tips

Essential Techniques for Performance Tuning in Snowflake

Your Guide to Automated Testing [Article and Tutorials]

The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

10 Rules To Integrate Third-Party Scripts

Transforming Business Outcomes Through Strategic NoSQL Database Selection

Secrets Detection: Optimizing Filter Processes

The Ultimate JSON Library: JSON.simple vs. GSON vs. Jackson vs. JSONP

Observability Architecture: Financial Calculations Example

Data Storage Formats for Big Data Analytics: Performance and Cost Implications of Parquet, Avro, and ORC

API Design Principles for Optimal Performance and Scalability

SQream Accelerates Time to Insight Across Massive Datasets

Core Web Vitals for Search Engine Optimisation: What Do We Need to Know?

Legacy Code Refactoring: Tips, Steps, and Best Practices

From Elasticsearch to Apache Doris: Upgrading an Observability Platform

Revolutionizing Software Testing

Dynatrace again named a Leader in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for APM, received highest scores in 4 of 5 use cases in 2021 Gartner Critical Capabilities for APM

Best Practices for Picking PostgreSQL Data Types

Redis vs. Memcached – 2021 Comparison

Time Data Series: Getting Started With PHP Zmanim

Billion-dollar problem solved through 21-day digital transformation

Testing Your Monitoring Configurations

The Power of Caching: Boosting API Performance and Scalability

Performance and Scalability Analysis of Redis and Memcached

Empowering Cyber Security by Enabling 7 Times Faster Log Analysis

Unblock Your Software Engineers With Unblocked

Snyk + Dynatrace + AWS: Continuous delivery needs continuous security, observability and security

Leetcode: Improving String Performance in Swift

Dynatrace on Microsoft Azure in Australia enables regional customers to leverage AI-powered observability

The top eight DevSecOps trends in 2022

SRE Opportunities Grow as Businesses Reopen and Reacclimate

Mobile Performance Metrics You Should Know: Part 1

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