Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. However, their focus has always been on making a great-looking and effective design. Suzanne Scacca. Minification.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

I'm sure this delivered large performance improvements and I wouldn't try arguing against it. Only in extreme circumstances does the cost (in processor time and I-cache footprint) translate to a tangible benefit - circumstances which usually resort to hand-coded assembly anyway.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2020

It wouldn’t scale and it wouldn’t perform either. Highly parallel and performant for any API call and doesn’t introduce much overhead. ? I wanted a rather lightweight design that is yet versatile. TenantCache: a cache to store tenant information and API token information and semi-permanent data to avoid unnecessary roundtrips.

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Cache Serverless Efficiency Tuning 234

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

We work with millions of merchants, and as many companies, we obsess about storefront performance. We obsess even more about finding the optimal balance between performance, capabilities, and merchants’ business objectives. I work at Shopify, an all-in-one commerce platform to start, run, and grow a business. Large preview ).

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 136

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Their design emphasizes increasing availability by spreading out files among different nodes or servers — this approach significantly reduces risks associated with losing or corrupting data due to node failure. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) From shared-nothing to disaggregation. joins) during query processing.

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Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. DRM-free, of course. Image Decoding Performance. +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI.

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

.’ Stateless is fine until you need state, at which point the coarse-grained solutions offered by current platforms limit the kinds of application designs that work well. Oh, and there’s a scheduler too of course to keep all the plates spinning. Programming model. Cloudburst programs are written in Python.

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Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. DRM-free, of course. Image Decoding Performance. +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

You are now “Head of Performance” at Repairing Magazine, the most serious competitor to Smashing Magazine. Your job for today is to implement this feature with the best possible performances. The “stale-while-revalidate” cache control strategy can reduce the TTFB issue by serving a cached version of the page until it’s updated.

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Cache Website Energy Servers 115

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 18, 2020

The resulting performance depends on the quality of the model predictions, a higher quality model leads to fewer collisions, and fewer out-of-order items to be patched in the final Insertion Sort pass. If it’s high performance you’re after, you can’t ignore mechanical sympathy. Sympathy for the machine. Evaluation.

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Cache C++ Java Tuning 137

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

In fact, we had to look into various cases for the form design: What happens when no data is provided at all? Given that a vast majority of our readers — wonderful people like you — are using autofill, it’s worth spending time designing an experience around it. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-03-19T13:30:00+00:00. 2021-03-19T15:28:04+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. Sustainable Web Design. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick. Jack Lenox.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

In this blog, we will establish basic guidelines for setting PostgreSQL database parameters to improve database performance according to workload. Bear in mind that while optimizing PostgreSQL server configuration improves performance, a database developer must also be diligent when writing queries for the application. shared_buffer.

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Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 55

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

So, what are the performance implications of all of this? To further exacerbate the problem, the 302 response has a Cache-Control: must-revalidate, private. header , meaning that we will always make an outgoing request for this resource regardless of whether or not we’re hitting the site from a cold or a warm cache.

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Latency Cache Strategy Media 203

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Here’s the thing: performance is more than a one-off task. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That is why, today, Web Performance is as important and trendy as having an online presence. Table of Contents: What Is Web Performance? What Is Web Performance? Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Conclusion.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 106

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Why are developers using RInK systems as part of their design? Generally to cache data (including non-persistent data that never sees a backing store), to share non-persistent data across application services (e.g. Oh, you mean a cache? TBH, I never interpreted it quite so strictly. What is that something?

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Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

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. For more background on these performance spools see my prior article. Spools are the least costly way to cache partial results. c3 DESC. ) ) AS CA ORDER BY T1.

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Percona

JULY 17, 2023

Instead of the table-based structure of relational databases, MongoDB stores data in documents and collections, a design for handling large amounts of unstructured data and for real-time web applications. DBAs and developers appreciate its combination of flexibility, scalability, and performance. MongoDB Enterprise is commercial.

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Open Source Database Scalability Software 75

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

Nothing is impossible; however, the performances will be so impacted that each operation may take seconds instead of milliseconds or a fraction of it unless lifting some of the rules breaks the relational model. This, of course, is unless I can organize my products by country as well, which is a bit unusual nowadays but not impossible.

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Traffic Scalability Database Servers 123

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Even if you resize your images to the exact specifications of your website and run them through a compressor, they can still put a strain on performance and run up bandwidth usage. Designers can use WebP lossy encoding on RGB colors and lossless encoding on images with transparent backgrounds (alpha channel). What Is WebP Caching?

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Website Speed Cache Google 72

Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

I’m delighted to be joining some of my favourite web performance people at SpeedCurve! I’ve been a full-time web performance consultant for around nine years. I’ve written a couple of books , spoken at conferences , and become an organiser of London’s Web Performance Meetup.

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Retail Internet Internet Education 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

Such a design rules out an entire class of application errors, protecting private data from accidentally leaking. Although state-of-the-are databases have security features designed for exactly this purpose, such as row-level access policies and grants of views, these features are too limiting for many web applications.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 1, 2020

If you’re unsure of how your website performs on a mobile device (or even got a poor result on a speed audit), stick with us. Measure Your Mobile Performance. Of course not. That is why we need to test our performance at those speeds. Improving Your Mobile Performance. Nail your mobile site design.

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Speed Mobile Testing Google 67

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. PLOS’19.

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Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And of course, scrapers could scrape your site to look for security vulnerabilities or exposed contact or sales lead details. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Search Engine And Web Archive Cached Results. More after jump! Large preview ).

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Nobody is trying to do a poor job, and yet the results of a “completed” PWA project often require weeks or months of painstaking rework to deliver minimally acceptable performance. Partner meetings are illuminating.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Typically, the servers are configured in a primary/replica configuration, with one server designated as the primary server that handles all incoming requests and the others designated as replica servers that monitor the primary and take over its workload if it fails. This flexibility can be crucial in designing a scalable architecture.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 107

Randon ASCII

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

The fact that this shows up as CPU time suggests that the reads were all hitting in the system cache and the CPU time was the kernel overhead (note ntoskrnl.exe on the first sampled call stack) of grabbing data from the cache. This means that there is no caching between RuntimeBroker.exe and this file.

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Latency Cache Programming Operating System 79

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

If you’re not a developer/designer, you may not be familiar with the Chrome DevTools and the extremely powerful Google Lighthouse Audits that can be found inside. While PageSpeed Insights focuses solely on speed/performance, Lighthouse offers even more. Performance. Getting Started with Google Lighthouse. Best Practices.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Model performance is not the same as business performance. Lesson 2: model performance is not the same as business performance. An interesting finding is that increasing the performance of a model does not necessarily translate into a gain in [business] value. Be clear about the problem you’re trying to solve.

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Latency Metrics Cache Design 102

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

There are many tools available that can help you monitor, manage, and optimize your website and application performance: APM, synthetics, RUM, alerting, alert integrations, and more. How are you monitoring end-user performance today? Rigor’s free performance report. Next, look into the tools you are already using.

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Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74