The Morning Paper

JUNE 11, 2019

Beyond data and model parallelism for deep neural networks Jia et al., The goal here is to reduce the training times of DNNs by finding efficient parallel execution strategies, and even including its search time, FlexFlow is able to increase training throughput by up to 3.3x SysML’2019. compared to state-of-the-art approaches.

Network 81

Network Strategy Hardware Benchmarking 81

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Content Delivery Networks (CDN) like Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, Cloudfront can sometimes have a big impact on performance. You can hold them accountable and maintain a strategy for keeping them in line. Benchmark yourself. Another great tool to have in your bag is benchmarking. The internet. Real user monitoring (RUM).

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. And we need to have strategies in place to understand and manage our pages. Don't assume hardware and networks will mitigate page bloat.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

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. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Lighthouse.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The gotcha here is that, if your mobile experience isn’t optimized for various devices and network conditions, these customers will never appear in your analytics — just because your website or app will be barely usable on their devices, and so they are unlikely to return. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known.

Mobile 133

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

For more than ten years, I've been writing about page bloat, its impact on site speed, and ultimately how it affects your users and your business. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. And we need to have strategies in place to understand and manage our pages. How quickly do they show up?

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. This rework delays launch which, in turn, delays gathering data about the viability of a PWA strategy. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. The median user is on a slow network. Where to start?

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The Lighthouse Performance score is based on some of the most important performance metrics : First Contentful Paint, First Meaningful Paint, Speed Index, Time to Interactive, First CPU Idle, and Estimated Input Latency. When it comes to network speed, Lighthouse gives you three options – and no others.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Reduced network and device capacity correlate with other access challenges. Folks with powerful laptops, new iPhones, and low-latency networks are noticing, which is a very bad sign. Do they have a device-class or network condition target ? The speed of a client device isn't the limiting site speed factor in an HTML-first world.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

Performance 115

Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

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. Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies. SQL Server defines stable media as storage that can survive system restart or common failure.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/sparse_files.asp ) ​​ on the ​​ Microsoft Developer Network ​​ (MSDN). Restore backups on secondary systems ​​ frequently ​​ to make sure that your complete backup strategy is functioning correctly.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

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. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. What is your storage strategy? What is your object and content caching strategy? Document store. Architecture should be malleable. Do you use a reverse proxy?

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52