Articles tagged with
metrics
12 Feb 2024
This story shows how we strive to fix issues reported by our customers regarding inconsistent listing views on our e-commerce platform.
We will use a top-down manner to guide you through our story. At the beginning, we highlight the challenges faced by our customers, followed by presenting
basic information on how views are personalized on our web application. We then delve deeper into our internal architecture, aiming to clarify how
it supports High Availability (HA) by using two data centers. Finally, we advertise a little Couchbase,
distributed NoSQL database, and explain why it is an excellent storage solution for such an architecture.
02 Sep 2019
When we measure the page loading speed from the user’s perspective, we pay attention to the appearance of subsequent
elements on the screen. Metrics such as First Contentful Paint, First Meaningful Paint and Visually Complete directly
reflect what the user sees and when. But what if the page is invisible, when it loads in the background, for example in
a different tab? Should we consider such views interesting for us? Don’t the collected metrics distort the results?
17 Oct 2016
In July we attended the scientific conference SIGIR 2016 held in Pisa, Italy. SIGIR is an annual conference
related to new advances in Information Retrieval. The shortcut is for
Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval.
This is an annual conference with the highest ranking at
Microsoft Academic Research in Information Retrieval field
field and the 16th in the ranking in the whole Computer Science field.
08 Sep 2015
Switching from monolith to microservices requires a very solid technical ecosystem. One of the most crucial subsystems is
monitoring. But for monitoring to work, you need data to monitor. At Allegro, we decided to use
Graphite as metrics storage and to build our monitoring ecosystem around tools
that integrate with it.
