Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

DZone

JULY 10, 2019

In addition, compute and storage are increasingly being separated causing larger latencies for queries. Alluxio is leveraged as compute-side virtual storage to improve performance. But to get the best performance, like any technology stack, you need to follow the best practices. A Note on Data Locality.

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Best Practices Latency Storage Tuning 133

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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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. The context around why the Node.js

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018. 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.

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

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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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

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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Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Modern web browsers use all sorts of techniques to help improve page load performance by guessing what the user may be likely to do next. Drew McLellan. 2019-04-17T12:30:16+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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Performance Games Servers Cache 106

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. SLIs are the actual performance metrics of your services.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I began writing this article in early July 2023 but began to feel a little underwhelmed by it and so left it unfinished. When serving and storing files on the web, there are a number of different things we need to take into consideration in order to balance ergonomics, performance, and effectiveness. in this article.

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Cache Latency Strategy Speed 291

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. That’s practically an eternity when talking about page speed performance. Homepage with DevTools Network inspection enabled and open.

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Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Recommended!

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

are all prone to performance issues and unexpected outages at some point. 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. We talked about monitoring distributed systems in a different article and how that pertains to SRE teams.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

Originally posted at https:/opensource.com/article/19/8/introduction-bpftrace. bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. Linux already has many performance tools, but these are often counter-based and have limited visibility. bashreadline.bt

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Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

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. How To Build Resilient JavaScript UIs. Callum Hart. 2021-08-03T11:00:00+00:00.

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Network Engineering Availability Monitoring 145

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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Internet Internet Latency Speed 44

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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Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. Jake Archibald has written a great article on this. It’s a win-win all round! Show me the money!

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. Jake Archibald has written a great article on this. It’s a win-win all round! Show me the money!

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. Jake Archibald has written a great article on this. It’s a win-win all round! Show me the money!

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis and Memcached both provide high performance with sub-millisecond response times. Choosing between Redis and Memcached hinges on specific application requirements.

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

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

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This article is an effort to explore techniques used by developers of in-stream data processing systems, trace the connections of these techniques to massive batch processing and OLTP/OLAP databases, and discuss how one unified query engine can support in-stream, batch, and OLAP processing at the same time. High performance and mobility.

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Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

optimised container networking and security. overall performance comparable to bare metal. The good news is all of these challenges including performance can be tackled and in several cases, there are new developments to overcome them. Performance. faster access to external storage and data locality (I/O, bandwidth).

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Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Robin Marx. 2021-08-23T06:20:00+00:00.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

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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Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

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. Not the best way to get a high-level view of performance.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A few years ago, we decided to address this complexity by spinning up a new initiative, and eventually a new team, to move the complex handling of user and device authentication, and various security protocols and tokens, to the edge of the network, managed by a set of centralized services, and a single team.

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Architecture Latency Servers Website 221

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Alongside of that we have Google’s QUIC which could provide significant reduction in latency. Improved performance metrics have shifted the discussion to more experience-based optimizations such as optimizing for the critical path. I learned that performance was important. Learn how connections are established over the network.

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Technology Technology Latency Design 53

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Here’s the thing: performance is more than a one-off task. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

You get all the multicore Anna performance you want, but you don’t pay for what you don’t need. Just to throw out some numbers, we measured Anna providing 355x the performance of DynamoDB for the dollar. This increases the cores and network bandwidth available to serve common requests.

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Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

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Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

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. This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

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. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. However, just as out-of-control spending bodes ill in the long run, so does unbudgeted digital media decimate site performance. Performance Budgets. “A A performance budget is ‘. Business Performance. Akshay Ranganath.

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Media Performance Mobile Latency 117