Particular Software

MARCH 1, 2021

Of course, there are upfront and ongoing costs associated with any computer network. The servers themselves, cabling, network switches, racks, load balancers, firewalls, power equipment, air handling, security, rent/mortgage, not to mention experienced staff to keep it all running smoothly, all come with a cost.

Transportation 98

Transportation Network Cloud Design 98

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

Managing The Execution Speed of The Slaves. With these settings, we will be able to get better parallelization and speed on the slave, but if there are too many parallel threads, the overhead involved in coordinating between the threads will also increase and can unfortunately offset the benefits. slave_preserve_commit_order = 1.

Availability 113

Availability Tuning Speed Network 113

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2019

The complex — and often implicit — network of teams, tools and processes that plan, build and deliver are disconnected by the role-specific tools used by teams across the ideate, create, release and operate stages. . Architecting for flow is crucial because enterprise software delivery, by its very nature, is a broken process. Learn more.

Speed 40

Speed Software Software DevOps 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

DRM-free, of course. Using responsive images is a key part of delivering fully responsive web design. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. Image Content Delivery Networks. +. DRM-free, of course.

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

DRM-free, of course. Using responsive images is a key part of delivering fully responsive web design. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. Image Content Delivery Networks. +. DRM-free, of course.

Media 92

Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

The design of the HTML5 Web Worker interface turns out to be a great match for migration – Workers are already designed to work on a separate thread communicating via message passing, and are typically used to offload expensive computation that you don’t want to do in the main thread with the user waiting. in the cloud).

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

To overcome some of these challenges, we built our own Java-based player, complete with caching, content compression, and even bandwidth detection so it could switch between video, audio, and text versions of a course depending on network speed. And, of course, what can actually be done to make a site faster?

Retail 52

Retail Internet Internet Education 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. That’s practically an eternity when talking about page speed performance. Homepage with DevTools Network inspection enabled and open.

Media 73

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. Physalia is designed to offer consistency and high-availability, even under network partitions. Requirements.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

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. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

Performance 115

Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo. Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. That’s a lifetime in web seconds, particularly considering that this test is based on a desktop experience on a high-speed connection.

Google 90

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

Particular Software

JUNE 3, 2019

We become annoyed when we run a speed test on our broadband provider only to find that, on a good day, we are getting maybe half of the rated download speed we are paying for, and the upload speed is likely much worse. That data must then be transferred across the network, even if only some of it is used.

Latency 40

Latency Speed Network Strategy 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course. Andy Davies.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The emergence of DevOps and continuous integration (CI) and continuous development (CD) pipelines has fundamentally changed the nature of software design, development, and deployment. Speeds up development. Key metrics here include memory requests, CPU requests, disk utilization, and network throughput.

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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. Of course, we’re talking about the user doing something on the page, i.e., an action such as a click or keyboard focus.

Traffic 94

Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 94

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. Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It also makes for a good crash course on the tools if you haven’t used them before. Device Mode You can test your website and media queries to see if your responsive design is breaking anywhere by going into device mode. In the Application panel go to Storage > Cookies to either clear all cookies or an individual cookie.

Google 85

Google Website Network Media 85

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. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The more interesting thing, however, is the impact on the speed of our side. When we measure speed through Lighthouse, we get a speed index of 1.5 Whilst I believe Scrapbook handles this update well, it’s an important consideration when designing your user’s experience. seconds for the ISR + SWR variant of the site and 5.8

Cache 102

Cache Internet Internet Servers 102

Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

According to Tim Kadlec : A performance budget is a clearly defined limit on one or more performance metrics that the team agrees not to exceed and that is used to guide design and development. A website’s speed makes the difference in whether users visit a site or not, so performance matters a great deal.

Performance 45

Performance Metrics Website Speed 45

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

’ Stateless is fine until you need state, at which point the coarse-grained solutions offered by current platforms limit the kinds of application designs that work well. Oh, and there’s a scheduler too of course to keep all the plates spinning. Cross-function communication should work at wire speed.

Lambda 98

Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Choosing the right backup frequency: The appropriate frequency, of course, will vary from one organization to another. This may involve taking a server offline, rerouting network traffic, or replacing a failed disk drive. Of course, the dead canary was pretty dark.) In a cold backup, the database is taken offline.

Database 90

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 90

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Clearly, we want to give freedom to our content creators, but we can leave to chance neither the resolution nor the speed of delivery and download of the images that will be displayed on our website.

Media 105

Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Apica

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This state of mastery and flow is definitely relevant to how we build and test modern applications, which involve interconnected movements of front-end design processes, distributed services, and back-end data repositories, all orchestrated to meet customer requirements at scale. Putting the user at the center instead of the software.

Testing 52

Testing DevOps Monitoring Media 52

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

Network related scenarios in mobile testing. A tester needs to always keep in mind that a mobile device does not stay in a single place like a desktop and is neither connected to superfast broadband networks such as optical fibres. The developers had not designed the popup to disappear when a user clicks outside the region.

Mobile 52

Mobile Social Media Testing Media 52

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Of course, it matters what your users experience rather than what some search engine crawler sees, but one of the great things about the Core Web Vitals initiative is that it does measure real user experience rather than what Google Bot sees! Authors are important of course, but is that really what the reader came here to see?

Google 143

Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

You can also disable the Back/Forward Cache in Chrome at chrome://flags/#back-forward-cache if you want to experiment more, but the above steps should hopefully be a sufficient enough test to give a rough feel for the potential speed gains. More after jump! 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

Cache 91

Cache Games Performance Website 91

Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2019

That ‘ideate’ phase includes planning, creating business cases, and UX design to name but a few key activities– very creative and technical work that plays a crucial role in meeting end user needs. Of course not! Clever Value Stream Architecture designs for speed, visibility and traceability and it relies on APIs and abstraction.

Development 45

Development DevOps Google Innovation 45

The Morning Paper

JULY 11, 2019

Moreover, users like the resulting experience at least as much if not more than the original page designs. A good reminder that the highest leverage performance optimisations are often to be found in the design space , as opposed to the implementation space. speed up on the server side and 4.5× on average, and up to 38x.

Database 47

Database Performance Speed Servers 47

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

While many of us, designers and developers, are likely to have a relatively new mobile phone in our pockets, a vast majority of our customers isn’t quite like us. This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. State Of Mobile 2021. Large preview ).

Mobile 133

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started  ‍Of course, the latter.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Design: Performance is the gap between Figma mockups and the user experience of products for many, but not all , users. The extent to which a product performs well, the higher its likelihood of behaving in accordance to the approved design spec. Reduced network and device capacity correlate with other access challenges.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Yes, we’ve changed how we defined the user experience of the page load to look at the loading speed of the most relevant content , but it’s basically reusing the old techniques of ensuring that the content loads as quickly as possible. But there are of course exceptions and those sites need to consider how to react to this.

Media 125

Media Metrics Website Google 125