The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2024

Depending on who you ask, governance is “the practice” of defining policies, or it “helps ensure” things are built as expected, or it “promotes” availability, quality and security of things built, or it is the actual management of availability, quality and security. None of these definitions are correct, though.

Government 52

Government Best Practices Google Software 52

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. According to other comparisons [Google for 'Performance of Programming Languages'] spread over the net, they clearly outshine others in all speed benchmarks.

Java 207

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

Google 82

Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

There are many definitions of environmental sustainability, most of which converge on a common theme: collectively and individually, we have a responsibility to act to protect global ecosystems and support health and wellbeing, now and in the future. General availability is planned for the second quarter of 2023.

Energy 188

Energy Airlines Analytics Transportation 188

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

One of the main roadblocks that arises with a broader definition for DevOps is responsibility. Site reliability engineers focus on automation, application availability, and performance, and help detect issues earlier in the software development lifecycle. Who is responsible for that in a modern development team?

DevOps 165

DevOps Engineering Innovation Best Practices 165

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2020

status, title, description, priority, etc,) and Google Doc and Google Drive for managing data itself. From common terms and their definitions, individuals, teams, and services. Getting Started Dispatch is available now on the Netflix Open Source site. Slack for managing incident metadata (e.g. Interested in Contributing?

Open Source 204

Open Source AWS Google Speed 204

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

App developers and digital teams typically rely on separate analytics tools, such as Adobe and Google Analytics, that may aggregate user behavior and try to understand anomalies in traffic. In this scenario, every team has an answer, but no one has the definitive answer. And those are just the tools for monitoring the tech stack.

Mobile 170

Mobile Monitoring Analytics Google 170

Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

IBM Rational Performance Tester and IBM Rational Performance Tester on Cloud (including no charge Starter Edition) appear to be available. To evaluate such ecosystems, in absence of more sophisticated data, I used the number of documents Google finds and the number of jobs Monster finds mentioning each product.

Testing 243

Testing Open Source Testing Tools Performance Testing 243

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

The Google Site Reliability Engineering page is a great read for understanding and embracing the idea of defining SLOs for reliable global IT services. SLO templates for the most popular use cases are available out-of-the-box. Proactive SLO impact analysis is available with the release of Dynatrace version 1.220. Learn more.

Best Practices 161

Best Practices Metrics Mobile Engineering 161

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? A Google machine-learning study I participated in a few years ago found that the total number of page elements was the single greatest predictor of conversions. You can dive deeper into image optimization and SEO tips in this article in Google Search Central.).

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While DevOps is often referred to as “agile operations,” the widely quoted definition from Jez Humble, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, calls it “a cross-disciplinary community of practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving, and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.” App availability.

DevOps 205

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 205

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees. The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile.

Google 143

Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. But does it need to be available immediately ? There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all. Analytics is a good example.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2021

As a strong supporter of open source and open standards, I’m aware that the wide availability of standards, open-source tools, and some newly coined terms are causing a lot of confusion. In the mid 2000s, Google published their Dapper paper which describes techniques for distributed tracing at Google.

Open Source 202

Open Source Monitoring Google Systems 202

Jos

APRIL 6, 2018

Or loading a 3rd party component like a Google Map, with all its additional assets needed to render the thing? A code coverage report, like the one Google Chrome provides won’t help us much. Code coverage tab on Google Chrome ( source ) As with everything else, there are trade-offs with lazy-loading. const latlng = new google.

Code 147

Code Performance Media Google 147

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

PurePath 4 supports serverless computing out-of-the-box, including Kubernetes services from Amazon Web Services (AWS) , Microsoft Azure , and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). In this example you can see on the left side that the Envoy payment service is running on a Linux host, deployed in the Google cloud. Seeing is believing.

Analytics 159

Analytics Technology Technology Cloud 159

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. ” Others — including CockroachDB, TimescaleDB, Redis, and Confluent — followed suit to some extent by changing licenses for key parts of their platforms from open source to source-available. Now, back to MongoDB itself.

Open Source 82

Open Source Programming Database Servers 82

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations. " you might ask?

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals , so it's been getting a lot of attention lately. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is another one of Google's Core Web vitals. > Long Tasks (Synthetic and RUM).

Performance 135

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 135

Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

Or loading a 3rd party component like a Google Map, with all its additional assets needed to render the thing? A code coverage report, like the one Google Chrome provides won’t help us much. Code coverage tab on Google Chrome ( source ). When it comes to SEO, you might have issues indexing lazy-loaded content on Google.

Code 130

Code Performance Google Media 130

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

When a project’s source code is available to all, the question of security isn’t far behind. Consider all the projects in Google’s graveyard, like Google Reader, Stadia, G+, and too many messaging apps to even try to recount. We will talk about how to assess that when choosing a project.

Open Source 84

Open Source Software Software Social Media 84

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

This makes memory a critical factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of large compute clusters, or as Google like to call them “Warehouse-scale computers (WSCs).” ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Enter zswap!

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the newest metric of the bunch and is set to formally be a ranking factor in Google search results beginning in March 2024. The fact that INP is already available in performance reports means we have an opportunity to familiarize ourselves with it today, in advance of its release. The results aren’t even close!

Traffic 94

Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 94

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Back in May, we shared that SpeedCurve supports Google's Core Web Vitals in both our synthetic monitoring and LUX real user monitoring tools. Two of the Web Vitals – Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and First Input Delay (FID) – were actually available in SpeedCurve for quite a while prior to the announcement.

Retail 82

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 82

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 The PHP library for the API is available on GitHub. Search engines, such as Google, sees hyphens as a separator.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. This data is available by enabling the mPulse behavior in property manager. Definitely worth a read! For more years than I care to mention, I've been advising folks that their TTFB should be under 500ms.

Servers 58

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 58

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. > Largest Contentful Paint (Synthetic and RUM) Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals. > Cumulative Layout Shift (Synthetic and RUM) Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is another one of Google's Core Web Vitals.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. Core Web Vital metrics definitions. SEO is key to our success.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

The authors of today’s paper should know a thing or two about that: Jeffrey Mogul and John Wilkes at Google 1 ! Or a system availability SLO, for availability seen by the end user, may well depend on the user carefully exploiting the available redundancy.

Metrics 79

Metrics Cloud Google Network 79

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Since browsers work on different browser engines, differences will definitely be seen. This is the simplest definition of cross-browser testing. They just released their website for Google Chrome versions 80 and above. The following image shows Google Chrome’s market share version-wise.

Testing 52

Testing Website Cloud Mobile 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. Although we’ve been told for years that visitors are willing to wait three seconds for a web page to load , Google considers 2.9 seconds too long.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. Importance of page loading speed – Google checks your website load time and they like it as fast with a better user experience.

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

That user preference is available in two (hopefully soon to be three!) This is available behind a flag in Chrome, but not yet on by default while it finishes standardization. The main one is that the definitions of the 4 types are all fixed, and based on quite old network data. Save Data API. More after jump!

Website 103

Website Media Mobile Network 103

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

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. Lighthouse.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Since a SPA is by definition a full app shoved inside a single page, the CLS for a SPA would continue to grow for the lifetime of the app/page. In 2021, Google relaunched CLS with a session window. By introducing a session window, Google reduced the impact of the SPA problem. This is where Element Timing comes in.

Performance 58

Performance Metrics Speed Google 58