Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

I was supportive of this back then too , but am increasingly finding myself frustrated by the “hydration effect” when the web font downloads and characters expand (or contract) to fill in the next space. I’ve reverted back to font-display: block on sites I look after as I really do find the text shift quite jarring and annoying.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In this article, we’ll walk through the tools and some of the steps you can take to optimize your videos for playback — all of it to avoid stalls and impress your precious customers! It’s not uncommon to find websites with extremely large videos — for example, used used as hero background videos. Doug Sillars. Real-World Data.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals. An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals. Barry Pollard. 2021-04-19T08:30:00+00:00. 2021-04-19T08:35:54+00:00. Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Below you’ll find a (hopefully unbiased and objective) front-end performance checklist for 2021 — an updated overview of the issues you might need to consider to ensure that your response times are fast, user interaction is smooth and your sites don’t drain user’s bandwidth. LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Table Of Contents.

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Key areas include: Configuration parameter tuning : This tuning involves altering variables such as memory allocation, disk I/O settings, and concurrent connections based on specific hardware and requirements. This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

I’m someone who loves cinema as much as I admire typography. It’s rare to find such creative uses for type online, studying the work of graphic designers and talented typographers can open our eyes to what we can achieve using today’s type technologies. While good use of type helps people to read, great typography can do so much more.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Below you’ll find a (hopefully unbiased and objective) front-end performance checklist for 2019 — an updated overview of the issues you might need to consider to ensure that your response times are fast, user interaction is smooth and your sites don’t drain user’s bandwidth. Testing And Monitoring. Table Of Contents.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Below you’ll find a (hopefully unbiased and objective) front-end performance checklist for 2020 — an updated overview of the issues you might need to consider to ensure that your response times are fast, user interaction is smooth and your sites don’t drain user’s bandwidth. Testing And Monitoring. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget. I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget. This article is part of a series in which I attempt to use the web under various constraints, representing a given demographic of user. Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. Chris Ashton.

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Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

In this post, I’m going to take a look at how these might work in practice. What I am going to discuss here is NOT common practice. What I am going to discuss here is NOT common practice. I am talking about resource groups. Essentially, you can assign a thread to a specific virtual CPU. Currently, CPU affinity (i.e.,

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Randon ASCII

AUGUST 23, 2018

In my last post I promised to give more details about some rabbit holes that I went down during the investigation, including page tables, locks, WMI, and a vmmap bug. And, I have to say, hangs are hard to avoid if VirtualAlloc starts running more than a million times slower than normal. CFG and pages. That’s unfortunate.

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Particular Software

OCTOBER 3, 2017

This article was originally published on the NDC 2016 Blog. If you're a Star Wars fan like I am, it's like dealing with the Force. Fear : I fear that monster two-thousand-line function because I know what lies beneath in that monster function. Anger : I get angry when I see code repeated all over the place.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

It has been brought to our attention that this piece is a reworded version of an article published on the Google Web Fundamentals site, written by our friend Jeremy Wagner. Recognizing and crediting the work of people in our community is something I — and the whole team — care very much about. Ayo Isaiah.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Learning about one designer often leads me to another, and when I find someone who’s work I admire, I want to understand not just what they made, but why they made it. After learning about Alexey Brodovitch ’s influential work on Harper’s Bazaar until the 1950s, I wanted to know the impact his legacy had on the magazine.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Over years, this article has evolved into a book – please visit Introduction to Algorithmic Marketing website to download]. most of them are structured as data scientist manuals focusing on algorithms and methodologies and assume that human decisions play a central role in transforming analytical findings into business actions.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In this article, we’ll walk through the process of taking a seemingly simple design for a text-and-media component and deciding how best to translate it into code, keeping in mind the needs of both users and content authors. This design is for a (fictional) startup that helps people who want to learn a new skill find a tutor.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

For example, WCAG guidance around line length and spacing match the recommendations I found doing my research. In this article, we’ll look at ways to make an existing design dyslexia-friendly. This article builds on English-language research and can be generalized to cover most European languages that use Latin and Cyrillic scripts.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While we don’t find the multiplication of buzzwords endearing, it’s hard to argue that adding AI to anything is uninteresting–and specifically adding AI to automation. Gartner has anointed “Hyperautomation” one of the top 10 trends for 2022. Should it be? Is it a real trend, or just a collection of buzzwords?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( current article ). This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This series is divided into three parts: HTTP/3 history and core concepts.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. Robin Marx. 2021-08-23T06:20:00+00:00. 2021-08-23T10:07:21+00:00. Welcome back to this series about the new HTTP/3 protocol. A Primer on Speed.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Don't be trapped by dogma A lot has been said and written about why something worked for Spotify may not apply to your organisation, and the purpose of this article is not to go in those discussions but to highlight practical issues with these models. This is one point I can't stress more. And there lies the problem.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Unfortunately, we need to balance speed and alignment, and how we make this trade-off is not clear because not all alignment has the same cost. How do you know what is the right balance for you? His articles, his talks, and his sublime visualisations have been referenced thousands of times. Collaboration is vital?—?we

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In this article, we’ll talk about research, decluttering, and data visualization, as well as how these things can make your dashboard design better. In this article, we’ll talk about research, decluttering, and data visualization, as well as how these things can make your dashboard design better. 2021-11-11T14:00:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

How often do you open a browser window just to find yourself stuck identifying fire hydrants and understanding confusing sentences? How often do you open a browser window just to find yourself stuck identifying fire hydrants and understanding confusing sentences? It doesn’t necessarily have to be overly useful or practical.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

So, I started typing on the name field, and the autofill suggested my profile. Next, I was taken to a second form page which requested additional information like address, phone, date of birth, and so on. I sighed in relief. I deleted all the optional information from the second page, completed the sign-up, and moved on.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Egnyte Connect Platform.

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