Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As developers, we rightfully obsess about the customer experience, relentlessly working to squeeze every millisecond out of the critical rendering path, optimize input latency, and eliminate jank. Surveying the existing landscape of available developer tools and runtimes, we felt that there is a gap. Ilya Grigorik. Large preview ).

Cache 136

Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 136

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to help software developers and operations teams understand what their software is doing and where it’s running into snags. We also defined the metrics and traces for our demo application using OpenTelemetry.

Transportation 185

Transportation Metrics Best Practices Code 185

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Since that time, the SRE role has evolved as the industry has changed and shifted from the traditional monolithic structures to large, widely distributed networks and microservices. Developing new features correlates with improving metrics like reliability and performance, which ultimately reduces potential toil down the line.

Monitoring 91

Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. Homepage with DevTools Network inspection enabled and open.

Media 73

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

So far, it’s been a painless shift in power, which as Eric Matthes, author of Python Crash Course , argues, should come as no surprise, since “Guido has carried himself, and his role in the community, with such poise for so long.” Does your function have side effects? Is it guaranteed to return a non-null value?

Programming 130

Programming Java Google C++ 130

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously. What is Multi-CDN?A

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

As web developers, it’s understandable to feel that this is not an issue over which we have any influence, but this isn’t true. So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Recently I had great conversations with Troy Otillio, Senior Development Manager at Intuit and Jack Murgia, Senior DevOps Engineer at Edmodo. Teachers can interact with their colleagues in professional learning networks.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously. What is Multi-CDN?A

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

According to Tim Kadlec : A performance budget is a clearly defined limit on one or more performance metrics that the team agrees not to exceed and that is used to guide design and development. We advocate that when you develop your performance budget, you focus on these user-centric milestones over technical milestones. Collaborate.

Performance 45

Performance Metrics Website Speed 45

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Choosing the right backup frequency: The appropriate frequency, of course, will vary from one organization to another. This may involve taking a server offline, rerouting network traffic, or replacing a failed disk drive. Of course, the dead canary was pretty dark.) In a cold backup, the database is taken offline.

Database 91

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 91

Sutter's Mill

MAY 28, 2012

There was so much interest that I formed four Study Groups and appointed chairs: the largest on concurrency and parallelism (SG1, Hans Boehm), and three others on modules (SG2, Doug Gregor), filesystem (SG3, Beman Dawes), and networking (SG4, Kyle Kloepper).

C++ 40

C++ Hardware Best Practices Tuning 40

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Author Steve Souders writes about the best practices that he gained as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, Souders presents his 14 rules throughout the course of the book while discussing the importance of front-end performance. Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices For Web Developers.

Speed 85

Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

In Part 1 , we’ve covered the side effects of low-quality CSS codebase on end-users, development teams, and management. The development team has analyzed and pinpointed the weaknesses in the CSS codebase and has set target goals for the refactor (file size, specificity, color definitions, and so on). Adrian Bece. Large preview ).

Strategy 132

Strategy Testing Best Practices Code 132

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Software development without automated testing is hard to imagine today. The biggest nightmare for developers is a flaky test , which is a test that is executed the same way but leads to different results. For developers who know enough JavaScript to be dangerous. Using the browser’s developer tools to find unique selectors.

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Testing Website Code Efficiency 135

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Our goal with this post is to equip you with a comprehensive understanding of the steps, best practices, and pros and cons to ensure a smooth — and successful — transition to an open source database environment. Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.)

Open Source 95

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 95

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

It’s inherently tied to everything we build and develop. So, while it’s tempting to solve everything in one fell swoop, the best approach to improving performance might be an iterative one. It’s is a Google service that audit things performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices. Improvement #3: Unblock parsing.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Of course, we’ll discuss possible resolutions to these bugs as well. Also offers the “Changes” panel by default, located in the same tab bar as the “Styles” Recommended Reading : “ Examine And Edit CSS ,” Firefox Developer Tools, MDN Web Docs. General Debugging Tips. remove or relocate elements. More after jump!

Design 145

Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. However, countless research (including the stats for our own site here, and others by the likes of Alex Russell ) has shown that Android devices are the platform of choice for poorer countries with slower networks.

Website 103

Website Media Mobile Network 103

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right?

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

That’s right; I’ve parked day-to-day design work in favor of becoming someone very active in the design community, focusing on best practice design advice and scalable systems. Did you take a short course in front-end development basics? Prioritize Networking Over Pushing Pixels. We’re All Faking It. Show it off.

Design 127

Design Social Media Website Best Practices 127

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. There are a ton of best practices for front-end developers to follow. I love conversations about performance, and I'm fortunate enough to have them a lot.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. All of this is, of course, still true for HTTP/3 as well.

Network 105

Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

This series is aimed mainly at web developers who do not necessarily have a deep knowledge of protocols and would like to learn more. It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips. What is so different?

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

We will, however, also be somewhat skeptical of the impact we can expect from these new features in practice. As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. This series is divided into three parts: HTTP/3 history and core concepts. Congestion Control.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), Connection management : This is the software management related specifically to the networking and connectivity aspect of the database. Please note that these are presented as general best practices. there cannot be high availability.

Availability 111

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Server rendering is also cool—even if that’s just how we say “send HTML over the network” these days. Most developers—I hope —aren’t going to rely solely on React to drive such simple behavior for just one thing on their website. My RSS feed app is still in development. It makes organizing code easier. I think JSX is great.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), Connection management: This is the software management related specifically to the networking and connectivity aspect of the database. PostgreSQL has rapidly gained favor among professional developers in recent years.

Availability 87

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 87

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started  ‍Of course, the latter. ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

We can best prepare our colleagues to avoid these situations through similar training and standards.” — Victor Yocco. These overlaps and key themes will serve as a jumping-off point for developing your own principles, relevant to your team, organization, and industry. Familiarize Yourself With Relevant Laws. User Personas.

Code 137

Code Design Education Government 137

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

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. I can test this out by putting that tag in a page, and then flipping to the Network tab in my browser tools to see that the file has been loaded.

Website 58

Website Servers Code Best Practices 58

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Being open-source, Terraform invited a vast community of developers and companies to rally around it. This ensures that anyone, from seasoned developers to newcomers, can read, review, and understand the infrastructure at a glance.‍‍4. Of course, the latter. There's no need to go through multiple tabs or screens.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Development of DynamoDB was guided by the core set of distributed systems principles outlined in the Dynamo paper , resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system. These interactions allow me to understand their emerging needs, which I take back to our development teams to further iterate on our services.

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Chrome Developer tools. This information can then be used to set up tests within a synthetic monitoring data platform such as Rigor to test how a user experience those flows on every type of device, network, connection, and location. Review OWASP’s recommendations and best practices with your developers.

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We last talked to him in July 2020 , where we asked if modern best practices about for the web. Last time we talked, we posed this question of if modern best practices, the use of reactive frameworks and these sorts of things were actually bad for the progress of the web. Drew: You want it to remain unspoiled.

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Technology Technology Servers Code 94