High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Intel and Netflix announced their collaboration on a software video encoder implementation called SVT-AV1 on April 8, 2019. The AOM board currently includes Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Nvidia, and Samsung, and many companies joined as promoter members. What is SVT-AV1?

Open Source 166

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

A number of sites moved to font-display: swap when this first came out, and Google Fonts even made it the default in 2019. Ideally, we could also expose these settings for common fonts to web developers, e.g. maybe give these hints in font collections like Google Fonts? However, beyond that it didn’t really solve the problem.

Operating System 143

Operating System Google Website Cache 143

The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

SysML 2019. This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. The Federated Averaging algorithm addresses one of the key challenges in making this practical: reducing the communication volume (by 10-100x) between the model server and the devices. ” Secure Aggregation.

Systems 71

Systems Design Google Servers 71

KeyCDN

MARCH 22, 2023

Some attackers will try to deface your website and inject malware into it, steal your or your customer's data, and delete important content from your server. Why a website security check is so important In 2019, it was found that over 60% of websites were vulnerable at the time of infection.

Website 60

Website Servers Ecommerce Google 60

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. Jack Lenox.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

You can remotely access and navigate another database server. The dashboard lets you monitor server activities such as database locks, connected sessions, and prepared transaction. Since pgAdmin is a web application, you can deploy it on any server and access it remotely. 2019 Comparison Click To Tweet.

Open Source 262

Open Source Database Azure Cloud 262

Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

Simform (as of 2019) stated that an average user has at least 40 apps installed on their phones while millennials have around 67 apps. It’s a cross-platform tool and comes with a GUI wrapper around the Appium server that lets us download it for pretty much every platform. It’s 2021 and we now have a mobile app for everything.

Testing Tools 86

Testing Tools Mobile Testing Open Source 86

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We look forward to providing you with even better articles, news and information in 2019. As 2018 moves into 2019, let’s take a quick look back at some of the most popular posts on the blog this year. So I started a couple of instances to test Percona Server for MySQL under this CPU. Top 10 Most Read. on Ubuntu 16.04

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

You can find more information about modifying this file within your server’s documentation. When setting up server-side redirection, be sure to keep the redirect URL consistent with the alternate URL specified in the page’s link rel=”alternate” tag or in the sitemap. Originally published September 2016, updated July 2019.

Mobile 60

Mobile Traffic Google Latency 60

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

We’ve seen the reaction to news that Amazon’s Echo and Google Home send recordings of conversations back to the server. What if all of your documents were in Google Docs, all of your music was in your favorite streaming service? Read “ O’Reilly serverless survey 2019: Concerns, what works, and what to expect ” for full results.

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Here is a roundup of front end web development trends to keep an eye on in 2019. Frontend Frameworks If you’re not using a frontend framework like React, Vue.js, or Angular to help build your projects, then 2019 is a good year to start. It can be used to decouple your frontend from your backend and improve server efficiency.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

2019-02-12T12:00:22+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. 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). However, their servers have been working very steadily, with the exception of one bigger outage (42 minutes).

Testing 50

Testing Website Servers Availability 50

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform tied neck and neck at 17.5% 2019 PostgreSQL Trends Report: Private vs. Public Cloud, Migrations, Database Combos & Top Reasons Used Click To Tweet. Most Popular Databases in 2019. using SQL Server, 17.3% each amongst PostgreSQL public cloud users. using MySQL, 10.0%

Database 185

Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. 2019-06-20T11:00:16+02:00. 2019-06-20T10:35:07+00:00. It’s fair to say Google Fonts are popular. Without Google Fonts you would be limited to the handful of “ system fonts ” installed on your user’s device. Danny Cooper.

Google 111

Google Performance Cache Website 111

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Rather than buying racks and racks of servers that need to handle the maximum potential traffic and be idle most of the time, it seems that serverless’ method of paying by compute is proving to be beneficial to the bottom lines of organizations. The third stand-out issue was “no server maintenance.” 1 reported benefit. 1 in tools used.

Serverless 88

Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

Google 82

Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 7, 2019

As this open source database continues to pull new users from expensive commercial database management systems like Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server, organizations are adopting new approaches and evolving their own to maintain the exceptional performance of their SQL deployments. autovacuum may have trouble keeping up on a busy server.

Strategy 182

Strategy Cloud Java Open Source 182

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. In 2019, we sold 500k tickets a year, so our operations are complex and we need to showcase it with our landing pages in an appealing and fast manner. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients. How about errors?”

Google 111

Google Architecture Servers Speed 111

Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2019

2019-07-16T14:30:59+02:00. 2019-07-16T14:35:52+00:00. Using Google, you can see there are several sites that will list these movies by name, and maybe some additional information, but generally you’ll have to follow through with links to capture all the information you want. First of all, to start off, let’s install Scrapy.

Scalability 87

Scalability Website C++ Servers 87

Scalegrid

AUGUST 15, 2019

Read on to find out which is the best MongoDB GUI for you, updated for 2019, that contain these key features: A good visual editor to write and edit queries faster. Should have an excellent way to measure server and query performance. SQL Import/Export that supports major databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

Database 40

Database Servers Monitoring Availability 40

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. Importance of page loading speed – Google checks your website load time and they like it as fast with a better user experience.

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Three revolutions were just beginning and have been feeding on each other since, as commented by John Arundel and Justin Domingus in their 2019 book Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes : Cloud computing: A revolution in the automation of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in an on-demand, pay-as-you-use model. Resource optimization.

Virtualization 133

Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 133

High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

swardley: X : What's going to happen in cloud in 2019? ” And in most main­stream ap­pli­ca­tion­s, you should be able to get there with server­less. And if you know someone with hearing problems they might find Live CC useful. 202,157 flights tracked! 202,157 flights tracked! Me : Nothing special.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 137

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

2019-09-03T12:30:00+02:00. 2019-09-03T11:35:16+00:00. Managing the deployment of a website used to be easy: It simply involved uploading files to the server through FTP and you were pretty much done. Automating Website Deployments Through Buddy. Automating Website Deployments Through Buddy. Leonardo Losoviz. application.

Website 82

Website Serverless AWS Lambda 82

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

2019-07-29T14:00:59+02:00. 2019-07-29T13:06:57+00:00. The United Kingdom is ranked 34th out of 207 countries for broadband speed, but in July 2019 there was still a school in the UK without broadband. Google Homepage — DOM. The JS-disabled version of Google search is just 102 KB, as opposed to 402 KB.

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? 2019 Top Databases Used. So, which databases are most popular in 2019? Popular examples of commercial databases include Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2. What are the Top Open Source Databases in 2019?

Open Source 55

Open Source Database Cloud Infrastructure 55

CSS - Tricks

MAY 15, 2019

Chrome has already merged the code for native lazy-loading and is expected to ship it in Chrome 75, which is slated to release June 4, 2019. Most libraries work like this: The initial, server-side HTML response includes an img element without the src attribute so the browser does not load any data. The pre-native approach.

Traffic 58

Traffic Website Network Analytics 58

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

For instance, if I’m reading a paper from 2019, a popular song from that year could start playing. Lastly, I tried not to search for help on Google, Stack Overflow, or other websites, which is what I would normally be doing while programming. And if I switch tabs to view a paper from 2008, then a song from 2008 could start up.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

2019-06-26T14:00:59+02:00. 2019-06-26T14:06:48+00:00. Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. For example: Think with Google suggests the typical page speed optimizations. Suzanne Scacca.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

2019-10-29T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-10-29T13:36:09+00:00. Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Years ago, Google aimed to put a stop to this problem by creating a next-gen image format called WebP.

Website 72

Website Speed Cache Google 72

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

2019-04-09T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Most sites were all hosted on a single physical server somewhere on our own hosting infrastructure, and it was the server we thought about defending when it came to security best practices. file hosted as part of their own website on their own server.

Website 58

Website Servers Code Best Practices 58

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

2019-10-22T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-10-22T13:06:35+00:00. Plus, now that Google has made mobile-first indexing the default, you really can’t afford to let any performance optimizations fall by the wayside what with how difficult it can be to get your mobile site as speedy as your desktop. A Guide To Optimizing Images For Mobile.

Mobile 63

Mobile Media Website Storage 63

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Software Developers got to use JavaScript CLI tools to create the back-end part of web applications or server-side. allows creating web application’s server-side or back-end components. is a server-side, open-source, JavaScript runtime environment that allows developers to write JavaScript on the client and the server-side.

Open Source 52

Open Source Virtualization Programming Servers 52