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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Uber Engineering

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

For context, we deployed more than 40 Schemaless instances and many thousands of storage nodes in 2016 alone. In 2014, Uber Engineering built Schemaless , our fault-tolerant and scalable datastore, to facilitate the rapid growth of our company.

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Particular Software

APRIL 27, 2020

We’ve certainly been affected by this shift at Particular with the cancellation of our popular Advanced Distributed Systems Design (ADSD) course this year. Martin attended the live ADSD course in London in 2016 and the two recently held their own version of the course in a unique way. It also worked very well as a video course.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. What is the limited resource that they control and monopolize? It’s not our data. It’s our attention.

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

While we were confident in the design of SQL Server 2012, several customers reported to us performance problems that did not appear to be with disk subsystems, CPU, or networks. Our design needed to scale and be adaptable to the modern hardware on the market. First, we looked at the overall architecture of the replica design.

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Percona

JULY 30, 2018

Please join Percona’s CEO, Peter Zaitsev as he presents Using MySQL for Distributed Database Architectures on Tuesday, July 31st, 2018 at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). Such architectures bring many benefits (such as scalability and resiliency), but can also bring a lot of pain if incorrectly designed and executed.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

. “(…) what started with organized PostCSS gradually grew to become a complex and entangled global CSS architecture with a lot of specificities and overrides. Besides, as the number of frontend developers contributing to the codebase also grows, this kind of CSS architecture becomes even more difficult to work with.”. More after jump!

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

I previously wrote about Netflix in [2015] and [2016], and if you are interested in what it's like to work here, I already covered much in those posts. We're on the EC2 cloud, which has great scalability, and our own cloud architecture of microservices is also designed for scalability. Time flies! or at least try to!

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O'Reilly Software

AUGUST 23, 2018

For more than 15 years, my colleagues and I at the Software Improvement Group (SIG) have been in the business of evaluating the quality of code, architecture, and development practices for our customers. Recently, we dove into our assessment data to discover—and quantify —trends in software development, each time comparing 2016 to 2017.

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Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

Some of the built-in features ( wal_compression ) have been there since 2016, and almost all backup tools do the WAL compression before taking it to the backup repository. Attempts to compress PostgreSQL WAL at different levels have always been around since the beginning. The actual benefit of compression depends on many factors.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

They did the opposite, doubling down, breathlessly announcing vapourware year after year to defer critical thinking about the fundamental errors in the design. You'd be forgiven for thinking the verbiage was designed obfuscate. It's functional purpose (outside of signaling) is to obscure furious plate spinning.

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

From Edge's telemetry, we see that nearly half of devices fall into our "low-end" designation, which means that they have: HDD s (not SSD s). Add to this the fact that desktop devices have a lifespan between five and eight years, on average, and that the P75 device was sold in 2016. That is, what was the average device in 2016?

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

These criteria have been designed to ensure that sites which invoke prompts are reliable, fast, and engaging. In January 2015 I designed the criteria that Chrome uses to trigger “Add to Homescreen” prompts. Instead, this article focuses on the strictest common criteria to ensure broad installability as of late 2016.

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John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). This includes all architectures, all compilers, all operating systems, and all system configurations.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

With Luminary’s 21 years of experience in the digital space, my experience of 17 years in the CMS space as well as our focus on Headless since 2016, here are my two cents on what you should look out for. Microservices architecture. Monolithic architecture takes a back seat with headless CMSes. Omnichannel. For content authors.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 20, 2019

IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics , 2016. If you’ve been a follower of The Morning Paper for any time at all you can probably tell that I naturally gravitate more towards the feeds-and-speeds end of the spectrum than user experience and interaction design. But what good is a super-fast system that nobody uses!

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Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Design: Performance is the gap between Figma mockups and the user experience of products for many, but not all , users. The extent to which a product performs well, the higher its likelihood of behaving in accordance to the approved design spec. Consistent performance matters just as much as low average latency. Photo by Launde Morel.

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Particular Software

OCTOBER 3, 2017

This article was originally published on the NDC 2016 Blog. Event-Driven Architecture to the Rescue Event-driven architecture is a software design style that uses messaging techniques to convey events to other services. Event-driven architecture leads to loosely coupled systems. It promotes asynchrony. In Summary.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In 2016, I released the first version of the tool, then called not Statoscope, but Webpack Runtime Analyzer. That’s why I made effort to architecturally sculpt each piece of the toolkit (it wasn’t for nothing that said it was a toolkit) so that it functions as a plugin, not as something hardcoded. Sergey Melukov.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Lacks in MVC architecture. React lacks MVC design. React developers introduced Inferno in 2016 as an experiment to examine whether or not a library can improve the battery, performance, and UX of mobile apps. Ember js is API-friendly, and its design has two-way and server-side rendering. Source: [link]. Ember JS Pros.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

One distinct trend is a belief that a JavaScript framework and Single-Page Architecture (SPA) is a must for PWA development. Add onto that the yawning chasm between low-end and high-end device performance thanks to chip design factors like cache sizes, and it can be difficult to know where to set a device baseline.

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John McCalpin

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

The art and science of microprocessor architecture is a never-ending struggling to balance complexity, verifiability, usability, expressiveness, compactness, ease of encoding/decoding, energy consumption, backwards compatibility, forwards compatibility, and other factors.

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