Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

However, these fixes will only be available to users able to upgrade to Android Q — those with the means to own a newer smartphone. This, of course, positions privacy as a luxury good… Finding apps that leak data. Each app was then executed on a physical mobile phone equipped with a custom OS and network monitor.

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Particular Software

JUNE 3, 2019

Everyone who is old enough to remember the sound of connecting to the Internet with a dial-up modem or of AOL announcing that "You've got mail" is acutely aware that there is an upper limit to how fast something can be downloaded, and it never seems to be as fast as we would like it.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Of course, it matters what your users experience rather than what some search engine crawler sees, but one of the great things about the Core Web Vitals initiative is that it does measure real user experience rather than what Google Bot sees! Authors are important of course, but is that really what the reader came here to see?

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Of course, there are also times when the problem lies not with your application but with the user’s connection or network configuration. Helpful Error Tracking Tools You’ll find no shortage of error monitoring tools available online, but they offer varying amounts of insight.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

There's no point in recommending a better browser because none is available. Unlike Microsoft's late and underpowered efforts with IE 7-11, Safari enjoys tolerable web compatibility, more than 90% share on a popular OS , and an unheard-of war chest of available cash with which to finance a defence. Cui bono? — who benefits?

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. How does high availability work?

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Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

In this post, we outline the best way to host MySQL on Azure , including managed solutions, instance types, high availability replication, backup, and disk types to use to optimize your cloud database performance. High Availability Deployment. So, how do we configure high availability for MySQL on Azure? Azure Virtual Networks.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

The web is streaming, meaning it has none of the resources locally available when you open an app for the first time. Low-end phones on the other hand are getting cheaper , making the mobile internet accessible to demographics that previously maybe couldn’t afford it. Of course, this model doesn’t come without its problems.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. " Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. As another example, most applications on the Internet use TCP internally to ensure that all of their data are transmitted in full. Did You Know? Did You Know?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Of course, we’ll discuss possible resolutions to these bugs as well. The “Changes” panel should be already available by default and next to the “Computed” tab. Note : Another timely note here is that Internet Explorer will reach end of life officially on June 15, 2022 ). General Debugging Tips.

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Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

To secure consumer data, organizations need to make sure that their networks are updated and protected against any malicious activity. The complexity of the software being built and that billions of devices are connected with them through the internet, makes them vulnerable to security threats. They must be kept well protected.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Network effects are not the same as monopoly control. It's not because there are no other options available to them because of structural issues. Cloud providers incur huge fixed costs for creating and maintaining a network of datacenters spread throughout the word. Does the there can be only one apply to the cloud?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

This also puts extra work on the browser to recalculate the page layout as each image arrives across the internet. As you can see, the impact is considerable — especially on lower-end devices and slow network speed, where images are coming in separately. Performance calculations with and without dimensions. Large preview ).

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. We may ask our users to use the app for searching a course of their choice and take a few classes on it after making the payment. Can we have a single day in our life without a mobile phone today? Reference: [link].

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google uses anonymized data from Chrome users to feedback metrics and makes these available in the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX). CrUX data is available in a number of tools, including in Google Search Console for your site. That data is what they are using to measure these three metrics for the search rankings.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). PWA Feature Detector. How can that be?

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Converging Views.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

When a project’s source code is available to all, the question of security isn’t far behind. Watch the “Using Open Source Software to Optimize and Troubleshoot Your MySQL Environment” video sessions Open source software powers the Internet. We will talk about how to assess that when choosing a project.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Recommendations can come out of audits from consultants or from automated tools like Lighthouse (or SpeedCurve, of course). The internet. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) like Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, Cloudfront can sometimes have a big impact on performance. It's consistently inconsistent.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? And of course, companies that don’t use AI don’t need an AI use policy. The same thing happened to networking 20 or 25 years ago: wiring an office or a house for ethernet used to be a big deal.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Resources like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that had previously been the reserve of giant corporations were becoming commonplace for everyday folk building snappy websites. I can test this out by putting that tag in a page, and then flipping to the Network tab in my browser tools to see that the file has been loaded.

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Historically, NoSQL paid a lot of attention to tradeoffs between consistency, fault-tolerance and performance to serve geographically distributed systems, low-latency or highly available applications. However, consistency is a very expensive thing in distributed systems, so it can be traded not only to availability. Data Placement.

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Today, this makes concurrency more important than ever, because it delivers two things: It hides latencies we have to deal with and cannot remove, from disk I/O latency to speed-of-light network latency; and it makes our code responsive by not introducing needless latencies of our own even when we’re not hiding someone else’s latency.

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Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Although a beta version was released in 2014, the first stable release of Kubernetes was just made available in September 2018. The Need for Containerization Today’s internet users don’t tolerate downtime, so developers have had to find ways to perform maintenance and updates without interrupting their services.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

But there’s that inner personal actual relationship required in the terms of safety that I’m talking about, as opposed to, yeah, someone anonymous on the internet or some anonymous entity trying to get your data, things like that. They’re actually mostly … Some of them I can answer. Eva: Yeah, absolutely.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. We are excited for the General Availability of DAX."

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

For example, OWNERs and experts in video and audio codecs can agree to extensive changes in their domain but cannot green-light changes in areas such as layout, networking, storage, or JavaScript engines. One must wonder, of course, how Apple treats applications with persistent security issues that aren't browsers.

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Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques. To paraphrase Arthur C. Recent Entries.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. If we think about social networks, we can see two clear trends, those focusing on text and those focusing on multimedia content. An Image Service CDN is a combination of an Image Transformation API and a CDN network. Alba Silvente. 2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00.

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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 18, 2016

Over the course of a single load test you can generate millions of site visits, simulating peak load times on your website. All test results are recorded, aggregated and available in real-time online graphs and detailed reports to help track the response time of your website as the number of simultaneous users increases.

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Safety is within our budget, assuming platforms don't make exotic and dangerous APIs available all programs — more on that in a second.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Traffic shaping / canary deployment was pre-announced at Serverless Conf NYC in October, and this is now available. API Gateway can now be used to provide an internet-accessible public front to web services enclosed within a VPC. there’s no inline debugging available in the Lambda Console.) without web app servers?—?to

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