The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies. The encoder can typically be improved years after the standard has been frozen including varying speed and quality trade-offs. 264 standard was finalized.

Open Source 166

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Reading time 9 min When it comes to managing web performance, it’s vital to be proactive rather than reactive. To accomplish this goal, an organization needs to build internal processes and procedures that can operationalize a performance-first culture. The first step is to establish and implement web performance budgets.

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Performance Metrics Website Speed 45

Percona

JULY 24, 2023

To make sure that Percona Backup for MongoDB answers the pains of our customers, we took the common denominator of the pains that anyone using snapshot capabilities faces when performing backups and restores and positioned PBM as the open source, freely available answer to those pains. Fixes, bugs, improvements – all is here!

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Availability Open Source Strategy Storage 75

Particular Software

MARCH 1, 2021

Of course, there are upfront and ongoing costs associated with any computer network. From Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design Course , Day 1 The hidden cost However, there’s another component to transport cost that doesn’t get talked about enough, and that is the cost paid in serialization and deserialization.

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Transportation Network Cloud Design 98

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

You can then access all the required details to understand and reproduce the issue, all the way from the user interaction down to the exact line of code that was executed on the back end. Did this issue result from the order in which the user added the data or the speed with which they selected the UI controls? . What’s next.

Mobile 189

Mobile Tuning Monitoring Storage 189

Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2019

BPF (eBPF) tracing is a superpower that can analyze everything, and I'll show you how in my upcoming book BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability , coming soon from Addison Wesley. I learned firsthand how to bring beginners from different backgrounds up to speed. I've followed this proven approach in my book.

Systems 40

Systems Performance Education Technology 40

CSS Wizardry

JUNE 7, 2023

This is an update to my 2020 article Site-Speed Topography. Around two and a half years ago, I debuted my Site-Speed Topography technique for getting broad view of an entire site’s performance from just a handful of key URLs and some readily available metrics. What Is Site-Speed Topography? Are any metrics over budget?

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Speed Metrics Website Database 131

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. This could of course be a local worker on the mobile device. It requires about 200 lines of modified platform code in each case, with the rest of the MWW System being implemented in pure JavaScript.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

As we discussed in our article on how to test your page weight , compression is pretty much standard practice in web performance now, so you absolutely want to make sure you’re taking advantage of it. Gzip works by greatly reducing the amount of duplicate code and white space in a website’s files. How Do I Enable Gzip?

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Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent of Code. If you prefer a puzzle over an article, take a look at Advent of Code. Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. Code Security Advent Calendar. JavaAdvent on Twitter. An advent calendar that has been publishing since 2009 is back again. Good luck! ??.

Design 108

Design Development Programming Website 108

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

A couple of years ago, my first few days on a new web performance project were always slow going. When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. Now, let’s move on to gaps between First Contentful Paint and Speed Index. Identify Page Types.

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Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 292

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. Not the best way to get a high-level view of performance.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Our Cluster Performance Engineering Team in collaboration with our Autonomous Cloud Enablement (ACE) and development teams quickly identified the root cause and fixed the problem in no time! And the code-level root cause information is what makes troubleshooting easy for developers. Step 3: Identifying root-cause in code.

Code 241

Code Cloud Engineering Java 241

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

You can do everything from testing the viewport on a mobile device to editing a website on the fly, and even measuring the performance of an entire website or individual assets. It also makes for a good crash course on the tools if you haven’t used them before. This is probably one of the most common uses for this tool.

Google 85

Google Website Network Media 85

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 7, 2020

An automated system doesn’t make mistakes in the same way that a human operator might, and it can operate at greater speeds and/or lower costs than a human operator. ‘Graceful degradation’ of performance is quoted in “Fitt’s list” of man-computer qualities as an advantage of man over machine.

Games 84

Games Monitoring Speed Systems 84

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Luckily we’ve recommended some of the best web performance books to read while stuck at home. High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge For Front-End Engineers. If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. Need a good distraction?

Speed 85

Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Testsigma

JUNE 12, 2021

As is obvious, the basic need for successful implementation of in-sprint test automation is speed. Easy readability : Of course, the test cases will be easy to maintain for anyone if they are easy to read too. Of course, after you have taken care of the aspects of test case creation and maintenance on time.

Testing 95

Testing Cloud Infrastructure Technology 95

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

Testsigma

MAY 15, 2021

Hence, we add another dish to our menu which could speed up the process of automation: scriptless automation and scriptless testing tools. Scriptless testing tools or codeless testing tools convert the easy-to-understand-to-human-eye instructions written by the team into code behind the scene.

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Testing Tools Artificial Intelligence Testing Programming 52

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

What we’re trying to do at Testsigma is not just simplify test automation to speed up the testing, but also make it a sustainable, scalable process in which the tools and frameworks don’t require ongoing maintenance, freeing up the teams to focus on value delivery instead of building and maintaining scripts and frameworks.

Testing 52

Testing Open Source Scalability Engineering 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2020

Automated testing benefits large scale projects that undergo frequent changes by speeding up the testing process and making deliveries within stipulated timeline. The automation tester must have good coding skills in order to design the test scripts. This is required to know how the testing is performed at each step.

Testing Tools 61

Testing Tools Programming Testing DevOps 61

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assertions have been a foundational tool for writing understandable computer code since we could write computer code… far older than C’s assert() macro, they go back to at least John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine (1947) and Alan Turing (1949). Run-time errors should be reported using exceptions, error codes, or similar.

C++ 58

C++ Programming Code Testing 58

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Performance optimization is the Rodney Dangerfield of web development–it “don’t get no respect” In spite of its great importance in the overall user experience, it is all too often pushed aside and treated as an afterthought. Performance optimization isn’t that necessary. Performance matters.

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Performance Energy Google Internet 40

Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Yes, SEO is a long-term approach, but it offers some unparalleled advantages to businesses in terms of brand recognition, visibility, reputation, and of course, web traffic and revenues. It is some information about web pages that have machine-readable codes such as RDFa, Microdata, etc. This is a fact.

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Google Traffic Social Media Website 52

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Certifications, typically, are proof of the enhanced prowess in the stream for which the course has been taken. Certifications and Courses help validate as well as enhance our technical capability in a specific vertical. There are hundreds of tools through which the automation code can be written in different programming languages.

Website 53

Website Testing Programming Automotive 53

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The aforementioned principles have, of course, a major impact on the overall architecture. Further, it builds a rich analytics layer powered by Dynatrace causational artificial intelligence, Davis® AI, and creates a query engine that offers insights at unmatched speed. High-performance analytics—no indexing required.

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Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture 264

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We often say "blueprints," but that's another metaphor borrowed from the original field, and of course we don't make actual blueprints. The definition remains, of course, rather open to interpretation, in grudging deference to the machinations of the real world. Adding security reduces performance. Contain entropy.

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Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

I love conversations about performance, and I'm fortunate enough to have them a lot. I hope this post can serve that purpose and cover a few of the fundamental areas of web performance that I’ve found to be most useful while honing the craft of product management. How is performance measured? The audience varies.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. Part 3: Optimizing Size And Performance. Adrian Bece. 2021-08-30T10:00:00+00:00.

Media 109

Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

Developers want to write high-quality code and deploy it quickly. Developers also need to automate the release process to speed up deployment and reliability. With instant feedback enabling teams to release clean software, developers can react faster and speed up the delivery of high-quality content.

Open Source 183

Open Source DevOps Cloud Metrics 183

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

It makes organizing code easier. What follows are my findings on React performance as I’ve tried to meet this challenge in a way that’s best for users. To me, it makes sense to simultaneously want to use a framework to help to organize my code, but also restrict that framework’s negative impact on the user experience.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). 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. Less code complexity.

Performance 90

Performance Mobile Speed Code 90

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Past swings away from OS default browsers have hinged on the superior features , better performance , improved security , and adequate site compatibility that come from switching. Without the ability to differentiate on features, security, performance, and privacy, what's to sell? What are those mechanisms? A slightly different UI ?

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 7, 2018

These artifacts are shared across functions, and so allow for code and data sharing. For this it’s probably best to lean on your language’s dependency management system, since this means you can test your code effectively in a unit-testing context. Along with Custom Runtimes comes Lambda Layers?—?artifacts And this is fine!

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Lambda Serverless AWS Blockchain 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right?

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91