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Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters

CSS Wizardry

The first—and often most surprising for people to learn—thing that I want to draw your attention to is that TTFB counts one whole round trip of latency. Armed with this knowledge, we can soon understand why TTFB can often increase so dramatically on mobile. The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections.

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Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption

The Morning Paper

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. Throughput and latency. energy consumption).

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How Google PageSpeed Works: Improve Your Score and Search Engine Ranking

CSS - Tricks

Last year, Google made two significant changes to their search indexing and ranking algorithms : In March, indexing became based on the mobile version of a page , rather than desktop. In July, the SEO ranking algorithm was updated to include page speed as a ranking factor for both mobile pages and ads. Cache-Headers missing?

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Critical in adapting web content to mobile, particularly regarding multi-touch gestures. Likely to ship in Chromium later this year, enables smooth animation based on scrolling and swiping, a key interaction pattern on modern mobile devices. is access to hardware devices. Delayed three years [8]. Service Workers.

Media 145
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Embrace event-driven computing: Amazon expands DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers

All Things Distributed

Streams provide you with the underlying infrastructure to create new applications, such as continuously updated free-text search indexes, caches, or other creative extensions requiring up-to-date table changes. DynamoDB Streams enables your application to get real-time notifications of your tables’ item-level changes. Summing It All Up.

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In-Stream Big Data Processing

Highly Scalable

This system has been designed to supplement and succeed the existing Hadoop-based system that had too high latency of data processing and too high maintenance costs. High performance and mobility. Interoperability with Hadoop. The engine should be compact and efficient, so one can deploy it in multiple datacenters on small clusters.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. Meanwhile, developer behaviour offers little hope: Median mobile JavaScript payloads have only grown since 2016, now hovering above 400KiB of script transferred, or nearly 2.5MiB of uncompressed JS.