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. Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. These include data transfer (i.e.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. Several respondents also mentioned working with video: analyzing video data streams, video analytics, and generating or editing videos. The responses are also skewed by the industries that use our platform most heavily.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

not to mention older browsers (Internet Explorer — hurry up and fade out would you!) This can be used to send this data back to Google Analytics by running the following script on your web pages: <script type="module"> import {getFCP, getLCP, getCLS, getTTFB, getFID} from '[link]. CrUX is Chrome only.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Different browsers running on different platforms and hardware, respecting our user preferences and browsing modes (Safari Reader/ assistive technologies), being served to geo-locations with varying latency and intermittency increase the likeness of something not working as intended.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Developments like cloud computing, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are proving that IT has (again) become a strategic business driver. We need mechanisms that enable the mass production of data using software and hardware capabilities. Nearly 15 years later, the situation has changed.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Today, I want to focus on helping app developers who have chosen to develop their apps on AWS and have in the past developed some of the seminal apps of our times on AWS, such as Netflix, AirBnB, or Pinterest or created internet connected devices powered by AWS such as Alexa and Dropcam.

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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. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Additionally, many high-end HPC applications take advantage of knowing their in-house hardware platforms to achieve major speedup by exploiting the specific processor architecture. There is no more need for hardware tinkering to keep the clusters up and running (I spent many nights doing this; there is no glory in it). until today.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Samsung Internet set as the default browser and loads web pages from links in the app. PWA Feature Detector. Web OTP (for easier/faster sign-in).

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

For example, consider a system that calculates average purchase value in the internet shop for each hour. For example, consider a system that counts unique visitors on some internet site. Sketches are very popular in certain areas like internet advertising and can be considered as an independent pattern of in-stream processing.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The early GPU systems were very vendor specific and mostly consisted of graphic operators implemented in hardware being able to operate on data streams in parallel. Programming the GPU evolved in a similar fashion; it started with the early APIs being mainly pass-through to the operations programmed in hardware.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

For example, for an internet shop, it may be a page with a product list, product details page, shopping cart, checkout, and so on. It also allows the project to be loaded faster, which is pretty important in regards to the growing mobile share and new markets with slow connection speeds and fragmented internet coverage. It’s up to you!

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Yet often, analytics alone doesn’t provide a complete picture.

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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. Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Public cloud is a cloud computing model where IT services are delivered across the internet. There are many more opportunities to customize your infrastructure with an on-premise setup, but requires a significant upfront investment in hardware and software computing resources, as well as on-going maintenance responsibilities.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Parsing and executing times vary significantly depending on the hardware of a device.

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