Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. This electricity needs to be produced somewhere.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Last week I had the opportunity to present at a technical SEO conference about performance. I couldn’t let this injustice continue, so I told them to “Google for quokka selfies” Christi , who works on Bing, commented with a smile: “Or you could look it up on Bing.” But it kind of stuck in my head.

Google 70

Google Engineering Internet Internet 70

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. Targeted Manipulation at Scale. Prompt Engineering.

Social Media 138

Social Media Media Internet Internet 138

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

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.

Performance 40

Performance Energy Google Internet 40

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

New technologies, libraries, and techniques are continuously emerging and if you want to stay on top of all these changes you will need to immerse yourself in communities, groups, and conferences all revolving around web development. Igvita Igvita is the blog of Google’s web performance engineer, Ilya Grigorik.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory. Don’t have time to read 5,500+ words?

Engineering 246

Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Robin Marx. 2021-08-23T06:20:00+00:00.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You may have read some blog posts or heard conference talks on this topic and think you know the answers. Often they make it seem as if HTTP/3 is a revolution in performance, while it is really a more modest (yet still useful!) HTTP/3 performance features ( coming up soon! ). HTTP/3 From A To Z: Core Concepts (Part 1).

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Learn more: Discover six of the most common causes of poor database performance in our free eBook. DataCenter Failure : power outage or internet provider issues. For offsite backups (like S3, Google Cloud, etc.), How often should I perform MySQL backups, and is there an optimal frequency? Did you look at the file size?

Best Practices 80

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 80

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

We know she’s an expert on designing technology to protect the vulnerable, but did you know she’s the international record holder for the most doughnuts performed in a forklift truck? She is the Principal Designer at 8th Light, where she designs and builds custom software and consults on safe and inclusive design strategy. I had no idea.”

Design 98

Design Education Network Google 98

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The internet accounts for an estimated 3–4% of global emissions — equivalent to some countries. The carbon emissions of the internet are roughly equivalent to those generated by the entire aviation industry, or the whole of Africa. Another great bit of advice from Asim’s talk from Smashing Conference was on branding.

Strategy 123

Strategy Development Energy Website 123