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The Fastest Google Fonts

CSS Wizardry

It’s widely accepted that self-hosted fonts are the fastest option: same origin means reduced network negotiation, predictable URLs mean we can preload , self-hosted means we can set our own cache-control. That said, the convenience of a service like Google Fonts cannot be overstated. What else could I do to make Google Fonts fast ?

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Google's June 2nd Outage: Their Status Page ? Reality

DZone

On Sunday June 2nd, Google Cloud Platform had an extended networking-based outage. There was significant disruption of commonly used services like YouTube and Gmail, as well as Google-hosted applications like Snapchat. From 11:48 to 12:03 latency was also elevated for europe-west2 to europe-west2 regional bucket access.

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Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

The Morning Paper

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Enter Google! The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand. SOSP’19. Emphasis mine).

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

The growing amount of data processed at the network edge, where failures are more difficult to prevent, magnifies complexity. At the lowest level, SLIs provide a view of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across systems. Visibility and automation are two of the most important SRE tools.

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Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

Dynatrace

And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks? But how can you ensure that your applications meet these pillars and deliver the best outcomes for your business? SRG validates the status of the resiliency SLOs for the experiment period.

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Lessons learned from enterprise service-level objective management

Dynatrace

In their new dashboard, they added dimensions for load, latency, and open problems for each component. To ensure their global service levels, they fully embraced the best practices outlined in Google’s SRE handbook , called the “Four Golden Signals,” to standardize what they show on their SRE dashboards. Saturation.

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Compression Methods in MongoDB: Snappy vs. Zstd

Percona

In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB. We will discuss snappy and zstd for data block and zstd compression in a network. By default, MongoDB provides a snappy block compression method for storage and network communication. Snappy is a compression library developed by Google.

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