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Amazon Search Outage Offers Two Lessons
Today’s Amazon search outage offers two object lessons on the digital customer experience: monitor everything and communicate proactively. Retailers chasing the industry leader can implement a pair of...
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Tracking Changes to Your Website With Performance Monitoring
More and more companies are going agile, developing software in incremental, rapid cycles. This results in small incremental releases with each release building on previous functionality. Changes made...
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Web Performance, Chicago-Style
For a pizza connoisseur, comparing deep-dish Chicago-style pizzas to thin-crust New York-style can very often turn into a very heated debate. Just ask Jon Stewart. On our blog, we tend to focus a lot...
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Red Team vs. Blue Team – Security and Performance
When a security breach or DDoS attack occurs, performance and user experience are the first visible victims. As the use of cloud services continues to make security more important than ever,...
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Signal Processing: Filtering Out The Noise
With cloud computing becoming ubiquitous and the advent of IoT, the problems associated with the three Vs of Big Data – viz., volume, velocity, and variety – would exacerbate. One routinely hears from...
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The Chief Digital Officer
I recently spent two weeks in Europe (UK, Germany, France – PRE-BREXIT), where I met many of our customers, prospects, and partners. One thing that surprised me was that I ended up talking to a lot of...
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Security (SSL) has a Performance Tax
While on a call with a customer last week, I was faced with the question of why the customer’s site had slowed down, even after they had switched to full SSL. Well, to be honest, it’s pretty obvious;...
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Amazon Prime Day ’16: Success or Failure?
Yesterday was the second annual Amazon Prime Day; a day that is heralded for the incredible deals offered on pretty much anything you’d ever want to buy (including a $40,000 set of speakers—marked down...
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DNS Experience Tests: A Key Cog in the Online Ecosystem
A company’s collection of online systems is like a delicate ecosystem – all components must integrate with and complement each other, and one single malfunction in any of them can bring the entire...
View ArticleDesigning for Optimum Web Performance Across Devices
Back in the Internet’s good old days, website design was relatively easy. Sure there were different browsers and operating systems to account for, but virtually all users accessed your site from...
View ArticleComplexity and Crashes
The recent surge in high-profile outages is not an illusion. It’s all too real and one major contributing factor often goes unmentioned. Reposted with permission from CircleID, this piece by Russ White...
View ArticleDevOps vs. SRE: Ask Me Anything
As we gear up for today’s live Ask Me Anything, we’re poring through the questions submitted about the distinctions, overlaps, and best practices to build high-performing organizations with devops and...
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Revisiting the Anatomy of HTTP: Part I
One of the key driving factors behind the various web/mobile performance initiatives is the fact that end-users’ tolerance for latency has nose-dived. Several studies have been published whereby it has...
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Performance Metrics 101: Page Size (Total Downloaded Bytes)
This blog will be a series of posts that will discuss some of the most important performance metrics. We will analyze real-time data and compare the top performing websites with those at the lower end...
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Web Performance 101: Page Size Optimization
Does it really matter? Do we really need to invest the time and effort into optimizing our website performance? If this is something you’re still debating, let us help you see the truth: Website...
View ArticleAsk Me Anything with O’Reilly Media: DevOps vs. SRE Recap
This month featured our second live Ask Me Anything (AMA) event. After the success of our first AMA just a few months back, we decided to turn it up a notch by co-sponsoring the event with O’Reilly...
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Web Performance 101: Tuning Tips for Images
Visual content is an integral part of modern websites; even the most minimalist website designs rely on sharp clear images to perfect end user experience. The variety of screen sizes available today –...
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Holiday Shopping ’16: Learning From Last Year’s Wins and Losses
Holiday shopping season is upon us once again and we know what you’re thinking—”Already!?” While shoppers still have a month or so before having to worry about the dreaded holiday music haunting them...
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Your Velocity NYC 2016 To-Do List
Fall is a pretty exciting time of year for IT. While the rest of the world seems to be craving all things pumpkin, we web performance pros not only have the holiday shopping season preoccupying our...
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Revisiting the Anatomy of HTTP: Pt.II
In Part I, we discussed the various components of HTTP request. In particular, we walked the reader through the details of TLS (Transport Layer Security), its impact on performance and how to mitigate...
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