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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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

arXiv 2020. On the Cloudburst design teams’ wish list: A running function’s ‘hot’ data should be kept physically nearby for low-latency access. A low-latency autoscaling KVS can serve as both global storage and a DHT-like overlay network. Updates should be allowed at any function invocation site.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Failure can occur due to a myriad of reasons: misbehaving clients that trigger a retry storm, an under-scaled service in the backend, a bad deployment, a network blip, or issues with the cloud provider. Those two metrics are approximate indicators of failures and latency. Let’s dig into how we accomplished this.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

This blog was originally published in September 2020 and was updated in May 2023. The speed of backup also depends on allocated IOPS and type of storage since lots of read/writes would be happening during this process. Especially if going into or out of storage types that may throttle bandwidth/network traffic.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It is our first Region in Africa, and we're shooting to have it ready in the first half of 2020. The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2017, we brought the Amazon Global Network to Africa, through AWS Direct Connect.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. July 2020, Twitter experienced a significant outage that lasted for several hours, rendering the platform inaccessible to millions of users worldwide.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. July 2020, Twitter experienced a significant outage that lasted for several hours, rendering the platform inaccessible to millions of users worldwide.

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Micro-optimizations are great for keeping performance on track, but it’s critical to have clearly defined targets in mind — measurable goals that would influence any decisions made throughout the process. Establish a performance culture.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities. The graph below shows the result of a survey performed by Statistica in 2020 on the increase of usage of mobile data across years. Google ranks applications based on how user friendly it is.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Servers and Networks. Network Configuration.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Compression achieved is relevant because the higher the compression, the smaller the file size, and the lower the data required to transfer the image on the network. Complex compression algorithms may require higher processing power to encode/decode images. A complex decoding process can slow down the rendering of images.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

After all, those are properties that browsers compete on, benefiting users in the process. full TCP/IP & UDP networking, including local network discovery. Java arrived with a focus on structured programming (including threads), GUI controls , networking, device access, and graphics. 86 06:16 PM · Jun 21, 2020.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

iOS gained browser support in late 2020 (a dozen years late) via an Entitlement. [4] Because they lean on the system-provided WebView component, they do not need to pay the expense of a heavier app download to support rendering HTML, running JavaScript, decoding images, or loading network resources.

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