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. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. You might start by opening DevTools in your browser.

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. The neural network (NN)-based agent uses a deep net with fully connected layers.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

Android development is a booming business because of the number of users it has. It is open source and its development can be ported across devices with relative ease. Unlike iOS development, Android development requires proper standards and varying benchmarks for performance and optimization.

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. In fact, the market research firm Forrester says that the average container image is comprised of 70% open-source software.[1] Network scanners that see systems from the “outside” perspective.

Open Source 247

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 247

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Rachel Andrew. Jake Archibald. Jake Archibald.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

faster development and deployment cycles. optimised container networking and security. The good news is all of these challenges including performance can be tackled and in several cases, there are new developments to overcome them. Heron is a real-time, distributed stream processing engine developed at Twitter.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Redis Revealed: An Overview Redis, a renowned open-source, in-memory remote dictionary server, stands out for its diverse data structures and advanced features.

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

 That’s why we developed Carbon Impact. Assessing our baseline cloud computing carbon footprint Using Carbon Impact, we can assess our baseline carbon footprint with accuracy and granularity that’s nearly impossible to glean from other sources. These metrics include CPU, memory, disk, and network I/O.

Energy 230

Energy Cloud Airlines Strategy 230

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin. Ideally, teams need the ability to anticipate problems and fix conditions before an issue develops.

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 179

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

While many of us, designers and developers, are likely to have a relatively new mobile phone in our pockets, a vast majority of our customers isn’t quite like us. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. And to ensure the quality of a product, we always need to test — on a number of devices, and in a number of conditions.

Mobile 133

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

” Here are additional metrics used to determine the reliability of a database, make adjustments that minimize downtime, and set benchmarks for meeting business continuity requirements. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), there cannot be high availability.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

Even though the job of a software tester is to catch errors committed by developers, software testers themselves are not immune to errors. Not getting the test plan reviewed and signed off by all relevant stakeholders such as developers, peer testers and product owners is something that can cost dearly later.

Software 85

Software Software Testing Open Source 85

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

Getting Started: Setup Trials and Tribulations Here’s the exact prompt I used to start my conversation with ChatGPT using GPT-4: Act as a software developer to help me build something that will play music from a time period that matches when an academic paper I am reading in the browser was written. And ChatGPT didn’t warn me about this.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

HammerDB is open source and all of the source code is available at the sourceforge Git development site here [link] or the github mirror here [link]. In fact all of this source code is also included in readable form with each and every release. This Git repository is updated with every release.

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. The upside to using third-party services on your site is that you do not need to develop everything you want to do yourself. Jump to table of contents ?.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

When evaluating open source tools or enterprise-grade synthetic monitoring tools, you want to look for capabilities that maximize its strengths. Can you test with 3G, 4G, or different networking connections? Competitive & Industry Benchmarking. Benchmarking your performance against your competitors and industries.

Monitoring 59

Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Open source software has become a key standard for developing modern applications. From common coding libraries to orchestrating container-based computing, organizations now rely on open source software—and the open standards that define them—for essential functions throughout their software stack.

Open Source 188

Open Source Software Software Development 188

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Data granularity becomes more important as your development processes mature. This allows your teams baseline, benchmark, review (including retroactively reviewing past data), report, and compare and contrast your data month-over-month or even year-over-year. Data granularity becomes more important as your development processes mature.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Open source software has become a key standard for developing modern applications. From common coding libraries to orchestrating container-based computing, organizations now rely on open source software—and the open standards that define them—for essential functions throughout their software stack.

Open Source 130

Open Source Software Software Development 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Open source software has become a key standard for developing modern applications. From common coding libraries to orchestrating container-based computing, organizations now rely on open source software—and the open standards that define them—for essential functions throughout their software stack.

Open Source 130

Open Source Software Software Development 130

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

It is much worse to be a software developer now. JavaScript benchmark. Mark Szulyovszky : Would I have thought 3 years ago that we end up building a mobile tech stack on Microsoft’s & Facebook’s open source code, wishing that Google’s and Apple’s clunky and slow middle layer would disappear?

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

The unstoppable rise of open source databases. One database in particular is causing a huge dent in Oracle’s market share – open source PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL, outlining the differences in these SQL database costs, features, and ease of use for both developers and database administrators (DBA’s) alike.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. The project consisted of upgrading the shop software to our own open-source system and redoing the shop’s front end from scratch. Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks.

Performance 115

Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what strategies should be used to fix them. Establish a performance culture. There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. Establish a performance culture. Large preview ). 300ms RTT, 1.6

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145