Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. What does this finding mean in web performance terms?

Speed 134

Speed Website Mobile Cloud 134

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Tasktop

MARCH 31, 2022

Everything must be cloud-ready, scalable, networked, connected and secure, such that pure coding is now the smallest part of IT initiatives. Tasktop has been partnering with BMW since 2011. Todays’ top performing IT leaders are using VSM to outpace the competition. Culture Is as Important as Code.

Automotive 52

Automotive Software Software Development 52

Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

I’m delighted to be joining some of my favourite web performance people at SpeedCurve! I’ve been a full-time web performance consultant for around nine years. We were already using both synthetic and network-based real user monitoring (RUM) tools to measure how fast our site was, so we knew we had room to improve.

Retail 52

Retail Internet Internet Education 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

The daily media consumption on mobile devices has grown by 504 percent since 2011[2]. Globally, consumers are preferring their mobile phones for performing activities (e.g. Mobile website testing helps in serving your customers with a flawless performance on popular screen resolutions. online shopping, bill payments, etc.)

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Aug 11 - " On the Naming and Binding of Network Destinations ", Saltzer, J. Sep 14 - " CryptDB: Protecting Confidentiality with Encrypted Query Processing " , Raluca Ada Popa and Catherine Redfield and Nickolai Zeldovich and Hari Balakrishnan,Symposium on Operating Systems Principles Cascais, Portugal, October 2011. Gray and David R.

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

About 5 years ago, I introduced you to AWS Availability Zones, which are distinct locations within a Region that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same region.

Cloud 147

Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 147

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. Anyone is welcome to contribute to the calendar , so do feel free to reach out with a topic or tool you’re passionate about, or a technique you’d like to teach and tell the web performance community about. Stoyan Stefanov on Twitter.

Design 107

Design Development Programming Website 107

Tasktop

AUGUST 29, 2019

Published back in 2011, this has become an industry classic and is definitely required reading. Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try improve performance. For more information, visit: [link]. Author: Eric Ries. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage.

DevOps 40

DevOps Entertainment Innovation Strategy 40

The Agile Manager

MARCH 25, 2011

First, most mobile subscribers aren't bound to a network. While the name of the game is scale, these dynamics suggest it's not a mature market share game for the networks yet, as much as they're caught in the middle. Which brings up Sprint in 2011. Data hungry devices should perform fast and reliably on WiMAX.

Wireless 40

Wireless Hardware Games Mobile 40

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

PBM is a fully-supported community backup tool capable of performing cluster-side consistent backups in MongoDB for replica sets and sharded clusters. Best practice tip : It is always advisable to use secondary servers for backups to avoid unnecessary performance degradation on the PRIMARY node. mongodump --host=mongodb1.example.net

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And with today’s increasing financial, availability, performance and innovation requirements meaning applications need to be geographically dispersed to constantly changing dynamic powerhouses, it has become simply not possible to provision, update, monitor and decommissions them by only leveraging manual processes.

Code 109

Code Infrastructure DevOps Serverless 109

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

It automates complex tasks during the container’s life cycle, such as provisioning, deployment, networking, scaling, load balancing, and more. When I first started working at Dynatrace in 2011, our customers were using the Dynatrace solution to get deep end-to-end visibility into environments we now refer to as monolithic.

Virtualization 133

Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 133

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

The pool of resources, at this time, is the CPU, memory, and networking resources of Amazon EC2 instances as partitioned by containers. networks ports, memory, CPU, etc). To be robust and scalable, this key/value store needs to be distributed for durability and availability, to protect against network partitions or hardware failures.

Latency 166

Latency Architecture AWS Open Source 166

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

If performance is a problem, we can do progressive enhancement through Server-Side Rendering. Nearly all developers in the modern frontend shops do not experience performance constraints until it’s too late. The brakes aren’t applied until performance is so poor that it actively hurts the business. That’s OK.

Development 65

Development Government Mobile Network 65

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

His point, very Neil Postman-esque, is particularly true in today’s world of entertainment-driven news and fast-moving social networks that I’m increasingly convinced that, by default, only amplify existing biases. What I Read in 2011. Thankfully it’s not. Mel Blanc was the male June Foray. Past years. What I Read in 2016.

BioTech 45

BioTech Social Media Entertainment Media 45

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 27 April 2011 12:51 AM. We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques.

Technology 151

Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

For example, OWNERs and experts in video and audio codecs can agree to extensive changes in their domain but cannot green-light changes in areas such as layout, networking, storage, or JavaScript engines. No wonder Cupertino continues to perform new showings of the "web apps are a credible alternative on iOS!" " pantomime.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This is why a lot of our guidance on performance talks about image optimization. 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. A tl;dr of recommendations can be found below. Large preview ).

Open Source 144

Open Source Speed Website Google 144

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

Public API as -a-service has become a good business model: examples include social networks like Facebook/Twitter, messaging as a service like Twilio, and even credit card authorization platforms like Marqeta. With the latest ClickHouse version, all of these features are available, but some of them may not perform fast enough.

Database 40

Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 40