Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

SUS101: Sustainability innovation in AWS Global Infrastructure AWS is determined to make the cloud the cleanest and most energy-efficient way to run customers’ infrastructure and business. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This gives us access to Netflix’s Java ecosystem, while also giving us the robust language features such as coroutines for efficient parallel fetches, and an expressive type system with null safety. For storing schema changes, we use an internal library that implements the event sourcing pattern on top of the Cassandra database.

Architecture 249

Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 249

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

All of the options above have enterprise-grade attributes, but not one of them is truly open source. So let’s discuss some options that are open source. The software is truly open source. It’s used to help ensure the functionality of hardware, software, and applications.

Database 87

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 87

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

High availability architecture for open source databases No matter where a database infrastructure is located (on-premises, public or private cloud environment, or hybrid environment) or what technology is used — be it MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB — it’s vital to eliminate single points of failure.

Availability 107

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 107

Percona

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Let’s review the best practices we usually follow in Managed Services before using your MySQL server in production and stage env, even for home play purposes. Using jemalloc instead of glibc memory allocator for MySQL results in less memory fragmentation and more efficient resource management. 1 Let’s quickly fix it.

Servers 112

Servers Best Practices Database Open Source 112

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 ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code? ‍For CDNs, redundancy is really important.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

From the MySQL documentation: The PRIMARY KEY clause is a critical factor affecting the performance of MySQL queries and the space usage for tables and indexes. With this feature, MySQL encourages users to adopt best practices, leading to more robust and efficient database systems.

Database 99

Database Engineering Best Practices Open Source 99

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It’s important to note that the “Everything as Code” methodology covers a wide variety of tools, many of which are open source, including Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, operations, security and policies, which can each be leveraged for transforming to Everything as Code. Benefits of Everything as Code.

Code 108

Code Infrastructure DevOps Serverless 108

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. The Terraform scripts you write not only serve as documentation but also as a disaster recovery plan. ‍If

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

In order to implement effective full backups of your database, you must follow some best practices. This includes establishing a regular backup schedule, regular testing to ensure data integrity, storing backups securely and offsite/in multiple locations, and documenting backup procedures.

Storage 68

Storage Strategy Network Efficiency 68

Percona

JUNE 7, 2023

CREATE EVENT TRIGGER trigger_name [ ON event_trigger_event ] [ WHEN filter_condition ] EXECUTE FUNCTION trigger_function_name(); In this syntax, event_trigger_event can be any of the following events, which are described in more detail in PostgreSQL documentation. Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Today!

Database 75

Database Best Practices Open Source C++ 75

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. It is best practice to have an odd number of replica set members to maintain voting quorum. For example, we can use a $regex query on a collection of 10 million documents and use.explain(true) to view how many milliseconds the query takes.

Database 79

Database Servers Storage Strategy 79

Percona

JULY 2, 2023

Backup Testing and Validation: To ensure backups are reliable and can be efficiently used for recovery, DBAs regularly perform backup testing and validation. Be sure to check out our webinar, Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL Built on Open Source Tools , to see this in practice.

Strategy 52

Strategy Database Storage Open Source 52

Percona

JULY 6, 2023

In PostgreSQL, there are different ways it can leverage the indexes to produce the most efficient plan. I included a sequence creation statement for the id column since one best practice is always to have a primary key column, but for the specific examples we will go through, we don’t need it.

Best Practices 89

Best Practices Tuning Database Testing 89

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This is why the async and deferred attributes are crucial, as they ensure an efficient, seamless web browsing experience. For Performance Monitoring Many of you reading this may already be familiar with Next.js, but it is a popular open-source JavaScript framework that allows us to monitor our website’s performance in real-time.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Use srcset + efficient modern image formats. Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. This is an empty element — it has no closing tag — requiring a minimum of one attribute to be helpful: src , the source. By reducing main-thread CPU usage, FID can also be reduced.

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Description: The most efficient typefaces with the best ratio of x-height and cap-height seem to be Wayfinding Sans Pro and Johnston Underground with an x-height between 67% to 69% of the cap height. Description: Get people to perform certain specific tasks while using the document to vocalize the person’s thinking. Think-aloud.

Performance 95

Performance Design Speed Testing 95

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

This level of distribution will seriously affect the efficiency of the operation, which will increase the response time significantly. In the MySQL open source ecosystem, we have only two consolidated ways to perform sharding — Vitess and ProxySQL. This is it.

Traffic 123

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 123

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

I’m not sure how I’d missed it because it seems to be maturing and well documented and a real… Just a great project. There’s accessibility, best practices, performance and one fourth one. Drew: The Chakra documentation seems to be really well pitched, I thought, with… It has an overview of each component.

Website 62

Website Design Open Source Software 62

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Lack of support for older versions is a common issue with open source data pipeline frameworks which means you have to stay on top of the new releases and ensure that you are always close to the current stable release. This can be efficient at the beginning but counter-productive in a long run.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV. dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 145

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. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Image source: Katie Hempenius ) ( Large preview ). There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 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. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Image source: Katie Hempenius ) ( Large preview ). Large preview ). Getting started with Webpack can be tough though.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In order to achieve this efficiently, you might be wondering what and how much you need to test. You might find one possible answer in a metaphor: The test automation pyramid , first introduced by Mike Cohn and further specified by Martin Fowler, shows how to make testing efficient. Cypress documentation. More after jump!

Testing 135

Testing Website Code Efficiency 135

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Hidden layers, single-layer groups, X and Y positions that aren’t quite pixel-perfect — the Clean Document plugin takes care of little flaws like these so you don’t have to. With over 700 device mock-ups scenes, Mockuuups Studio helps you create mockups for products, visual content, or marketing materials with ease and efficiency.

Google 145

Google Design Code Mobile 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.

Network 105

Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

One aspect of performance is about how efficiently a transport protocol can use a network’s full (physical) bandwidth (i.e. 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. Congestion Control. And it gets worse.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Users appreciate high-quality visuals, but care needs to be taken to deliver those hero images, product photos and cat memes as efficiently and effectively as possible. The efficiency of a codec can be mainly measured by how much compression it can achieve. It was released in February 2019 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia).

Open Source 144

Open Source Speed Website Google 144