IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. ‍At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You've put new rules in place.

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You've put new rules in place.

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Further, with the growth and scale of Amazon.com, boundless horizontal scale needed to be a key design point--scaling up simply wasn't an option. Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Its support for advanced data structures (for example, lists, sets, and sorted sets) also enables a variety of in-memory use cases such as leaderboards, in-memory analytics, messaging, and more. Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. With peak demand of 1.5

Games 112

Games Retail Latency Education 112

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. The benefits to apps that adopt WebView-based IABs are numerous: WebViews are system components designed for use within other apps. Users can have any browser with any engine they like, but it's unlikely to be used. How can that be?

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Customers have used DynamoDB to support Super Bowl advertising campaigns, drive Facebook applications, collect and analyze data from sensor networks, track gaming information, and more. Our first Facebook game, Fruit Ninja Frenzy, jumped from 1 million to 8 million active monthly users in only two weeks.

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

From game development to machine learning projects to neural networks to automation testing- everything is on the cloud. Obviously, the application will see a huge spike in traffic and testers would have already made the application scale-proof. Could we have maintained our own designed servers and infrastructure sitting at home?

Cloud 52

Cloud Testing Infrastructure Testing Tools 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB â?? By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments ().

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Chip design choices and silicon economics are the defining feature of the still-growing Performance Inequality Gap. Slow A53 cores — a design first introduced nearly a decade ago — continue to dominate the landscape, differing only slightly in frequency scaling (through improved process nodes) and GPU pairing.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Design: Performance is the gap between Figma mockups and the user experience of products for many, but not all , users. The extent to which a product performs well, the higher its likelihood of behaving in accordance to the approved design spec. Some begin an unproductive blame game, accusing tech leads of incompetence, or worse.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

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. Notice the async keyword on the Google analytics script? Google analytics has ‘low’ priority. I then clicked through to a game review page that weighed another 8.5

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

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. This is where we started. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. thanks, Guy Podjarny! ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Large preview ).

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103