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DZone's Guide to

Performance & Monitoring

The 2015 DZone Guide to Performance & Monitoring will help you take a hard look at your software design and monitoring strategies so that you can build a performant foundation for your applications and better identify the root causes of performance problems.

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Table of Contents

2

Letter From the Editor

3

Summary & Key Takeaways

4

Key Research Findings

8

Does Monitoring Still Suck?

11

Try Optimizing Memory Consumption First

14

Mechanical Sympathy: Understanding the Hardware Makes You a Better Developer

17

Diving Deeper Into Performance & Monitoring

20

The Web Performance APIs Reference

22

The Scale of Computing Latencies

26

Chasing Performance Phantoms: Looking Beyond “Why the Slowest Thing is Slow”

32

How to Define Performance Requirements

36

Front-end Optimization Checklist

37

Solutions Directory

43

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Dave Farley

Barbara Bermes

John Hodgson

Nikita Salnikov-Tarnovski

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