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How to Optimize Website Performance

In a 2019 study from Milliseconds Make Millions by Fifty-Five and shared on Google’s official blog found several interesting insights on small speed increases. 37 brands qualified for study, after qualitative checks, with speed data measured via Google Lighthouse and aggregated against each brand’s Web analytics. The study targeted four key speed metrics. The results were fed into a Logarithmic Regression model to extract meaning.

Deploying Services with Docker, NGINX, Route 53 & Let's Encrypt

Docker is a power tool for deploying applications or services, and there are numerous Docker orchestration tools available that can help to simplify the management of the deployed containers. But what if you are wanting to deploy a small number of services and not wanting to undertake setting up and managing another application stack just to run a handful of containers. I will cover how I deployed a handful of services on a single Docker host.

Top 7 Tools for Adding Web Forms to Static Websites

The power of the Internet and the World Wide Web is known to everyone. Within a few years after its inception, businesses started to take advantage of all the facilities in features. And within no time, e-commerce became prominent as a new way to do business. Nowadays, it is the dominant way any company or business can reach its customers across the globe with a website.

Dashboard Server: Working with the PowerShell tile

Amongst all the cool features of SquaredUp Dashboard Server, the coolest kid on the block is probably the PowerShell tile. The reason is simple – PowerShell is easy, it’s awesome, and it’s powerful! You can not only retrieve data from the source (like the APIs), but you can also manipulate that data, work with variables, loop it, filter it, and use it in whichever way works the best. Like they say, the things PowerShell can do are only restricted by the proficiency of the user.

How to Build a Scalable Prometheus Architecture

When building distributed, scalable cloud-native apps containing dozens or even hundreds of microservices, you need reliable monitoring and alerting. If you’re monitoring cloud-native apps in 2021, there’s a good chance you’ve chosen Prometheus. Prometheus is an excellent choice for monitoring containerized microservices and the infrastructure that runs them — often Kubernetes.