Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Even if you resize your images to the exact specifications of your website and run them through a compressor, they can still put a strain on performance and run up bandwidth usage. Samsung Internet. Suzanne Scacca. 2019-10-29T12:30:59+02:00. Opera Mini.

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Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

So many default to Amazon RDS, when MySQL performs exceptionally well on Azure Cloud. In this post, we outline the best way to host MySQL on Azure , including managed solutions, instance types, high availability replication, backup, and disk types to use to optimize your cloud database performance. MySQL DBaaS vs. Self-Managed MySQL.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

That said, GIFs can drag down a web page’s performance, especially if not optimized. Let’s cover some ways to speed up GIF animations on your website and look at some alternative formats that you should consider. Why Speed Up GIF Animations? You should also think about supporting newer formats like WebP.

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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. Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University 2015. With only an hour or so of degraded performance in the end, it’s not the worst incident you can imagine, but it was clearly taken as very serious given the time of year.

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Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

I’m delighted to be joining some of my favourite web performance people at SpeedCurve! I’ve been a full-time web performance consultant for around nine years. I’ve written a couple of books , spoken at conferences , and become an organiser of London’s Web Performance Meetup.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Tasktop

MAY 13, 2020

We should look at behavior from day one — that will be a leading indicator of how consumerism will perform and provide the basis for how it will evolve. ” Well now you have no choice — you have to respond now and your response will dictate your performance and define your legacy in the future.” .

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Internet Internet Innovation DevOps 86

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Size Up The Competition The internet is a big place. This is the internet; you can do just about anything.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Since we’re talking about mobile applications, we have to assume a changing environment over time, including the possibility of losing internet connectivity altogether. This could of course be a local worker on the mobile device. due to total loss of internet connectivity) then the worker needs to be restarted.

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Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Tech News Gather

DECEMBER 27, 2022

A teacher can use this process to analyze a student’s performance and provide appropriate solutions. This is a convenient option for students who do not have access to the internet or encounter network problems. Course Management. Offline Learning. Social Media. if you’re willing to take your app on the success path.

Education 52

Education Social Media Development Media 52

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.” If you’re interested in attending, please check out the links, and I look forward to meeting and re-meeting many of you there.

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Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

As we discussed in our article on how to test your page weight , compression is pretty much standard practice in web performance now, so you absolutely want to make sure you’re taking advantage of it. Brotli offers a significant speed advantage over Gzip, which is why the Brotli vs Gzip debate has really picked up steam.

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Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

DBAs and developers appreciate its combination of flexibility, scalability, and performance. It’s a good setup for real-time analytics and high-speed logging. A survey of 90,240 companies using MongoDB listed the leading uses as Technology and Services (23%), Computer Software (16%), and Internet (6%).

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Open Source Database Scalability Software 77

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Functional testing for mobile applications can be performed by-. End-to-End testing – Testing of the whole system together is performed using end-to-end testing. We perform testing from the starting of the flow till the end of the flow. Compatibility testing is performed on a range of probable environments which includes-.

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Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Sometimes it’s easy enough to find the answer to that question and the site just needs to invest in performance. Sometimes though, it’s a little trickier and, despite thinking your site was great on the performance for some reason it still fails. Many developers have been asking themselves that question lately. Interesting….

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. That is why, today, Web Performance is as important and trendy as having an online presence. Table of Contents: What Is Web Performance? What Is Web Performance? Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. Alba Silvente.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Testsigma

MARCH 12, 2021

With a widening gap between mobile browsers and mobile applications, users are spending 90% of their overall mobile internet time on mobile applications. The testing needs can be met via manual testing efforts of course and that is what teams do initially. Automation does not need to get home and relax.

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Mobile Testing Operating System Software 66

Particular Software

JUNE 1, 2020

Getting versions up to speed NServiceBus has made a lot of great improvements over the last few years—not only in supporting Azure, but also in embracing async/await, configuration improvements, supporting.NET Core, and many others.

Cloud 52

Cloud Transportation Azure Government 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.

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Performance Energy Google Internet 40

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

Another research supported this conclusion by providing data that depicts 90% of the total internet time of the users is spent on mobile apps. Performance related scenarios in mobile testing. After security, the next scenario that is critical for our mobile testing journey is the performance metric. What else?

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Mobile Social Media Testing Media 52

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Past swings away from OS default browsers have hinged on the superior features , better performance , improved security , and adequate site compatibility that come from switching. Without the ability to differentiate on features, security, performance, and privacy, what's to sell? What are those mechanisms? A slightly different UI ?

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

LCP is supposed to measure loading performance and is a good proxy for all the old metrics we in the performance community used to use (i.e. Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Content Loaded, Start Render, Speed Index) — but from the experience of the user. Previous Web Performance Metrics. SpeedIndex (SI).

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

This brings us to the final link in the chain of structural security mitigations: the speed of delivering updates to end-users. This is, of course, a serious problem for Apple's argument as to why it should be exclusively responsible for delivering updates to browser engines on iOS. The Abandonware Problem #.

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Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

Web performance advocates have often advised to add dimensions to your images for best performance to allow the page to be laid out with the appropriate space for the image, before the image itself has been downloaded. This also puts extra work on the browser to recalculate the page layout as each image arrives across the internet.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

With these added libraries and subsequent plugins came added page weight, and before long we were starting to think seriously about front-end performance. Another interesting thing you can do is use a Content Security Policy to specify that any script (or styles) on your page must use SRI, and of course that SRI must validate.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Of course, in some cases the difference to performance is small enough that one can live with it, but it’s often bad enough to be a problem. We fairly frequently see performance get 5% or more worse over time in a single process execution. It was a quiet week this week. Just a few more quotes.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The only time the Internet was mentioned was as a tool for communicating with one another without the need to chop down more trees, or for working without a commute. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical. Performance And Emissions.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 135

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

This is where your performance goes. A typical example of modern "microservices-inspired" Java application would function along these lines: Netflix : We observed during experimentation that RAM random read latencies were rarely higher than 1 microsecond whereas typical SSD random read speeds are between 100–500 microseconds.

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Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

High Scalability

JULY 19, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. PerfOps is a data platform that digests real-time performance data for CDN and DNS providers as measured by real users worldwide. Learn more today.

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Education Metrics Engineering Java 22

High Scalability

AUGUST 20, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. PerfOps is a data platform that digests real-time performance data for CDN and DNS providers as measured by real users worldwide. Learn more today.

Education 22

Education Metrics Engineering Java 22

High Scalability

AUGUST 6, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. PerfOps is a data platform that digests real-time performance data for CDN and DNS providers as measured by real users worldwide. Learn more today.

Education 22

Education Metrics Engineering Java 22

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. PerfOps is a data platform that digests real-time performance data for CDN and DNS providers as measured by real users worldwide. Learn more today.

Education 21

Education Metrics Engineering Java 21

High Scalability

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. PerfOps is a data platform that digests real-time performance data for CDN and DNS providers as measured by real users worldwide. Learn more today.

Education 21

Education Metrics Engineering Java 21

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. PerfOps is a data platform that digests real-time performance data for CDN and DNS providers as measured by real users worldwide. Learn more today.

Education 21

Education Metrics Engineering Java 21

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. " Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128