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Web Standards

KeyCDN

Maybe the best phrase to describe web standards is a set of standardized "best practices" for building websites. While the following list is not exhaustive, these best practices consist primarily of the following three things: Recommendations published by W3C. Standards published by ECMA International.

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The Great Firewall of China: Obstacles to Monitoring Performance

Dotcom-Montior

The entire country of China’s internet connectivity is shielded by the Great Firewall (GFW). There are three state-owned ISP providers, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile , that control internet in China. The most recent technology automatically shuts internet off whenever blacklisted URLs are accessed.

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MySQL Backup and Recovery Best Practices: The Ultimate Guide

Percona

When it comes to making the best choices for your specific setup, such as your topology and MySQL version, there are several options to explore, each requiring us to consider pertinent questions for informed decision-making. DataCenter Failure : power outage or internet provider issues. Why Do MySQL Backups Matter?

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Mobile browser testing – what is it and when is it done?

Testsigma

With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. For example, if you are using internet banking via a Mobile Web application, it will not allow you to save cards or mark any transaction as favourite. Best Practices For Mobile Website Testing.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Why Your Performance Testing Strategy Needs to Shift Left

Dotcom-Montior

LoadView – Best Practices and Process. Design your test without the hassle of managing hardware, giving you the ability to identify objectives and define a scenario by setting up a number of users and test duration. Distribute user load by geographical testing locations, simulating your customer base.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. These include data transfer (i.e.