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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Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Indexes are generally considered to be the panacea when it comes to SQL performance tuning, and PostgreSQL supports different types of indexes catering to different use cases. The benefits come with a cost in terms of performance and resource consumption. The more indexes, the more the requirement of memory for effective caching.

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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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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 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these.

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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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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. +. Large view.

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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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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. +. Large view.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

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. If users have a slow network or a slow computer, they will see an ugly loader while their joke is being downloaded.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

For such workloads, shared-nothing architectures beget high cost, inflexibility, poor performance, and inefficiency, which hurts production applications and cluster deployments. The caching use case may be the most familiar, but in fact it’s not the primary purpose of the ephemeral storage service.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously. Some key advantages include:1.

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Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

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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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. Perhaps the biggest win when it comes to making websites more sustainable is that performance, user experience and sustainability are all neatly intertwined. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00.

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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.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously. Some key advantages include:1.

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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. We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Performance budgets are set early in the life of the project. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device.

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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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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.” If you’re interested in attending, please check out the links, and I look forward to meeting and re-meeting many of you there.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

There are five different types of member in an AnyLog system, and any network node can join without restriction as any type of member. 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). Market participants. web pages).

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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. We were already using both synthetic and network-based real user monitoring (RUM) tools to measure how fast our site was, so we knew we had room to improve.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

It’s one of the most common (and frustrating) scenarios in web performance testing. Of course, you still won’t see the same loading time every test , so let’s look at some of the reasons why. Below you’ll see an image showing a graph of a website’s test results over the course of a month.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. Signals For Customizing Website User Experience.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The motivation is not that inference will perform better inside the database, but that the database is the best place to take advantage of enterprise features (transactions, security, auditing, HA, and so on). There are limitations to this model of course. It can’t handle loops for example (an analysis of 4.6M

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The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

The paper examines the implications of microservices at the hardware, OS and networking stack, cluster management, and application framework levels, as well as the impact of tail latency. Smaller microservices demonstrated much better instruction-cache locality than their monolithic counterparts. Hardware implications.

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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. The beauty of persistent memory is that we can use memory layouts for persistent data (with some considerations for volatile caches etc. Traditional pointers address a memory location (often virtual of course).

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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. Even if none of the page content is delivered from your platform or servers, so long as the JavaScript code you are using for analytics or performance tracking loads, you can still get data about the page view.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Lazy-load offscreen images (reduce network contention for key resources). For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS. While not render-blocking, they can indirectly impact render performance. We’ll cover this later. Large preview ). MB of images.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

With MongoDB, you can set read-only privileges in which users can query data but cannot perform write operations. This helps prevent the possibility of a single point of failure, which could cause downtime or slow performance. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started  ‍Of course, the latter.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Steve & Tim's Close-up Magic.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Developers are already optimizing front end performance with: Fast web hosting. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. Let the web developer handle all of the necessary speed optimizations like caching and file minification while you take on the following design tips and strategies: 1. Minification.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In recent years, the industry thankfully started paying more attention to performance. As a result, website performance can suffer. Improving performance with the decoupled JSON approach. Improving Performance With The Decoupled JSON Approach. Of course, this is where good planning is crucial. Security concerns.

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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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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Historically, NoSQL paid a lot of attention to tradeoffs between consistency, fault-tolerance and performance to serve geographically distributed systems, low-latency or highly available applications. Isolated parts of the database can serve read/write requests in case of network partition. Read/Write latency. Read/Write scalability.

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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. As we discussed in our article on how to test your page weight , compression is pretty much standard practice in web performance now, so you absolutely want to make sure you’re taking advantage of it.

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