Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Have we optimized enough with tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, progressive hydration, clients hints, HTTP/3, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It’s much easier to reach performance goals when the code base is fresh or is just being refactored.

Performance 145

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

To be effective, all these images need to be carefully orchestrated to appear on the screen fast — but as it turns out, loading images efficiently at scale isn’t a project for a quiet afternoon. DRM-free, of course. Keeping this efficient helps ensure a good user experience. DRM-free, of course. Let’s figure it all out.

Media 92

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. There’s a trade off here between inlining JavaScript (so running it doesn’t require a network request) versus placing it into it’s own JavaScript file (for modularity and code-reuse). Compressing, minifying and caching assets.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍Before we dive into what Terraform is, let's begin with a real-world example of how Terraform code looks and works:‍# Challenge requests coming from known Tor exit nodes.‍‍In Background‍The idea of managing infrastructure through code wasn't initiated by HashiCorp. ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?‍‍If

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

This level of distribution will seriously affect the efficiency of the operation, which will increase the response time significantly. This, of course, is unless I can organize my products by country as well, which is a bit unusual nowadays but not impossible. This is it.

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SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Parameter embedding means SQL Server replaces parameter references in the query with the literal constant values from the current execution, and then the code with the constants gets optimized. The stored procedure allows much more flexibility in terms of the code elements you can use. So, let’s try…. GetEmpsF. (

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It’s much easier to reach performance goals when the code base is fresh or is just being refactored.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Webpack Fundamentals is a very comprehensive 4h course with Sean Larkin, released by FrontendMasters.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

Therefore, frontend code is responsible for permission checks and privacy-preserving transformations that protect user’s data. The challenging thing of course, is efficiently maintaining all of these parallel universes. These ideas make an efficient multiverse database possible. Expressing privacy policies.

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Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Before we dive into what Terraform is, let's begin with a real-world example of how Terraform code looks and works:‍# Challenge requests coming from known Tor exit nodes.‍‍In the example above, we're using Terraform to set up an access rule on Cloudflare. This rule challenges requests coming from known Tor exit nodes.

Open Source 40

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SQL Performance

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This works, and allows the filtered index to be chosen for an efficient seek… SELECT OrderID , OrderDate FROM dbo. This is a rather brittle, because it relies on the index outliving the code. sp_executesql @sql , N'@IsShipped bit' , @IsShipped ; This leads to the same efficient plan as above. GetUnshippedOrders ; GO.

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Database Efficiency Cache Code 81

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Serve In Next-generation (Next-gen) Formats, Encode Efficiently. In that case, you can always use the <picture> HTML tag, as shown in the code below, so that the browser can pick the image format supported in the order provided. <picture> Cache Your Images. <picture> <!--

Media 105

Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Today, this makes concurrency more important than ever, because it delivers two things: It hides latencies we have to deal with and cannot remove, from disk I/O latency to speed-of-light network latency; and it makes our code responsive by not introducing needless latencies of our own even when we’re not hiding someone else’s latency.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Guest profiles also start with empty caches, empty cookie stores, empty browser storage, etc. A pointerdown event handler within the site's own code executes. Handlers within the site's own code for gotpointercpature , lostpointercapture , pointerup , pointerout and touchend events execute.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

WebP entered the picture with a much more efficient use of lossy compression (which I’ll explain below) and became the much-needed successor to JPG. WebP lossy compression, on the other hand, uses what’s known as prediction coding to more accurately adjust the pixels in an image. What Is WebP Caching?

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Website Speed Cache Google 72

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 26, 2020

On the surface this is a paper about fast data ingestion from high-volume streams, with indexing to support efficient querying. In Helios, this translates to coming up with efficient techniques for splitting computation between end devices, edge, and cloud. Helios: hyperscale indexing for the cloud & edge , Potharaju et al.,

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SQL Performance

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Its raison d’être is to cache result rows from a plan subtree, then replay those rows on subsequent iterations if any correlated loop parameters are unchanged. Table-valued functions use a table variable, which can be used to cache and replay results in suitable circumstances. Spools are the least costly way to cache partial results.

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Servers Cache Azure Performance 106

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. How long your piece of JavaScript takes to finish depends on how fast the device is that your code is running on.

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Games Architecture Code C++ 145

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Efficiently enables new styles of drawing content on the web , removing many hard tradeoffs between visual richness , accessibility, and performance. Form-associated Web Components.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Via various optimization techniques, such as advanced query optimization, efficient indexing, and fast data processing, MariaDB can deliver excellent performance even when running heavy workloads. Efficient data processing and indexing, making it optimal for executing queries and handling large datasets.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Particularly good examples here are Brad Frost’s side-project, “ Death To B t ”, Heydon Pickering’s articles and talks about writing less damn code , and Adam Silver’s blog post, “ Designing For Actual Performance.”. You can read about more advanced dead code elimination (aka tree shaking) in this post for Google by Jeremy Wagner.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

The Symphonia

JANUARY 21, 2019

We even put CI/CD front and center in our training courses ?—?we CloudFormation is a “close cousin” of these services, and is the the AWS Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tool + service I’m going to focus for the remainder of this article on CodeBuild and CodePipeline. and it will run them in a container for you. It’s also self service?—?no

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 11, 2019

In addition, service workers have the ability to intercept and handle network requests (for e.g., caching and pre-loading purposes). modify their code, monitor their outgoing traffic etc.). There is no low-level networking access, but HTTP request methods and the HTTP body can of course be controlled.

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Website Network Traffic Cache 44

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Flexibility : With open source databases, you have access to the source code, allowing you to modify and optimize the database to meet your specific high availability requirements. The transparency of open code enhances security as potential vulnerabilities can be identified and patched more quickly by the community.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

For this page to be done loading it needs to be responsive to user input — the “interactive” in “Time to Interactive” Browsers process user input by generating DOM events that application code listens to. The gzip compression factor for JS code is between 5x and 7x. Execute the script.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Use srcset + efficient modern image formats. You can of course also do this manually just using the <img> element directly. The above code with an alt specified looks as follows: <img src="donut.jpg" alt="A delicious pink donut."> will optimize images dynamically upon request and store them in a local cache.

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

Total elapsed time is 933ms with 6,673ms of CPU time with a warm cache. Batch operators are implemented so that multiple threads can work efficiently on a single shared structure (e.g. The same basic mechanics as before are in play of course, but there is another important factor. hash table). per batch).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor. Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. Of course the template approach is cheaper.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Of course, performance is not all that matters. (If For CSS and Javascript, run your code through a minimization tool like YUI Compressor or JSMin , both of which can be found online. Like sprites, they can be tricky to efficiently maintain, but again, someone has done some of the heavy lifting for us.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

So for example, I think the king of this hill is probably Preact, which is a three kilobyte alternative to React that uses the same API, ships way less code and actually runs orders of magnitude faster on safe updates than React does too. I think I’m up to three or four thousand pages and there’s no way I am just hand coding all those.

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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. This method is often called 0-RTT (although, of course, it still takes one round trip for the HTTP response data to start arriving). Congestion Control. As for TLS 1.3, UDP and TLS Performance.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

QUIC is needed because TCP, which has been around since the early days of the Internet, was not really built with maximum efficiency in mind. Over time, our attitude towards security on the Internet has, of course, changed to “ secure by default ”. For example, TCP requires a “ handshake ” to set up a new connection. Large preview ).

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