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Gzip vs Brotli – Best Browser Compression

MachMetrics

It also offers 9 levels of compression, so that the amount of compression and the time it takes to compress can be fine-tuned. Created by Google in 2013, Brotli is a compression algorithm created by Google for the compression of web fonts. How Do I Enable Gzip? Brotli Compression.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Here are other key developments in company history: 2013: 10gen changes its name to MongoDB, Inc. So if they can’t beat ‘em in the DBaaS space, they often feel like they have to join ‘em — to the tune of total stack sharing or some proprietary arrangement. Is MongoDB free for commercial use?

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. Web Performance Tuning. Each topic includes detailed explanations of the basic and advanced features of mobile web optimization.

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PostgreSQL Trends: Most Popular Cloud Providers, Languages, VACUUM, Query Management Strategies & Deployment Types in Enterprise

Scalegrid

of PostgreSQL cloud deployments were hosted through Google Cloud Platform (GCP), growing 11% from April where they only averaged 17.5% Back in 2013, PostgreSQL surveyed their users to see which external programming languages was most often used with PostgreSQL, and found that Python only represented 10.5% of PostgreSQL hosting.

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Cache and Prizes

Alex Russell

Like every other successful platform, the web operates on a finely tuned understanding of risk and trust , and deprecations are particularly explosive. [2] One available proxy is the distribution of use from Google's hosted JS libraries. This reconfirms observations from the HTTP Archive , published by Steve Souders in 2013.

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Performance tips for building responsive sites

Speed Curve

The following article was originally published in the 2013 Performance Calendar. Source: Guy Podjarny However, we do now have a full set of techniques to effectively deliver highly performative sites that not only visually scale across devices but also deliver code and assets tuned to the width of a device.

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Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography

Smashing Magazine

On top of basic font style properties, we can now reliably fine-tune OpenType figures, hyphenation, ligatures, and even kerning. Better still is “Herb Lubalin: American Graphic Designer” (2013) by Adrian Shaughnessy and published by Unit Editions. SVG includes other properties which fine-tune aspects of a stroke.

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