All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. Hadoop is quickly becoming the preferred tool for this type of large scale data analytics.

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Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 111

MachMetrics

APRIL 24, 2019

” Pingdom has a “Performance Grade.” The reality is that these scores are estimates of how well your site implements performance best practices. Who is your website’s users – Google, or your real customers? But their “performance grade” somehow went down. seconds to.27 27 seconds!

Speed 111

Speed Best Practices Google Website 111

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Sometimes it’s easy enough to find the answer to that question and the site just needs to invest in performance. Sometimes though, it’s a little trickier and, despite thinking your site was great on the performance for some reason it still fails. Many developers have been asking themselves that question lately. Interesting….

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Testsigma

OCTOBER 15, 2021

seconds to form an opinion on a website? Yes, Sweor’s study on website statistics shows that users decide whether they want to use a website or not in a fraction of a second. We can also note that about 57% of the global population doesn’t recommend non-responsive websites in the same study.

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Testing Testing Tools Analytics Website 52

CSS - Tricks

MAY 17, 2019

Instilling a performance culture at The Telegraph. We've been working hard at The Telegraph to improve third-party performance. Gareth Clubb : At The Telegraph (a major UK newspaper), we set up a web performance working group to tackle our “organizational” performance challenges and instill a performance culture.

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Performance Internet Internet Metrics 42

Percona

JUNE 23, 2023

These problems have been rectified, but the old reputation lives on in the annals of the Internet and the memories of critics. Window Functions are great for analytics, but is that something you are going to use? It does not follow the SQL Standard as closely as other databases, and some useful functions such as MERGE() are missing.

Database 121

Database Transportation Servers Cloud 121

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Understanding the importance of loading scripts asynchronously might help increase adoption of this critical performance improvement, so we're going to walk through the evolution of async script loading starting way back in 2007. The preloader is the most important performance improvement browsers ever made. Finally: Async.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

Testlodge

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) uses tags and attributes to control how the text in the front end of a website is displayed. Aside from being best practice, having clean code will ensure the web page looks and performs as the developer intended. Performance – Clean code performs faster.

Testing 61

Testing Best Practices C++ Code 61

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Visit website 2. Visit website 3. Its videos and blog articles address issues such as web performance, extensible component development and the intersection of CSS with other technologies, like HTML and JavaScript. Visit website 4. Visit website 5. Visit website 6. Visit website 7. Visit website 8.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. This is why performance is crucial when building websites. Steve Sewell. 2022-04-29T10:30:00+00:00.

Website 80

Website Google Open Source Mobile 80

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

There are many success stories about the effectiveness of caching in many different scenarios; next to helping applications achieving fast and predictable performance, it often protects databases from requests bursts and brownouts under overload conditions. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

Cloud 117

Cloud Cache AWS Storage 117

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The new Sao Paulo Region provides better latency to South America, which enables AWS customers to deliver higher performance services to their South American end-users. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Expanding the Cloud â??

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AWS Latency Storage Big Data 114

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

In Amazon Web Services there are similar dimensions that are forever important to our customers; scale, reliability, security, performance, ease of use, and of course pricing. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Expanding the Cloud â??

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AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. Your website may be using more third-party services than you realize. Ken Harker.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 13, 2019

On high-end developer devices (like mine with 16GB RAM), few or no performance problems occur. Static : A photographer, designer, or you (the developer) create the images for the website. It's even worth looking into analytics to determine the most important devices and viewport sizes. But on low-end devices? It’s another story.

Media 72

Media Artificial Intelligence Strategy Open Source 72

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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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

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. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. In those days, my main goal was to take the advances in building the highly dedicated High Performance Cluster environments and turn them into commodity technologies for the enterprise to use.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

In addition, the EU (Ireland) Region is available to customers who want local access to services from Europe to address their performance or jurisdiction requirements. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Expanding the Cloud â??

AWS 60

AWS Cloud Latency Storage 60

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% As PWAs work in browsers, they have web pages with URLs that work just like any other website (be it launched on a desktop or mobile device). The pages can be crawled, indexed, and ranked, as it happens with regular websites. Large preview ).

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

Quite often "The Cloud" is portrayed as something magically transparent that lives somewhere in the internet. There are four main reasons to do so: Performance - For many applications and services, data access latency to end users is important. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

AWS 61

AWS Cloud Latency Storage 61

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. These crucial elements act as conductors in a symphony, coordinating the performance of all aspects related to cloud workloads. Additionally.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience. LCP is supposed to measure loading performance and is a good proxy for all the old metrics we in the performance community used to use (i.e.

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

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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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. It’s an admin page that has an overview of all user activity, accounts, and analytics (admin page). Performance Costs. Website performance is not consistent across devices. Adrian Bece.

Code 89

Code Performance Network Website 89

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. For basic and simple websites, a developer was able to easily automate these checks and fix any problems before a user encountered them. The recipe was straightforward. Do you have a database?

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

As I have talked about before, one of the reasons why we built Amazon DynamoDB was that Amazon was pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and we were unable to sustain the availability, scalability, and performance needs that our growing Amazon.com business demanded. The opposite is true.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I wanted to simulate a slow connection like those experienced by users in Uzbekistan, to see what kind of experience websites would give me. I installed ModHeader and set the ‘Save-Data’ header to let websites know I want to minimise my data usage. What a mess!

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 31, 2020

WebPageTest is one of the best website speed auditing services for any designer or developer concerned with site speed (which should be all of them). There is actually an entire suite of advanced features that give you an unparalleled view of your site from a performance standpoint. Fear not. Visual Comparison. WebPageTest Scripting.

Social Media 52

Social Media Website Speed Google 52

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7% This is clearly not just bad for the environment — it’s bad for performance and hurts our users too. The performance impact is be measured with PageSpeed Insights.

Social Media 101

Social Media Media Website Airlines 101

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. When discussing web delivery and performance, it's crucial to differentiate between an origin (data center) and a Content Delivery Network (CDN).‍A The solution?

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

CSS - Tricks

MAY 15, 2019

Today's websites are packed with heavy media assets like images and videos. Images make up around 50% of an average website's traffic. The obvious problem with this approach is the length of the critical path for displaying the website. You might have to perform a hard reload ( CTRL + Shift + R ) to re-trigger range requests.

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Traffic Website Network Analytics 58

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Each is crucial, and they all feed into each other to create a robust, responsive, and resilient security mechanism.Research‍In the dynamic world of the Internet, new threats are as constant as the rising sun. You'll have logs and analytics scattered across different CDNs.

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. What is a CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer?‍

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. For example, an analytics application would work best with unstructured image files stored in a non-relational graph database.

Open Source 76

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 76

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Engine diversity is essential, as it is the mechanism that causes competition to deliver better performance, capability, privacy, security, and user controls. Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. More on that when we get to iOS.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121