Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. To update our global baseline from 2017, we want to update our priors on a few dimensions: The evolved device landscape. The Moto G4 , for example. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

The goal of this experience from a UX design perspective was to bring together a tightly-related set of original titles that, though distinct entities on their own, also share a connected universe. We hypothesized this design would net a far greater visual impact than if the titles were distributed individually throughout the page.

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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. Daniel An, Google, 2017.

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O'Reilly Software

AUGUST 23, 2018

Recently, we dove into our assessment data to discover—and quantify —trends in software development, each time comparing 2016 to 2017. Trend 1: The percentage of teams that do not automate deployment shrank from 26% in 2016 to 11% in 2017. Trend 4: More teams are enforcing full quality control (31% in 2017, up from 23% in 2016).

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints. In a departure from years prior, I'm going to use a unified network estimate (see below).

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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 In late 2017, we received some critical feedback from the brothers on the Stranger Things 2 audio mix: in some scenes, there was a reduced sense of where sounds are located in the 5.1-channel Imagine this scene without the sound.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

2017 continues a busy year for AWS in the Middle East. We have supported the development of technology skills across the region with Training and Certification programs to help customers develop skills to design, deploy, and operate their infrastructure and applications on the AWS Cloud.

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Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. If you don’t have well-designed and small columns for this composite primary key, it could enlarge all of your secondary indexes. Each partition holds data that falls within a specific range, optimizing data handling and query speed.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world. Rachel Andrew.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. To address these challenges, architects must design robust and scalable MongoDB databases and adopt appropriate sharding strategies that can efficiently handle increasing workloads while ensuring continuous availability.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

I joined the team in early 2017, and I'm blown away at how quickly the years have flown by. Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. This month, SpeedCurve enters double digits with our tenth birthday. We're officially in our tweens! Cue the mood swings?)

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How good is a new typeface, and how good is it compared to a similar typeface designed in previous years? How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface?

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Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2022

That number dropped to 46% in the 2017 version of the report but hit a plateau in 2019, where it remained at 46%. Ideally, traditional automation and no-code/low-code testing tools should maximize the speed and quality of software delivered to end-users. In 2015, 49% of respondents communicated they always tested manually.

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Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

Instead, the business may design and redesign systems as customer expectations change and business objectives evolve. StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. It stores data in documents and collections, a design ideal for handling large amounts of unstructured data.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web development is evolving at a rapid speed with each passing year. And so, it optimizes the page loading speed and reduces the bounce rate. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. This essentially means that your website should not only be mobile-friendly but it should also have a Responsive Web Design so that your target customers can access your products (or services) with ultra-ease on their hand-held devices.

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Enprowess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Wix – Achieved high speed and lightness within the development of configurable navigations and screen choices. Its first release was in May 2017 and was rarely used by developers, but it continues its speedy growth and becomes more and more popular in the developer community. What is Flutter? – An overview. Flutter Overview.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

Studies show that in 2017, the worldwide failure rate of iOS apps was as high as 54%, with Android apps crashing 10% of the time. Not only will this help speed track the testing process, it will also help make the objectives clearer. Companies must complete this review process before even finishing the new feature’s wireframe design.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. This processor has a base clock speed of 2.0GHz, with an all-core boost speed of 2.55GHz, and a max boost clock speed of 3.0GHz. The L3 cache size is 64MB. Azure Lsv2 Details.

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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. You'd be forgiven for thinking the verbiage was designed obfuscate. It's functional purpose (outside of signaling) is to obscure furious plate spinning.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

A 2017 study by Akamai says as much when it found that even a 100ms delay in page load can decrease conversions by 7% and lose 1% of their sales for every 100ms it takes for their site to load which, at the time of the study, was equivalent to $1.6 Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile.

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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 #. Back of the Napkin #.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

After the latest redesign in late 2017, it was Ilya Pukhalski on the JavaScript side of things (part-time), Michael Riethmueller on the CSS side of things (a few hours a week), and yours truly, playing mind games with critical CSS and trying to juggle a few too many things. Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Rather than pushing off INP until after it starts influencing the way we measure site performance, let’s take a few minutes to level up our understanding of what it is and why it’s designed to replace FID. In other words, INP is a clearer and more accurate way to measure the speed of user interactions.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 19, 2020

STELLA: report from the SNAFU-catchers workshop on coping with complexity , Woods 2017, Coping with Complexity workshop. Today’s choice is a report from a 2017 workshop convened with that title, and recommended to me by John Allspaw – thank you John! Take a trivial example with three components A, B, and C.

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Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2020

When I joined Tasktop back in October of 2017, Tasktop was doing really well. Tasktop’s solutions are designed to help companies turn things around fast because we realize there is no time to waste. Fate or Free Will . Her answer: It’s coming. . And it has. We are talking about survival here.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Harry Roberts has outlined this strategy in 2017. Using automated visual regression testing tools like Percy or Chromatic on a Pull Request level can speed up testing, allow developers to address regressions quickly and early, and make sure that the bugs don’t end up on the live site.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 per GB respectively. Mbps upload.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. Thankfully, this is somewhat easier than network speeds: more than half of American mobile users are on Android devices. Global Ground-Truth.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

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. Brad Frost identifies five distinct levels in atomic design for creating design systems.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Several years ago, I created a XEProfiler based loosely on the SSMS implementation, built as a 64-bit application to avoid the 32-bit memory limitations and using parallel activities to speed up the processing. The XEProfiler Sample. Creates an empty DataGrid control. Makes a pass over the files to obtain the Event Locators. Designer.cs.

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