How to Measure Uptime SLOs Using Scopify and Nobl9

Do you find yourself asking, “What should our first service-level objective (SLO)be?” The simplest way to get started if you have a website is to measure uptime SLOs. The SLO will measure your uptime and how your site compares to your reliability goals. By following the steps outlined here, you can get up and running with

Prevent Your Websites From Being Impacted

By: Rachel Frnka December 7 started as a typical, but busy, pre-holiday weekday. This included a mix of booming online retail sales ($33.9 billion spent during cyber week), packages flooding delivery services, and high online traffic. But much of that quickly came to a crawl. An outage of the AWS us-east-1 cloud region changed the

DevOps Explained – Scopify

What is DevOps? If you’re in the software development space, or just started a career in software development you’ve probably heard people talking about DevOps. Studies show that 74% of companies have implemented DevOps in some fashion, but what is it exactly? First described by Patrick Debois in 2007 (Patrick being commonly known as the

Travel Sites Page Size vs Load Time
Web Performance of the World’s Top 50 Travel...

By Rachel Frnka 2021 holiday travel has been a rebound for the industry. Just this week, I was attempting to purchase flights for a long weekend before travel picks up for the holidays. However, after a failed attempt to sign up for their Executive Club and enduring slow page loads after every click, I abandoned

How to Improve Your Target Audience Reach –

In the first post of this two-part series, we talked about the need to fully understand how users experience your website. Without understanding how your end users interact with your site’s pages—what’s working for them and what’s not—you’d be optimizing on a hunch without solid data to guide you. To address this, we saw how

Microservices vs Monoliths explained – Scop...

If you’re a dev you’ve no doubt, come across people talking about monolith and microservice application architecture. Perhaps you are involved in designing a new system and have been asked to consider both architectures.  The conversations are often regarding how microservices are the successor to monolith architecture, but today I’m going to try and layout why it’s

Why website monitoring is important for Black Frid...

It’s that time of year again – no, not Christmas, but the hugely anticipated Black Friday. When discounts hit bigger numbers than the lottery, and customers get into a bargain-hunting frenzy. But it’s not all fun and games as a company owner during the biggest sales season of the year; unfortunately, you’re more likely to

Why Google SSO is so important

We’ve all become more security conscious online with password protection being one of the biggest problems when it comes to potential malicious threats to our personal data. As we start using more and more websites and applications, the need to have unique passwords for each one becomes a goliath task.  It’s only normal that we’d

Web Performance of the Top 50 E-commerce/Retail Si...

By Rachel Frnka Many factors have led to the massive increase of online retail sales in 2020 and 2021, including the increasing reliance of online activities from COVID-19. To put the growth into perspective: in 2017 when we last reported on web performance for the world’s leading retail sites, the industry generated around $2.2 trillion

Affiliate programs for bloggers – Scopify

How to Become an Affiliate Blogger Affiliate marketing in 2021 continues to be a viable option for bloggers, freelancers, and social media marketers to make money online by promoting products and services via blogs and social media channels and earn high affiliate commissions while doing so working from home. Affiliate bloggers can start a profitable