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CSS and Network Performance

CSS Wizardry

In this post I want to look at how CSS can prove to be a substantial bottleneck on the network (both in itself and for other resources) and how we can mitigate it, thus shortening the Critical Path and reducing our time to Start Render. Employ Critical CSS. it can often be a net loss. There is a lot to digest in this article.

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In Defence of DOM­Content­Loaded

CSS Wizardry

Google Analytics Until recently , Google Analytics also surfaces DOMContentLoaded information. That said, we aren’t presented with particularly granular data, either: Huge and non-linear buckets make interrogating the data much more difficult. Only this time, we aren’t limited to just Chrome visits! log ( window. performance.

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AWS re:Invent 2021 shines light on cloud-native observability

Dynatrace

According to Forrester Research, the COVID-19 pandemic fueled investment in “hyperscaler public clouds”—Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. First, cloud environments present substantial observability issues given their increasing complexity and dynamism. Data confirms Aggarwal’s conclusions.

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Dynamic resources using the Network Information API and service workers

Dean Hume

Without fail, there is this spot along the line where my network connection drops from a clear 4G signal to a 2G signal at best. This is where the Network Information API aims to change things. There are a number of use cases for the Network Information API. My journey to and from work involves a small journey on a train.

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Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy

Scalegrid

When delving into the networking aspect of a hybrid cloud deployment, complexities arise due to the requirement of linking or expanding existing on-premises network architectures into the cloud sphere. We will examine each of these elements in more detail. It should offer user-friendly operation.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

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.

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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. When this data block is read, it decompresses it in memory and presents it to the incoming request. Snappy is a compression library developed by Google.

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