Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. At one point we had two conflicting high availability products from different teams, who weren’t cooperating. He had it up and running on Wednesday.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 4, 2019

describe for us the data validation pipeline deployed in production at Google, “ used by hundreds of product teams to continuously monitor and validate several petabytes of production data per day.” Data validation at Google is an integral part of machine learning pipelines. Experiences in production at Google.

Google 92

Google Code Infrastructure Best Practices 92

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. We are loading the following resources: Google Fonts Stylesheet. Fine-tuning JavaScript Resource Priorities.

Media 69

Media Tuning Metrics Google 69

Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

Some answers from the community surprised me, as they’ve included some very useful and often-requested CSS features which were made available in the past year or two. But what about the cases where this global override is not ideal for all components, and we want to fine-tune the properties for individual components? all Property.

Media 140

Media Tuning Design Website 140

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

The final prompt for a more aggressive optimization was the “Core Web Vitals” dashboard in the Google Search Console. We first thought that it could be related to the cookie banner adjustments we made recently, but it turned out it was a Google Search Update that seemed to be more aggressively penalizing us for a high CLS.

Mobile 140

Mobile Design Cache Code 140

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Source: Guy Podjarny However, we do now have a full set of techniques to effectively deliver highly performative sites that not only visually scale across devices but also deliver code and assets tuned to the width of a device. It’s a new image format developed by Google that’s 30-40% smaller than a jpeg.

Performance 60

Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Data Pipeline A data pipeline is a software that ingests data from multiple sources, transforms it and finally makes it available to internal or external products. In certain scenarios exactly-once semantics is possible but the best you can do is at-least-once or at-most-once. Generally speaking, data pipelines are leaky by nature.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

Lastly, I tried not to search for help on Google, Stack Overflow, or other websites, which is what I would normally be doing while programming. For a few years now Google has been transitioning developers to v3 , which I didn’t know about since I had no prior experience with Chrome extensions. And ChatGPT didn’t warn me about this.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Additionally, even if we knew the available physical bandwidth, that wouldn’t mean we could use all of it ourselves. Several users are typically active on a network concurrently, each of whom need a fair share of the available bandwidth. More in-depth information is available. What Does It All Mean?

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

Network 104

Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” The data available to our retail business is much more limited. Is special-purpose training to fine-tune a model’s behavior an option?

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It combines decades of deployment experience and best practices of TCP with some core new features. While the first Google-specific versions of QUIC used a custom set-up for this, standardized QUIC uses the existing TLS 1.3 IETF’s QUIC is technically very different from Google’s QUIC. Stay tuned! (vf,

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Tip: When evaluating quality, compression and fine-tuning of modern formats, Squoosh.app ’s ability to perform a visual side-by-side comparison is helpful. Additional format vs quality comparisons are available for photography and illustrations. AVIF contributors at Google have also reported some nice performance gains.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144