Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. The last number I saw was “over 20GW”, and Amazon has much better global PPA coverage, including India and China, than Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, who have very few PPAs in Asia. This session revisits the pillar and its best practices.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Author Steve Souders writes about the best practices that he gained as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, and the Head Performance Engineer at Google. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website! Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices For Web Developers. – Aurel V.

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Stay tuned for more in 2022! Our vision with Hydrogen and Oxygen is to unlock the best of both worlds and make building and running the next million of modern — dynamic, contextual, and personalized — storefronts easier, more cost-effective, and fun. Oxygen is in early access preview with select merchants. More after jump!

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 135

The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

Previously on The Morning Paper we’ve looked at the spread of machine learning through Facebook and Google and some of the lessons learned together with processes and tools to address the challenges arising. Learnings and emerging best practices. Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al.,

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Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 92

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. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met. This was followed by a greatly expanded second edition with some additional chapters by Rich Pettit.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 4, 2019

describe for us the data validation pipeline deployed in production at Google, “ used by hundreds of product teams to continuously monitor and validate several petabytes of production data per day.” Data validation at Google is an integral part of machine learning pipelines. Experiences in production at Google.

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Google Code Infrastructure Best Practices 92

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. We are loading the following resources: Google Fonts Stylesheet. Fine-tuning JavaScript Resource Priorities.

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 69

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.

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Mobile Design Cache Code 140

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. Web Performance Tuning. Responsive Web Design. High Performance JavaScript. DOM Scripting. Professional Website Performance.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

But what about the cases where this global override is not ideal for all components, and we want to fine-tune the properties for individual components? This is where Interaction Media Features come in and allow us to fine-tune the usability of our components that users can interact with (inputs, offcanvas menus, dropdowns, modals, etc.)

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Media Tuning Design Website 140

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Source: Guy Podjarny However, we do now have a full set of techniques to effectively deliver highly performative sites that not only visually scale across devices but also deliver code and assets tuned to the width of a device. It’s a new image format developed by Google that’s 30-40% smaller than a jpeg.

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Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

In certain scenarios exactly-once semantics is possible but the best you can do is at-least-once or at-most-once. If tuned for performance, there is a good change reliability is compromised - and vice versa. Your best shot is proactive capacity planning and better resources utilisation by removing inefficiencies.

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Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

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. Stay tuned! I now find myself working as a Designer Advocate at Figma. We’re All Faking It. No one really knows what they are doing.

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Design Social Media Website Best Practices 126

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

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. For a few years now Google has been transitioning developers to v3 , which I didn’t know about since I had no prior experience with Chrome extensions. And ChatGPT didn’t warn me about this.

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Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

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.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” However, growth always ends: nothing grows exponentially forever, not even Facebook and Google. Should it be? Is retraining needed?

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Games Healthcare Processing Retail 117

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As such, tuning congestion logic is usually only done by a select few developers, and evolution is slow. One of the reasons Google saw very good 0-RTT results for QUIC was that it tested it on its already heavily optimized search page, where query responses are quite small. What does it all mean? Packet Loss Resilience.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It combines decades of deployment experience and best practices of TCP with some core new features. While the first Google-specific versions of QUIC used a custom set-up for this, standardized QUIC uses the existing TLS 1.3 IETF’s QUIC is technically very different from Google’s QUIC. Stay tuned! (vf,

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Tip: When evaluating quality, compression and fine-tuning of modern formats, Squoosh.app ’s ability to perform a visual side-by-side comparison is helpful. Lighthouse-best practices audit now considers that AVIF image compression can bring significant improvements. Large preview ). AVIF images take longer to encode and create.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144