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.” KotlinConf sold out three years in a row with more than 1,700 attendees in 2019.

Programming 130

Programming Java Google C++ 130

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

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Jake Archibald. Jake Archibald. Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better. An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. There’s a good high-level overview of federated learning on Google’s AI blog. 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. Federated Averaging.

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Systems Design Google Servers 71

Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Decommissioning Public102 was an exercise in the mundane, gradually transitioning tiny service after tiny service to new homes over the course of weeks, as the development schedule allowed. When finally we had all the processes migrated, we celebrated as we decommissioned Public102. It's not so easy with a junk drawer server.

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Wireless DevOps Infrastructure Network 52

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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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

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. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. Large preview ).

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Note that AnyLog also differs from projects such as DeepDive or Google’s Knowledge Graph. There are five different types of member in an AnyLog system, and any network node can join without restriction as any type of member. Publishers are the producers of the actual data to be served by the network. Market participants.

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Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 4, 2018

And of course we’d like to thank our sponsors for their generous support. link] Google App Engine? For those of you unfamiliar with the unconference session proposal process, please read about it here: [link] Other than that, we hope you get a lot out of the event. We hope you will view their offerings. Sponsors : Sun?—?

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Cloud Network Google Engineering 40

Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 4, 2018

And of course we’d like to thank our sponsors for their generous support. link] Google App Engine? For those of you unfamiliar with the unconference session proposal process, please read about it here: [link] Other than that, we hope you get a lot out of the event. We hope you will view their offerings. Sponsors : Sun?—?

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Cloud Network Google Engineering 40

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

To many designers and developers the process of designing for mobile assumes that touch is natural, so we don’t need to pay any particular attention to the design of touch systems. Many phones come preinstalled with common apps such as social networking, email, and maps, or with shortcuts to the browser. DRM-free, of course.

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Mobile Design Internet Internet 104

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. Created by Google in 2013, Brotli is a compression algorithm created by Google for the compression of web fonts. The best course of action is to pre compress your files and serve them alongside your regular files.

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Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. And that's a choice. "WebKit

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Error tracking is the process of proactively identifying issues and fixing them as quickly as possible. The Google DevTools console can give you real-time feedback to help you trace the source of errors, and you can set handlers to automate exception data collection. Worse still, they could start spreading the word on Twitter.

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Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2019

Within 24 hours of last month's post on regulation of technology firms , new anti-trust probes into Google and Apple were reported by the Wall Street Journal. And, of course, Kraft made similar assurances about maintaining production facilities before acquiring Cadbury only to abandoned them one week after the completion of the merger.

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Transportation Government Automotive Media 40

The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

This summer also marks the 4-yearly event that is La Copa Mundial (we only get Telemundo in my apartment, not Fox Sports Network) but since the good old US of A are absent from the men’s World Cup this year, football fever is distinctly frigid. We’d love to share this course with your company?—? Unlike the temperature outside.

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Serverless AWS DevOps Open Source 40

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Enter Google! Upgrades are also rolled out progressively across the cluster of course. SOSP’19. It reminds me of ZeroMQ.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It makes an interesting juxtaposition to the approach Google took with Snap that we looked at last time out. The port and verification processes took about four-person weeks each (impressively little time, but remember these are world-experts in verification methods doing the work!).

Code 45

Code Systems Programming Google 45

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. First, FID is a measure of the time it takes the page to start processing an interaction or the input delay. It only looks at the delay of the event process. Let’s walk through the process.

Traffic 95

Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 95

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Faster is better, of course, but the way Lighthouse reports it, a “passing” score comes in between 0 and 1.8 Google keeps a full record of the changelog for reference, so that’s something to keep in mind when evaluating results, especially if you find yourself with different results from others on your team.

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Performance Metrics Monitoring Google 96

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 140

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

There are ways around that, of course. 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.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

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. FID looks at the time the user sparks an interaction and how long the browser processes — or responds to — that input. It’s worth asking.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The secret sharer: evaluating and testing unintended memorization in neural networks Carlini et al., Take a system trained to make predictions on a language (word or character) model – an example you’re probably familiar with is Google Smart Compose. USENIX Security Symposium 2019. The exposure of a secret is then determined as.

Network 55

Network Testing Strategy Google 55

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. However, countless research (including the stats for our own site here, and others by the likes of Alex Russell ) has shown that Android devices are the platform of choice for poorer countries with slower networks.

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Website Media Mobile Network 103

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Users and Nonusers AI adoption is in the process of becoming widespread, but it’s still not universal. Until AI reaches 100%, it’s still in the process of adoption. Automating the process of building complex prompts has become common, with patterns like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and tools like LangChain.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

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.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Self-hosted Kubernetes installations or services — such as Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, or the Google Kubernetes Engine — make it possible for enterprises to select and implement best-fit functions. Key metrics here include memory requests, CPU requests, disk utilization, and network throughput. Enhances DevOps productivity.

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. For example, try and recall the last time your team’s processes were audited for compliance against the company’s ethical standards. As UX practitioners, we know empathy is an important part of the design process.

Code 137

Code Design Education Government 137

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

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

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

, and the Head Performance Engineer at Google. Souders presents his 14 rules throughout the course of the book while discussing the importance of front-end performance. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website! Resumes don’t get much better than that in this industry.

Speed 85

Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

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

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

We would have been able to stop bundling resources, stop sharding our resources across multiple servers, and heavily streamline the page-loading process. 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.

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145