High Scalability
OCTOBER 19, 2018
dweis : I'm an actual author of Protocol Buffers :) I think Sandy's analysis would benefit from considering why Protocol Buffers behave the way they do rather than outright attacking the design because it doesn't appear to make sense from a PL-centric perspective. Maybe it's flawed, but the design is absolutely on the right traack.
Rigor
JANUARY 13, 2020
These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications. Mobile First.
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Smashing Magazine
JUNE 3, 2022
What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How good is a new typeface, and how good is it compared to a similar typeface designed in previous years? How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface?
Alex Russell
APRIL 29, 2021
As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Browser release notes and caniuse tables since Blink forked from WebKit in 2013 [7].
Alex Russell
MARCH 6, 2021
The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. Recently updated designs for budget parts finally get out-of-order dispatch and better parallelism.
PDC
APRIL 14, 2019
It ranks the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers based on their performance as measured by the Linpack benchmark. This is vividly reflected in the design on the Titan supercomputer , which is still among the world’s top 10 most powerful supercomputers (as of the November 2018 Top500 list). You may have heard of the Top500 list.
Speed Curve
DECEMBER 25, 2013
The following article was originally published in the 2013 Performance Calendar. Responsive Web Design (RWD) is now a well established technique yet it’s adoption is still surprisingly low. There are great tools available to monitor the actual in browser speed and benchmark your site against others.
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