Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface? Reasons To Measure The Performance Of Typefaces? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 111

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

With another year winding down, it’s time for us to take stock of how our site performance compares to the average page load times for 2020. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. seconds on mobile.

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 11, 2019

As a best practice, if you know that an attribute is not supposed to allow NULLs, make sure you enforce it with a NOT NULL constraint as part of the column definition. WHERE NOT ( shippeddate = '20190102' ) ; This query returns the following output: orderid shippeddate -- -- 10249 2017-07-10 10252 2017-07-11 10250 2017-07-12.

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Best Practices C++ Database Code 117

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. There are a wide range of tools and extensions for every conceivable scenario, like performance profiling, auditing, etc. Comparison Overview.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And with today’s increasing financial, availability, performance and innovation requirements meaning applications need to be geographically dispersed to constantly changing dynamic powerhouses, it has become simply not possible to provision, update, monitor and decommissions them by only leveraging manual processes.

Code 110

Code Infrastructure DevOps Serverless 110

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

Development As part of developing this type of UI experience on any platform, we knew we would need to think about creating smooth, performant animations with a balance between quality and download size for the images and video previews, all without degrading the performance of the app. those running the 2017 SDK?—?also

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Cache Design Testing Development 166

SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Microsoft engineering is actually sending quite a few folks over the Atlantic to come talk about SQL Server 2017, SQL Server on Linux, GDPR, Performance, Security, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and Azure CosmosDB. Best practices on Building a Big Data Analytics Solution – Michael Rys.

Engineering 40

Engineering Azure Best Practices Servers 40

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Here’s an interesting tidbit from that link: According to CNBC , the number of lawsuits over inaccessible websites jumped 58 percent last year over 2017, to more than 2,200. But the accessibility or performance of a website can go from okay to terrible overnight and with no warning whatsoever.

Website 54

Website Best Practices Engineering Design 54

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. If these monitoring tools face downtime, businesses could be left in the dark about the status and performance of their systems, preventing them from detecting and addressing issues promptly.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. If these monitoring tools face downtime, businesses could be left in the dark about the status and performance of their systems, preventing them from detecting and addressing issues promptly.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Harry Roberts has outlined this strategy in 2017. We’ll develop the card component in isolation and use the agreed standards and best practices. It’s important to document the rules and best practices that were established and applied during the refactoring projects. Let’s go over this strategy step by step.

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Strategy Testing Best Practices Code 132

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For years SSRS was bundled with the installation of SQL Server, which helped add to some of the confusion around licensing and support for the product, so beginning with SSRS 2017, the installation package for Reporting Services is a separate download. Unlike the system database tempdb, ReportServerTempDB is not recreated at startup.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Horizontal and vertical MySQL partitions are techniques used to divide tables into smaller sections for improved performance and management. This method distributes data evenly across partitions to achieve balanced storage and optimal query performance.

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

It enables businesses and organizations to meet uptime and service level objectives, protect business-critical data, and maintain performant databases. StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. The same changes made in the primary database are made in the replicas.

Availability 82

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 82

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to UX Research shares tips and best practices from leading industry experts. In fact, as the Baymard Institute found out, the mobile e-commerce performance for the average top-grossing US and European e-commerce sites is only mediocre. In the worst case, customers might even abandon the process.

Airlines 129

Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 129

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Here’s the thing: performance is more than a one-off task. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

According to Monetate , the following conversion rate results were gathered for Q3 of 2017 until Q3 of 2018. Having high-quality images on your site can however slow down the performance of your site overall as the image size grows. We’ve written a comprehensive guide which gives 18 tips for website performance optimization.

Ecommerce 41

Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

VoltDB

JANUARY 12, 2018

In the summer of 2017, we partnered with research firm Vanson Bourne to conduct a study on the importance of real-time experiences for today’s consumers. Create Better, Real-Time Customer Experiences. Those findings are detailed in our report, The Psychology of Waiting: The Business Impact of Diminishing Consumer Patience.

Database 40

Database Blockchain Healthcare Transportation 40

VoltDB

JANUARY 12, 2018

In the summer of 2017, we partnered with research firm Vanson Bourne to conduct a study on the importance of real-time experiences for today’s consumers. Create Better, Real-Time Customer Experiences. Those findings are detailed in our report, The Psychology of Waiting: The Business Impact of Diminishing Consumer Patience.

Database 40

Database Blockchain Healthcare Transportation 40

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.

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Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98