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Performance design

Performance design

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Performance design

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- In this lesson, we're going to talk about performance considerations and how to increase the performance of your end users. When it comes to the performance of your infrastructure, there is going to be four key areas that you need to consider; latency, traffic, errors, and saturation. Now, latency is the measure of the time it takes to complete a given action. Each component in your system, your network, or your applications are going to be measured differently when you're trying to capture latency involved with them in responding to a request, but the overall concept is the same. How long does your end user have to wait for that thing to happen? For example, if you go to diontraining.com, how long does it take from the time you go and type in diontraining.com and press the enter key to when the webpage finally loaded up? That is the latency in your mind as an end user. In the example of our website, our goal is to keep the response time to under two seconds on our homepage, but we…

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