Smashing Magazine

JUNE 13, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. I hate to admit it, but five or six years ago my interest in web design started to wane. Of course, owning a business meant I had to keep working, but staying motivated and offering my best thinking to clients became a daily struggle.

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Design Media Energy Innovation 105

The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

Towards federated learning at scale: system design Bonawitz et al., This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. Within the FL Server (which is itself a distributed system of course), it’s the job of selectors to identify devices for a round. SysML 2019. Use cases so far.

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Systems Design Google Servers 71

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It’s been well publicized that Google’s Bard made some factual errors when it was demoed, and Google paid for these mistakes with a significant drop in their stock price. Of course, Bard and Sydney are beta releases that aren’t open to the wider public yet. So it’s not surprising that things are wrong.

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Google Media Engineering Internet 84

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

The business world today is obsessed with user experience (UX) design. Overall, this UX audit and redesign concept would be of great use to UX designers, business owners, and marketing people because it presents a way to audit and fix a product’s most obvious usability issues. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Mark Lankmilier.

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Education Website Google Design 85

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

If we published someone’s currency conversion software in a book or training course and our language model reproduces it in response to a question, we can attribute that to the original source and allocate royalties appropriately. But Google has the best search engine in the world.

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Artificial Intelligence Media Google Processing 100

DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

If you start catching bugs early, it will save you tons of time fixing them later.nn> Design reviewnnIt’s a very powerful tool when used in a good way. I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. You may think that you know how the system works.

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Software Software Code Design 245

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees. The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Particular Software

JUNE 28, 2021

Google built BigTable, Amazon built Dynamo, Facebook built Cassandra, LinkedIn came up with Voldemort. From Udi Dahan's free Distributed Systems Design Fundamentals video course Semantic interoperability The true challenge of non-homogenous networks lies in semantic interoperability. None of these things can talk to each other.

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Network Java Design Google 98

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. You can export the results as a CSV file for Excel, Google Sheets or Apple Pages. WebPageTest is, of course, a performance testing suite on its own.

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. DRM-free, of course. Using responsive images is a key part of delivering fully responsive web design. DRM-free, of course. Print + eBook.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 107

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). From UX design to copywriting, quality content takes commitment, passion, and time.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Designing security in from the start almost always leads to a simpler result than bolting security on as an afterthought, and the complexity will stay manageable if new features and security grow together. One advantage of computers, of course, is that they don’t care about complexity. Is a language model up to that?

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Software Software Development Programming 122

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. DRM-free, of course. Using responsive images is a key part of delivering fully responsive web design. Designed by Espen Brunborg and Nadia Snopek.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Historically, I’d maybe look at Google Analytics—or a RUM solution if the client had one already—but this is only useful for showing me particular outliers, and not necessarily any patterns across the whole project. Of course, it’s a little more complex than that, but for this exercise it’s an incredibly reliable proxy. See entry 6.

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Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 292

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

But I'd rather the cost be zero, of course! 2022: Upstreaming, first attempt Other large companies with OS and perf teams (Meta, Google) hinted strongly that they had already enabled frame pointers for everything years earlier. Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.) Back-end servers.

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Java Cache Google Hardware 145

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. A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 92

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

In fact, we had to look into various cases for the form design: What happens when no data is provided at all? Given that a vast majority of our readers — wonderful people like you — are using autofill, it’s worth spending time designing an experience around it. Designing The Perfect Navigation. UX, Design.

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Mobile Design Cache Code 141

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Enter Google! and later on “ we are seeking to grow usage of Snap, particularly with Pony Express as a general-purpose TCP/IP replacement “ The forces shaping Snap’s design. Emphasis mine).

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

And, of course, the result needs to be seamless and delightful — dare we say, even fun — to develop and maintain. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smart Interface Design Patterns , with Vitaly Friedman. More after jump! With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away.

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 136

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.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the newest metric of the bunch and is set to formally be a ranking factor in Google search results beginning in March 2024. Rather than pushing off INP until after it starts influencing the way we measure site performance, let’s take a few minutes to level up our understanding of what it is and why it’s designed to replace FID.

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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 96

MachMetrics

JUNE 1, 2020

In addition, Google has made it clear that page speed is being used as a ranking factor. Of course not. Nail your mobile site design. Google recommends Responsive Web Design because it’s the easiest design pattern to implement and maintain. Google Devs. Improving Your Mobile Performance.

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Speed Mobile Testing Google 67

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

So far, it’s been a painless shift in power, which as Eric Matthes, author of Python Crash Course , argues, should come as no surprise, since “Guido has carried himself, and his role in the community, with such poise for so long.” Will 2020 be the year that Kotlin makes a significant beachhead beyond Android?

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Programming Java Google C++ 130

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 141

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Certain tools are designed for certain metrics with certain assumptions that produce certain results. There are ways around that, of course. Real usage data would be better, of course. For example, the data is limited to Chrome users who are logged into their Google account, so it’s not completely representative of all users.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 82

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

Interestingly, and perhaps not coincidentally, 100 milliseconds is Google's stated goal when it comes to page load times. Some sensory memory does stick, of course. In a 1999 study of workplace interruptions , groups of workers were subjected to various disruptions in the course of their day-to-day responsibilities.

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Speed Website Mobile Cloud 133

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And of course, scrapers could scrape your site to look for security vulnerabilities or exposed contact or sales lead details. If you are just starting out wondering if someone might be re-publishing your web content, the easiest thing to do is a Google search. The most common service of this type is Google Web Light.

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Website Analytics Cache Google 90

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Why are developers using RInK systems as part of their design? Keeping application services stateless is a design guideline that achieved widespread adoption following the publication of the 12-factor app manifesto. As a half-way house you could also design a domain specific service API sitting in front of an in-memory cache.

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Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The top three results in Google SERPs get 54.4% Google is the most prominent global search market player with a market share of 83%. 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.

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Google Traffic Social Media Website 52

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In 2021, Google relaunched CLS with a session window. By introducing a session window, Google reduced the impact of the SPA problem. Mark pulled the idea of a "page" apart and explored a design and development pipeline that focuses instead on islands of content. We care about making the web faster and we want to help you.

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Performance Metrics Speed Google 57

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform tied neck and neck at 17.5% PostgreSQL of course came in first with 85.9% by PostgreSQL respondents for its simple and flexible design, and their advanced feature set at seventh with 6.4%. each amongst PostgreSQL public cloud users. Ease of use came in at sixth with 7.3%

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Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

High Scalability

AUGUST 17, 2018

And of course it would work on an Apple II and other 8 bit micros (Logo ran nicely on them, etc.). They'll love you even more. million : lost in ATM malware hack; $1.5 It is time for the world to move to an OS structure appropriate for 21st century security requirements.

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Internet Internet Scalability Games 105

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. The design was made by a design and UX agency that also handled the HTML prototype (based on Bootstrap 4). They are basically everywhere and will dominate your design. Jennifer Brehm. 2021-06-02T10:30:00+00:00.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 117

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

An outgoing request from a whitelisted domain returns a 302 , forwarding the request to a self-hosted CSS file that is optimised specifcally for your browser, OS, and UA (Google Fonts do something similar). a year worth of customers currently bound to a slow-by-design, slow-by-default webfont solution that we could have helped out!

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Latency Cache Strategy Media 203

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Considering how important images are to web design, this isn’t an element we can dispose of so easily nor can we afford to cut corners when it comes to optimizing them.

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Website Speed Cache Google 72

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. Sustainable Web Design.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73