Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Circa '07, those web apps were notably slower than native code could be. How could the bad Windows security experience be prevented?

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database. However, in the past, you had to write code to manage the data changes and deal with keeping the search engine and data warehousing engines in sync. DynamoDB Triggers.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

When a node joins or re-joins a cell it needs to be brought up to speed, a process the authors call teaching. Studies across three decades have found that software, operations, and scale drive downtime in systems designed to tolerate hardware faults. Performing a number of game days against physical deployments of Physalia.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

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!),

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

On August 7, 2019, AMD finally unveiled their new 7nm EPYC 7002 Series of server processors, formerly code-named "Rome" at the AMD EPYC Horizon Event in San Francisco. It will also use less power than a two-socket Intel server, with a lower hardware cost, and potentially lower licensing costs (for things like VMware). Conclusion.

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

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.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air. also “only” take two round trips ((b) is rarely shown).

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

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.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

It’s happening because of new features being added and the fact that we sometimes don’t have a second thought on packages that we constantly add and update, or think about the complexity of our code. In the case that new development changes the file size to the point of exceeding the defined limit, the script will complete with non-zero code.

Performance 99

Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 99

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

And suddenly, before you know it, the code base gets a little bit overweight and fragmented , third-party scripts have to load just a little bit earlier, and shiny new dynamic content finds its way into the DOM through the backdoors of fourth-party scripts and their uninvited guests. This is where we started. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145