Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

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. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. Keyword Filtering and Blocking.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. "What, then, is a 'browser'?" Web Serial.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

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. What are Mobile Web Applications?

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

We wanted to have control of the hardware that runs our tests and deliver consistent results. Some visitors will be coming to your site via a blazing fast internet on an overpowered, flagship mobile device. Others will be coming to you from a slow, rural internet connection on a budget laptop. Don’t stress over a score.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier. Trusted Types.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in January 2021 and updated in November of 2023. In this blog, we will review all of the potential MySQL backup and restore strategies, the cornerstones of any application. DataCenter Failure : power outage or internet provider issues. For offsite backups (like S3, Google Cloud, etc.),

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 79

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

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.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Ten years ago, when the mobile handset wars were in full swing, I wrote a blog analyzing the differences among the leaders in the space. Nokia hired a manager from Microsoft to wed the handset business to any alternative mobile operating system to iOS that wasn't made by Google. With the benefit of hindsight, we know how it played out.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Automotive Mobile 52

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. The blog you're reading loads over a single connection in ~1.2 and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets. In the U.S.,

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Today we’ll be reviewing LoadView , an on-demand load-testing platform from Dotcom-Monitor that makes realistic load testing possible without an up-front investment in hardware or software infrastructure. The post Getting Started with LoadView On-Demand Performance Testing appeared first on Dotcom-Monitor Web Performance Blog.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For each of them, Google recommends a range of acceptable speed goals.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While experienced AI developers are starting to leave powerhouses like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, not enough are leaving to meet demand—and most of them will probably gravitate to startups rather than adding to the AI talent within established companies. Microsoft, Google, IBM, and OpenAI have offered more general indemnification.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

So many blog posts, online publications, and presentations continually challenged me to move forward by presenting new techniques and ways of thinking about the technology I used on a daily basis. In a comment on my last post I referenced the Boston Globe and how it appears on Google Glass. Here at Yahoo!,

Google 40

Google Website Hardware Games 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. On the Internet, however, we typically have a long series of connected pipes , some of which can be wider than others (leading to so-called bottlenecks at the narrowest links).

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