Category: Performance Tech Tips

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Performance Tech Tips

Top 15 Infrastructure Monitoring Tools in 2024

Maintaining a well-functioning IT infrastructure is vital to any business’s success. Infrastructure monitoring tools are essential for keeping tabs on all the components of your system, ensuring uptime, performance, and security. As 2024 unfolds, businesses are seeking the best tools that can handle their growing demands. In this post, we

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wordpress vs wpengine
Performance Tech Tips

WordPress vs. WP Engine: Protect Your Sites

Recently, a public dispute erupted between WordPress and WP Engine, one of the most popular managed WordPress hosting platforms. The disagreement centers around WP Engine’s use of the WordPress brand, licensing concerns, and differing views on managing the open-source platform. This fallout could impact WP Engine customers especially those who

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Page Load Speed

Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

Waterfall charts are diagrams which represent how website resources are being downloaded, parsed by the engine, in a timeline that gives us the opportunity to see the sequence and dependencies between resources.  It assists in identifying where important events happened during the loading process. They can also let the user

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Network Services Monitoring

Top 13 Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Tools

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a unique blend of software engineering and systems engineering aimed at ensuring scalable and reliable systems. SREs strive to build high-quality, reliable software while keeping up with fast-paced development cycles. To achieve these goals, they utilize various tools that help monitor, automate, and optimize performance.

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SRE incident management
Network Services Monitoring

SRE Incident Management: Overview, Techniques, and Tools

In the world of a site reliability engineer (SRE), failure is not only an option, but also expected. Systems, web applications, servers, devices, etc., are all prone to performance issues and unexpected outages at some point. It is an unavoidable fact. These unexpected failures can lead to huge revenue losses,

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Network Services Monitoring

Monitoring Distributed Systems

Monitoring distributed systems is essential to keep your system running smoothly, efficiently, and reliably. With the growing reliance on distributed systems in everything from web services to cloud computing and large-scale applications, having a robust monitoring setup is crucial. Let’s dive into what distributed systems are, their different types, key

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SRE principles
Network Services Monitoring

SRE Principles: The 7 Fundamental Rules

In one of our previous articles, we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. In this article, we will take a

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Network Services Monitoring

What is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)?

What is Site Reliability Engineering? Site Reliability Engineering, or SRE, is a set of principles and practices that applies software engineering techniques to the challenges of IT operations. SRE originated at Google when engineers needed a more systematic, software-oriented approach to manage and optimize their massive infrastructure. SRE’s main goal

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Page Load Speed

How to Optimize Websites for Ad Publishers

Optimizing a website for ad publishers is a must for anyone looking to maximize ad revenue and improve user experience. Faster load times and smoother performance directly impact user engagement, ad visibility, and overall revenue potential. Plus, a better-performing website often ranks higher on search engines, giving you more traffic

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