The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Before we dive in, I’d just like to note that the authors responsibly disclosed their findings to Google, who have announced that they will be fixing many of the identified issues in AndroidQ. Google, to their credit, have announced that they are addressing many of the issues that we reported to them. xamdeco0962.

Systems 74

Systems Traffic Network Google 74

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Note that AnyLog also differs from projects such as DeepDive or Google’s Knowledge Graph. Caching of query results on the other hand, looks like a good business model, at large enough scale these might amount to pretty much the same thing). Coordinators that don’t want to pay contractors?

Blockchain 94

Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

The challenging thing of course, is efficiently maintaining all of these parallel universes. In the prototype implementation, policies are expressed in a language similar to Google Cloud Firestore security rules. Thus an application can issue any query, and we can rest safe in the knowledge that it will only see permitted data.

Database 90

Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

Many caching plugins like WPRocket also offer Gzip compression right out of the box. Created by Google in 2013, Brotli is a compression algorithm created by Google for the compression of web fonts. The best course of action is to pre compress your files and serve them alongside your regular files. Brotli Compression.

Speed 67

Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. You can read about more advanced dead code elimination (aka tree shaking) in this post for Google by Jeremy Wagner. Do we have a carousel of images?

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

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. It shouldn't be 10%, unless it's cache effects. But I'd rather the cost be zero, of course! Back-end servers.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

Of course publishing it on Martin Fowler’s site was always going to get it to a wider audience (thanks Martin!), Fast forward to two years later and the article has had more than half a million visits, regularly appears in the top five Google search results for “Serverless”, and helped launched Symphonia ? Because of course it did.

Serverless 40

Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 40

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Compressing, minifying and caching assets. Lighthouse. KB to 11.2

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Of course, there is the important caveat of having a well-structured CSS codebase structure that doesn’t depend on the rule order. Deferring font stylesheets (Google Font files, for example) could also be beneficial for initial render performance. Caching Stylesheets. Caching static files is a useful optimization strategy.

Media 109

Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Faster is better, of course, but the way Lighthouse reports it, a “passing” score comes in between 0 and 1.8 Google keeps a full record of the changelog for reference, so that’s something to keep in mind when evaluating results, especially if you find yourself with different results from others on your team.

Performance 96

Performance Metrics Monitoring Google 96

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

An outgoing request from a whitelisted domain returns a 302 , forwarding the request to a self-hosted CSS file that is optimised specifcally for your browser, OS, and UA (Google Fonts do something similar). To further exacerbate the problem, the 302 response has a Cache-Control: must-revalidate, private.

Latency 203

Latency Cache Strategy Media 203

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

MyISAM is modified with segmented key caches, the default temporary table storage engine is Aria (which is a crash-safe MyISAM), the FederatedX engine is a modified FEDERATED engine, and there are more: CONNECT, Mroonga, OQGRAPH, Sequence, SphinxSE, SPIDER, TokuDB and of course MyRocks. We highly recommend the alternative, ProxySQL.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Google and Bing teamed up to present results from their respective experiments with page load time. Google’s results were perhaps even more startling. Buoyed by these studies, Google recently announced that they will be taking page load time into consideration when ranking sites. drop in revenue per user, as well as a 1.8%

Performance 40

Performance Energy Google Internet 40

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Generally to cache data (including non-persistent data that never sees a backing store), to share non-persistent data across application services (e.g. ” Even re-reading that today, the letter of the law there is surprisingly strict to me: you can use the local memory space or filesystem as a brief single transaction cache, but no more.

Cache 79

Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

CSS - Tricks

JULY 27, 2021

Of course, after all that, I couldn’t get them out of my head, so I had to spring into action and do the Step 2 stuff as soon as I could, and I’m happy to report I’ve done most of it and seen improvement. Especially as it affects cached page loads too. I took notes as we poked around. Let’s dig in!

Cache 97

Cache Google Innovation Testing 97

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

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. That’s mapping applications to the specific architectural choices. They are very expensive. Some say MRAM will never work in automotive.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Of course, for web performance reasons you should always use the smallest images you can, but in these days of high-density mobile screens, many prefer to give high-quality images to take advantage of those beautiful screens. This could be as simple as logging the values for these options in a Google Analytics Custom Dimension.

Website 103

Website Media Mobile Network 103

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier. A standard version of an approach demonstrated in Google's web applications to dramatically improve security. PowerPoint or Google Slides). Trusted Types. CSS Container Queries. inert Attribute.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Cache Your Images. A website’s performance can suffer if frequently accessed images are not cached, as many requests will be made to images that have already been loaded in the user’s system. But not only does it cache the original image, but it also stores all the transformations and combinations we make from it.

Media 106

Media Cache Website Mobile 106

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Guest profiles also start with empty caches, empty cookie stores, empty browser storage, etc. The one for the menu was the longest and had INP time of 350ms – in other words, 150ms longer than Google's 200ms threshold for 'Good'. Even though I only clicked on the page once, multiple event handlers were invoked.

Analytics 91

Analytics Processing Google Mobile 91

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. Although we’ve been told for years that visitors are willing to wait three seconds for a web page to load , Google considers 2.9 Clean coding practices. Minification.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

My team and I first encountered the strange WordPress-lagging REST API on a client site (not decoupled), where we used the custom endpoints to get the list of locations on a Google map, alongside other meta information created using the Advanced Custom Fields Pro plugin. Of course, this is where good planning is crucial. post_slug ||

Cache 78

Cache Website Speed Database 78

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

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. All of this is, of course, still true for HTTP/3 as well. This is true, but only to a relatively limited extent. Implementation.

Network 105

Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This means that with Terraform, you can manage resources across multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and more, using a single tool.‍A While Terraform provides a level of abstraction, the inherent differences in how CDNs handle caching, invalidations, and routing can require significant reconfiguration.‍‍Terraform

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Here’s what Google suggests: PageSpeed Insights demonstrates how much storage and bandwidth websites stand to save with WebP. Source: Google ) ( Large preview ).

Website 72

Website Speed Cache Google 72

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. Not as much as we'd like, of course, but the worldwide baseline has changed enormously. There are differences, of course, but not where it counts. The Moto G4 , for example.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This means that with Terraform, you can manage resources across multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and more, using a single tool.‍A Businesses can adjust configurations to manage everything from basic distribution settings to intricate geo-targeted content caching and delivery strategies, all with the same ease.‍‍2.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This method is often called 0-RTT (although, of course, it still takes one round trip for the HTTP response data to start arriving). Some examples of the latter are heavily cached websites, as well as single-page apps that periodically fetch small updates via APIs and other protocols such as DNS-over-QUIC. As for TLS 1.3,

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

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. Googling for your own platform of choice with SRI or Sub Resource Integrity will likely point you in the right direction. So it’s work using SRI there too. Conclusion.

Website 58

Website Servers Code Best Practices 58

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

However, many other devices are sitting between the client and the server that also have their own TCP code on board (examples include firewalls, load balancers, routers, caching servers, proxies, etc.). Over time, our attitude towards security on the Internet has, of course, changed to “ secure by default ”. itself directly.

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

I think that maybe the small counter argument here is if you Google, “How to do X with React,” you’re going to get half a dozen different approaches to doing that thing. So I can have a multipage app, cache my API calls for a short period of time without having to cache them in memory. And I think that is valid.

Technology 94

Technology Technology Servers Code 94

MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

“Well of course these sites load quickly, there’s nothing there!” Looking again at the websites above, you’ll see that Google uses one image (their logo), Craigslist uses 0(!), Using a CDN like Cloudflare is a great way to cache your static assets and serve them to your users via the shortest path possible.

Website 57

Website Speed Google Cache 57

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

One’s called Haunted, may have heard of that, some people might have, Matthew: and Fred, who’s the owner of Skypack, who started Skypack and worked on the Snowpack project, I knew him because he worked for Google on the Polymer project, which is a web component project. I think Jason Miller of Google came up with this terminology.

Media 88

Media Website Architecture Servers 88

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Our metrics at Google show a conflicted picture (which I’m working to get to clarity on). Add onto that the yawning chasm between low-end and high-end device performance thanks to chip design factors like cache sizes, and it can be difficult to know where to set a device baseline. 75% of of connections occur on either 2G or 3G.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Plus, now that Google has made mobile-first indexing the default, you really can’t afford to let any performance optimizations fall by the wayside what with how difficult it can be to get your mobile site as speedy as your desktop. Of course, there are the SEO benefits of images, too. Images are a powerful force on the web. Add a CDN.

Mobile 63

Mobile Media Website Storage 63

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Of course, a shop needs interactive elements , be it product image zooming, some videos, a countdown to today’s shipping deadline, or a chat window to get in contact with customer support. Jennifer Brehm.

Performance 116

Performance Cache Website Mobile 116

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.

Media 106

Media Cache Google Best Practices 106