Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Core Web Vital metrics definitions. This is why the async and deferred attributes are crucial, as they ensure an efficient, seamless web browsing experience. I know that is a lot of information to unpack in a single sitting, and it definitely took our team time to wrap our minds around what it takes to achieve a low LCP score.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. the term "smartphone dependence" has been coined to describe folks without other ways to access the increasing fraction of essential services only available through the internet. Going forward, I'll produce both as top-line guidance. In the U.S.,

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Testsigma

DECEMBER 12, 2020

There are a lot of ways to perform cross-browser testing but the most efficient is to go for a cloud-based tool such as Testsigma. When you opt for an online cloud-based tool, you get the benefit of a well maintained and efficient infrastructure on the cloud. This kind of approach is although a victim of latency and delayed execution.

Testing 53

Testing Operating System Website Latency 53

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. Redirects are often pretty light in terms of the latency that they add to a website, but they are an easy first thing to check, and they can generally be removed with little effort. I definitely have some assets that are doing nothing but wasting time and space.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

This boils down to a single digit µs latency toleration in the tail for far memory, and in addition to security and privacy concerns, rules out remote memory solutions. Zswap is readily available and runs as a swap device in the Linux kernel. Enter zswap! Google use zswap to implement their far memory tier.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

This level of distribution will seriously affect the efficiency of the operation, which will increase the response time significantly. Normally this solution requires a full code redesign and could be quite difficult to achieve when it is injected after the initial code architecture definition. This is it. That is all we need.

Traffic 128

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 128

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt. If not, then check your Node installation is working and you’re definitely in the correct project directory. This means reports are now much more efficiently organized and won’t override each other no matter how many reports are saved.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

From the moment a Netflix film or series is pitched and long before it becomes available on Netflix, it goes through many phases. Operational Reporting is a reporting paradigm specialized in covering high-resolution, low-latency data sets, serving detailed day-to-day activities¹ and processes of a business domain.

Big Data 253

Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

They have a clear input and output definition, and often a schema as well. A message-oriented implementation requires an efficient messaging backbone that facilitates the exchange of data in a reliable and secure way with the lowest latency possible. Leverage the convergence of fast data and microservices.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

I've got a long blog post brewing on this, but jumping to the end, an operable definition is: A browser is an application that can register with an OS to handle http and https navigations by default. No documentation is available for third-party web developers from any of the largest WebView IAB (ab)users. " you might ask?

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits. This article will list some of the use cases of AutoOptimize, discuss the design principles that help enhance efficiency, and present the high-level architecture.

Storage 203

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

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. How long is too long?

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized , key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Getting started with Webpack can be tough though.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

The net result is, for many datasets, vastly more efficient use of RAM. and can achieve orders of magnitude more efficient data access, which opens up many possibilities. The cycle iterates over every video available at Netflix, calculating liveness details for each of them. This data-propagation latency was unacceptable?—?we

Cache 183

Cache Architecture Latency Engineering 183

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).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

A cluster is just a pool of compute resources available to a customer’s applications. The agent is written in Go, has a minimal footprint, and is available on GitHub under an Apache license. This architecture affords Amazon ECS high availability, low latency, and high throughput because the data store is never pessimistically locked.

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Latency Architecture AWS Open Source 166

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

At launch, an item’s change record is available in the stream for 24 hours after it is created. No matter which mechanism you choose to use, we make the stream data available to you instantly (latency in milliseconds) and how fast you want to apply the changes is up to you. DynamoDB Cross-region Replication. DynamoDB Triggers.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. Many of these systems support I/O ordering with a stable media cache and subsequently combine and/or split I/O requests across available subsystem resources to complete the storing to physical media.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

As a basis for that discussion, first some definitions: Dependability The degree to which a product or service can be relied upon. Availability and Reliability are forms of dependability. Availability The degree to which a product or service is available for use when required. Availability, reliability, and state.

Engineering 215

Engineering Systems Scalability Availability 215

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT).

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You’ve probably heard things like: “HTTP/3 is much faster than HTTP/2 when there is packet loss”, or “HTTP/3 connections have less latency and take less time to set up”, and probably “HTTP/3 can send data more quickly and can send more resources in parallel”. For example, TCP requires a “ handshake ” to set up a new connection. Conclusion.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

For example, you could reduce compression efficiency , because that works better with more data. Finally, not inlining resources has an added latency cost because the file needs to be requested. Luckily, other lower-level tools are available to help with this. This is true, but only to a relatively limited extent.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 104