CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

A classic example is jQuery, that we might link to like so: There are a number of perceived benefits to doing this, but my aim later in this article is to either debunk these claims, or show how other costs vastly outweigh them. I won’t go into too much detail in this post, because I have a whole article. Penalty: Network Negotiation.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

This article dives straight into what triggers a rollback in MongoDB, the risks it carries, and concrete steps you can take to both prevent and recover from one. This failure in replication could happen due to crashes, network partitions, or other situations where failover occurs.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This article will explore hybrid cloud benefits and steps to craft a plan that aligns with your unique business challenges. When delving into the networking aspect of a hybrid cloud deployment, complexities arise due to the requirement of linking or expanding existing on-premises network architectures into the cloud sphere.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

ecosystem was chosen for this new service deserves an article in and of itself. For each route we migrated, we wanted to make sure we were not introducing any regressions: either in the form of missing (or worse, wrong) data, or by increasing the latency of each endpoint. ecosystem and the rich selection of npm packages available.

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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. That’s what this article is about.

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. Any asset that carries the no-store directive will always hit the network, no matter what. If there is a newer file available on the server, we definitely want to download it.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The use of server-timing headers by content delivery networks closes a big gap. Latency – How much time does it take to deliver a packet from A to B. This data is available by enabling the mPulse behavior in property manager. Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. Lighthouse results. Real usage data would be better, of course.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

A performance budget as a mechanism for planning a web experience and preventing performance decay might consist of the following yardsticks: Overall page weight, Total number of HTTP requests, Page-load time on a particular mobile network, First Input Delay (FID). There are also other options available. Serve the right size.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

In this article, we will explain the multi-cloud challenges and explain how using multiple cloud services can make your business more adaptable, ensure that your operations continue without interruption, and help you control your spending. They can also bolster uptime and limit latency issues or potential downtimes.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

For example, if a lookup fails and times out to your first DNS server it queries the next DNS server until the correct IP address is returned, or it is unable to resolve as seen in the infamous "This webpage is not available" error below. Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

This header can be set on the response of any network resource, such as XHR, fetch, images, HTML, stylesheets, etc. For this article, that’s all we’ll need to start exposing the value and leave other more specific articles to go deeper. Setting Server-Timing. More after jump! For Images, Stylesheets, JS files, the HTML Doc, etc.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies. In DevTools, the Network inspector helps us see what the first webpage is doing too.

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In this article I’m trying to provide more or less systematic description of techniques related to distributed operations in NoSQL databases. In the rest of this article we study a number of distributed activities like replication of failure detection that could happen in a database. Read/Write latency. Data Placement.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

You need to beware that slow server response times can significantly increase TTFB, often due to server overload, network issues, or un-optimized logic on the server side. You need to beware of large HTML files or slow network connections because they can lead to longer download times.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Lots can go wrong: a network request fails, a third-party library breaks, a JavaScript feature is unsupported (assuming JavaScript is even available), a CDN goes down, a user behaves unexpectedly (they double-click a submit button), the list goes on. Both examples check something is available before using it. Callum Hart.

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Dynatrace

JULY 10, 2019

This article we help distinguish between process metrics, external metrics and PurePaths (traces). For example, the number of threads of your process is already available in Dynatrace in most cases, so there is no need to spend the extra effort. To run a OneAgent plugin, you must write the Python script as well as a small JSON file.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In one of our previous articles , we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. Monitoring. Monitoring can provide a way to differentiate between.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Hyperscale achieves high performance from each compute node having SSD-based caches which helps minimize the network round trips to fetch data. I highly recommend that you take a look at the diagram that breaks down the architecture and how it all works in this article. Serverless Database. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. It’s worth noting that you will end up with better Core Web Vitals scores by following a general advice in this article.). Layout Shift GIF Generator that visualizes CLS with a simple GIF (also available from the command line).

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. We already have 44 Availability Zones across 16 geographic Regions that customers can use today. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available. The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. Two failure modes we focus on are a service becoming slower (increase in response latency) or a service failing outright (returning errors). Defining and running experiments.

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MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

However, there is excitement around Starlink for other reasons – namely, the implications it might have for internet speed and latency – even by just a small amount (20 milliseconds on average). Starlink’s Goal: Reduce Internet Latency. What does Starlink and Reduced Latency have to do with me?

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

Originally posted at https:/opensource.com/article/19/8/introduction-bpftrace. For example, iostat(1), or a monitoring agent, may tell you your average disk latency, but not the distribution of this latency. This example instrumented one of many thousands of available events. Block I/O latency as a histogram.

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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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Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In a different article, we talked about chaos engineering and how SRE teams proactively seek out and test for failures to prevent the worst from happening. This helps to improve efficiency and ensures that information is consistent, up-to-date, and available. However, as we are all aware, issues can slip through the cracks.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g.

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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. Any DOM or UI created in JS is not available for use until the script runs. The median user is on a slow network. Global Ground-Truth. Where to start?

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

For more on the equation and similar experiments, Dr. Neil Gunther has written an article on load averages: [How It Works], plus there are many Linux source block comments in [loadavg.c]. ## Linux Uninterruptible Tasks When load averages first appeared in Linux, they reflected CPU demand, as with other operating systems. Network I/O?

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Sutter's Mill

JUNE 21, 2012

While visiting Facebook earlier this month, I gave a shorter version of my “Welcome to the Jungle” talk, based on the eponymous WttJ article. They made a nice recording and it’s now available online here: Facebook Engineering. The slides are available here. Title: Herb Sutter: Welcome to the Jungle.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

This article will cover many areas that database administrators need to be aware of in order to properly license, recover, and tune a Reporting Services installation. Disk latency for ReportServer and ReportServerTempDB are very important. These topics apply to both SQL Server Reporting Services as well as Power BI Report Server.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network. The PHP library for the API is available on GitHub. The main reason is because it decreases the latency to the user where they are located by serving your images from a POP physically closest to them.

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

optimised container networking and security. Kubernetes has all necessary primitives available to make it happen. A few years back, Hortonworks tried to create a fork of Kubernetes with YARN scheduler [15] but at that time support for multiple schedulers was not available in Kubernetes. Final thoughts.

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