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Optimizing Video For Size And Quality

Smashing Magazine

Optimizing Video For Size And Quality. Optimizing Video For Size And Quality. Over the last few years, more and more projects are using video as an integral part of the application. However, it all goes sideways when there are issues related to the video playback. Doug Sillars. 2021-02-15T15:00:00+00:00. Real-World Data.

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems.

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The Importance of Selecting the Proper Azure VM Size

SQL Performance

Compute optimized – High CPU-to-memory ration, medium traffic web servers and application servers. GPU – Heavy graphic rendering and video editing. The common trend is to choose a VM based exclusively on vCPU, memory, and storage capacity without benchmarking the current IO and throughput requirements. Benchmark Test.

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The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

Smashing Magazine

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known.

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5 Must-Have Features of Top Synthetic Monitoring Tools

Rigor

When evaluating open source tools or enterprise-grade synthetic monitoring tools, you want to look for capabilities that maximize its strengths. Does it capture screenshots or a video of script running, so you can see what the screen looked like when a button or form field couldn’t be found? And BOOM, you’re done!

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Large preview ).

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.