Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

Microservices are run using container-based orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and Docker or cloud-native function-as-a-service (FaaS) offerings like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions, all of which help automate the process of managing microservices. To fully answer “What are microservices?”

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

Microservices are run using container-based orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and Docker or cloud-native function-as-a-service (FaaS) offerings like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions, all of which help automate the process of managing microservices. To fully answer “What are microservices?”

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

It’s easy to see why, with benefits such as better testing, easier deployment, faster performance, and more. In fact, giants like Google and Microsoft once employed monolithic architectures almost exclusively. These teams typically use standardized tools and follow a sequential process to build, review, test, deliver, and deploy code.

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Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One free tool has become prominent in the space – Google Lighthouse – and one question often bubbles up: “I use Google Lighthouse for one-off snapshots of my site’s performance, so why do I need a performance monitoring solution?” Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

At its core, Kubernetes (often abbreviated as K8s) is an open source tool that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. For some background, Kubernetes was created by Google and is currently maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

You may have seen over the past few months we have been extensively promoting Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) as part of our Open Source project Keptn. The app description and supporting files such as load testing scripts are on the Keptn Example GitHub. This is what this blog is all about.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2021

ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access By Curtis Castrapel , Patrick Sanders , and Hee Won Kim At AWS re:Invent 2020, we open sourced two new tools for managing multi-account AWS permissions and access. We’ve now brought ConsoleMe out in the open. If you missed the talk, check it out here.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome. Let’s figure it all out. About the Author. DRM-free, of course. ePUB, Kindle, PDF.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. In this post, we’ll walk you through the best way to host MongoDB on DigitalOcean, including the best instance types to use, disk types, replication strategy, and managed service providers. MongoDB Replication Strategies.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. The tricky part comes when you try to put them into practice. The easiest way to do this is to look at rendering filmstrips in your synthetic test data.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome. Let’s figure it all out. About the Author. His team focuses on speed , helping keep the web fast.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2021

In this article, we’ll look at a React utility React.Children.toArray which lets us prepare the children prop for inspection and iteration, some of its shortcomings and how to overcome them — through a small open-source package, to keep our React code function the way it is deterministically supposed to behave, keeping performance intact.

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. What should a performance budget look like? It's important to have your 2.5

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve tested and retested the site for errors. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights. Testing The Impact Of Specific Requests. Even with highly-detailed RUM or synthetic measurement data, it may not be practical.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

in which he stated that the Google Chrome team are already developing the feature and intend to ship it in Chrome 75. The best practice is to do this for the primary images — typically for the ones that will be displayed above the fold. <img Test native lazy loading demo. No Use For A Polyfill.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

The final prompt for a more aggressive optimization was the “Core Web Vitals” dashboard in the Google Search Console. We first thought that it could be related to the cookie banner adjustments we made recently, but it turned out it was a Google Search Update that seemed to be more aggressively penalizing us for a high CLS. So, did it?

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

is a structural, open-source progressive JavaScript framework used to build complex UIs and single-page applications (SPAs). It is an open-source front-end library based on JavaScript used in web development for creating interactive components and User Interfaces. Source: moz.com. Google Careers. .

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Since it’s an open-source JavaScript library, developers can access plenty of tools and resources for developing an excellent web app. Source: [link]. Preact is an alternative to React developed by Jason Miller and many contributors under the open-source MIT license. Source: [link]. Source: [link].

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Open Source Mobile Entertainment Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Testing And Monitoring Auditing workflow, proxy browsers, 404 page, GDPR cookie consent prompts, performance diagnostics CSS, accessibility. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Lighthouse is a free and open-source tool for assessing your website’s performance, accessibility, progressive web app metrics, SEO, and more. Once you open the DevTools, you will see a “Lighthouse” tab. This makes it easy to test any web page, whether public or requiring authentication.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Testing And Monitoring. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Table Of Contents. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. And if you are using CI to test the budgets, you need to make sure your tested environment matches CrUX if you used CrUX for setting the target ( thanks Patrick Meenan! ). Now you have something measurable to test against.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Although based on the load it may be possible to infinitely scale the data pipeline but that will come with a cost which most companies other than Google or Amazon will struggle to justify. Your best shot is proactive capacity planning and better resources utilisation by removing inefficiencies.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

It’s an initiative by Google to share unified guidance for quality signals that can be key to delivering a great user experience on the web. CWV is part of a set of page experience signals Google Search will be evaluating for ranking. Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Automating Screen Reader Testing On macOS Using Auto VO. Do they practice what they preach? The closest I’ve done to putting it to the test is running Lighthouse against it. There’s accessibility, best practices, performance and one fourth one. Mike’s personal website. Cut Into The Jamstack book. Weekly Update.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As with many burgeoning fields and disciplines, we don’t yet have a shared canonical infrastructure stack or best practices for developing and deploying data-intensive applications. Can’t we just fold it into existing DevOps best practices? How can you start applying the stack in practice today?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. responsive design and testing. For accessible color palettes, Geenes.app is a reliable and sophisticated tool that allows you to create, maintain, sync and test color palettes and their variations. Also, take a look at the other. accessibility. annotations. auto renaming. brand logos.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

If you see authors turning to other authoring tools such as Google Docs for its commenting or suggestions capabilities, it may be a red flag as to what features you are missing. Microsoft word documents, spreadsheets, Google docs always rear their heads up when working with content authors. Editing Experience. Native SDKs.

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

Swift Papers felt like a well-scoped project to test how well AI handles a realistic yet manageable real-world programming task. Lastly, I tried not to search for help on Google, Stack Overflow, or other websites, which is what I would normally be doing while programming. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( current article ). This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is more in-depth and technical. Changes To Pages And Resources.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( coming up soon! ). This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. 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. A Primer on Speed.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The AV1 image file format (AVIF) is an open-source image format for storing still and animated images. It was released in February 2019 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). The goal was to develop a new open-source video coding format that is both state-of-the-art and royalty-free. Jump to table of contents ?.

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