If you’ve ever looked at web page performance reports, chances are you’ve focused on average load times (or response times), perhaps glanced at the worst cases (max/min), and maybe moved on. But what if I tell you — to truly understand how your site behaves under load, percentiles + request volume over time are equally (if not more) important? In this post, I’ll walk through why you should...
Why “Slow Page” Statistics Are Worth Examining (More Than Just Average & Max)
How to deploy web application at AWS Fargate using terraform – Part 1
Hi, and welcome to detailed tutorial at how to deploy web application at AWS Fargate using terraform. Current tutorial assume that you already know and have several basic things/conceptions: You have active AWS account You have basic knowledge about next AWS components: VPC, network, route table, security group, Route 53, Target Group (TG), Application Load Balancer (ALB) You have installed...
Application and AWS CloudWatch as security monitoring tools
Hi cyber security fans. Welcome to the article “Application and AWS CloudWatch as security monitoring tools”, where we will speak about some DevSecOps best practices and not only. The article is built within 2 connected parts: How to use CloudWatch logs, understanding Application logs with CloudWatch insights and dashboards. Custom CloudWatch metrics and alerts as sensitive detector...
AWS Fargate DevOps: Autoscaling with Terraform at practice
Udemy Coupon: FARGATESALES04 – active 01.04.2026-01.05.2026; in case coupons are already expired, please check that page regularly – new one will appear soon ENROLL AT AWS Fargate course Web application traffic is mostly not stable. Promotions, advertising campaigns, night/day hours – all that cause fluctuations at loading. Managing these unpredictable fluctuations can be a challenge. The...
Cyber Security of Web Applications in one pill
Hi, everybody That is a general wrapper topic, rather then article by itself, where I am going to aggregate different posts related with cyber security for web applications. Below you may different links (I will new articles gradually) that, which I hope, would be useful. Cyber security Articles Application and AWS CloudWatch as security monitoring tools Database encryption at PHP Symfony Web App...
Cost and performance optimizations at AWS Cloud
Hi, DevOps fans That is a general wrapper topic, rather then article by itself, where I am going to aggregate different posts related with cost and performance optimizations at AWS cloud. As you know, AWS Cloud is a huge “combine” with hundreds of services, ant it’s costs appears to be high in many cases. Though there are some standard and much more less obvious things, that can...
How to secure web application with AWS WAF and CloudWatch
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NUXT debugging and perormance optimizations
Hi, everybody At current article I decided to share with you my commercial experience around Nuxt framework. Within last 2 years, using Nuxt appeared to be not so pleasant adventure. And it is not related with coding, or code architecture – but mostly at how Nuxt applications were working at real production. The main reason here, that most JS modern tools, like React, Angular, Vue, or even...
OpenSearch ML reranking with AWS Personalize Service
Hi, Recently I had an opportunity to make a practical research around AWS Personalize Service. My main goal was to test Personalized-Ranking recipe and to verify how it works in pair with rather fresh AWS feature – OpenSearch Personalize ranking plugin. I had to verify if is possible to bring our existing search system at new level with ML personalizing features. The main thing that I was...
Symfony vs Flask vs Spring Boot – part 1 usability and speed of coding
Hi, While making an online course “Elasticsearch as you have never known it before” I’ve created 3 separate sections with practice examples on how to build an advanced search system based on the Elasticsearch engine. According to course video sections next tutorials also appeared accordingly at current blog: Java Elasticsearch Elasticsearch Python Flask Symfony Elasticsearch I suppose it...
