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 Content Delivery Networks. +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

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. Thanks to Tim Kadlec, Henri Helvetica and Alex Russel for the pointers!

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. Why are developers using RInK systems as part of their design? We’ve seen similar high marshalling overheads in big data systems too.)

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Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

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 Content Delivery Networks. +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Moto G4) on a slow 3G network, emulated at 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We never used CSS-in-JS or styled-components, but instead a good ol’ component-based system of Sass-modules which would be compiled into CSS. 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.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Some disruption might occur, but it will be minimal. Fault tolerance aims for zero downtime and data loss.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The project consisted of upgrading the shop software to our own open-source system and redoing the shop’s front end from scratch. 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.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As you may already know, image optimization is the process that a high-quality image has to go through to be delivered in ideal conditions, sometimes with the help of an Image Transformation API and a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) to make the process simpler and scalable. Cache Your Images.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 105

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

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 ‍AutomationCode-based systems also shine in automation.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

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. Search Engine And Web Archive Cached Results. Another common category of imposter domains are domains used by search engines for delivering cached results or archived versions of page views.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Raven is the system that Microsoft built to explore this question, and answer it with a resounding yes. At some later point a SQL query is issued which SELECT s a model and then uses the PREDICT function to generate a prediction from the model given some input data (which is itself of course the result of a query). The last word.

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Additionally, low latency increasingly matters at all scales: In user interfaces, low latency means responsive apps and productive users without the dreaded “wait…” donut; in financial trading, low latency regularly saves large amounts of cash; in embedded real-time systems, low latency is crucial to meeting deadlines and can even save lives.

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Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

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. However, countless research (including the stats for our own site here, and others by the likes of Alex Russell ) has shown that Android devices are the platform of choice for poorer countries with slower networks.

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

As such, it encompasses distributed system coordination, failover, resource management and many other capabilities. These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. System Coordination. Scalability is one of the main drivers of the NoSQL movement.

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Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

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. This can be a problem in a lot of content management systems such as WordPress or Magento, because theme developers tend to scale images down in responsive themes using CSS.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This level of granularity is not found in UI-managed systems. AutomationCode-based systems also shine in automation. 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. Of course, the latter.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity. Reduce Network Requests. Data transfer is one thing that we can measure quite easily. Large preview ).

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Tools and CI systems help them monitor progress & prevent regressions. The median user is on a slow network. Global Ground-Truth. Where to start?

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Delayed five years. Gamepad API.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. SV1)"; gzip_vary on; Disclaimer: please consult your system admin before making any server configuration changes. Many caching plugins like WPRocket also offer Gzip compression right out of the box.

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Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

WordPress core developers used a system of hooks which allowed other developers to modify or extend certain functionalities. It’s an all-in-one system that is equipped with a working admin interface; it manages database connection, and has a bunch of useful APIs exposed that handle user authentication, routing, and more.

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Cache Website Speed Database 78

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

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. Of course, part of that has to do with how long it actually takes a user to fill one out.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

This information can then be used to set up tests within a synthetic monitoring data platform such as Rigor to test how a user experience those flows on every type of device, network, connection, and location. Of course, load testing and stress testing are essential – you likely already have your eye on those numbers.

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Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

If you think about a system like Procella that’s combining transactional and analytic workloads on top of a cloud-native architecture, extensions to SQL for streaming , dataflow based materialized views (see e.g. It would be a bold departure from the current imperative high-level DSL based approach to deep learning taken by TensorFlow et al.,

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Network Database Programming Hardware 44

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). There is no low-level networking access, but HTTP request methods and the HTTP body can of course be controlled. No user permission is required to register and maintain a service worker.

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Website Network Traffic Cache 44

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.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Servers Social Media AWS Website 126

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The high likelihood of unreliable network connectivity led us to lean into mobile solutions for robust client side persistence and offline support. Poor network connectivity coupled with frequently changing configuration values in response to user activity means that on-device rule evaluation is preferable to server-side evaluation.

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Mobile Cache Network Architecture 279

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Of course, this model doesn’t come without its problems. Jump to online workshops ?. Web Workers.

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Games Architecture Code C++ 145

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In particular, she highlighted her transformative MIT’78 VLSI System Design Course she designed and taught as a Visiting Professor of EECS at MIT. Goodman, and “Speculative Cache Ways: On-Demand Cache Resource Allocation” published at MICRO 1999 by David H.

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Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Of course, there is the important caveat of having a well-structured CSS codebase structure that doesn’t depend on the rule order. Caching Stylesheets. Caching static files is a useful optimization strategy. Cache-Control: public, max-age=604800. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 108

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.

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 121