Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

From outright misstatements about a competitor's security, to claims that performance differences in hardware show Safari is faster, to [geographic brinksmanship](/2022/02/minimum-standards/), the confident bluster hasn't gone down particularly well. A key goal of any feature was to gain support on iOS. This was all considered at length.

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Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After years of standards discussion and the first delivered to other platforms in 2018, iOS 14.5 April 2018 , but not usable until several releases later). It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier. PowerPoint or Google Slides).

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> Google spent more on the SoC for the Pixel 4a and enjoyed a later launch date, boosting performance relative to the A51.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s take a look at some of the best error monitoring tools and strategies for 2018. The Google DevTools console can give you real-time feedback to help you trace the source of errors, and you can set handlers to automate exception data collection. Source: Google Keep in mind that not all code errors are noticeable to users.

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

This post was originally published in July 2018 and was updated in July 2023. Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. As of Aug 2018, Aurora provides another option that does not require provisioned capacity.

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

The Mozilla Internet Health Report 2018 states that — especially as the Internet expands into new territory — “sustainability should be a bigger priority.” how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

India became a 4G-centric market sometime in 2018. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. 5G looks set to continue a bumpy rollout for the next half-decade. Mind The Gap.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While experienced AI developers are starting to leave powerhouses like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, not enough are leaving to meet demand—and most of them will probably gravitate to startups rather than adding to the AI talent within established companies. Microsoft, Google, IBM, and OpenAI have offered more general indemnification.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For each of them, Google recommends a range of acceptable speed goals.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Globally in 2018–2019, according to the IDC, 87% of all shipped mobile phones are Android devices. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Randon ASCII

AUGUST 16, 2018

I work at Google, making Chrome, for Windows, focused on performance. The slow scanning of CFG memory is actually fixed in Windows 10 RS4 (April 2018 Update), which briefly had me wondering if all of this investigation was pointless. Then it happened again, only this time gmail went unresponsive for even longer. Well that’s funny ….

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Programming Virtualization Code Processing 75

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Gatsby.js (React), Preact CLI , and PWA Starter Kit provide reasonable defaults for fast loading out of the box on average mobile hardware. Image credit: Addy Osmani ) ( Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

High Scalability

JULY 26, 2018

143 billion : daily words Google Translated; 73% : less face-to-face interaction in open offices; 10 billion : Uber trips; 131M : data breach by Exactis; $123 billion : Facebook value loss is 4 Twitters and 7 snapchats; $9.1B : spent on digital gaming across all platforms; 20-km : width of lake on mars; 1 billion : Google Drive users; $32.7

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Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 124

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Our metrics at Google show a conflicted picture (which I’m working to get to clarity on). This, in turn, drives the single most important trend in setting the global web performance budget hardware baseline: the next billion users will largely come online when they can afford to. 75% of of connections occur on either 2G or 3G.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

There are several emerging data trends that will define the future of ETL in 2018. In 2018, we anticipate that ETL will either lose relevance or the ETL process will disintegrate and be consumed by new data architectures. Leveraging the recent hardware advances. Common in-memory data interfaces. More details on this approach.

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Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world. Much of this data related to Core Web Vitals which Google has announced back in 2020, and which also contribute to and are exposed in Lighthouse. Large preview ). KB, Brotlified).

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

72 : signals sensed from a distant galaxy using AI; 12M : reddit posts per month; 10 trillion : per day Google generated test inputs with 100s of servers for several months using OSS-Fuzz; 200% : growth in Cloud Native technologies used in production; $13 trillion : potential economic impact of AI by 2030; 1.8 They'll love you even more.

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Internet Internet Scalability Education 30