Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This post presents a categorized list of many command-line apps I’ve personally discovered over the past few years. Mosh is a remote terminal app (or mobile shell) for interactive SSH usage that includes several useful features for those who need to do terminal-based tasks over weak WiFi, cellular networks, or other less-reliable connections.

Development 134

Development Google Storage Open Source 134

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents.

Social Media 106

Social Media Google Internet Internet 106

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2. Open source tools which have an open development model that allows your team to make contributions may be a better approach.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Last year, Google made two significant changes to their search indexing and ranking algorithms : In March, indexing became based on the mobile version of a page , rather than desktop. What is Google Lighthouse?

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Vector is open source and in use by multiple companies. Vector is an open-source host-level performance monitoring framework which we have been using for some time. to the broader community. These updates also bring other user experience improvements and a fresher technology stack. Charts are now resizable and movable.

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Performance Latency Open Source Metrics 211

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Organizations are constantly being measured against the best available digital experiences — coming from Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other industry leaders. Google Core Web Vitals : Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift (specifically for web). User experience score.

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Mobile Social Media Monitoring Metrics 222

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Compression achieved is relevant because the higher the compression, the smaller the file size, and the lower the data required to transfer the image on the network. The AV1 image file format (AVIF) is an open-source image format for storing still and animated images. Jump to table of contents ?. AVIF Images In The Browser.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144

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 ‍Terraform, on the other hand, presents a stark contrast.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Large preview ).

Website 126

Website Performance Google Media 126

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] Oct 2022 - [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. Get them excited.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Presented here alphabetically by last name: Rachel Andrew. Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Here is our (ever-growing!) Plus, at the end, a few bonus Twitter handles to round things out.).

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

Below we present some thoughts on the why and one solution to address the issue. Communities in other fields have made a substantial effort towards “democratization,” where tools are not just made open source, but also accessible to everyone. Lena Olson is a Software Engineer at Google. . Why is that? Lack of Exposure.

Architecture 74

Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This means that with Terraform, you can manage resources across multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and more, using a single tool.‍A significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. Terraform, on the other hand, presents a stark contrast.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

As we will see, both the present and future of browser engine choice are squarely within Cupertino's control. Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. And that's a choice. "WebKit Cui bono? —

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. Between Google (Vertex AI and Colab) and Amazon (SageMaker), you can now get all of the GPU power your credit card can handle. Moving beyond point estimates is very close to present-day AI challenges.

Hardware 97

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. Cost is one of the key reasons why most government organisations, mid to large sized business, and publisher prefer open source CMS options such as WordPress and Drupal.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple Corporate is at fault, not Open Source engineers or the line managers who support them. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. Delayed five years.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. AI is used to predict and present but not to verify the predicted data etc. Network interceptor is introduced for ChromeDevTools for the responses related to the network requests.

Artificial Intelligence 89

Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] , Oct 2022 [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] , accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

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.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

The most preferred single-page applications are Gmail, Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Low data usage and Offline accessibility: It works fine in low internet reception and is also possible to access offline like Google Maps. Image Source. Users do not have to click on many links. Examples of SPAs.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV. Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

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. CWV is part of a set of page experience signals Google Search will be evaluating for ranking. Lighthouse. Large preview ).

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

It is safe, fast, compatible, open-source, and easy to learn. During compatibility testing of an application, we check the compatibility of the application with multiple devices, hardware, software versions, network, operating systems, and browsers, etc. present on the device without undergoing any application crash or hanging.

Testing 84

Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more …. Get them excited.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Google created Kubernetes to help developers better manage their containerized applications across clusters. That’s why Google set out to develop an open source system that would simplify the “deployment, scaling and operations” of containerized applications across multiple hosts.

Virtualization 47

Virtualization Open Source Network Architecture 47

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

This summer also marks the 4-yearly event that is La Copa Mundial (we only get Telemundo in my apartment, not Fox Sports Network) but since the good old US of A are absent from the men’s World Cup this year, football fever is distinctly frigid. This track was a good state-of-the-union type affair, so I thought I’d share what was presented.

Serverless 40

Serverless AWS DevOps Open Source 40

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2019

In my current work, I spend a lot of time with keptn – an Open Source Control Plane for Continuous Deployment and Automated Operations. A quick google search reveals several articles on Prometheus performance optimizations we should look into. Dynatrace news. Seems there is some massive WAL (Write Ahead Log) activity going on.

Open Source 43

Open Source Metrics Monitoring Cloud 43

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

And, just as the use of images is so present in content creation, optimizing them is key to improving our page load speed and rendering it in the shortest possible time, as images are responsible for more bytes than any other resource. According to the Web Almanac in late 2021, 95.9 — Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter.

Media 106

Media Cache Website Mobile 106

Enprowess

AUGUST 6, 2021

The frontend is the presentation layer (UI) of your application directly accessible to the user and displayed on user screens. React is an open-source front end library based on JavaScript, Created and maintained by Facebook, and is best known for its virtual DOM feature. Why Combination of Nodejs & React a Perfect One ?

Development 52

Development Virtualization Servers Website 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

De-duplication can prevent multiple copies on disk, but we're out of luck on reducing network costs. One available proxy is the distribution of use from Google's hosted JS libraries. The most enfranchised users with the most high-performance devices and networks will feel their initial (and ongoing) download impacted the least.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 82