The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

This makes memory a critical factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of large compute clusters, or as Google like to call them “Warehouse-scale computers (WSCs).” ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Enter zswap!

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

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. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. "What, then, is a 'browser'?" Web Serial.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

An example of a specification is the correct operation of the hardware of a microprocessor. An SDC is the worst possible outcome of a fault, as it can have an arbitrary impact on the correctness of software running on the hardware. Therefore, testing alone is unlikely to be the definitive solution to address these new faults.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The intentional, responsible leadership of Blink was no accident, but to see it rewarded so definitively is gratifying. Google's security teams audited the colossal volume of user-generated content Google hosts for problems and did not find significant concerns. 31st : Web Share changes Feb. 13th : Declarative Shadow DOM Feb.

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” Our current set of AI algorithms are good enough, as is our hardware; the hard problems are all about data. Should it be?

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

While a perfect understanding of these concepts is not needed for the rest of this post, having a common high-level definition would be good. One of the reasons Google saw very good 0-RTT results for QUIC was that it tested it on its already heavily optimized search page, where query responses are quite small. Congestion Control.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Yet, this criticism of React isn’t completely unwarranted: React and ReactDOM total about 120 KiB of minified JavaScript, which definitely contributes to slow startup time. When even a bit of React can be a problem on devices slow and fast alike, using it is an intentional choice that effectively excludes people with low-end hardware.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Google founders figured out smart ways to rank websites by analyzing their connection patterns and using that information to improve the relevance of search results. They have a clear input and output definition, and often a schema as well. Back in the days of Web 1.0, Leverage the convergence of fast data and microservices.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

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. decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> Google spent more on the SoC for the Pixel 4a and enjoyed a later launch date, boosting performance relative to the A51.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Randon ASCII

APRIL 14, 2020

Some of it is programs (including som internal Google tools) that have registered in Task Scheduler to run “On workstation lock of any user” – who knew? Is a second or more of busy waiting really the only way to get my hardware going? During this time my laptop did about 17 CPU seconds of processing, of various types.

Programming 89

Programming Processing Systems Hardware 89

Randon ASCII

AUGUST 16, 2018

I work at Google, making Chrome, for Windows, focused on performance. I loaded it into Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA), but I couldn’t definitively find the hang. If you want to trigger a scan manually, you can go to Control Panel | Configuration Manager | Actions | Select ‘Hardware Inventory Cycle’ and then Run Now.

Programming 75

Programming Virtualization Code Processing 75

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Our metrics at Google show a conflicted picture (which I’m working to get to clarity on). This, in turn, drives the single most important trend in setting the global web performance budget hardware baseline: the next billion users will largely come online when they can afford to. 75% of of connections occur on either 2G or 3G.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For each of them, Google recommends a range of acceptable speed goals.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Note : as TCP generally under-utilizes network connection by a significant amount, Google has developed TCP Bottleneck Bandwidth and RRT ( BBR ), a relatively new TCP delay-controlled TCP flow control algorithm.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Gatsby.js (React), Preact CLI , and PWA Starter Kit provide reasonable defaults for fast loading out of the box on average mobile hardware. Image credit: Addy Osmani ) ( Large preview ).

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Low-effort/high-impact actions are easy wins, and definitely worth prioritizing. Do you really need Google Analytics on every site you build? Hardware And E-Waste. Re-writing your web app to use a more lightweight JS framework could be extremely high effort for relatively low impact. The Green Web Foundation has a directory.

Strategy 124

Strategy Development Energy Website 124

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Google cloud.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52