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

Dynatrace

Before a new version of the application is deployed, the software is subject to a series of load tests that evaluate capacity and performance under a series of simulated traffic and application demands. These metrics are latency, traffic, errors, and saturation, all of which must be key considerations when curating user experience.

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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” How can IT teams deliver system availability under peak loads that will satisfy customers?

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Introducing Impressions at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

It requires a state-of-the-art system that can track and process these impressions while maintaining a detailed history of each profiles exposure. In this multi-part blog series, we take you behind the scenes of our system that processes billions of impressions daily.

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Top PostgreSQL 17 New Features

Scalegrid

Incremental Backups: Speeds up recovery and makes data management more efficient for active databases. Performance Optimizations PostgreSQL 17 significantly improves performance, query handling, and database management, making it more efficient for high-demand systems.

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RabbitMQ vs. Kafka: Key Differences

Scalegrid

Introduction to Message Brokers Message brokers enable applications, services, and systems to communicate by acting as intermediaries between senders and receivers. This decoupling simplifies system architecture and supports scalability in distributed environments.

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Build automated self-healing systems with xMatters and Dynatrace (Part 3 of 3)

Dynatrace

In doing so, they automate build processes to speed up delivery, and minimize human involvement to prevent error. One is the currently-running production environment receiving all user traffic (let’s say the “blue” one), the other is a clone of it (“green”), but idle. Response time for blue/green environment traffic.

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