Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Often deferred till the very end of the project, it would boil down to minification, concatenation, asset optimization and potentially a few fine adjustments on the server’s config file.

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HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

in this context a bench is a mark in typically a stone structure to place a level staff to make sure that accurate measurements can be made from the same position at some point in time in the future. If you change something and re-run the same test the difference in the results can be attributed to the changes you made.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

As always, the devil's in the footnotes, but the top-line remains the same: when we construct a digital world to the limits of the best devices, we build a less usable web for the vast majority of humans who cannot afford iPhones or $800 Samsung flagships. This local story is important, but it isn't the whole picture.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Performance is a core feature of our company, Instant Domain Search —it’s in the name. It wasn’t long before a sea of red “poor” and yellow “needs improvement” notices in our Google Search Console needed our attention. When the first version of the site was launched, I’d built it with PHP, MySQL, and XMLHttpRequest.

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Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 93

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Often deferred till the very end of the project, it would boil down to minification, concatenation, asset optimization and potentially a few fine adjustments on the server’s config file.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

This is advanced load optimization, and you should approach/implement it ONLY if you are 100% sure of what you are doing, and, more importantly, if you know what you are doing, and why you are doing it. This feature can help a lot if used correctly, and hopefully they will not deprecate or remove it after five minutes.

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Tuning Virtualization Testing Servers 44

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Its sweet spot is applications that involve resource-intensive algorithms coordinated via complex, hierarchical workflows that last anywhere from minutes to years. A Cosmos service This article will explain why we built Cosmos, how it works and share some of the things we have learned along the way. Modularity?—?An Delivery?—?A

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Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

This piece will cover some of my experiences in doing this, as well as my current thoughts on optimizing websites for carbon emissions , and some practical examples of things you can do to improve your own pages. But first, a confession: When I first heard about the environmental impact of websites, I didn’t quite believe it.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 135

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And everyone has opinions about how these language models and art generation programs are going to change the nature of work, usher in the singularity, or perhaps even doom the human race. Users and Nonusers AI adoption is in the process of becoming widespread, but it’s still not universal. What’s the reality?

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 107

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It’s also the data source for our annual usage study, which examines the most-used topics and the top search terms. [1]. It’s the single most popular programming language on O’Reilly, and it accounts for 10% of all usage. Still cloud-y, but with a possibility of migration. Coincidence? Security is surging. to be wary of.

Software Architecture 134

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 134

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

There are a couple of downsides though in case you are looking to use it to support tens of thousands of users working on hundreds of millions of files simultaneously containing petabytes of data. Our only option was to roll up our sleeves and build basic cloud file system components such as object store ourselves. Introduction.

Architecture 52

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