All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Just dropping your website in an S3 bucket brings all that power to you. And it is not just purely static websites.

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Servers Social Media AWS Website 126

High Scalability

JULY 18, 2022

SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. Apply here. Need excellent people? Advertise your job here! Cool Products and Services.

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High Scalability

JUNE 10, 2022

SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. Apply here. Need excellent people? Advertise your job here! Cool Products and Services.

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Education DevOps Infrastructure Scalability 100

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This occurs when you are revalidating the page on the server. For some websites this works, but for others (such as Hack Club’s Scrapbook , a site built by @lachlanjc that I help maintain), the user expects the data to be kept up to date. There are of course some places where you won’t want to use SWR or to use SWR without ISR.

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Cache Internet Internet Servers 102

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2019

What if you could present a preview image to the website visitor without having to load additional data? If your website consists of many JPEGs, you will notice that even progressive JPEGs load one after the other. With Ajax, however, this is possible, provided that the server delivering the image supports HTTP Range Requests.

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Network Servers Programming Code 103

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Since that time, the SRE role has evolved as the industry has changed and shifted from the traditional monolithic structures to large, widely distributed networks and microservices. Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. Monitoring.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Apica

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Nor is it encompassed by a website or marketing materials. A typical user journey would include all the actions in a typical human user’s session using a website or application – the screens they are presented with, what objects they click on, and what screens and data payloads are returned.

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Retail Website Infrastructure Software Architecture 52

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. In this article, I want to spend a bit more time on this, and also look at other signals we can similarly use to help us make decisions on what to load on our websites. Barry Pollard. 2022-03-07T10:30:00+00:00. save the user’s data!

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors. Teachers can interact with their colleagues in professional learning networks.

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Innovation AWS Education Network 146

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

Simply put, compression allows the web server to send smaller files to your web site viewers. When someone enters your URL and requests your site, their browser will indicate to the web server that it understands compression (and which type it understands). Gzip Compression. How Do I Enable Gzip? How Do I Implement Brotli?

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Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

If you want to vastly improve the startup and load performance of your website, you cannot miss the impactful observations and insights that Jake posts on jakearchibald.com/ and shares on Twitter @ jaffathecake. Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Tammy Everts. Tammy Everts.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

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?

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 29, 2015

Getting a website successfully delivered to a visitor depends on a series of actions. My server must spit something out. That something must be passed over some network. I have no control over the network. The only thing I control is my server environment. There are a lot of unpredictable layers here.

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Network Servers Website Technology 72

The Morning Paper

APRIL 11, 2019

In addition, service workers have the ability to intercept and handle network requests (for e.g., caching and pre-loading purposes). When the user browses away from a website, the service worker of that website is typically paused by the browser; it is then restarted and reactivated once the parent domain is visited again.

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Website Network Traffic Cache 44

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. 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.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

Particular Software

JANUARY 5, 2021

In small networks, it is sometimes possible to have one administrator. Of course, we want to be Agile. Design systems to be easily maintainable: See what Udi has to say in Day 1 of his Advanced Distributed Systems Design video course. This decouples the sender (generally a website) from the processing of that request.

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Availability Systems Architecture Design 59

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Back-End Error Tracking Back-end, or server-side, errors include things like page exceptions and JavaScript errors. Back-end error tracking is relatively straightforward since all server-side code runs in the same place. Every website or app should provide a way for users to report bugs.

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Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. But first, a confession: When I first heard about the environmental impact of websites, I didn’t quite believe it.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 135

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Systems, web applications, servers, devices, etc., We are kidding of course, but you know something is bad if happens that early in the morning. In the world of a site reliability engineer (SRE) , failure is not only an option, but also expected. are all prone to performance issues and unexpected outages at some point.

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Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If you think that static rendering is limited to generic, public content that is the same for every user of your website, you should definitely read this article. Segmented Rendering is a new pattern for the Jamstack that lets you personalize content statically, without any sort of client-side rendering or per-request Server-Side Rendering.

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Cache Website Energy Servers 114

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

What you may be overlooking is that peak-event readiness is about more than just load testing or ensuring that your servers are up throughout a specific timeframe. Servers down or server health issues [APM]. Of course, load testing and stress testing are essential – you likely already have your eye on those numbers.

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Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

The tooling to get a report with details from the time it takes to establish a server connection to the time it takes for the full page to render is out there. There are ways around that, of course. 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

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Go ahead, briefly look at the things that Lighthouse says are wrong with the website. Before we do anything else, let’s see what happens when we first hit the website. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 It gets redirected.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. Suzanne Scacca.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load. Of course, there is the important caveat of having a well-structured CSS codebase structure that doesn’t depend on the rule order. Critical CSS.

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 108

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

Websites, mobile apps, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring. However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications – including your customers and employees.

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Artificial Intelligence Social Media Monitoring IoT 182

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. This goes way beyond basic optimizations such as color contrast and server response times. This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. Driving Business Metrics.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Souders presents his 14 rules throughout the course of the book while discussing the importance of front-end performance. Each performance chapter is supported by code snippets (via a companion website) and examples to aid in learning. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website!

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

Websites, mobile apps, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring. However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course end-users that access these applications – including your customers and employees.

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Monitoring Performance Social Media Artificial Intelligence 132

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and web application technologies have grown tremendously over the years. Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Even if you render components on the server and hydrate them on the client, it still churns because component hydration is computationally expensive. Server rendering is also cool—even if that’s just how we say “send HTML over the network” these days. A stateful Preact component, also server-rendered and hydrated on the client.

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Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. We may ask our users to use the app for searching a course of their choice and take a few classes on it after making the payment. Can we have a single day in our life without a mobile phone today? Reference: [link].

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Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It was heralded as an amazing performance revolution, with exciting new features such as server push, parallel streams, and prioritization. We would have been able to stop bundling resources, stop sharding our resources across multiple servers, and heavily streamline the page-loading process. What is so different?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Way back in the days when JavaScript was very much the poorer cousin to HTML and CSS, we didn’t need to think too much about how our scripts could be used as an attack vector for our websites. file hosted as part of their own website on their own server. That’s a lot of effort. If it matches, the file is executed.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). This difference by itself doesn’t do all that much (it mainly reduces the overhead on the server-side), but it leads to most of the following points. Server Sharding and Connection Coalescing.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

Alex Podelko

AUGUST 15, 2017

One could do the recording to analyze the queries to replicate in load yes, but in practice there are better and alternate ways to do that like with a network proxy, Wireshark, or the network analyzer tab/tool in browser’s debug toolset. If a single webpage or website transaction calls 20 APIs that’s ok, and manageable.

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