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What is TTFB? | Time to first Byte Explained

This video delves into the crucial topic of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Time to First Byte is a vital metric that measures the duration it takes for a user's browser to receive the first byte of data from a web server. By understanding TTFB, you gain valuable insights into the responsiveness and efficiency of your website. Sematext's monitoring tool empowers you to accurately measure and track TTFB across multiple sites without needing local installations.

PromQL Cheat Sheet: A Quick Guide to Prometheus Query Language

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit that has gained significant popularity in DevOps and systems monitoring. At the core of Prometheus lies PromQL (Prometheus Query Language), a powerful and flexible query language used to extract valuable insights from the collected metrics. In this guide, we will explore the basics of PromQL and provide query examples for an example use case.

Kubernetes Architecture Part 3: Data Plane Components

This Kubernetes Architecture series covers the main components used in Kubernetes and provides an introduction to Kubernetes architecture. After reading these blogs, you’ll have a much deeper understanding of the main reasons for choosing Kubernetes as well as the main components that are involved when you start running applications on Kubernetes.

DIY SD-WAN vs. Managed SD-WAN

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is a network architecture that provides organizations with a flexible, secure, and cost-effective way to manage their networks. SD-WAN technology abstracts the underlying network and provides an intelligent layer of abstraction, making it possible to manage network traffic and dynamically control the flow of data. SD-WAN technology is an attractive option for organizations looking to improve the performance and security of their networks.

The Hidden Danger of Websites Relying on Third Party Software: A Case Study with 5 Key Takeaways

Using third party software on websites comes with risk and reward. eCommerce sites and platforms typically rely on the integration of a significant number of third-party apps and tools to augment functionality and features, from extracting customer data for personalization to enabling live chat to analyzing user experience of changes to a site. While third parties are often invaluable for these kinds of interactive purposes, they can also be the cause of disruptions to user experience.

The First 100 Days With Cribl Stream: Start at the End to Progress Faster

A reference architecture is a lovely document, but they rarely help engineers and architects implement their tools effectively. Most reference architectures offer plenty of suggestions and ideas, but not enough context. We will explore ways to make reference architectures more useful while reducing reliance on the vague and dreaded “It Depends. Cribl has just released its first official reference architecture.

8 Tips for Better Logging in Games

Gaming apps are complex systems. They combine multi-function systems, like the game engine, to other resources such as server containers, proxies and CDNs in order to give users a real-time interactive experience. At the same time, managing cross-functional behavior also means that games could generate massive amounts of data, commonly known as logs. You’ll want to turn that data into useful information to help improve game performance.