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.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A study by Wappalyzer says that PHP runs 82% of the Internet. Because the language is based on procedural programming, developers can quickly start writing code that works. Developers can quickly learn how to use it and start making web apps because the code and instructions are easy to understand.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Because many of the transmissions are caused by the same SDK code, we only needed to reverse engineer each unique circumvention technique : not every app, but instead for a much smaller number of unique SDKs. The OpenX SDK was found to be using the ARP cache side channel, and the code makes it clear the authors knew what they were doing.

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Systems Traffic Network Google 74

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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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

Gzip works by greatly reducing the amount of duplicate code and white space in a website’s files. If you’re using an Apache server, the below code can be added to your.htaccess file. If you’re using an NGINX web server, you’ll add the following code to your config file to enable Gzip. Never change, Internet Explorer.

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Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

There was something gratifying in taking a code that takes minutes to run and make it run in a handful seconds. Normally the team decides how well to cover and test the code, and it’s important that all developers in a team know how to write tests. That way you won’t merge nor deploy code that decreases the performance.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In the early days of SSRS, a requirement was to also install and configure Internet Information Services (IIS). Caches of report results are stored in the ReportServerTempDB database and I/O performance can become an issue here. SSRS 2008 brought that component into the reporting service module. Reporting Services Infrastructure.

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Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You’ll also find example code or references to more specific guides so you can implement these tips to your PWA. The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. Cached content with IndexedDB. Service Workers.

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Cache Internet Internet Google 124

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

Cliff Click : The JVM is very good at eliminating the cost of code abstraction, but not the cost of data abstraction. That means multiple data indirections mean multiple cache misses. Mark LaPedus : MRAM, a next-generation memory type, is being touted as a replacement for embedded flash and cache applications.

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Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

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.). MarioNet can conduct a subset of DDoS attacks by instructing Servants to connect to a specific Internet host. MarioNet use cases.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

There was something gratifying in taking a code that takes minutes to run and make it run in a handful seconds. Normally the team decides how well to cover and test the code, and it’s important that all developers in a team know how to write tests. That way you won’t merge nor deploy code that decreases the performance.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University 2015. Gathering timestapms of changes made to application code during the outage. A coded timelime was created dividing activities into three main types: Coordination activities.

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Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

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. But, when it worked, it was magical.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Quote : “40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load” Neil Patel, Internet Marketing expert. Thanks to the awesome caching plugins available for WordPress will make your site much faster and make your pages feel lightweight when configured correctly. Enable caching. Now is that a fault of WordPress?

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

In many cases join is performed on a finite time window or other type of buffer e.g. LFU cache that contains most frequent tuples in the stream. If something goes wrong, one could need to rerun the system on the problematic data with better logging or with code alternations. Issue investigation could require ad hoc queries.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I downloaded TripMode ; an application for Mac which gives you control over which apps on your Mac can access the internet. Any other application’s internet access is automatically blocked. But I suspect a lot of it is tracking code and advertising setup.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. 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. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 106

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. Adding caching when your app is already experiencing load is not easy.

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Let’s illustrate the browser’s behavior with an example using our previous code: <img src="image-300.png". And finally, update our code : <img src="image-280.png". Still, the updated code is not fully optimized for all devices yet. Let’s update our code example: <img src="image-280.png". srcset=" image-300.png

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Media Mobile Website Metrics 105

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. Using streams, you can apply the changes to a full-text search data store such as Elasticsearch, push incremental backups to Amazon S3, or maintain an up-to-date read cache.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. Internet Explorer 6 was fully supported, Firefox was gaining share, and Chrome was still years from launch. When paired with VS Code the development experience is amazing. It wasn’t enough. The first easy win came from an experimental Next.js

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Most of us work on connections that are typically quite a bit faster than that of the average internet user. In the early days of the web when we were browsing the internet via a dialup connection, improving performance meant removing the images from your site. I think this myth stems more from a lack of awareness.

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Performance Energy Google Internet 40

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

And slow websites are, in a way, discrimination: The majority of the world’s population don’t have access to high-speed Internet or fast CPUs. This frees up the browser’s main thread to run your own code. This is why performance is crucial when building websites. are usually the biggest pieces of the performance puzzle. Builder.io

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Website Google Open Source Mobile 81

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

If I change my user-agent to Internet Explorer 11, I’m served the font in the WOFF format instead. Browser Caching. Another built-in optimization of Google Fonts is browser caching. The Google Fonts browser cache is set to expire after one year unless the cache is cleared sooner. — FAQ, Google Fonts.

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Google Performance Cache Website 111

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

Normally this solution requires a full code redesign and could be quite difficult to achieve when it is injected after the initial code architecture definition. Best practices indicate that having ProxySQL closer to the application will be more efficient, especially if we decide to activate the caching feature.

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Traffic Scalability Database Servers 123

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. 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).

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

A survey of 90,240 companies using MongoDB listed the leading uses as Technology and Services (23%), Computer Software (16%), and Internet (6%). Organizations have access to the source code, allowing them to make changes and enhancements as needed. And MongoDB is popular across industries. Couchbase — No.

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Open Source Database Scalability Software 75

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

It’s not just source code for the configuration, models, views, and templates, but also static assets: CSS and JavaScript, images, icons. Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. Philip Kiely. Static Files.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Some of those factors include the following: URL Test Location Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, mobile browsers etc…) Connection Number of Tests Repeat View Elements Used in Waterfall Charts Interactive Slider : The Interactive Slider is an indicator of the performance of each element in terms of milliseconds. Queued request.

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Performance Cache Website Speed 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. As another example, most applications on the Internet use TCP internally to ensure that all of their data are transmitted in full. Did You Know?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services. The HTTP Archive tracks third-party usage across a large swath of all active websites on the Internet today. In many cases, they can be super convenient to add or remove without having to push code changes to the site.

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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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Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, mobile browsers etc…). If the waiting time is too much, it may mean an overloaded network server or there may be an inefficient code, which must be fixed by software developers by finding the bugs and correcting the code. Moreover, caching utility may decrease the waiting time.

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Performance Cache Website Speed 53

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Internet of Things (IoT). Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Internet of Things (IoT). Internet of things (IoT) – Number of IoT devices 2015-2025 Statista.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

We are increasingly seeing customers wanting to build Internet-scale applications that require diverse data models. Developers rely on the functionality of the relational database (not the application code) to enforce the schema and preserve the referential integrity of the data within the database. Purpose-built databases.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control. And the case is especially different, when China’s Internet environment is involved. Accessibility.

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Code Quality: Angular or React? It makes your code very easy to understand and launch. Moreover, it endures one of the top JavaScript frameworks because of constantly updated technology and backing from Google and its coding power. Code Stability with One-directional data binding. Cleaner and short Coding.

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