Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Are all the caching headers set correctly? Waterfaller: A Tool Focusing On Network Waterfalls. Contrary to Lighthouse or WebPage Test, Waterfaller focuses on one thing alone — issues in the network waterfall. Waterfaller focuses on issues in the network waterfall and provides recommendations for improvement.

Cache 106

Cache Website Best Practices Network 106

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Choosing your database architecture may be the most critical decision you’ll make and has a disproportionate impact on the performance, scalability, and availability of your app. No single database architecture or solution can meet all of Amazon.com’s or our customers’ needs.

Cache 129

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 129

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

While mobile devices have come a long way in terms of network and CPU speed, many of them are still significantly underpowered when compared to desktops, especially in countries where mobile connectivity is still poor. Better tooling and metrics standardization. Measuring And Monitoring.

Website 126

Website Performance Google Media 126

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

TL;DR : To serve users at the 75 th percentile ( P75 ) of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight improvement on last year's budgets , thanks to device and network improvements. Networks #. This is an ethical crisis for the frontend.

Performance 113

Performance Network Mobile Latency 113

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

Lambda 98

Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

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.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If users have a slow network or a slow computer, they will see an ugly loader while their joke is being downloaded. The “stale-while-revalidate” cache control strategy can reduce the TTFB issue by serving a cached version of the page until it’s updated. Your server will have to serve witty jokes for each reader.

Cache 115

Cache Website Energy Servers 115

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

When planning your database HA architecture, the size of your company is a great place to start to assess your needs. This base architecture keeps the database available for your applications in case the primary node goes down, whether that involves automatic failover in case of a disaster or planned switchover during a maintenance window.

Availability 105

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. A cautious approach is crucial when transitioning to a M-CDN architecture. What is Multi-CDN?A

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Images are crucial elements for performance and UX, and data extracted from Core Web Vitals metrics such as Largest Contentful Paint , which attempts to identify the most important piece of the above-the-fold content on a given page, proves this. And you might ask, what do images have to do with this static site architecture?

Media 106

Media Cache Website Mobile 106

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. Lots of case studies where changes in performance led to key metric improvement.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

There are three Core Web Vitals metrics that Google will use to help rank sites in their upcoming search algorithm update. Chrome is set up to track these metrics across all logged-in Chrome users, and sends anonymous statistics summarizing a customer’s experience on a site back to Google for evaluation. Large preview ).

Google 93

Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 93

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. A cautious approach is crucial when transitioning to a M-CDN architecture. What is Multi-CDN?A

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Our approach differs substantially by (1) providing economic incentives for data to be contributed and integrated into existing schemas, (2) offering a SQL interface instead of graph based approaches, (3) including the computational and storage infrastructure in the architectural vision. Market participants. web pages).

Blockchain 94

Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Cache-Headers missing? Lighthouse records metrics from the browser, applies a scoring model to them, and presents an overall performance score. Guidelines for improvement are suggested based on how specific metrics score. During performance tests, Lighthouse records many metrics focused on what a user sees and experiences.

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources. Sometimes, the visitor’s browser itself can be the origin of network activity.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

There’s another emerging option that we didn’t talk about there: the use of far-memory , memory attached to the network that can be remotely accessed without mediation by a local processor. Processor caches can help to hide local accesses too, but not remote accesses. Clients cache the entire tree, but not the hash tables.

Design 80

Design Cache Hardware Scalability 80

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

Performance needs to be built in starting at the code level, and user-centric metrics like time to interactive (TTI), total blocking time (TBT), and first input delay (FID) help you gauge how fast a website is. The Architecture Behind Partytown. This is why performance is crucial when building websites. The JavaScript Tax.

Website 81

Website Google Open Source Mobile 81

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Moreover, Garten-und-Freizeit, a German e-commerce store that sells furniture, saw an amazing improvement in their metrics after getting a PWA. Due to the use of modern frameworks, advanced caching and rendering, and data transmission via API, properly developed PWAs can be a seven-league step up to boost the store’s speed.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

About 5 years ago, I introduced you to AWS Availability Zones, which are distinct locations within a Region that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same region.

Cloud 145

Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

” For just the YouTube Analytics application, we’re looking at metrics like this, with a 99%-ile latency of 412ms: Embedded statistics use cases include the various counters such as views, likes, and subscriptions that are included in pages. Cache all the things. Procella system overview. The paper covers a lot of territory.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. This helps support executive sponsors who then have meaningful metrics to point to in justifying the investments being made. Partner meetings are illuminating.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

ACM Sigarch

MARCH 18, 2019

Existing systems can be studied with measurement, while prospective systems are most often studied by extrapolating from measurements of prior systems or via simulation software that mimics target system function and provides performance metrics. an instruction or network transaction). Answered in Part 2.).

Systems 60

Systems Latency Performance Analytics 60

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. Again, it’s easy to fake performance optimization by leaving out the bad metrics, blocking users who spoil the stats. Well, not so fast. Only then it will be built.

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well. Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. This cache is often supported by a battery-powered backup facility.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The whole point of this section is that all the algorithms above can be naturally implemented using a message passing architectural style i.e. the query execution engine can be considered as a distributed network of nodes connected by the messaging queues. Marz, “Big Data Lambda Architecture”. Pipelining. Jacobsen and R.

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Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154