Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. It’s “single-threaded,” which is how we get the one-way street comparison. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all.

Google 90

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

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. Table of Contents. An overview.

Development 52

Development Social Media Mobile Code 52

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Angular vs React – The Complete Comparison. Moreover, it endures one of the top JavaScript frameworks because of constantly updated technology and backing from Google and its coding power. Typescript offers efficiency, time saving. Angular vs React – The Complete Comparison. Increased efficiency.

Development 52

Development Google Open Source Servers 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

Such a design rules out an entire class of application errors, protecting private data from accidentally leaking. Although state-of-the-are databases have security features designed for exactly this purpose, such as row-level access policies and grants of views, these features are too limiting for many web applications.

Database 90

Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

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.

Architecture 52

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. Unlike Native Applications, Mobile web applications do not have to be designed separately for IOS and Android. Test how user-friendly an application is: Google search engine gives high priority to websites in comparison to desktop apps.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Et Tu, Google? #. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier. Apple's policy against browser engine choice adds years of delays beyond the (expected) delay of design iteration, specification authoring, and browser feature development. PowerPoint or Google Slides).

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

React library is designed in a way that it can integrate with existing code or other libraries effortlessly. It can reduce the page time if Google directly indexes the content from the server-side. They only need to know JavaScript, platform-centric designs, native user interface elements, and platform APIs. React Native.

Mobile 52

Mobile Open Source Virtualization Speed 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. For comparison, the same amount of data costs $6.66 For comparison, $3.67 Google Homepage — DOM. This time, I browsed the web for a day on a 50 MB budget.

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Responsive Web Design (RWD) is now a well established technique yet it’s adoption is still surprisingly low. Recently Grigorik has been championing this approach and the Google Pagespeed Insight rules have been updated to reflect this best practice with recommendations on how to reduce the size of "above the fold" content.

Performance 60

Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. In particular, we built this system on top of Oracle Coherence and designed our own data structures and indexes. In particular, we built this system on top of Oracle Coherence and designed our own data structures and indexes.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

It uses mobile test automation frameworks such as Selendroid, Google UIAutomator, Apple instruments, etc. Nowadays, due to the ever-increasing competition, companies require quick and efficient methods to perform mobile web testing that can generate accurate results with in-depth reports. Difficult to handle design complexities.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Testing Tools Programming 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Large preview ).

Website 126

Website Performance Google Media 126

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy. But for me, I don’t have design sense. A little bit, but I’m not a designer by any means. Drew: It’s an off the shelf design system that you can drop in to build the UI for your project. aj Dobrucki.

Website 62

Website Design Open Source Software 62

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

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. The SVT-AV1 encoder supports all AV1 tools which contribute to compression efficiency.

Open Source 154

Open Source Efficiency C++ Speed 154

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

By Aditya Mavlankar, Jan De C**k¹, Cyril Concolato, Kyle Swanson, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron TL; DR We need an alternative to JPEG that a) is widely supported, b) has better compression efficiency and c) has a wider feature set. The webp format was introduced by Google around 2010. 264, a.k.a. Advanced Video Coding ( AVC ) format.

Code 212

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

LaMDA Developed by Google; few people have access to it, though its capabilities appear to be very similar to ChatGPT. Notorious for having led one Google employee to believe that it was sentient. PaLM Also developed by Google. Google has announced an API for PaLM, but at this point, there is only a waiting list.

Google 104

Google Open Source Programming Code 104

Scalegrid

AUGUST 15, 2019

Over 100,000 users are leveraging the Studio 3T MongoDB GUI, including leading organizations such as AT&T, Nike, Microsoft, Google, Intel and Tesla. Studio 3T paid versions are costlier than any other tool because it was designed for large enterprise organizations, and those plans start at $149/user/year.

Database 40

Database Servers Monitoring Availability 40

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Hadoop’s value—being able to crunch large datasets—often paled in comparison to its costs. Between Google (Vertex AI and Colab) and Amazon (SageMaker), you can now get all of the GPU power your credit card can handle. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware.

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. Designing a survey inevitably entails making a spate of methodological trade-offs. A comparison of respondent organization size and share of applications hosted in the cloud.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

HTTP/2 versus HTTP/3 protocol stack comparison ( Large preview ). QUIC is needed because TCP, which has been around since the early days of the Internet, was not really built with maximum efficiency in mind. While the first Google-specific versions of QUIC used a custom set-up for this, standardized QUIC uses the existing TLS 1.3

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

One aspect of performance is about how efficiently a transport protocol can use a network’s full (physical) bandwidth (i.e. While this is conceptually possible (QUIC does exactly that), things were initially not designed like this, because we need to be able to use TCP with and without TLS on top. Congestion Control.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105