The Morning Paper

JANUARY 7, 2020

The designer’s view of the human operator may be that the operator is unreliable and inefficient, so should be eliminated from the system. An automated system doesn’t make mistakes in the same way that a human operator might, and it can operate at greater speeds and/or lower costs than a human operator. Why do we automate?

Games 84

Games Monitoring Speed Systems 84

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Typical examples include adding dedicated hardware accelerators to speed up encryption and decryption computations. Approaches Towards Security.

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. Lighthouse results. One type is called lab data.

Speed 81

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This is my tailored view of it; others will have different definitions. It's a given that we must design a system, including a local software architecture, that actually runs, that is "solid." the user experience and design) and within the software construction itself. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

There are many ways of measuring your Core Web Vitals , but the definitive way — even if it’s not the best way, as we’ll see soon — is in Google Search Console (GSC). Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. This is available at an origin-level (i.e.

Google 143

Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

” The longer answer is that it depends on factors like your site’s design (because not all designs are created equal), your business goals, and the placement of your calls to action (CTA). Not all ecommerce designs are created equal. So, what are the top five performance metrics my ecommerce business should track?

Ecommerce 87

Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Particular Software

JUNE 3, 2019

The availability of bandwidth increases at a staggering rate, but we're never happy. We now live in an age when it's possible to stream high definition TV, and yet we are not satisfied. Design systems to deal with limited bandwidth: See what Udi has to say in Day 1 of his Advanced Distributed Systems Design video course. "Goldilocks"

Latency 40

Latency Speed Network Strategy 40

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

This essentially means that your website should not only be mobile-friendly but it should also have a Responsive Web Design so that your target customers can access your products (or services) with ultra-ease on their hand-held devices. Speed and Accuracy. Mobile Device Compatibility. Conclusion.

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy. But for me, I don’t have design sense. A little bit, but I’m not a designer by any means. Drew: It’s an off the shelf design system that you can drop in to build the UI for your project. aj Dobrucki.

Website 62

Website Design Open Source Software 62

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google do strongly encourage you to focus on site speed for better performance in Search, but, if you don’t pass all relevant Core Web Vitals (and the applicable factors from the Page Experience report) they will not push you down the rankings. While Core Web Vitals can help with SEO, there’s so much more to site-speed than that.

Engineering 246

Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. She understood how important mobile page speeds were to the user experience and, by proxy, SEO.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A data lakehouse addresses these limitations and introduces an entirely new architectural design. Further, it builds a rich analytics layer powered by Dynatrace causational artificial intelligence, Davis® AI, and creates a query engine that offers insights at unmatched speed. Ingest and process with Grail.

Artificial Intelligence 267

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture 267

Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

Typically, Customers avoid installing native applications due to reasons like space restrictions, annoying notifications affecting the mobile speed, and sometimes a quick review of the application doesn’t essentially require installation. When exploring Appium, this is a tool you should definitely have a look at. Advantages.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Testing Tools Programming 52

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

5] The program cannot recover programmatically by reporting a run-time error to the calling code (via an exception, error code, or similar), because by definition the program is in a state it was not designed to handle, so the calling code isn’t ready for that state. It’s time to terminate and restart the program. 2] Alan Turing.

C++ 58

C++ Programming Code Testing 58

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

In Part I , we introduced a High Availability (HA) framework for MySQL hosting and discussed various components and their functionality. Semisynchronous replication, which is natively available in MySQL, helps the HA framework to ensure data consistency and redundancy for committed transactions. slave_preserve_commit_order = 1.

Availability 113

Availability Tuning Speed Network 113

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Workflow Definitions Below you can see a typical file structure of a sample workflow package written in SparkSQL. ??? In every sample workflow package there are three workflow definition files that work together to provide flexible functionality. Either way they are here to start with, ready to go, if needed. backfill.sch.yaml ???

Best Practices 358

Best Practices Code Testing Data Engineering 358

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?

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2020

Microservice design principles force people to think along a spectrum of loose coupling. Introduces the Dynatrace long-term design pattern for full-stack observability, described below. Can mount a volume to speed up injection for subsequent pods. Dynatrace news. Kubernetes can be a confounding platform for system architects.

Government 164

Government Innovation Strategy Speed 164

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language.

Java 207

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

However, with our rapid product innovation speed, the whole approach experienced significant challenges: Business Complexity: The existing SKU management solution was designed years ago when the engagement rules were simple?—?three three plans and one offer homogeneously applied to all regions.

Mobile 209

Mobile Engineering Infrastructure Scalability 209

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

While Federico definitely has good points there, there is some truth in these myths too. The open source load testing tools definitely advanced a lot in both maturity and functionality – but there are many areas where they are behind best commercial tools (and if it matters for a specific user is another subject – for some it may not).

Open Source 223

Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

All of this convenient visibility is available with just a few clicks. To help you speed up MTTR, there are several levels of visualization to help slice and dice through information: Instances. The Generic network device and the Cisco router extensions are designed to easily extend observability to all the basic and popular devices.

Network 210

Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 210

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 23, 2009

As you may remember, secondary education for web development and design is something that interests me greatly. I’ve mentioned before that the curriculum taught in most colleges tends to be dated and in need of definite help. Front-end Development. User Science. Server-side Development. Professional Practices. A Complete Package.

Education 40

Education Tuning Design Speed 40

Sutter's Mill

JULY 13, 2019

We are on our planned course and speed: Fixing bugs is the purpose of this final year, and it’s why this schedule set the feature freeze deadline for C++“20” in early “19” (Kona), to leave a year to fix bugs including to get a round of international comments this summer. Of course, and no. Why did we do that, were we stupid?

C++ 98

C++ Entertainment Education Azure 98

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? Such policies would be designed to mitigate legal problems and require regulatory compliance. Certainly not two-thirds of them. Another piece of the same puzzle is the lack of a policy for AI use. of nonusers.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The “Changes” panel should be already available by default and next to the “Computed” tab. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. CSS is designed to not lose content, to not cause harm. Use the “kebab” more menu to select “More Tools > Changes” to open that panel. More after jump!

Design 145

Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 14, 2012

In this article I describe a technique we used to speed up a Pig build from 9 hours to 1 hour 30 minutes using 6 Jenkins nodes. This technique is generic and can be considered as a general way to speed up maven or ant builds on Jenkins CI server or other CI systems. Available tests are divided into batches according to the statistics.

Speed 100

Speed Testing Java Lambda 100

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

Sample GraphQL Schema Once entities like the above are available in the graph, it’s very common for folks to want to query for a particular entity based on attributes of related entities, e.g. give me all movies that are currently in photography with Ryan Reynolds as an actor. They introduce a circular dependency in the pipeline?—?you

Engineering 263

Engineering Architecture Java Infrastructure 263

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience. Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Content Loaded, Start Render, Speed Index) — but from the experience of the user. What Are The Core Web Vitals?

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. How to get these matrics right and not mess up?

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The key goals of OLTP applications are availability, speed, concurrency, and recoverability. And if the query processes 100 million rows, that’s definitely not trivial! speeds up scans, . GOOD-NEWS: The CITUS extension is available on the Citus Data download page. consolidation (roll-up). drill-down.

Database 93

Database Analytics Storage Processing 93

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo. 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 90

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

Apica

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Any application with a high degree of interactivity and utility – meaning it’s not a simple single-path or low value app like a multiple-choice survey – can have an astronomical number of complex and variable user journeys available to test. But let’s not just concede failure to complexity again. Let’s move past it. The result? More than 19.3

Testing 52

Testing DevOps Monitoring Media 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. Core Web Vital metrics definitions. A cornerstone of our business model lies in the development of effective landing pages.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

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 93

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 93

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It is designed to run in specific environments, like Java Virtual Machine for instance. This means that in the beginning, it was designed like most conventional programming languages from that era. Scala was designed from the very beginning to be a functional programming language. Available Tools and Frameworks.

Java 100

Java Performance Programming Virtualization 100