Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. Sustainable Web Design. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick. In this book, Tim takes us on a tour of the whys and hows of sustainable design. Could we achieve the same ends with pure JavaScript ?

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 26, 2017

My goal is to resolve mysteries about SQL Server I encounter but do this without going straight the source code first. At first glance in SQL Server 2016, you can see if a database is encrypted for TDE by looking at sys.databases.is_encrypted. Rather I’ll use our source and other colleagues of mine at Microsoft to validate the answer.

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). Our design needed to scale and be adaptable to the modern hardware on the market.

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Sutter's Mill

JULY 13, 2019

This led to wide variation and fragmentation in the C++ support of compilers available to the community. We have historical data: In Jacksonville 2016, at the feature cutoff for C++17, Bjarne Stroustrup made a plea in plenary for including concepts in C++17. Why did we do that, were we stupid? Very serious, and no. Azure, Facebook).

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

However, this simplicity leaves the door open for many potential issues and technical debt — bloated code, specificity hell, duplicated code blocks with very little to no difference, leftover unused selectors, unnecessary hacks, and workarounds, to name a few. Leftover, unused chunks of code from deleted features.

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Best Practices Website Architecture Media 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Every technical challenge in this design space is paired with an even more daunting governance problem. Removal also creates a performance cliff for content that assumes cache availability. None of this holds.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. However, their focus has always been on making a great-looking and effective design. Clean coding practices.

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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. They do a much better job than what was available in PostgreSQL (pglz). This warning may mainly apply to users building their PostgreSQL from source code.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 28, 2018

SQL Server also supports XA based transactions but has no code in the SQL Server engine to engage in XA transactions. MSDTC can also be used as the XA TM if so desired (see example code at end of this post.). SQLJDBC uses a slightly different design but again the SQL Server service does not change.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Count of APIs available from JavaScript by Web Confluence.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 20, 2021

A reminder of the plan ( click to enlarge ): This is the first point in the process so far that an in-flight execution plan is available (SQL Server 2016 SP1 onward) in sys.dm_exec_query_statistics_xml. Any single scheduler available to the query. To summarize, our plan will eventually have: Branch A (parent). Parent task.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. There’s a trade off here between inlining JavaScript (so running it doesn’t require a network request) versus placing it into it’s own JavaScript file (for modularity and code-reuse). KB for desktops and 902 KB for mobile devices from 2016 to 2021.

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The talks are up on YouTube , including my own (behind a paywall, but the slides are freely available [1] ): The talk, like this post, is an update on network and CPU realities this series has documented since 2017. That is, what was the average device in 2016? 2023 Content Targets #. 2-4 CPU cores. 4GB RAM or less. Networks #.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 15, 2019

In 2014, we discussed 4 of the top MongoDB GUIs: MongoVue, MongoHub, RockMongo, and Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo), and again in 2016: MongoDB Compass, Robo 3T, Studio 3T, and MongoBooster. It’s further enhanced by an in-place code editor which is also available in all three views. MongoDB Compass.

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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. At first, utilities for these tasks were available in the console, but not in the browser. We don’t need the second export, so we can painlessly remove it without harming the bundled code. Sergey Melukov. More after jump!

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

There are many tools available that can help you monitor, manage, and optimize your website and application performance: APM, synthetics, RUM, alerting, alert integrations, and more. Response code or issues with the rendered page [Synthetic]. Ultimately, the key to surviving a peak event is to have very good CDN cache designs.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

from wpostats, 2016 ). Factors that impact on CLS: loading ads without a designated room. You can make beautiful-looking websites with the supports of millions of themes & plugins available. You can find many caching plugins available for WordPress, make sure you have installed and configured one of them.

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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. All functionality and integrations would also have a tight dependency which in turn results in a large, cumbersome monolithic code base.

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Cache Website Mobile Google 143

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 ). Over time, the mechanisms introduced for reducing energy consumption (first in laptops) became available more broadly.

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Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

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. There are fewer examples and code libraries of the Ember framework.

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Particular Software

OCTOBER 3, 2017

This article was originally published on the NDC 2016 Blog. Code that had duplication all over the place? Chances are you were dealing with legacy code that was written years ago. In my 15+ years of coding, every single time I've dealt with legacy code, fear, anger, hate, and suffering were pretty common.

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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. Who owns this code? Organisations sometimes spiral into recrimination and mistrust.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

For this page to be done loading it needs to be responsive to user input — the “interactive” in “Time to Interactive” Browsers process user input by generating DOM events that application code listens to. Any DOM or UI created in JS is not available for use until the script runs. Execute the script.

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John McCalpin

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

In the latest (October 2016) revision of Intel’s Instruction Extensions Programming Reference , Intel has disclosed a fairly dramatic departure from these “traditional” approaches. With 2 FMA units that have 5-cycle latency, the code must implement at least 2*5=10 independent accumulators in order to avoid stalls.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

A component is simply a set of pieces of HTML, JavaScript and CSS code put all together to create an autonomous entity. The term “component” is often used to refer both to functionality and design. Note : Brad Frost’s “ Atomic Design ” is a great methodology for identifying these common patterns and building a reusable design system.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

When it comes down to how WordPress is programmed, one thing is certain: it doesn’t follow the M odel- V iew- C ontroller (MVC) design pattern that many developers are familiar with. Before we delve deeper in the code, a couple more things about WordPress REST API. on December 6th, 2016. Working With WordPress REST API.

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Cache Website Speed Database 78

Smashing Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Max Huber: Turning Mundane Subjects Into Exciting Visual Communication. Inspired Design Decisions With Max Huber: Turning Mundane Subjects Into Exciting Visual Communication. Even highly regarded, well-known designers spent time working with mundane subjects and produced iconic work. Andrew Clarke.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The implementation of emerging technologies has helped improve the process of software development, testing, design and deployment. billion in 2016. Using these methods, test case simulations can be generated without coding expertise and the amount of time used in repeated test cases can be reduced. In 2021 what can we expect?

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