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New Network Fallacies

Tim Kadlec

” The fallacy of networks, or new devices for that matter, fixing our performance woes is old and repetitive. To be fair, each new generation of network connectivity does bring some level of change and transformation to how we interact with the internet. The fastest 4G network clocks in around 10 Mbps, and the slowest around 6.3

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Performance audit: Lego.com

Speed Curve

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. Are you using a content delivery network (CDN) to bring elements like images closer to your users, so that delivery times are faster? Are images optimized?

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Optimizing Video For Size And Quality

Smashing Magazine

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. We see that an MP4 file is being downloaded.

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Automated incident management and remediation drive organizational resiliency

Dynatrace

What device are they using over what type of network? How much time does it take for a user to access and download information? Are our digital assets too large? Accessibility. How does the system behave when a user is coming from a low bandwidth area using a mobile device and is looking for a huge technical specification? Efficiency.

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HammerDB v4.7 New Features Pt 3: Lightweight Docker Images for rapid testing

HammerDB

introduces more lightweight database specific Docker Images, so if you only want to run benchmarks against a specific database you can go from having no benchmarking environment to reviewing your results in as little as 3 commands. How to deploy HammerDB CLI fast with Docker HammerDB v4.7 scripts/tcl/postgres/tprocc/pg_tprocc.sh

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19th, 2018

High Scalability

four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC!; They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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