Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. We should use HTTP2 over HTTPS.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. Sean Larkin has a free course on Webpack: The Core Concepts and Jeffrey Way has released a fantastic free course on Webpack for everyone. Use progressive enhancement as a default.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. It’s safe to say WordPress, the platform now powering 40% of the internet, won that battle, but MovableType paved the way for Jamstack CMSs in the future. But, when it worked, it was magical.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Efficiently enables new styles of drawing content on the web , removing many hard tradeoffs between visual richness , accessibility, and performance.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. On the Internet, however, we typically have a long series of connected pipes , some of which can be wider than others (leading to so-called bottlenecks at the narrowest links).

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 11, 2019

In addition, service workers have the ability to intercept and handle network requests (for e.g., caching and pre-loading purposes). MarioNet can conduct a subset of DDoS attacks by instructing Servants to connect to a specific Internet host. No user permission is required to register and maintain a service worker. MarioNet use cases.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

A GIF that lasts only a few seconds can be several megabytes in size , which means that visitors with slower internet connections could be looking at a blank page for a few seconds before it loads. A CDN will pull the GIF files from your origin server and cache them.

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. We use term ReadOne-WriteOne for combination of techniques A, B, C and D – they all do not provide strict consistency guarantees, but are efficient enough to be used in practice as an self-contained approach. (E,

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet. This can mean that instead of failing completely, a system continues to operate, but possibly at a reduced level of efficiency. Consider costs : Multiple factors will, of course, affect how much you should budget.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Low-end phones on the other hand are getting cheaper , making the mobile internet accessible to demographics that previously maybe couldn’t afford it. Of course, this model doesn’t come without its problems. Green Energy Efficient Progressive Web Apps ,” David, Microsoft DevBlogs. Further Resources. “ Case Study: Moving A Three.js-Based

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Most of us work on connections that are typically quite a bit faster than that of the average internet user. In the early days of the web when we were browsing the internet via a dialup connection, improving performance meant removing the images from your site. Of course, performance is not all that matters. (If

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