Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Stay tuned for lots of articles on metaprogramming, applications, useful Raku modules, programming techniques, guides on how to work with Raku inside containers, and even how to migrate from good ol’ Perl. Tune in each day for an article that explores the wide range of topics in system administration. SysAdvent is back this year! ??

Design 107

Design Development Programming Website 107

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

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. Gzip works by greatly reducing the amount of duplicate code and white space in a website’s files.

Speed 67

Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

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.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

5000 named Percona to their list in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. With over 140 professionals in 30 plus countries, Peter’s venture now serves over 3000 customers – including the “who’s who” of internet giants, large enterprises and many exciting startups.

Open Source 43

Open Source Internet Internet Strategy 43

Percona

JULY 30, 2018

5000 named Percona to their list in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. With over 140 professionals in 30 plus countries, Peter’s venture now serves over 3000 customers – including the “who’s who” of internet giants, large enterprises and many exciting startups.

Architecture 41

Architecture Database Open Source Internet 41

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

This can make it difficult to draw sound performance-tuning conclusions. The following examples use the public Stack Overflow 2013 database ( download details ), with a single index added: CREATE INDEX PP ON dbo. SQL Server makes some timing adjustments in parallel plans to promote consistency, but they are not perfectly implemented.

Servers 95

Servers Tuning Architecture Processing 95

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Here are some examples: Neue Haas Grotesk (1956), Helvetica (1957), Arial (1982), Bau (2002), Akkurat (2004), Aktiv Grotesk (2010), Acumin (2015), Real (2015); Frutiger (1976), Myriad (1992), Monotype SST (2017), Squad (2018), Silta (2018); Collis (1993), Novel (2008), Elena (2010), Permian (2011), Lava (2013). Stay tuned!

Performance 110

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

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.

Performance 60

Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

['webkit','twitter','teacher','android','itunes'] ? ? downvotes','upvote','drupal','android','upvoted'] ? ? codecs','imgur','floppy','codec','adobe','android'] ? ? scala','currency','println'] ? ? voting','maven'] ? ? compose','xamarin','markdown','scrum','comic'] ? ? china','sourceforge','subscription','chinese','kotlin'] ? ?

Database 40

Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 40

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Like every other successful platform, the web operates on a finely tuned understanding of risk and trust , and deprecations are particularly explosive. [2] This reconfirms observations from the HTTP Archive , published by Steve Souders in 2013. Trust Falls #.

Cache 82

Cache Government Traffic Network 82

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

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.

Design 116

Design Media C++ Technology 116

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 31, 2014

As a bonus, the book sprinkles sketches and storyboards of the Looney Tunes animations throughout. What I Read in 2013. Coyote, and Daffy Duck evolved and developed their own personalities over time. On Web Typography by Jason Santa Maria 5 ⁄ 5 Fantastic primer on web typography. There you have it. Past years.

Design 40

Design Tuning Mobile Technology 40

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 07 March 2013 08:00 PM. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments (). How are we able to do this?

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

You saw the first iteration in April 2013 with the launch of Local Secondary Indexes (LSI). With global secondary indexes in DynamoDB, you can now have many indexes and tune their capacity independently. Since then, we have been working on adding flexible querying.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130