Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

And, of course, the result needs to be seamless and delightful — dare we say, even fun — to develop and maintain. One network hop up, Shopify’s CDN adds optimized edge-delivery with commerce specialized protection against malicious actors and shopping bots that now often operate at a scale that is able to DDoS many storefronts.

Cache 136

Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 136

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

We’ll also cover how to instrument the services using OpenTelemetry, and some best practices for how to define spans and traces manually. Best practices for defining traces and spans manually When you’re using automatic instrumentation, the platform and the libraries will already cover a fair share of tracing.

Transportation 187

Transportation Metrics Best Practices Code 187

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

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

Tasktop

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Members gain access to custom courses, tailored workshops, c-level roundtables and exclusive content that harvests Tasktop’s deep and profound market-leading knowledge that will enable you to baseline your IT portfolios and rebalance them to adapt quickly to the increasing pace of economic and market change. . Flow Institute Highlights.

Healthcare 90

Healthcare Innovation Government Best Practices 90

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. Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering.

Monitoring 91

Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

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

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.”

Programming 130

Programming Java Google C++ 130

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors. 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

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

This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity. Reduce Network Requests. Data transfer is one thing that we can measure quite easily. Large preview ).

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. A disk cache is faster than having to fetch those resources from the network (though not always, oddly enough !), Jump to table of contents ?. Why is the Back/Forward Cache so much faster? Additionally, the Back/Forward Cache is an in-memory cache.

Cache 91

Cache Games Performance Website 91

Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

Networking. Networking is an excellent way of doing this and is a reliable way of finding new work opportunities. The downside of networking is that it is time-consuming and doesn’t scale. However, in practice, the results can be underwhelming. Make it a video course instead. On paper, this is a good move.

Social Media 145

Social Media Media Network Website 145

Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The benefits of performance budgets include: They bring performance to the attention of designers and allow it to be treated as a fundamental design feature rather than simply a best practice. For the sake of this test, we’ll assume that the slowest network is a 3G-connection with a transfer speed of 768 kilobits per second.

Performance 45

Performance Metrics Website Speed 45

SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

If the outer query projects only a subset of the columns from the derived table, will SQL Server be smart enough to do index matching based on only the returned columns (and of course any other columns that play a meaningful role otherwise, such as filtering, grouping and so on)? The application could end up with bugs.

C++ 109

C++ Database Servers Code 109

SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

If the outer query projects only a subset of the columns from the derived table, will SQL Server be smart enough to do index matching based on only the returned columns (and of course any other columns that play a meaningful role otherwise, such as filtering, grouping and so on)? The application could end up with bugs.

C++ 93

C++ Database Servers Code 93

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

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 87

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 87

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

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The secret sharer: evaluating and testing unintended memorization in neural networks Carlini et al., …unintended memorization occurs when trained neural networks may reveal the presence of out-of-distribution training data— i.e. training data that is irrelevant to the learning task and definitely unhelpful to improving model accuracy.

Network 55

Network Testing Strategy Google 55

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

We decided to build up a very simple Kanban board, established a project stand-up and a project Slack channel, and kept management and the company up-to-date via our internal social cast network.”. We’ll develop the card component in isolation and use the agreed standards and best practices. Image by trivago ) ( Large preview ).

Strategy 132

Strategy Testing Best Practices Code 132

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Business objectives can, of course, vary widely; how you measure them will depend on the objective’s characteristics. Long a RUM best practice, these milestones are configured as conversion goals , leveraging common marketing terminology. So your first step is to identify what’s important to the business.

Analytics 207

Analytics Metrics Best Practices Servers 207

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

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

It’s is a Google service that audit things performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices. Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools. In DevTools, the Network inspector helps us see what the first webpage is doing too.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

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 91

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 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? Of course, this is coupled with my previous advice on finding jobs that no one else has.

Design 127

Design Social Media Website Best Practices 127

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Cypress’ developers themselves provide some guidance on this topic in their best practices. In Cypress, it’s possible to work with network features — another helpful way of waiting in your application is to use these features to work with network requests. A selection of examples, recipes, and courses.

Testing 135

Testing Website Code Efficiency 135

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Of course, we’ll discuss possible resolutions to these bugs as well. To simplify this behavior, a best practice is to ensure your styles include resetting all elements to use border-box. CSS has been improving rapidly in the last couple of years, and of course, browsers are continually modernizing. General Debugging Tips.

Design 145

Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

There are limitations to them, of course, most notably not having direct access to the DOM and being unable to share variables with other threads. There are objective ways to measure performance, of course, but if I’ve learned anything about it, it’s that subjectivity is a big part of the process. It’s spelled out right on the tin!

Google 91

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

We can best prepare our colleagues to avoid these situations through similar training and standards.” — Victor Yocco. Some industries have their own regulations or legal practices which safeguard consumer data even more tightly than GDPR or CCPA. 2 male Caucasians said X , 1 black woman said Y ). User Personas.

Code 137

Code Design Education Government 137

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. Finally, QUIC also uses so-called flow-control and congestion-control mechanisms that prevent a sender from overloading the network or the receiver, but that also make TCP slower than what you could do with raw UDP.

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

There are a ton of best practices for front-end developers to follow. Recommendations can come out of audits from consultants or from automated tools like Lighthouse (or SpeedCurve, of course). Content Delivery Networks (CDN) like Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, Cloudfront can sometimes have a big impact on performance.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

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. As such, even low latencies of less than 50 milliseconds can add up to considerable delays. Congestion Control.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

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

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 107

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 107

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. I accessed the RSS feed app running on my local network on each device to the same page where the mobile nav toggling code could be run. Because of this, network performance was not a factor in my measurements. Startup time.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101