Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Fairly rapidly, text messaging (SMS, short for “Short Message Service”) was added, as it was baked into the network itself, originally as a way to send messages internally or for testing. Many phones come preinstalled with common apps such as social networking, email, and maps, or with shortcuts to the browser.

Mobile 105

Mobile Design Internet Internet 105

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” These are all astonishing tools for making our limited capacity for attention more efficient. But over time, something went very wrong.

Social Media 107

Social Media Google Internet Internet 107

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

As far back as 2013, Google announced that pages that load slowly on mobile devices would be penalized in mobile search. Use , srcset, and efficient modern image formats. Avoid images that cause network congestion with critical CSS and JS. But Google's prioritization of page speed in search ranking isn't new, even for mobile.

Performance 96

Performance Google Metrics Mobile 96

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Browser release notes and caniuse tables since Blink forked from WebKit in 2013 [7]. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. CSS Grid and ES6 ). Delayed five years.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Paravirtualization**: The hypervisor provides efficient hypercalls, and the guest OS uses drivers and kernel modifications to call these hypercalls. Enter paravirtualization, originally introduced in Xen, where the guest has been modified to be aware of the hypervisor and to make efficient hypercalls. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Server rendering is also cool—even if that’s just how we say “send HTML over the network” these days. A ASUS X550CC laptop from 2013 running Windows 10 on Chrome 83. I accessed the RSS feed app running on my local network on each device to the same page where the mobile nav toggling code could be run. I think JSX is great.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

However, ClickHouse is super efficient for timeseries and provides “sharding” out of the box (scalability beyond one node). Although such databases can be very efficient with counts and averages, some queries will be slow or simply non existent. Inserts are efficient for bulk inserts only. created_utc?? ?

Database 40

Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity. Reduce Network Requests.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

Usage of Virtual DOM allows efficient rendering where only certain part of webpage is rerendered speeding up performance. VueJS can be used to create Single Page Apps efficiently with fewer resources evident from its tiny package size. Introduced in 2006, its popularity peaked around 2013-14 and has been on the decline ever since.

Virtualization 64

Virtualization Website Speed Mobile 64

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Moto G4) on a slow 3G network, emulated at 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

The shift from manufacturing jobs to service jobs was supposed to give rise to networks of independent knowledge workers collaborating to achieve business outcomes. Microcomputers improved the efficiency of data collection and made it easy to consolidate operational data. What happened? First, it's worth looking at what didn't happen.

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

From 2008 to 2013, the Chrome project was based on WebKit, and a growing team of Chrome engineers began to contribute heavily "upstream." This arrangement is, however, maximally efficient in terms of staffing, as it means less expertise is duplicated across teams, requiring fewer engineers.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2020

Skilled labor, global communication networks and collaborative tools made "offshore development" possible at scale from the mid-1990s onward. Improved skills, faster networks and more sophisticated collaboration tools have made distributed development practical for very complex software initiatives.

Programming 59

Programming Efficiency Network Technology 59

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. In 2013, AWS launched the AWS Activate program to provide Nordic startups access to guidance and one-on-one time with AWS experts. Today, we add to that presence with an infrastructure Region in Stockholm with three Availability Zones.

AWS 124

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124