Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If users have a slow network or a slow computer, they will see an ugly loader while their joke is being downloaded. However, it’s not energy-efficient to render the article for each and every request. It may sound weird at first that you need a web server to achieve efficient static rendering. And now we even pay for it!

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools. I like using Fiddler , and when I inspect the network requests I see that there are indeed some old URLs and redirects floating around. Compressing, minifying and caching assets.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. Thanks to Tim Kadlec, Henri Helvetica and Alex Russel for the pointers!

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Generally to cache data (including non-persistent data that never sees a backing store), to share non-persistent data across application services (e.g. ” Even re-reading that today, the letter of the law there is surprisingly strict to me: you can use the local memory space or filesystem as a brief single transaction cache, but no more.

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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. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Moto G4) on a slow 3G network, emulated at 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. This is true, but only to a relatively limited extent.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

QUIC is needed because TCP, which has been around since the early days of the Internet, was not really built with maximum efficiency in mind. It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As you may already know, image optimization is the process that a high-quality image has to go through to be delivered in ideal conditions, sometimes with the help of an Image Transformation API and a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) to make the process simpler and scalable. Cache Your Images.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 106

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started  ‍Of course, the latter. But how does this apply to CDNs?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Today, this makes concurrency more important than ever, because it delivers two things: It hides latencies we have to deal with and cannot remove, from disk I/O latency to speed-of-light network latency; and it makes our code responsive by not introducing needless latencies of our own even when we’re not hiding someone else’s latency.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Businesses can adjust configurations to manage everything from basic distribution settings to intricate geo-targeted content caching and delivery strategies, all with the same ease.‍‍2. We've reached an age where efficient and swift infrastructure deployment is more crucial than ever. Of course, the latter.

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. Isolated parts of the database can serve read/write requests in case of network partition. To prevent conflicts, a database must sacrifice availability in case of network partitioning and stop all but one partition.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity. Reduce Network Requests. Data transfer is one thing that we can measure quite easily. Large preview ).

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), Connection management : This is the software management related specifically to the networking and connectivity aspect of the database. Consider costs : Multiple factors will, of course, affect how much you should budget.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. These TransformStream types help applications efficiently deal with large amounts of binary data. Delayed five years.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Use srcset + efficient modern image formats. Lazy-load offscreen images (reduce network contention for key resources). For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS. You can of course also do this manually just using the <img> element directly.

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Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

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). There is no low-level networking access, but HTTP request methods and the HTTP body can of course be controlled. No user permission is required to register and maintain a service worker.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

[j:9] (COL, ACT) AS SELECT WI.COL, softmax(WI.VAL + B.VEC) FROM WI[i][j] AS WI, B[i][j] AS B WHERE WI.COL = B.COL; The backward pass can be expressed similarly: Execution planning for efficiency. Once a library of UDFs have been built up of course, they could be reused across computations. Here I’ll just touch on the highlights.

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Network Database Programming Hardware 44

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The median user is on a slow network.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

A ServiceWorker is a short-lived , isolated JavaScript scope running in a separate thread, functioning as a proxy for every network request originating from pages of the same origin. Of course, this model doesn’t come without its problems. Green Energy Efficient Progressive Web Apps ,” David, Microsoft DevBlogs.

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Using genomics and deep learning as two motivating examples, he highlighted the importance of algorithm-architecture co-design to improve end-to-end efficiency. In particular, she highlighted her transformative MIT’78 VLSI System Design Course she designed and taught as a Visiting Professor of EECS at MIT.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Some of these tools allow us to do more artisan work faster and more efficiently. And now we’ve all got really powerful phones in our pockets, running a range of network connected apps. So I can have a multipage app, cache my API calls for a short period of time without having to cache them in memory. I love WordPress.

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