MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. How to get these matrics right and not mess up?

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Speed Up Your Site. Still good.

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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. This warning may mainly apply to users building their PostgreSQL from source code.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

the brilliant synth-pop score or the perfectly mixed soundscape of a high speed chase?—?is surround audio in 2010, and began streaming Dolby Atmos in 2016 , but wanted to bring studio quality sound to our members around the world. Imagine this scene without the sound. Even taking away one part of the soundtrack?—?the

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2

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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.

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Testsigma

APRIL 27, 2020

The continuous monitoring and testing of the code improve the overall build quality of the application. The Development and Operations teams can develop and integrate code instantly with the help of automated CI and CD pipeline. As DevOps promotes frequent code versions, it is easy to detect code defects.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Browsers are unable to rely on semantic versioning or trust file names because returned resources must contain the exact code that developers request. Late in the drafting of this post, it was pointed out to me by Frederik Braun that Brad Hill had considered the downsides of a site-populated SRI addressable cache back in 2016.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. 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.” Here is our (ever-growing!) Rachel Andrew.

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CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 31, 2020

From 2016 (PDF warning) to 2019 , the average mobile download speed in the U.S. In Brazil and India, average mobile download speeds increased by 75% and 28%, respectively, in that same period of time. Code splitting works. has increased by 73%. Content compression works. Minification works. Tree shaking works.

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

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

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. Inferno JS would be your best option, if you would like to build client and server-side interfaces with faster speeds, better performance, and isomorphic rendering. .

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

LTS (April 2016). It uses a Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) to provide a Solaris-kernel interface on Linux, so that unmodified ZFS code can execute. There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process).

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Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

As an example, we see that the preferred address to access the online edition of the New York Times is [link] (we received an HTTP response code of 200 when requesting the site). Rigor’s waterfall chart indicates that this address has been permanently moved (given that we received an HTTP response code of 301 ).

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Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In September of 2016 we started noticing random failures when building Chrome – 3 out of 200 builds of Chrome failed when protoc.exe, one of the executables that is part of the build, crashed with an access violation. Now we have a problem statement that we can reason about: why are large chunks of our code segment filled with zeroes?

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

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Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Who owns this code? Teams in this space can make trades intelligently, moving around code and time within a system they have mastered to ensure the best possible outcomes in essential flows. miAi3020A9G #perfmatters 1 10:04 AM · Jul 7, 2016. When the speed of a device dominates, wealth correlates heavily with performance.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

With detailed code walkthroughs , hands-on examples and common gotchas — all broken down into short, manageable lessons. It is an automated, anonymous analysis, with full transparency for testers and compliant with the regulation in EU law General Data Protection Regulation 2016/697 (GDPR). More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Because of its history and for being sort of a fork of an old blogging platform called “b2” (more details here ), it’s largely written in a procedural way (using function-based code). Before we delve deeper in the code, a couple more things about WordPress REST API. on December 6th, 2016. The downside of using it is its speed.

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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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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

You will need SQL Server 2016 (or later) and Developer Edition (or equivalent) to reproduce the results shown here. Batch mode execution is all about speed. SQL Server contains normalization code for each of the data types supported by batch mode execution. This fixed-size layout makes everything easier and faster.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

That means that 3GB functions might not see a linear speed bump for primarily single threaded functions. Specific improvements include A new code editor for those who write their Lambda functions in Javascript and Python, far superior to the old inline code-editor. We plan to test this out when we get the chance. But this year?

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Sutter's Mill

JULY 13, 2019

We are on our planned course and speed: Fixing bugs is the purpose of this final year, and it’s why this schedule set the feature freeze deadline for C++“20” in early “19” (Kona), to leave a year to fix bugs including to get a round of international comments this summer. Of course, and no. Very serious, and no. Azure, Facebook).

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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. Let’s analyze how these three methods compare to each other, in terms of speed and the amount of data retrieved. Recommended reading : A GraphQL Primer: Why We Need A New Kind Of API. So GraphQL is not DRY.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In time, these misapprehensions would become cursed articles of faith: CPUs get faster every year [ narrator: they do not ] Organisations can manage these complex stacks [ narrator: they cannot ] All of this was falsified by 2016 , but nobody wanted to turn on the house lights while the JS party was in full swing.

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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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