The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This, of course, positions privacy as a luxury good… Finding apps that leak data. Each app was then executed on a physical mobile phone equipped with a custom OS and network monitor. Network traffic is also monitored, included all TLS-secured traffic where the developers hadn’t used certificate pinning (i.e., most apps).

Systems 74

Systems Traffic Network Google 74

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. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. If we think about social networks, we can see two clear trends, those focusing on text and those focusing on multimedia content. Cache Your Images. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente. 2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00. Large preview ).

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.

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. Many caching plugins like WPRocket also offer Gzip compression right out of the box. Never change, Internet Explorer. For our WordPress readers out there, the above methods will still work for you as well!

Speed 67

Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), Connection management : This is the software management related specifically to the networking and connectivity aspect of the database.

Availability 111

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

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). MarioNet can conduct a subset of DDoS attacks by instructing Servants to connect to a specific Internet host. No user permission is required to register and maintain a service worker.

Website 44

Website Network Traffic Cache 44

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

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). Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Converging Views. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Resources like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that had previously been the reserve of giant corporations were becoming commonplace for everyday folk building snappy websites. 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.

Website 57

Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

It is well known and fairly obvious that in geographically distributed systems or other environments with probable network partitions or delays it is not generally possible to maintain high availability without sacrificing consistency because isolated parts of the database have to operate independently in case of network partition.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Amazon S3 is much more than just storage; the network and distributed systems infrastructure to ensure that content can be served fast and at high rates without customers impacting each other, is amazing. My templates and blog posts are now located in DropBox and thus locally cached at each machine I use. at 30,000 feet).

Servers 126

Servers Social Media AWS Website 126

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Low-end phones on the other hand are getting cheaper , making the mobile internet accessible to demographics that previously maybe couldn’t afford it. A ServiceWorker is a short-lived , isolated JavaScript scope running in a separate thread, functioning as a proxy for every network request originating from pages of the same origin.

Games 145

Games Architecture Code C++ 145

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

" Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing. The cloud-hosted version would need to be: Scalable – The service would need to support hundreds of thousands, or even millions of AWS customers, each supporting their own internet-scale applications.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

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?

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

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.

Speed 121

Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques. To paraphrase Arthur C. Recent Entries.

Technology 151

Technology Technology AWS Storage 151