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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

The third is that the Team Topologies book defined how to create and manage Platform Teams so there’s interest in the terminology and definition. The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use.

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An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals

Smashing Magazine

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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Hobson's Browser

Alex Russell

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. 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.

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HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

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.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

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.

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Can You Afford It?: Real-world Web Performance Budgets

Alex Russell

Our metrics at Google show a conflicted picture (which I’m working to get to clarity on). Contended, over-subscribed cells can make “fast” networks brutally slow, transport variance can make TCP much less efficient , and the bursty nature of web traffic works against us. 75% of of connections occur on either 2G or 3G.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

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 ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.