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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. There are three current underlying reasons for the platform engineering meme today.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

The Green Web Foundation maintains an ever-growing database of web hosts who are either wholly powered by renewable energy or are at least committed to being carbon neutral. In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. Many efforts are afoot to improve the situation on the web. Let’s Not Forget The Basics.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Browser release notes and caniuse tables since Blink forked from WebKit in 2013 [7]. It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier. have been available in iOS since 2013 with iOS 7.0. PowerPoint or Google Slides). CSS Grid and ES6 ).

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. Mind The Gap.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Note : as TCP generally under-utilizes network connection by a significant amount, Google has developed TCP Bottleneck Bandwidth and RRT ( BBR ), a relatively new TCP delay-controlled TCP flow control algorithm.