Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Eye-Tracking Evolution. Source: Oculid) ( Large preview ).

Mobile 114

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 114

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Follow him on Twitter @ RickByers and be sure to watch the video of his conversation at Chrome Dev Summit 2016 , where he discussed the ways Chrome is “improving predictability for developers.” Find his writing on progressive web apps, responsiveness, and mobile-first design across the web , and follow him on Twitter at @ grigs.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

Today we are introducing the new Basic Installer experience for SQL Server 2016 Express , SQL Server 2016 Developer , and SQL Server 2016 Evaluation Editions. We actually launched this functionality for SQL Server 2016 Express Edition when SQL Server 2016 RTM was announced but didn’t really promote this.

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

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 74

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

SQL Performance

AUGUST 14, 2019

Run the following code to create the Transactions table and populate it with sample data: SET NOCOUNT ON ; USE TSQLV5 ; -- [link]. Either as a fast in-memory spool that was especially designed for window functions, or as a slow on-disk spool, which is essentially a temporary table in tempdb. DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo. Transactions. (

Best Practices 108

Best Practices Servers Database Azure 108

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 27, 2016

We developed a friendly competition to break one another’s code. We are a bit wiser (you could take that as older) now and we don’t wait until 5 o’clock but we still try everything we can think of to exercise the code. I quickly got a MacBook and started coding on OS X as well as my Linux VMs, reading articles and books.

Servers 40

Servers Games Azure Software Engineering 40

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. I then verified my findings in the source code. Notice what is below it. Bob Ward.

Servers 40

Servers Database Azure Cache 40

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation. The worklogs are where the design for future releases happens, and these are opened up when their features are fully developed and source-code-pushed.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

SQL Server 2016 ‘It Just Runs Faster’ A bold statement that any SQL Server professional can stand behind with confidence. Try SQL Server 2016 Today. You can take advantage of this effort packaged in SQL Server 2016. SQL 2016 supports 3X more physical memory than previous versions. – [link].

Hardware 40

Hardware Software Engineering Transportation Scalability 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 5, 2017

By March of 2016 Slava had convinced me to join the team. Several of the recent posts highlight the design: [link]. If you look at the difference in the binary images the differences are operating system specific (headers) but the actual code of execution is the same between the images. He started me off with an easy project.

Servers 40

Servers Operating System C++ Software Engineering 40

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

As we discussed in previous posts, good practice involves first setting and understanding the false positive rate, and then designing an experiment that is well powered so it is likely to detect true effects of reasonable and meaningful magnitudes. We’d then refine these most promising design and positioning variants, and run a new test.

Metrics 204

Metrics Testing Innovation Design 204

Sutter's Mill

JULY 13, 2019

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. The key is to manage that risk with design flexibility to adjust the features in a compatible way, not to wait until all risk is done. Very serious, and no. Azure, Facebook).

C++ 98

C++ Entertainment Education Azure 98

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.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

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.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

SQL Performance

JUNE 9, 2021

With the first article on views, I want to start light, focusing on what a view is, using correct terminology, and compare design considerations of views with those of the previously discussed derived tables and CTEs. You already saw the code with derived tables and CTEs earlier in the series. This is super important to understand!

Database 140

Database Code Design Development 140

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.

Software 73

Software Software Development Code 73

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.

Best Practices 145

Best Practices Website Architecture Media 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Every technical challenge in this design space is paired with an even more daunting governance problem. These privacy requirements put challenging constraints on the design of a shared cache. But the completeness constraint is far from our only design challenge. Trust Falls #. Variations on a Theme #. Thar be more dragons.

Cache 82

Cache Government Traffic Network 82

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In just this past month we've had HSBC , ARM , Missguided , and most recently at re:Invent 2016 , Trainline , talking with us about how they are using AWS to transform and scale their businesses. I have been humbled by just how much our UK customers have been able to achieve using AWS technology so far.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

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. SSR is vital because SPAs take a long time to start up, and you aren't using our vapourware to split your code effectively.

Social Media 119

Social Media Website Technology Technology 119

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. This warning may mainly apply to users building their PostgreSQL from source code. Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Today!

Database 116

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 116

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.

Servers 40

Servers Azure Engineering Java 40

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?

Performance 113

Performance Network Mobile Latency 113

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. SQL Server could have been designed to start all the extra parallel bits all at once. We have not started any parallel execution yet.

C++ 98

C++ Processing Servers Cache 98

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In 2016, I released the first version of the tool, then called not Statoscope, but Webpack Runtime Analyzer. We don’t need the second export, so we can painlessly remove it without harming the bundled code. With detailed code walkthroughs , hands-on examples and common gotchas — all broken down into short, manageable lessons.

Storage 81

Storage Code Metrics C++ 81

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.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

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. At the time of the last Confluence run, the gap had stretched to nearly 1000 APIs, doubling since 2016. Healthy competition features various parties trading the lead with regularity.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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. We left those at the end of this post for your review.

Database 40

Database Servers Monitoring Availability 40

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.

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Entertainment Virtualization 52

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 ). Building separate models for each of the benchmarks was required to get the correct asymptotic properties.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

from wpostats, 2016 ). Factors that impact on CLS: loading ads without a designated room. Optimize third-party code. 3rd party codes make your server wait for extra resources to be fully loaded and increases page loading time. Get $50 off on Speedy Site service by using this coupon code SPEEDY50. 3rd party widgets.

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

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.

Architecture 49

Architecture Database Code Systems 49

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Response code or issues with the rendered page [Synthetic]. Prior to any peak event, take the time to review your CDN’s cache design and offload metrics to determine what improvements can be made. Ultimately, the key to surviving a peak event is to have very good CDN cache designs. Third-party broken [Synthetic or RUM].

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

SQL Server 2016 brought us STRING_SPLIT , a native function that eliminates the need for many of the custom solutions we’ve needed before. STRING_SPLIT() in SQL Server 2016 : Follow-Up #1. STRING_SPLIT() in SQL Server 2016 : Follow-Up #2. SQL Server Split String Replacement Code with STRING_SPLIT. Item ; END.

C++ 59

C++ Servers Testing Database 59

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.

Cache 143

Cache Website Mobile Google 143

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? miAi3020A9G #perfmatters 1 10:04 AM · Jul 7, 2016.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

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. The true median device from 2016 sold at about ~$200 unlocked. Execute the script.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68