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. These are the apps that have motivated us to develop DAX.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. It’s inherently tied to everything we build and develop. As Chris likes to say, a front-end developer is aware.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Our Cluster Performance Engineering Team in collaboration with our Autonomous Cloud Enablement (ACE) and development teams quickly identified the root cause and fixed the problem in no time! And the code-level root cause information is what makes troubleshooting easy for developers. Conclusion: Dynatrace for Developers.

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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. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Google developed WebP back in 2010 after acquiring a company called On2 Technologies. Needless to say, there’s nothing that can beat WebP when it comes to speed while maintaining image integrity. “. What Is WebP Caching? Suzanne Scacca. What is WebP?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. Clearly, we want to give freedom to our content creators, but we can leave to chance neither the resolution nor the speed of delivery and download of the images that will be displayed on our website.

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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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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Performance optimization is the Rodney Dangerfield of web development–it “don’t get no respect” In spite of its great importance in the overall user experience, it is all too often pushed aside and treated as an afterthought. Of course, performance is not all that matters. (If 21% less searches.

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Percona

JULY 17, 2023

Developers and DBAs like MongoDB’s ease-of-use. DBAs and developers appreciate its combination of flexibility, scalability, and performance. DBAs and developers appreciate its combination of flexibility, scalability, and performance. It’s a good setup for real-time analytics and high-speed logging.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

A long 15 years later it became the number one CMS choice for developers and non-developers alike. Ever since REST API was bundled in the WordPress core, developers can experiment and use it in a decoupled way, i.e. writing the front-end part by using JavaScript frameworks or libraries. Large preview ).

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All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

With these features CloudFront makes it as simple as possible for customers to use CloudFront to speed up delivery of their entire dynamic website running in Amazon EC2/ELB (or third-party origins), without needing to worry about which URLs should point to CloudFront and which ones should go directly to the origin. More new features.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The community even developed a boatload of plugins to manage various tools and services; this includes comprehensive management of CDNs such as Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, and many others, allowing businesses to integrate and automate their content delivery mechanisms seamlessly.‍Background‍The ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. Meanwhile, developer behaviour offers little hope: Median mobile JavaScript payloads have only grown since 2016, now hovering above 400KiB of script transferred, or nearly 2.5MiB of uncompressed JS.

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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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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Being open-source, Terraform invited a vast community of developers and companies to rally around it. Real-time monitoring can help detect any anomalies as soon as they happen, thereby increasing the speed at which problems can be diagnosed and solved. ‍It This offers not just an audit train but an “audit trail on steroids.”‍A

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Drew McLellan talks to developer Matthew Phillips to find out. Drew McLellan: He’s an engineer at Skypack and a major contributor to a new project called Astro, which aims to combine performance best practices with the developer experience improvements we see from component based approaches. Drew McLellan. 2021-11-04T18:00:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. This approach was touted to be better for fine-grained caching because each subresource could be cached individually and the full bundle didn’t need to be redownloaded if one of them changed.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This part is a bit more technical than the first, though it offloads most of the really deep stuff to outside sources, focusing on explaining why these things matter to the average web developer. A Primer on Speed. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

In those early days, libraries like script.aculo.us, Prototype and eventually jQuery began to gain adoption amongst developers looking to add more interactivity into their pages. They’d take the hit for the first site to use the file, but then it would sit in their local browser cache and downloads could be skipped for each subsequent site.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

This processor has a base clock speed of 2.0GHz, with an all-core boost speed of 2.55GHz, and a max boost clock speed of 3.0GHz. The L3 cache size is 64MB. Of course, if I were buying an AMD-based server for on-premises SQL Server use right now, I would try to get the newer, frequency-optimized AMD EPYC 7371 processor.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. " Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

One of the most surprising results has been the frequent occurrence of “ambush by JavaScript” : We need a new term for the business-opportunity wastage that modern front-end development has created. One distinct trend is a belief that a JavaScript framework and Single-Page Architecture (SPA) is a must for PWA development.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. In this article, I’ll highlight some of the work we did and how we were able to achieve our speed. And while you can usually cache the full page of an article, the same is not true of many shop pages and elements.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

This uses hardware, typically a crystal oscillator, that produces ticks at a very high constant rate regardless of processor speed, power settings, or anything of that nature. Total elapsed time is 933ms with 6,673ms of CPU time with a warm cache. SQL Server uses the high-precision QueryPerformanceCounter API to capture timing data.

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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. DRM-free, of course. Print + eBook.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. It also lists cached resources and identifies unused Javascript. Treo Site Speed also performs site speed audits using data from the Chrome UX Report, Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights. WebPageTest is, of course, a performance testing suite on its own.

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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. DRM-free, of course. Get Print + eBook.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Let’s cover some ways to speed up GIF animations on your website and look at some alternative formats that you should consider. Why Speed Up GIF Animations? Speed Up GIF Animations With Compression Tools Due to their nature, it’s not possible to make changes to GIF files without affecting their graphical data.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Plus a service worker that caches all static assets and serves them for repeat views, along with cached versions of articles that a reader has already visited. We chose to focus specifically on slow mobile devices — with slow 3G, 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed, just to be on the pessimistic side of things.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. Establish a performance culture.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. Alternatively, you can also use Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

You can of course also do this manually just using the <img> element directly. From Speed at Scale with Katie Hempenius and I at Google I/O. will optimize images dynamically upon request and store them in a local cache. DRM-free, of course. We’ll cover this later. Large preview ). Large preview ). Note: Next.js

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about.

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