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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

These items are the fruits of those ideas, the items I deemed worthy from my Google Reader feeds. Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone ( Google Developers Blog). Using MongoDB as a cache store ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). Hacker News).

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Is Google Fonts Slowing Your Site? Make Google Fonts Faster

MachMetrics

Using Google Fonts is often one of the first steps people take to give their website a unique look. But if you’ve ever brought over that amazing font and ran a speed test, you might be asking – “Does Google Fonts slow down my site?” Use that awesome font from Google and live with the performance hit.

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Dynatrace accelerates business transformation with new AI observability solution

Dynatrace

This blog post explores how AI observability enables organizations to predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability. Data dependencies and framework intricacies require observing the lifecycle of an AI-powered application end to end, from infrastructure and model performance to semantic caches and workflow orchestration.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

Only in extreme circumstances does the cost (in processor time and I-cache footprint) translate to a tangible benefit - circumstances which usually resort to hand-coded assembly anyway. It shouldn't be 10%, unless it's cache effects. Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.)

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Google Lighthouse Audits – How to use Chrome’s built-in speed testing tool

MachMetrics

If you’re not a developer/designer, you may not be familiar with the Chrome DevTools and the extremely powerful Google Lighthouse Audits that can be found inside. However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Performance. Best Practices.

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Fast memcpy, A System Design

ACM Sigarch

When I worked at Google, fleet-wide profiling revealed that 25-35% of all CPU time was spent just moving bytes around: memcpy, strcmp, copying between user and kernel buffers in network and disk I/O, hidden copy-on-write in soft page faults, checksumming, compressing, decrypting, assembling/disassembling packets and HTML pages, etc.

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Converting a Ghost blog to a Progressive Web App

Dean Hume

Regular readers of this blog might notice a slightly different look and feel to this site. I’ve recently updated this blog and moved it from a custom ASP.NET website that has been running since about 2009 to Ghost CMS. The old blog was working as expected, but an overall refresh was long overdue. Creating an offline page.

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