The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 13, 2020

The teams have been working closely on SVT-AV1 development, discussing architectural decisions, implementing new tools, and improving compression efficiency. SVT-AV1 codebase status The SVT-AV1 repository includes both an AV1 encoder and decoder, which share a significant amount of the code.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2022

The DevOps approach to developing software aims to speed applications into production by releasing small builds frequently as code evolves. Shift-left speeds up development efficiency and reduces costs by detecting and addressing software defects earlier in the development cycle before they get to production.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2022

The DevOps approach to developing software aims to speed applications into production by releasing small builds frequently as code evolves. Shift-left speeds up development efficiency and reduces costs by detecting and addressing software defects earlier in the development cycle before they get to production.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

we also: Launched a series of new and improved dashboards to help you identify and fix your performance issues more quickly and efficiently (More on those below.). With your RUM Compare dashboard , you can easily generate side-by-side comparisons for any two cohorts of real user data. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks.

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Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The Elementor WordPress website builder uses a drag-and-drop interface that removes the requirement for coding abilities. It allows beginners and professional website developers to craft visually stunning and functional websites without digging into coding complexities. Why Should You Use Elementor WordPress Website Builder?

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

However, with our rapid product innovation speed, the whole approach experienced significant challenges: Business Complexity: The existing SKU management solution was designed years ago when the engagement rules were simple? Besides, the mixed-use of the metadata files and business logic code adds another layer of maintenance complexity.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This enables us to optimize their experience at speed. In order to replicate results, scientists had to delve deep into the data, code, and documentation. We’ve also made sure that both production and local workflows use the same code base, so reproducibility is a given and promotion to production is just a pull request away.

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Metrics Architecture Infrastructure Innovation 215

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In comparison, the AIOps approach discussed within this article, is built upon a radically different deterministic AI engine – at Dynatrace known as Davis – that yields precise, actionable results in real-time. Another huge advantage of that approach is speed. Lost and rebuilt context. The Significance of Topology Information.

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Software Software Artificial Intelligence Metrics 264

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

Along with other general diagnostics and web performance metrics, a really useful feature of the report is that each of the key areas is aggregated into color-coded scores between 0-100. In lh.js , you’ll next want to delete the test console.log() and import the Lighthouse module so you can use it in your code. launchChrome('[link].

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

You know, have a plan for it and write code that’s mindful about adding extra weight to the page. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right? I’d say many — if not most — sites and apps rely on some number of third-party scripts where we might not have any influence over the code.

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Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

In simple terms, an open source database is this: It’s a database with source code that is free and available to all. Public accessibility enables and allows users to download, modify, and distribute the code. Their work produces higher-quality code and enables faster innovation, while maintaining high security standards.

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Open Source Database Storage Scalability 75

Enprowess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Quick Summary : A comparison of the two most widely used cross platform frameworks to build both iOS and Android mobile applications: React Native vs Flutter. Before starting with a detailed comparison, let us first overview both the frameworks React Native and Flutter. Performance comparison. Code Maintainability.

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Development Social Media Mobile Code 52

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Sometimes developers only care about speed. It’s less of an apples-to-oranges comparison and more like apples-to-orange-sherbet. After all, in the HTTP case, we open a direct socket connection from the client to the server, the server executes its code, and then returns a response on the already-open socket.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

The dreaded refactor of old code can be challenging. Code evolves over time with more features, new or changing dependencies, or maybe a goal of performance improvements. When I worked in-house at Shopify in 2013, themes were fairly simple in terms of code complexity. Less code complexity. Carson Shold. Less blocking JS.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Wasm functions contain native codes compiled at runtime, so they should not be directly migrated as normal JavaScript objects. It requires about 200 lines of modified platform code in each case, with the rest of the MWW System being implemented in pure JavaScript. for the edge and cloud execution environments. for the wasm-version.

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Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

This can all be done without touching a single line of code. By designing algorithms that operate efficiently on different types of hardware, our algorithms gain record speeds and efficiency. When a comparison is possible, Amazon SageMaker algorithms often run more than 10x faster than other ML solutions like Spark ML.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 1, 2020

It consists of a combination of right practices and tools which help QA to test the software more effectively and efficiently. Building an efficient testing automation framework takes time but it is worth the efforts considering the long-term benefits. How to Build a Test Automation Framework from Scratch.

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Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

It allows developers to create complex UIs from a small and isolated code called “components” ReactJS comprises two parts: the pieces containing HTML code, components, and an HTML document – where all your components will render. More incredible Speed with Virtual DOM. Platform-specific code.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2020

React enables web applications to update their user interfaces (UIs) quickly, but that does not mean your medium or large React application will perform efficiently. It does a shallow comparison of the props to check this, but an option is available to override this. Shedrack Akintayo. 2020-07-16T11:00:00+00:00.

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Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Angular vs React – The Complete Comparison. Code Quality: Angular or React? It makes your code very easy to understand and launch. Moreover, it endures one of the top JavaScript frameworks because of constantly updated technology and backing from Google and its coding power. Cleaner and short Coding.

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Development Google Open Source Servers 52

Testsigma

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Parallel test execution: With parallel test execution, there’s guaranteed speed. It is a codeless testing tool that allows writing test cases in simple English for both basic and advanced level test scenarios; it also allows you to add custom code whenever required. Besides, it also recommends how to improve test efficiency.

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Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Provides comparison of inference workload on P4dn GPU instances vs. AWS Trainium saving 92% energy and 90% cost, and training workload on P4dn vs. AWS Inferentia 2.6x SUS209 — there was no talk with this code. SUS304 to SUS311 No talks with these codes. Good discussion of the embodied carbon of silicon chip production.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Have we optimized enough with tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, progressive hydration, clients hints, HTTP/3, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

This post is targeted towards the questions most often asked by non-technical management who want to get up to speed on what HammerDB is (what it isn’t) and how it can benefit their organization. What is HammerDB? HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. Derived Workloads. Cached vs Scaled Workloads.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. Jack Dongarra talked about the scores, and pointed out the low efficiency on some important workloads.

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Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

The applications are designed using the same code base as Desktop like HTML, Javascript, and CSS. Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities. The reason behind being the speed and convenience of using mobile phones. Signup Now.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

For comparison, the same amount of data costs $6.66 The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Perhaps surprisingly, users experience faster speeds over a mobile network than WiFi in at least 30 countries worldwide, including Australia and France. For comparison, $3.67 in the UK, or $12.37

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Source: Guy Podjarny However, we do now have a full set of techniques to effectively deliver highly performative sites that not only visually scale across devices but also deliver code and assets tuned to the width of a device. Comparison of page size and assets types across different responsive widths. Source: SpeedCurve.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It’s much easier to reach performance goals when the code base is fresh or is just being refactored.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Start Render time, Speed Index ). Rendering metrics provide an estimate of how fast content renders (e.g.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Here is the new SUM plan for comparison with the one from the first test: All 102,400 rows (in 114 batches) are emitted by the Columnstore Index Scan , processed by the Compute Scalar , and sent to the Hash Aggregate. Batch mode execution is all about speed. The MAX and SUM aggregates do not. Take bigint NULL for example.

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Performance C++ Storage Servers 81

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. While some noticeable progress was made, it was challenging to implement significant changes just for the sake of speed. Creating A Performance Culture.

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Website Performance Google Media 126

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. He’s been writing code for two decades, and using JavaScript the whole time. On the Chakra homepage, they do have a comparison on why you might want to reach for one or the other, but I don’t have it internalized. I think that’s where the comparison with Tailwind must come in.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Use srcset + efficient modern image formats. The above code with an alt specified looks as follows: <img src="donut.jpg" alt="A delicious pink donut."> From Speed at Scale with Katie Hempenius and I at Google I/O. I’ll be covering image optimization in more depth in Smashing Magazine’s new book on Image Optimization.

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Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Between an endless amount of code to make sure you’re providing full coverage and dealing with the fragile nature of front-end tests — where a simple selector change can completely break an end-to-end workflow — it can sometimes feel like an uphill battle. They’re all testing the code. add-to-cart').click();

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Testing Code Design Strategy 142

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

It uses a Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) to provide a Solaris-kernel interface on Linux, so that unmodified ZFS code can execute. There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). LTS (April 2016).

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

The Agile Manager

JUNE 23, 2007

To wit: “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” IT is still very much a people-based business; that is, code doesn’t write itself, projects don’t manage themselves, network topographies don’t materialise, solution fitness dosesn't just happen, etc. An efficient, risk-assuming IT capability is a superb utility that contains cost.

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