Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. It’s a common misconception that the code which is produced by the framework build tools (Webpack, for example) is fully optimized and cannot be improved upon any further. The answer lies in code-splitting.

Code 89

Code Performance Network Website 89

Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

They were able to re-use most of their working code by combining it into a single long running microservice that is horizontally scaled using ECS, and which is invoked via a lambda function. This is only one of many microservices that make up the Prime Video application.

Serverless 145

Serverless Lambda Best Practices Traffic 145

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Web application security is the process of protecting web applications against various types of threats that are designed to exploit vulnerabilities in an application’s code. Modern applications, on average, comprise 70% of open-source software, the rest being custom code. And open-source software is rife with vulnerabilities.

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Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 183

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

Many of the most damaging recent security breaches happened to code written in MSLs (e.g., I just want C++ to let me enforce our already-well-known safety rules and best practices by default, and make me opt out explicitly if that’s what I want. We can and do write “good” code and secure applications in C++. Let’s dig in.

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C++ Programming Code Java 139

O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2023

Even once-idealistic internet companies have been unable to resist the master objective, and in pursuing it have created addictive products of their own, sown disinformation and division, and resisted attempts to restrain their behavior. In his book Voices in the Code , James G. There is much that can be done right now.

Government 96

Government Best Practices Energy Efficiency 96

KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

Web standards are best defined as guidelines developed by the World Wide Web Consortium W3C to promote consistency in design code which makes up a web page. Maybe the best phrase to describe web standards is a set of standardized "best practices" for building websites. Basically, it was boring.

Internet 56

Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The idea behind these UI decisions is that a badge would let a user know quickly if a site is loading slowly due to a problem on their end (network issue, internet is down, etc) or if the website is known to be built in a way that loads slowly. A move like this strikes some as ‘gatekeeper’ influencing.

Google 86

Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The broken Java stacks turned out to be beneficial: They helped group together the os::javaTimeMillis() calls which otherwise might have have been scattered on top of different Java code paths, appearing as thin stacks everywhere. Without NMI, some kernel code paths (interrupts disabled) can't be profiled. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control. And the case is especially different, when China’s Internet environment is involved. Best Practices.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Testlodge

OCTOBER 1, 2021

HTML validation testing ensures that HTML code appears with the correct syntax and format. HTML validation can be skipped, but it’s important to pay attention because validating brings many benefits: Clean and proper code – Clean code is a best practice for many reasons. What is HTML Validation Testing?

Testing 61

Testing Best Practices C++ Code 61

Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A study by Wappalyzer says that PHP runs 82% of the Internet. Because the language is based on procedural programming, developers can quickly start writing code that works. Developers can quickly learn how to use it and start making web apps because the code and instructions are easy to understand.

Website 59

Website Development Open Source Database 59

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control. And the case is especially different, when China’s Internet environment is involved. Best Practices.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control. And the case is especially different, when China’s Internet environment is involved. Best Practices.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

if the information is read-only or editable); The file size is crucial for people with costly internet, slow connection, or limited local storage. A good practice for download links is to show the file format and size. Large preview ). More with less: try to edit out repeated words and keep the list compact. Large preview ).

Website 141

Website Design Internet Internet 141

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Much like the Internet, how you use the technology depends on your perspective and objectives. This enables us to replace the paper trails and middlemen that we use to verify and audit truth with code. Because blockchain is code, it brings a rich array of attractive functionality. Where is the strategic business value?

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Blockchain IoT Logistics Internet 68

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

It’s happening because of new features being added and the fact that we sometimes don’t have a second thought on packages that we constantly add and update, or think about the complexity of our code. For example, for an internet shop, it may be a page with a product list, product details page, shopping cart, checkout, and so on.

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Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 99

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services. The HTTP Archive tracks third-party usage across a large swath of all active websites on the Internet today. In many cases, they can be super convenient to add or remove without having to push code changes to the site.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. As another example, most applications on the Internet use TCP internally to ensure that all of their data are transmitted in full. Did You Know?

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve played around with using AI tools like ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot to write code for you. So far I’ve read a gazillion blog posts about people’s experiences with these AI coding assistance tools. or “ha look how incompetent it is … it couldn’t even get my simple question right!”

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

The best practice is to do this for the primary images — typically for the ones that will be displayed above the fold. <img This is a best practice only if you do it only to secondary images — typically for the ones will be displayed below the fold. <img Here’s a snippet of code that does that. <!

Website 103

Website Best Practices Media Open Source 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

To address this problem, I’ll provide an overview of the best practices for the integration and optimization of an LCP image. Let’s illustrate the browser’s behavior with an example using our previous code: <img src="image-300.png". And finally, update our code : <img src="image-280.png". srcset=" image-300.png

Media 105

Media Mobile Website Metrics 105

Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Perform Code Validation. Code validation is a process of determining whether the code written by us is in accordance with the W3C standards or not. Remember how Internet Explorer sank just because they were not following the guidelines? Encapsulate Code In Framework. Build Browser Matrix.

Testing 52

Testing Website Testing Tools Internet 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The broken Java stacks turned out to be beneficial: They helped group together the os::javaTimeMillis() calls which otherwise might have have been scattered on top of different Java code paths, appearing as thin stacks everywhere. Without NMI, some kernel code paths (interrupts disabled) can't be profiled.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Based on this experience and learning, we built DynamoDB to be a fast, highly scalable NoSQL database to meet the needs of Internet-scale applications. These high-throughput, low-latency requirements need caching, not as a consideration, but as a best practice. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage.

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The applications are designed using the same code base as Desktop like HTML, Javascript, and CSS. Best Practices For Mobile Website Testing. What are Mobile Web Applications?

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. We ended up hiring Phil Parkman to take over managing our group, which by then also included my friend Dave Fisk, who I still hang out with regularly.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet. Flexibility : With open source databases, you have access to the source code, allowing you to modify and optimize the database to meet your specific high availability requirements. Please note that these are presented as general best practices.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

The in-depth explorations are meticulously illustrated and code examples culminate as bulletproof code snippets, applicable to your work right away. This practical guide shows users how run tests & interpret results to gain a better and more thorough understanding of hidden features in WebPageTest. Inclusive Components.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The broken Java stacks turned out to be beneficial: They helped group together the os::javaTimeMillis() calls which otherwise might have have been scattered on top of different Java code paths, appearing as thin stacks everywhere. Without NMI, some kernel code paths (interrupts disabled) can't be profiled. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

There are a ton of best practices for front-end developers to follow. The internet. Steve's golden rule remains true today: 80-90% of rendering time is spend in the front end, and the majority of that is requests sent across the wire. If you want to optimize your site, start by making as few requests as possible.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. Internet Explorer 6 was fully supported, Firefox was gaining share, and Chrome was still years from launch. When paired with VS Code the development experience is amazing. Our current front-end stack is React served with Next.js

Google 93

Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 93

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In the early days of SSRS, a requirement was to also install and configure Internet Information Services (IIS). Best practice for DBAs is really to just treat ReportServer and ReportServerTempDB like any other user database. SSRS 2008 brought that component into the reporting service module.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Web applications rely on databases to run the internet, powering everything from e-commerce platforms to social media networks to streaming services. It specifies how characters are converted into binary code and vice-versa. This blog was originally published in February 2019 and was updated in September 2023. In this case, MySQL 8.0

Performance 52

Performance Storage Social Media Database 52

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

Normally this solution requires a full code redesign and could be quite difficult to achieve when it is injected after the initial code architecture definition. Best practices indicate that having ProxySQL closer to the application will be more efficient, especially if we decide to activate the caching feature.

Traffic 121

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 121

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

This attribute contains seemingly endless alphanumeric junk that you may be tempted to strip out in the quest for cleaner code. Most sites were all hosted on a single physical server somewhere on our own hosting infrastructure, and it was the server we thought about defending when it came to security best practices.

Website 58

Website Servers Code Best Practices 58

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). milliseconds mark.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104