CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google.

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Network Mobile Performance Traffic 225

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

2022: Upstreaming, first attempt Other large companies with OS and perf teams (Meta, Google) hinted strongly that they had already enabled frame pointers for everything years earlier. Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.) Back-end servers. Bear in mind that Netflix doesn't even use Fedora!)

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Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

The Spring framework is popular because it enables software engineers to more easily write and test code to maintain modular applications. Operation Aurora was a series of cyberattacks in 2009 that specifically targeted major enterprises, including Google, Adobe Systems, Yahoo, and more.

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Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 195

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Throughout this post I've used examples from our public Industry Benchmarks dashboard , which I'd encourage you to check out so that you can explore these metrics on your own. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals , so it's been getting a lot of attention lately. Is it loading?

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 133

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A lot of the time it’s a front-end developer or head of engineering, but more and more I’m finding myself in great conversations with product leaders. Benchmark yourself. Another great tool to have in your bag is benchmarking. Use benchmarking to make yourself better or to understand and learn from others.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Benchmark your site against your competitors Our public-facing Industry Benchmarks dashboard gets a lot of visits, but did you know you can create your own custom competitive benchmarking dashboard in SpeedCurve? READ : How to create a competitive benchmark dashboard ––––– 4.

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Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

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

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Google’s data center kernel is carefully performance tuned for their workloads. This task is carried out by a team of over 100 engineers, and for each new kernel, the effort can also take 6-18 months.”. A micro-benchmark suite, LEBench was then built around tee system calls responsible for most of the time spent in the kernel.

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Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

If you’d like to dive deeper into the performance of Android and iOS devices, you can check Geekbench Android Benchmarks for Android smartphones and tablets, and iOS Benchmarks for iPhones and iPads. Improving Search Engine Visibility. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. billion by 2026. Large preview ).

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 134

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

So in 1988 I joined the Sun sales force and became a Systems Engineer (nowadays we would say Solutions Architect). Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Google's Core Web Vitals have been a huge topic this year. We've been tracking these as individual metrics – Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift – since before Google branded them as a set. Industry speed benchmarks for Japan. We're so happy to have him on Team SpeedCurve!

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Jake Archibald. Jake Archibald. Rick Byers.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. In early January a related paper was published by Satoshi Matsuoka et. petaflops, which is 0.8%

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

These vendors serve data center players and offer advanced options, such as ScaleGrid’s engine, which ensures that different elements work well together automatically, eliminating the need for manual effort in managing heterogeneous environments.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. Amazon Aurora is a relational, proprietary, closed-source database engine with all that that implies. Remember that certain MySQL features like the MyISAM storage engine are not available with Amazon Aurora. RDS MySQL is 5.5,

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 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.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

According to Google Trends, development companies were more interested in hiring React developers, followed by Vue over the past year. With React being the foremost well-liked front-end library, there are skilled engineers accessible for hire. Google Careers. . Evan You, with a team of 24 developers, maintains it. WhatsApp. .

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Open Source Mobile Scalability Google 52

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping from one source to another with just a tap of a finger. Designing for Performance. High Performance Responsive Design.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints. What we choose to do in response defines what it means to practice UX engineering ethically. decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> Google spent more on the SoC for the Pixel 4a and enjoyed a later launch date, boosting performance relative to the A51.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This is a question recently asked and explored by a team of Google researchers led by Jeff Dean with a major focus on database indexes. Jeff is a Google Senior Fellow in the Google Brain team and widely known as a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning community. Bigger picture.

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

In the show, Google is portrayed by the fictional company Hooli, which is after Pied Piper’s intellectual property. The funny thing is that, while being far from a startup, Google does indeed have a powerful compression engine in real life called Brotli. This article is about my experience using Brotli at production scale.

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Cache Website Servers Open Source 79

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

In the prototype implementation, policies are expressed in a language similar to Google Cloud Firestore security rules. The authors have built a prototype implementation of these ideas based on the Noria dataflow engine. We’ll get to that, but first let’s look at some examples of privacy policies and how they can be expressed.

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Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

As the MyRocks storage engine (based on the RocksDB key-value store [link] ) is now available as part of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 , I wanted to take a look at how it performs on a relatively high-end server and SSD storage. Setting up PMM on Google Compute Engine in 15 minutes or less. A Look at MyRocks Performance.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

If Documentation Is So Important, Then Why Do Engineering Teams Deprioritize It? Refining the voice and tone is a way to make writing sound cohesive even if you are developing documentation that has been edited by the QA, engineering, and product teams. Google has one , too. Large preview ). More after jump!

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Development Benchmarking Code Engineering 119

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Steve first experienced performance budgets while Head Performance Engineer at Google. Benchmark a variety of metrics and choose a target of 20% faster or less resources. SpeedCurve's Benchmark dashboard is a great way to see how you compare to your competitors for setting budgets. E.g., the hero image on a product page.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Media 45

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines. PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community.

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Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

This is a guest post by Kalpesh Patel , an Engineer, who for Egnyte from home. Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Google cloud. Google Pub/Sub. You can reach him at @kpatelwork. Introduction. Document store.

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Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. An SSR application will generally have templating engines that inject the variables into an HTML when given to the client.

Cache 126

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

Rigor

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

There are companies who have full-time Performance Engineers dedicated to keeping their sites fast and reliable. Not to mention that there are performance solutions on the market that actually automate the steps a performance engineer would take to identify defects on your site (cough cough Rigor Optimization ).

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Ecommerce Retail Performance Benchmarking 40

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Whether you want a primer on machine learning, benchmarking, functional programming, developing for the cloud or agile practices, there are articles from reputable contributors that can help you get learning. Toptal Blog Toptal is a marketplace to hire freelance developers so its no wonder they also have a dedicated engineering blog.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

3] As we'll see below, CPUs are not improving fast enough to cope with frontend engineers' rosy resource assumptions. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. Today, either method returns a similar answer.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

With entrance into the industry being so easy and lack of proper benchmarking (Note: this is somewhat contradictory to point 2, but more on that later) around what makes a good designer, software engineer, or product manager, we’re forced to face the facts that it’s a recipe for poor quality products. Alright, enough doom and gloom.

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Design Social Media Website Best Practices 127

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. We get a strong sense for how bad site performance is going to be based on the percentage of engineering leads, PMs, and decision makers carrying high-end phones which they primarily use in urban areas. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145