All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

9GAG has a small team of nine people, including three engineers to support the business, and uses AWS to service their global visitors. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks.

AWS 146

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 146

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. Mobile image transfer size by year graphic from Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. A visual example of responsive images in 3 different viewports: desktop, tablet, and mobile. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente.

Media 108

Media Cache Website Mobile 108

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

1 among non-relational/document-based systems ( DB-Engines, July 2023 ). MongoDB is preferable for working with content management systems and mobile apps. A survey of 90,240 companies using MongoDB listed the leading uses as Technology and Services (23%), Computer Software (16%), and Internet (6%). It ranks No.

Open Source 75

Open Source Database Scalability Software 75

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Reverse engineering of those apps to uncover the mechanisms they are using Creation of fingerprints based on the above analysis, which can be used to surface other apps using the same techniques Analysis of the results to figure out what mechanisms are being used in the wild, and how prevalent they are.

Systems 74

Systems Traffic Network Google 74

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. This is a screenshot from our mobile Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console. ( Large preview ). Internet Explorer 6 was fully supported, Firefox was gaining share, and Chrome was still years from launch. Large preview ).

Google 95

Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 95

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control. And the case is especially different, when China’s Internet environment is involved. Progressive Web App (PWA).

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Waterfall charts are diagrams which represent how website resources are being downloaded, parsed by the engine, in a timeline that gives us the opportunity to see the sequence and dependencies between resources. A fast website increases conversion rates and leads you to perform well on search engines. Queued request.

Performance 52

Performance Cache Website Speed 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. On mobile, per session, users who experienced fast load times bring 17% more revenue than average.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

But many, including Gartner , believe that PWAs are the future of mobile sales that’ll overtake the market in the 2020s: “Progressive web apps are a cost- and a skills-effective way to reach a wide audience with a close-to-native app experience that supports the full customer life cycle. What Does This Mean? You need a site for that.

Code 75

Code Cache Retail Mobile 75

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. To reach an individual you will look up him or her in your address book, and select a phone (home, work, mobile) and then a number to dial.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Opera Mobile. Samsung Internet. The platforms that continue to hold back support are: Internet Explorer. That’s why it’s no surprise that it’s developed a built-in WebP caching and image processing solution that helps developers more easily deliver the right file formats to visitors. What Is WebP Caching?

Website 72

Website Speed Cache Google 72

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control. And the case is especially different, when China’s Internet environment is involved. Progressive Web App (PWA).

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control. And the case is especially different, when China’s Internet environment is involved. Progressive Web App (PWA).

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop. Study your main competitors, collect metrics on how they perform on mobile and desktop and set thresholds that would help you outpace them. Keep in mind that on a mobile device, you should be expecting a 4×–5× slowdown compared to desktop machines.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Globally in 2018–2019, according to the IDC, 87% of all shipped mobile phones are Android devices.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

Waterfall charts are diagrams which represent how website resources are being downloaded, parsed by the engine, in a timeline that gives us the opportunity to see the sequence and dependencies between resources. Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, mobile browsers etc…). Some of those factors include the following: URL.

Performance 53

Performance Cache Website Speed 53

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. Not having to deal with locks allows browsers and JavaScript engines to make a lot of optimizations to run your code faster. Large preview ).

Games 145

Games Architecture Code C++ 145

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

That connection could be peer-to-peer across devices, and doesn’t have to be over the Internet. Mobile apps that use local storage combined with a backend service such as Firebase and its Cloud Firestore take us closer to the local-first ideal, depending on the way the local data is treated by the application. What can you do today?

Cloud 83

Cloud Software Software Internet 83

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Steve Souders was one of the first in reverse-engineering how browsers requested and waited for resources. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)?

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This article is an effort to explore techniques used by developers of in-stream data processing systems, trace the connections of these techniques to massive batch processing and OLTP/OLAP databases, and discuss how one unified query engine can support in-stream, batch, and OLAP processing at the same time. High performance and mobility.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Steve Souders was one of the first in reverse-engineering how browsers requested and waited for resources. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)?

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Angular is one of the most popular frameworks to build mobile apps. The project was engineered using the Reactjs platform and let the users apply filters and find pictures of their selection. It depends on you how skillfully you utilize the combination of JSON and client-side caching to boost the server-side performance.

Development 52

Development Google Open Source Servers 52

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. Using streams, you can apply the changes to a full-text search data store such as Elasticsearch, push incremental backups to Amazon S3, or maintain an up-to-date read cache.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

We are increasingly seeing customers wanting to build Internet-scale applications that require diverse data models. Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. Amazon ES is also a powerful, high-performance search engine for full-text search use cases.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

While caching continues to be a dominant use of ElastiCache for Redis, we see customers increasingly use it as an in-memory NoSQL database. There are some great examples and use cases for Redis, which you can see at companies like Hudl, which offers mobile and desktop video analytics solutions to sports teams and athletes.

Scalability 130

Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 130

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.

Technology 151

Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

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

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. On the Internet, however, we typically have a long series of connected pipes , some of which can be wider than others (leading to so-called bottlenecks at the narrowest links).

Performance 107

Performance Network Latency Servers 107