Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Started years ago with a focus on cloud management, Terraform built a massive community around its open-source license–up until two weeks ago, but more on that later. A significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

Media 106

Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). Security Events Platform See open source project such as StreamAlert and Siddhi to get some general ideas.

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Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

Media 93

Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. Being open-source, Terraform invited a vast community of developers and companies to rally around it. Take Cloudflare as an example; they have an entire service called Cloudflare Terraform.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In the MySQL open source ecosystem, we have only two consolidated ways to perform sharding — Vitess and ProxySQL. One example could be using an RDBMS for most of the Online transaction processing ( OLTP) data shared by country and having the products as distributed memory cache with a different technology.

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Traffic Scalability Database Servers 123

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

As a discovery tool, request maps are great for identifying the source of third-party, fourth-party, fifth-party, etc., They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. A new open-source project called Partytown provides a library that implements a communications layer to make this work.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Gael Metais suggested to more aggressively subset web fonts and look into caching issues with our AVIF files. If a browser doesn’t support AVIF, it gets a JPEG file (properly cached), The content negotiation happens via <picture> + srcset in the browser. Are Modern Best Practices Bad For The Web? What Is CUBE CSS?

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Mobile Design Cache Code 140

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

However, TCP is typically implemented in the operating system’s (OS’) kernel, a secure and more restricted environment, which for most OSes isn’t even open source. As such, one best practice or optimization can end up undoing another. And it gets worse. also needs to execute.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106