Generic mitigations
A philosophy of duct-tape outage resolution
Performance
Performance can make or break your business. Here we spotlight insights and strategies for achieving the best performance yet.
Optimize your business through web performance
The O’Reilly Podcast: Larry Haig discusses how to create a performance culture.
Understanding the value of distributed tracing
Five questions for Ben Sigelman about adopting distributed tracing tools and optimizing performance of complex, distributed systems.
eBPF and systems performance
Five questions for Brendan Gregg about improving the performance of Linux systems.
The power of scriptable load balancers
Five questions for Emil Stolarsky on moving logic to the edge of your systems.
4 performance testing pitfalls
Learn how to avoid these common application performance testing mistakes.
Mobile web performance anti-patterns
7 common mistakes that keep teams from achieving optimum mobile performance, and what to do about them.
Pitfalls of HTTP/2
HTTP/2 is still new and, although deploying it is relatively easy, there are a few things to be on the lookout for when enabling it.
HTTP/2: Leveraging the modern web
The O’Reilly Podcast: Stephen Ludin discusses how to get started with HTTP/2.
Security and frontend performance: Bridging the gap
The O’Reilly Podcast: Sonia and Sabrina Burney discuss how to provide a secure and fast customer experience
Scaling securely at the frontend
Eliminate the middleware tier and directly communicate with back-end APIs for better security, lower cost, and greater speed.
Service virtualization, an enterprise solution to legacy systems
How replacing costly mainframes with virtual assets speeds the testing process, reduces time to market, and increases agility.
Distributed tracing: What it is and why it will become a default tool
An interview with Reshmi Krishna, cloud application and platform architect at Pivotal.
Mobile web performance checklist
Best practices for optimizing mobile web apps.
Capturing the performance of real users
Five Questions for Philip Tellis: Insights on the organizational benefits of RUM, and new techniques for measuring user performance and emotion.
What is effective performance engineering?
And what does it mean for your hardware, software, culture, and business?
Why are service workers so great for web performance?
Five Questions for Max Firtman: Thoughts on the offline web, service workers, and the future of mobile performance.
The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project: What lies ahead?
Five questions for Malte Ubl: Thoughts on web performance and how to get started using AMP.
Service virtualization: Testing legacy, third-party, and cutting-edge systems
How this time-tested practice can empower microservices and containerized architectures, too.
Linux performance: Tracing the cloud
Five Questions for Sasha Goldshtein: Thoughts on dynamic tracing, performance tools, and performance optimization in the cloud.
A framework for performance
Performance Engineering throughout the lifecycle.
Network virtualization and efficient mobile apps
The O’Reilly Podcast: Guy Rosenthal on network virtualization.
How to make performance engineering work for your organization
The O’Reilly Podcast: Mohit Verma discusses performance engineering and how to implement it.
Web performance tools: Synthetic vs. RUM
Learn the difference between synthetic and real-user monitoring tools.