Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Full disclosure: I helped design Web Components and, with Dimitri Glazkov and Alex Komoroske , helped lead the team at Google that brought them from concept to reality. The comparison that’s often cited for Web Components is the creation of jQuery plug-ins. There is no reasonable comparison to be drawn. Piffle and tosh.

Google 41

Google Tuning Cache Design 41

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

These services often check from various geographic locations to keep an eye on network routes to your server and will send you alerts via email and txt if your website is down. We do this by monitoring 3 pages on each site so you get a robust across-site comparison rather than just individual pages.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB. We will discuss snappy and zstd for data block and zstd compression in a network. By default, MongoDB provides a snappy block compression method for storage and network communication. Snappy is a compression library developed by Google.

Storage 105

Storage Network Open Source Latency 105

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%. Google search ranking. Large preview ). The Wix Challenge. Heavier websites.

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Website Performance Google Media 127

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The app translates utilization metrics, including CPU, memory, disk, and network I/O, into their CO2 equivalent (CO2e). The Carbon Impact dashboard: Your IT carbon footprint overview The Carbon footprint summary reports total CO2e emissions for the selected and preceding timeframes for quick interval-based comparisons.

Energy 179

Energy Airlines Analytics Transportation 179

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

The other issue is that the data I’m getting back is based on lab simulations where I can add throttling, determine the device that’s used, and the network connection, among other simulated conditions. On that note, it’s worth calling out that there are multiple flavors of network throttling. Real usage data would be better, of course.

Speed 82

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 82

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Quick summary : Node vs React Comparison is not correct because both technologies are entirely different things. Node JS vs. React JS Comparison. Network: Node.js Now, let us make a comparison between React and Node.js. Node JS vs. React JS Comparison. Today, we will cover: Node.js React Overview. Which is better?

Open Source 52

Open Source Virtualization Programming Servers 52

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.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 92

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. However still far from Google ($28B) and Facebook ($13.2B).

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. For comparison, the same amount of data costs $6.66 The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7%

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Cache Google Mobile Network 97

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. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Real-time scheduler run queue latency and tcp throughput charts after starting a wget download Many thanks to the great work by Andreas during his 2018 Google Summer of Code project. This makes it much easier for engineers to get the graphs they want arranged in a manner for comparisons and to focus in the required areas.

Performance 211

Performance Latency Open Source Metrics 211

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Hadoop’s value—being able to crunch large datasets—often paled in comparison to its costs. And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware.

Hardware 101

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 101

Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

enables the development of server-side and networked applications and has become widely popular for building scalable and real-time web applications. I/O operations like writing or reading files and making a network request are non-blocking. AngularJS is a JavaScript-based open-source web framework ; Google primarily maintains it.

Development 52

Development Virtualization Open Source Architecture 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

HTTP/2 versus HTTP/3 protocol stack comparison ( Large preview ). It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips. For this reason, TCP is one of the most widely used and deployed protocols on the Internet.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. For example: Think with Google suggests the typical page speed optimizations.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The gotcha here is that, if your mobile experience isn’t optimized for various devices and network conditions, these customers will never appear in your analytics — just because your website or app will be barely usable on their devices, and so they are unlikely to return. Improving Search Engine Visibility. LT Browser in action.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 135

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. network engineer, at >2%) and management positions (IT manager, at close to 3%; operations manager at >1%). A comparison of respondent organization size and share of applications hosted in the cloud.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Servers and Networks. Network Configuration.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 106

The Morning Paper

JULY 18, 2019

Being an ICLR paper of course, you won’t be surprised to learn that the solution involves neural networks. Instead of learning from scratch, we draw inspiration from the few-shot leaning advances obtained by meta-learning memory-augmented neural networks. they’re all 3s).

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Network Java Database Hardware 86

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 9, 2019

Let's take two fonts off of Google Fonts: Open Sans and EB Garamond. Consider Bleeding Cowboys , a masterpiece of a font and a favorite of pawn shops and coffee carts alike where I live in the high desert: Let's stick to our more practical comparison. So, fonts with less points in their vector art are smaller. That's the theory anyway.

Google 44

Google Network Availability Performance 44

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

In comparison, for Linpack Frontier operates at 68% of peak capacity. Most of the top supercomputers are similar to Frontier, they use AMD or Intel CPUs, with GPU accelerators, and Cray Slingshot or Infiniband networks in a Dragonfly+ configuration. Comparing CXL3.0

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2019

A quick Google search reveals plenty of online tools up to the job, but I prefer to use the coverage tool in Chrome, which can be run straight from Chrome’s DevTools. You can see timings like these for any asset in Chrome in Developer Tools via Network -> Click on your asset -> Timing tab. Google has recognized this as well.

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Performance C++ Media Website 95

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Can you test with 3G, 4G, or different networking connections? For example, here is what a comparison report looks like in Rigor. Does the tool offer a composite score like the Google Lighthouse performance score , which makes it easier to compare one site to another? Can you pre-load specific cookies for a test?

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Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

My team and I first encountered the strange WordPress-lagging REST API on a client site (not decoupled), where we used the custom endpoints to get the list of locations on a Google map, alongside other meta information created using the Advanced Custom Fields Pro plugin. But if you still need convincing, Google penalizes slow websites.

Cache 79

Cache Website Speed Database 79

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

In such cases, content delivery network (CDN) is typically used to cache majority of the content and shield the system from high workload. This technique is used in a number of well-known systems, Google Big Table and Apache HBase are among them. So, the only way was to cache all necessary data to minimize interaction with RDBMS.

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Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

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. Their free plan offers limited features, including connection, shell management, monitoring, data manipulation, and support, and you can compare them here on their plan comparison page.

Database 40

Database Servers Monitoring Availability 40

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Lazy-load offscreen images (reduce network contention for key resources). For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS. CWV is part of a set of page experience signals Google Search will be evaluating for ranking. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Compression achieved is relevant because the higher the compression, the smaller the file size, and the lower the data required to transfer the image on the network. Tip: When evaluating quality, compression and fine-tuning of modern formats, Squoosh.app ’s ability to perform a visual side-by-side comparison is helpful.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. Large preview ).

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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 ). Alternatively, you can also use Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Large preview ). 300ms RTT, 1.6

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104