O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Having set the price of copyrighted training data to $1B or thereabouts, other model developers will need to pay similar amounts to license their training data: Google, Microsoft (for whatever independently developed models they have), Facebook, Amazon, and Apple. Those companies can afford it. Will there be a proliferation of models?

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Open Source Strategy Government Tuning 96

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. It wasn’t long before a sea of red “poor” and yellow “needs improvement” notices in our Google Search Console needed our attention. How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study).

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Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 95

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. If you see authors turning to other authoring tools such as Google Docs for its commenting or suggestions capabilities, it may be a red flag as to what features you are missing. Yup, in the cloud.

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Cache Website Mobile Google 143

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

If you’re into each month overviews with more detailed data, take a look at these pages below: Detailed Google Spredsheet (1st of January to 31st of December 2018). Uptime guarantee available: DigitalOcean is a cheap cloud hosting that promises 99.99% uptime which they have greatly succeeded in our test. MidPhase.com.

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Testing Website Servers Availability 50

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Firebase is application development software from Google that enables us to develop iOS, Android, and web apps. Setting Up Cloud Firestore. Let’s also disable Google Analytics because ours is a mini-app. Then, click on “Continue”, so that we can create our cloud Firestore. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Database Code Mobile Google 114

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

A noteworthy effect of configuring our pipelines with actions from different cloud-service providers is that we can conveniently switch among them whenever the need arises, making it easy to avoid vendor lock-in (this includes also changing the repository provider ). Large preview ). Conclusion.

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Website Serverless AWS Lambda 83

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Then IE 11 support was dropped by Shopify and the clouds parted — it was our time. That could be an entirely separate article, but here’s the overview: Shopify has a lot of overhead : feature detection, tracking, and payment buttons (Apple Pay, Google Pay, ShopPay). Writing Vanilla JS always seemed like a pipe dream.

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Performance Mobile Speed Code 92

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights. Large preview ).

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Website Design Network Best Practices 133

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

For example, if you were planning to store your files in AWS S3, you’d want to do the following, which is very similar to the process of storing files with Google Cloud, Azure, Backblaze, or similar competing services. First, you’ll need to install the libraries boto3 and django-storages.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 70

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Fig adds VSCode-style autocomplete to your existing terminal and includes support for existing CLI tools like Git, npm, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Google Cloud, and more. You can customize it to display information from sources like Google Analytics, GitHub, Feedly, shell command output, and more. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Development Google Storage Open Source 135

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For each of them, Google recommends a range of acceptable speed goals.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Note : as TCP generally under-utilizes network connection by a significant amount, Google has developed TCP Bottleneck Bandwidth and RRT ( BBR ), a relatively new TCP delay-controlled TCP flow control algorithm.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Next, let’s evaluate the quality of a beach image with many fine details, textures, and areas of low contrast in the clouds. The JPEG has blocky artifacts and visible color banding in the clouds and water, while the WebP and AVIF have noticeably less of this blockiness observable. The AVIF looks best, followed by the WebP.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to get started with GraphQL, Eric Baer published two fantastic articles on yours truly Smashing Magazine: A GraphQL Primer: Why We Need A New Kind Of API and A GraphQL Primer: The Evolution Of API Design ( thanks for the hint, Leonardo! ). On Smashing Magazine, we could measure 19-32% improvement , too.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104