Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Reducing HTML Payload With Next.js (Case Study). Reducing HTML Payload With Next.js (Case Study). Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients. Liran Cohen. 2021-05-05T10:30:00+00:00. How about errors?”

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Google Architecture Servers Speed 111

High Scalability

AUGUST 8, 2018

There are a lot of cool nuggets in Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook. Prior to launch, they load-tested their software stack to process up to 5x their most optimistic traffic estimates. In addition, many engineers across Google provided their assis? Niantic launched Pokémon GO in the summer of 2016.

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Google Games Entertainment Cloud 130

MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

His article in the Web Performance Calendar, The ugly truth about optimizing beautiful images , explores a few case studies and offers some solutions as well. In the final case study in Michael’s article, the total image size was reduced by 95%. Good performance is a process, and is more than reducing size.

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Speed Website Metrics Cache 89

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). Moving away from jQuery was a blessing, but a long process. Most sites will have Google Analytics, and maybe a Facebook Pixel or other tracking scripts loaded on top of all this. Carson Shold.

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Performance Mobile Speed Code 90

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Software 2.0 , in case you missed it, is a term coined by Andrej Karpathy to describe software in which key components are implemented by neural networks. The particular system discussed in this paper is Google’s email information extraction system. I.e., Google engineers don’t have access to them. But in Software 2.0

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Systems Design Software Software 84

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Have a look at the Financial Times Case study: “The speed of the site negatively impacts a user’s session depth, no matter how small the delay…The data suggests, both in terms of user experience and financial impact, that there are clear and highly valued benefits in making the site even faster. Want proof? Summing up.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals , so it's been getting a lot of attention lately. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is another one of Google's Core Web vitals. The three metrics above – CLS, FID, and TBT – are all part of Google's Core Web Vitals. > Long Tasks (Synthetic and RUM).

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 133

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). This is difficult to prove because developers will say that “the experience” is what they are seeing on their computers using, for example, Google Chrome. Get involved in the interview process.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Without some type of user input guiding our process, we are left being directed by the same high-level stakeholder assumptions we often rally against as being the antithesis to UX: those holding the purse strings have the loudest voice in the room. I believe concept testing is a pivotal part of the up-front UX process. Large preview ).

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Design Testing Education Processing 98

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 4, 2018

I couldn’t let this injustice continue, so I told them to “Google for quokka selfies” Christi , who works on Bing, commented with a smile: “Or you could look it up on Bing.” I’ve mentioned in the past the mixed feelings I have about Google’s influence on the web. Not a chance.

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Google Engineering Internet Internet 70

The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., Previously on The Morning Paper we’ve looked at the spread of machine learning through Facebook and Google and some of the lessons learned together with processes and tools to address the challenges arising. A general process. ICSE’19.

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Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 92

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

You can even go one step further and integrate your performance budgets with your CI/CD process, so that you not only get alerts but even break the build if a new deploy would violate any of your budgets. Integrating your budgets with your CI process is like having your security cameras trigger your guards to rush in and stop the bad guys.

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Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

I’ve been excited about the potential for approximate query processing in analytic clusters for some time, and this paper describes its use at scale in production. These clusters are in high demand and approximate query processing both saves their users time and lightens the overall load on the cluster. What are all these jobs doing??

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Big Data Analytics Latency Azure 57

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

A while back, our friends at Shopify published this great case study , showing how they optimized one of their newer themes from the ground up – and how they worked to keep it fast. One of the most effective ways to fight performance regression is to integrate performance testing into your continuous delivery process.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 77

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Based on the data provided by divante ’s findings on 30 PWA case studies, progressive web apps have a 36% larger mobile conversion rate than native applications. Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. That wouldn’t be the case if they opted for a native application.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

That’s why we’ve compiled an exhaustive list of web development blogs and newsletters to make this process easier. Be sure to check it out if your dev process needs a creative kick in the pants. Sidebar Sidebar curates five daily design links that include essays, data visualizations, case studies and code resources.

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Development Website Design Code 75

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

I enjoy the process of distilling information from various sources and putting it into a format that our trainees can easily digest and comprehend. Beyond training classes we also have a plethora of other resources such as user guides, videos, blogs, e-books, case studies, white papers, on-demand webinars etc.

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J. Paul Reed

JANUARY 24, 2017

In the vein of my 2016 prediction that DevOps will continue dis-integrating , I believe that we’ll see a process of “ othering ” with definitions of DevOps that are not highly aligned with the The Handbook’s definition, along with pressure to rename those ideas to soemthing other than “DevOps.” And we now have that.

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DevOps Engineering IoT C++ 40

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Self-hosted Kubernetes installations or services — such as Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, or the Google Kubernetes Engine — make it possible for enterprises to select and implement best-fit functions. It also protects your development infrastructure at scale with enterprise-grade security. Enhances DevOps productivity.

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Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. But I've participated in many usability studies that have found a strong, consistent correlation between Start Render time, user engagement, and business metrics. > Let's get started! Background: How performance budgets work 1.

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The one for the menu was the longest and had INP time of 350ms – in other words, 150ms longer than Google's 200ms threshold for 'Good'. Examining the flame chart reveals four main groups of processing that happen in response to the interaction: Akamai's bot manager is the source of the first two event handlers.

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Analytics Processing Google Mobile 91

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The right tools at the right time, help streamline the design process. User experience research is a crucial component of the human-centered design process. But how do you tackle the task and integrate a UX research process into your team’s workflow? A great initiative to make complex psychology heuristics more accessible.

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Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 129

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

An outgoing request from a whitelisted domain returns a 302 , forwarding the request to a self-hosted CSS file that is optimised specifcally for your browser, OS, and UA (Google Fonts do something similar). In case you’re wondering, a non-whitelisted domain returns a 403. The CSS file(s) that we host is provided by Cloud.typography.

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Latency Cache Strategy Media 203

Highly Scalable

JANUARY 31, 2012

Several practical case studies are also provided. It is required to save all items that have the same value of function into one file or perform some other computation that requires all such items to be processed as a group. Reducer obtains all items grouped by function value and process or save them.

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C++ Network Ecommerce Processing 144

Tasktop

MAY 24, 2021

Business agility guru, Jon Smart , revealed that since 2018 OKRs have overtaken portfolio management and balance sheet in Google search trends. While Smart gave a concise overview of what OKRs are and what good and bad OKRs look like, our CEO and founder Dr. Mik Kersten shared a compelling case study into the role of flow in OKRs.

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DevOps Metrics Healthcare Innovation 91

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. However, as Google launched this initiative a couple of years ago, its had time to quietly observe users in these micro-moments as well as the websites that have most aptly responded to them. Suzanne Scacca.

Design 62

Design Google Website Small Business 62

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

That makes sense: with serverless being relatively young, formal training is difficult to find, specific documentation must be generated, and case studies to learn from—while growing—are harder to come by. “Educating current staff” was the No. 1 concern among respondents whose organizations have adopted serverless.

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Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. Although we’ve been told for years that visitors are willing to wait three seconds for a web page to load , Google considers 2.9 seconds too long.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Researchers and major companies have been publishing case studies for years , proving that slower page load experiences impact business metrics, including conversion rate, revenue, bounce rate, and more. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

We recently did a case study on how Target could make their site 3 seconds faster , but Target will likely never get their site fully loaded in 2 seconds. These often add a lot of time to the loading process and don’t add value of any kind. Craigslist. Ask yourself, Does this add any value to the visitors of my site?

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Website Speed Google Cache 57

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. 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.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 106

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

For those with applications already built on MySQL or PostgreSQL, migrating to Aurora is a straightforward process requiring minimal code changes, as it supports the same protocols, tools, and drivers. On the other hand, RDS MySQL allows only up to five replicas, and the replication process is slower than Aurora. Want to learn more?

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Testsigma

MARCH 24, 2021

2020, a new game called FAU-G was released on the Google play store. Such case studies uplift the importance of a better user interface and hence the importance of the user interface testing, or UI testing. Android UI Testing is the process of testing an android application for UI issues. Android UI Testing and Its Types.

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Best Practices Testing Mobile Games 52

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Ways to Optimize Your Images There are many ways that you can optimize your images, such as utilizing image processing services and image compression software, choosing better image formats, using srcset and sizes attributes. Image Processing Service We offer an image processing service that is fully integrated into our existing network.

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Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

The major architectural decision was to use in-memory data grid (IMDG) to shield the master RDBMS from workload during request processing. The deployment schema includes three types of nodes – processing nodes, storage nodes, and maintenance nodes. Oracle Coherence was chosen as an implementation.

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Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Twitter’s Image Pipeline (Case Study). +. That is why Twitter places so much emphasis on a strong image optimization process. Get the eBook.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 106