High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018? It has 41 mostly 5 star reviews. They'll learn a lot and love you even more.5 5 billion : weekly visits to Apple App store; $500m : new US exascale computer; $1.7

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Webhosting Compared: Testing The Uptime Of 32 Hosts In 2018. Webhosting Compared: Testing The Uptime Of 32 Hosts In 2018. If you’re into each month overviews with more detailed data, take a look at these pages below: Detailed Google Spredsheet (1st of January to 31st of December 2018). John Stevens. MidPhase.com.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Jake Archibald.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

TFLOPS deep learning performance, and is equipped with 32GB of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) capacity. The new DGX-2, which achieves 2 petaFLOPS in the system, combines 16 fully interconnected GPUS with 10x the deep learning performance. More details can be found in their recent talk in Scaled Machine Learning in March 2018.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018. The use of server-timing headers by content delivery networks closes a big gap. Definitely worth a read!

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. The Mozilla Internet Health Report 2018 states that — especially as the Internet expands into new territory — “sustainability should be a bigger priority.” Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00.

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The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

This summer also marks the 4-yearly event that is La Copa Mundial (we only get Telemundo in my apartment, not Fox Sports Network) but since the good old US of A are absent from the men’s World Cup this year, football fever is distinctly frigid. Next up Lynn Langit gave a talk on Serverless SQL , updated for 2018.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

TLS stands for Transport Layer Security which is a cryptographic protocol used to increase security over computer networks. That being said, this year in 2018, a brand new version of TLS has been released in which the entire web will now begin migrating towards. Faster performance TLS 1.3 The Benefits of TLS 1.3 With TLS 1.3,

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

As we noted last year, the release of Java 11 in September 2018 brought a raft of new features, including many that give the release a significant, clear advantage for using containers. Google announced in May 2019 that Kotlin is now its preferred language for Android app developers , boosting the language’s already strong adoption.

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Rigor

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Google recently announced the launch of their Speed Update. This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. This announcement is part of a Google’s ongoing efforts to incentivize good web performance. Prioritize Performance Improvements.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Increase the Google rankings of your web pages. A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a network of servers that is placed in different locations across the globe. CDNs essentially act as the backbone for high speed internet content delivery and performance. What are SSL Certificates Used For? million certificates.

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

2018: MongoDB announces that it is moving from GNU AGPLv3 licensing to the Service Side Public License (SSPL). That early decision was notable because whereas the GPL is applied if derivative work is distributed, the AGPL license applies both for distributed work and whenever end users interact with a program over a network.

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KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) is the latest internet protocol designed to replace IPv4 due to the network shortage of addresses. Within this post they mention that IPv6 was performing better than IPv4 for mobile networks. Google also provides a chart which outlines the Per-country IPv6 adoption rate. What Is IPv6?

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Error tracking is a vital component to any web project because it helps you pinpoint performance problems before they get out of hand. Let’s take a look at some of the best error monitoring tools and strategies for 2018. Source: Google Keep in mind that not all code errors are noticeable to users. What is Error Tracking?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). It was at this point that we realized we needed to make a significant change in our approach towards performance, and that we must embrace performance as part of our culture. Dan Shappir. Large preview ).

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KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

KeyCDN uses Google Authenticator to provide an authentication code which is used to log in. Install the Google Authenticator app on your device and add the two-factor authentication secret manually or scan the QR code provided on your screen. This allows you to restrict the access to your account by IP (/32) or network (e.g. /24).

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. With service worker caching in place, the resources that we need to load the page are cached on the device, which means that we don’t need to go over the network to retrieve it.

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. With service worker caching in place, the resources that we need to load the page are cached on the device, which means that we don’t need to go over the network to retrieve it.

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. With service worker caching in place, the resources that we need to load the page are cached on the device, which means that we don’t need to go over the network to retrieve it.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The primary task machines can perform are learning, reasoning and perception. Also known as Weak AI, the machines are designed to perform a specific set of tasks. At this stage, the machine does not possess any thinking ability, they just perform a set of pre-defined functions. Artificial Narrow Intelligence.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. They'll love you even more. Cars: $1 trillion.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. Can’t be perfect every time!

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High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

jedberg : Despite being a strong advocate for AWS, this is where I will say Google completely outshines Amazon. Google's approach to pricing is, "do it as efficiently and quickly as possible, and we'll make sure that's the cheapest option". Google applies bulk discounts after the fact, AWS makes you ask for them ahead of time.

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High Scalability

JULY 6, 2018

ThousandEyes : The Internet is made up of thousands of autonomous networks that are interdependent on one another to deliver traffic from point to point across the globe. tyingq : This is why AWS and Azure continue to gain market share in cloud, while Google remains relativity stagnant, despite (in many cases) superior technology.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

by Jason Koch , with Martin Spier , Brendan Gregg , Ed Hunter Improving the tools available to our engineers to help them diagnose, triage, and work through software performance challenges in the cloud is a key goal for the cloud performance engineering team at Netflix. 10–20 MB/sec (it is, unsurprisingly, receiving lots of data).

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Growth is still strong for such a large topic, but usage slowed in 2018 (+13%) and cooled significantly in 2019, growing by just 7%. But sustained interest in cloud migrations—usage was up almost 10% in 2019, on top of 30% in 2018—gets at another important emerging trend. ML + AI are up, but passions have cooled. Security is surging.

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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. Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates.

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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. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Steve & Tim's Close-up Magic.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While experienced AI developers are starting to leave powerhouses like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, not enough are leaving to meet demand—and most of them will probably gravitate to startups rather than adding to the AI talent within established companies. Microsoft, Google, IBM, and OpenAI have offered more general indemnification.

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

There are several emerging data trends that will define the future of ETL in 2018. In 2018, we anticipate that ETL will either lose relevance or the ETL process will disintegrate and be consumed by new data architectures. It generally improves performance by placing frequently accessed data in memory.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. A 2018 study by cable.co.uk found that Zimbabwe was the most expensive country in the world for mobile data, where 1 GB cost an average of $75.20, ranging from $12.50 to $138.46.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. High-performing fast sites attract and preserve users better than low-performing ones. The screenshot below explains that page load time and lighthouse performance scores are not the same, yet they are really close to each other.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Unwelcome Gaze is a triptych visualizing the publicly reachable web server infrastructure of Google, Facebook, Amazon and the routing graph(s) leading to them. yishengdd : However from my own experience, AWS Amplify is 10x better than Google Firebase. It's HighScalability time: Beautiful. Do you like this sort of Stuff?

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