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. Suzanne Scacca. seconds too long.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. With its modular architecture, DLA is scalable, highly configurable, and designed to simplify integration and portability. The new DGX-2, which achieves 2 petaFLOPS in the system, combines 16 fully interconnected GPUS with 10x the deep learning performance.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

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.

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AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

This CSS is usually render-blocking , so the browser won’t even render the website content until it has finished downloading and parsing the CSS file, resulting in a poor UX and performance on slower or unreliable networks. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others.

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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. De-duplication can prevent multiple copies on disk, but we're out of luck on reducing network costs. These privacy requirements put challenging constraints on the design of a shared cache. Trust Falls #. Back of the Napkin #.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 82

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.

Mobile 52

Mobile Network Education Design 52

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The implementation of emerging technologies has helped improve the process of software development, testing, design and deployment. The Internet of Things is generally referred to as IoT which encompasses computers, cars, houses or some other technological system related. billion in 2016. In 2021 what can we expect? from $12.6

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Artificial Intelligence Software Software IoT 92

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity. Sustainable Web Design.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Only teams that master their systems can make intentional trade-offs. Panglossian nonsense. --> Organisations that serve their tools tread water no matter how advanced their technology, while groups that intentionally manage systems can succeed on any stack. [1]. Performance isn't a binary and there are no silver bullets.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). 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.” ” Paul Calvano. Paul Calvano.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

And the Operating System environment for Windows Server has become more robust but has introduced more features and complexity. Today we are introducing the new Basic Installer experience for SQL Server 2016 Express , SQL Server 2016 Developer , and SQL Server 2016 Evaluation Editions.

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Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

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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Social Media Google Internet Internet 106

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. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Some relatively minor additions (e.g.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Tools and CI systems help them monitor progress & prevent regressions. The median user is on a slow network. Global Ground-Truth. Where to start?

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

This data would be collated and authored in a Web Content Management System (WCMS) by a content editor. 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.

Cache 143

Cache Website Mobile Google 143

Testsigma

DECEMBER 8, 2019

It has been since 2016 that a major IT firm WIPRO has been pushing for the application of hyper-automation to all their processes in their own firm. DevOps has been around for about a decade now and has become a crucial automation process that enables organizations to deploy changes to a system in production quickly and efficiently.

IoT 78

IoT Software Software Artificial Intelligence 78

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

Public API as -a-service has become a good business model: examples include social networks like Facebook/Twitter, messaging as a service like Twilio, and even credit card authorization platforms like Marqeta. ClickHouse is a great massively parallel analytical system. At the same time, it was not originally designed that way.

Database 40

Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

This information can then be used to set up tests within a synthetic monitoring data platform such as Rigor to test how a user experience those flows on every type of device, network, connection, and location. Ultimately, the key to surviving a peak event is to have very good CDN cache designs.

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. UPDATE: September 2nd, 2021 (Originally published July 26th, 2012.). Sanity checking.

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C++ Servers Testing Database 59

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. Here are some of the improvements they’ve made since our last update in 2016: Now supports Linux versions. The Best Mongo GUI’s of 2016.

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Database Servers Monitoring Availability 40

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. WordPress core developers used a system of hooks which allowed other developers to modify or extend certain functionalities. on December 6th, 2016.

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Cache Website Speed Database 78