Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. That’s a lifetime in web seconds, particularly considering that this test is based on a desktop experience on a high-speed connection.

Google 91

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. It’s of course doubtful that you will be able to achieve the same savings that I’ll be showing here, but you will get some useful pointers and tips on things to keep in mind when dealing with videos.

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

To speed up release frequency, they’re investing in delivery-pipeline automation. The flip side of speeding up delivery, however, is that each software release comes with the risk of impacting your goals of availability, performance, or any business KPIs. Defining your target by setting a Service-Level Objective (SLO).

Metrics 151

Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 151

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. With this launch, AWS now provides 60 Availability Zones, with another 12 zones and four Regions expected to come online by 2020 in Bahrain, Cape Town, Hong Kong, and Milan.

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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.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Hot backups vs. cold backups: A hot backup — used to minimize downtime and ensure data availability for critical applications — allows you to create a copy of a database while the system is still actively serving user requests and processing transactions. In a cold backup, the database is taken offline.

Database 87

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 87

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc. Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. The list goes on and on. Wi-Fi usage.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Everyone should just use a static site generator and experience incredible speed increases? It can, of course, be changed by the developer, but after it is built and stored on a server, it gets sent to your visitors exactly the same way until it’s updated. appeared first on MachMetrics Speed Blog. Let us know below.

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Website Speed Traffic Database 52

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Win, win, win.

Engineering 131

Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

There's no point in recommending a better browser because none is available. This market then funds all of the R&D and operational costs of search engines, including "traffic acquisition costs" like browser default placement deals. [2]. This is the situation that Apple has engineered on iOS. Cui bono? — who benefits?

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

DRM-free, of course. For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. The eBook is available right away (PDF, ePUB, Amazon Kindle). DRM-free, of course. His team focuses on speed , helping keep the web fast. DRM-free, of course. Get Print + eBook.

Media 93

Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

DRM-free, of course. For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. DRM-free, of course. His team focuses on speed , helping keep the web fast. eBook is available, too as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle. DRM-free, of course. Print + eBook.

Media 106

Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Modern network performance and availability. Not as much as we'd like, of course, but the worldwide baseline has changed enormously. There are differences, of course, but not where it counts. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

All Things Distributed

JUNE 28, 2017

If the requirements change or better software technologies become available, each microservice can be thrown out and a new one created. That's how you gain speed and quickly digitize old machines and connect them to the cloud within a manageable cost framework. Taking the dread out of mistakes. From root cause to innovation.

Innovation 113

Innovation Website Servers Technology 113

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Real-time monitoring can help detect any anomalies as soon as they happen, thereby increasing the speed at which problems can be diagnosed and solved. With Terraform's scripted infrastructure, businesses can ensure their content is always available, swiftly rerouting traffic when necessary.‍Additionally,

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Content Loaded, Start Render, Speed Index) — but from the experience of the user. Google uses anonymized data from Chrome users to feedback metrics and makes these available in the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX). This field data section is important and we’ll come back to that later.

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

You can always brush up on React and GraphQL skills, of course!). We need a new breed of CMS — one that can make content available through any channel at which point a Headless CMS is required. It’s easier to set up your content on a traditional CMS as everything you need (content management, design, etc) are already available.

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Open Source Website Mobile Code 103

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

That means that 3GB functions might not see a linear speed bump for primarily single threaded functions. Traffic shaping / canary deployment was pre-announced at Serverless Conf NYC in October, and this is now available. Like Lambda, API Gateway now supports canary deployment / traffic shaping. without web app servers?—?to

Serverless 40

Serverless Lambda AWS Traffic 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Real-time monitoring can help detect any anomalies as soon as they happen, thereby increasing the speed at which problems can be diagnosed and solved. ‍It Of course, the latter. Now, for the uninitiated, BSL is a “source-available” but not traditionally regarded as open-source.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Rural connectivity is a persistent problem; many rural users (and some urban users) are still limited to dial-up speeds. It would be great to have an alternative to the local cable monopoly for high-bandwidth connectivity. I don’t, do you?

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Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Of course , they’re going to look to other areas to offset those costs. For example: An underpowered hosting plan fails to handle influxes of traffic, which leads to slower page speeds and a drop in conversion rates. I get why they’d think that way. For starters, they’re paying you a large sum of money to design the site.

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Website Servers Design Traffic 48

High Scalability

JULY 19, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. Client libraries are available for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java and.NET. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here. Need excellent people?

Education 22

Education Metrics Engineering Java 22

High Scalability

AUGUST 20, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. Client libraries are available for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java and.NET. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here. Need excellent people?

Education 22

Education Metrics Engineering Java 22

High Scalability

AUGUST 6, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. Client libraries are available for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java and.NET. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here. Need excellent people?

Education 22

Education Metrics Engineering Java 22

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. Client libraries are available for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java and.NET. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here. Need excellent people?

Education 21

Education Metrics Engineering Java 21

High Scalability

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. Client libraries are available for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java and.NET. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here. Need excellent people?

Education 21

Education Metrics Engineering Java 21

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. Client libraries are available for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java and.NET. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here. Need excellent people?

Education 21

Education Metrics Engineering Java 21

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Folks at this level of awareness might also simply assume that "it's the web, of course it's slow" and reach for native apps as a panacea (they aren't). It's challenging for teams climbing the maturity ladder to sift through the many available browser and tool-vendor data points to understand which ones to measure and manage.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Large Seasonal Peaks – Our largest community supports TurboTax where the peak traffic during February or April is often 100s of times greater than a quiet day in June. Of course, with as much textual data as we have we are leveraging Lucene/SOLR (a NoSQL solution) for Search and Semantic processing. the recoverability of data.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

If our example document wasn’t reliant on JavaScript to construct the <my-app> custom element, the contents of the document would likely be interactive as soon as enough CSS and content was available to render meaningfully. Any DOM or UI created in JS is not available for use until the script runs. Global Ground-Truth.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Chrome users. We chose to focus specifically on slow mobile devices — with slow 3G, 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed, just to be on the pessimistic side of things.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Instead, you migrate application bit-by-bit and make those new bits available to your users as soon as they are ready. Calling this type of migration “fast” is a bit of a stretch, of course, if we talk about the whole application, but separate features clearly can be delivered to the users much faster. Allow Host-to-Alien Access.

Architecture 74

Architecture Virtualization Servers Technology 74

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Information on the how of performance has been available for awhile, but not until the last couple years have we really seen answers to the question of why. Shopzilla presented information detailing how they were able to speed up their site from 4-6 seconds to 1.5 Of course, performance is not all that matters. (If

Performance 40

Performance Energy Google Internet 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76