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. Instead, they load content referred by their hosting native app in system-provided WebViews.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. Core Web Vital metrics definitions. SEO is key to our success.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

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 next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc. The second is that some companies with tools to sell are marketing the term.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Scaling symbolic evaluation for automated verification of systems code with Serval Nelson et al., Serval is a framework for developing automated verifiers of systems software. It makes an interesting juxtaposition to the approach Google took with Snap that we looked at last time out. SOSP’19.

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Code Systems Programming Google 45

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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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 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

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. The use of server-timing headers by content delivery networks closes a big gap. Definitely worth a read! For more years than I care to mention, I've been advising folks that their TTFB should be under 500ms. But what happens when it doesn't?

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Then came the coup de grace — the aforementioned stack-invasive SSPL.

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 81

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

, and the Head Performance Engineer at Google. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website! Sounders, along with 8 expert contributors, expands upon the tips in the first book and offers best practices in JavaScript, network, and browser optimization. Definitely a must read for whoever is interested in web performance!

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. Technical leads and architects (about 11%) are next, followed by software and systems architects (9+%). network engineer, at >2%) and management positions (IT manager, at close to 3%; operations manager at >1%).

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Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Linux, for example, is the most widely used operating system to run services you use daily. There’s also WordPress and Drupal, content management systems (CMSes) that power millions of websites worldwide. WordPress, in fact, powers this blog and uses a MySQL database to store its content.)

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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 105

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. From mobile applications to chatbots to predictive systems, AI is growing its foot in every direction. 2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies.

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Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. For example: Think with Google suggests the typical page speed optimizations.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

The authors of today’s paper should know a thing or two about that: Jeffrey Mogul and John Wilkes at Google 1 ! Control loop SLOs express the active management actions a provider will take, e.g. shedding of low-priority load will occur on over-utilised network links. Why are SLOs so hard to define? Creating an SLA seems simple: de?

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Metrics Cloud Google Network 79

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. The project consisted of upgrading the shop software to our own open-source system and redoing the shop’s front end from scratch. Additionally, page speed is a ranking factor for search and also for your Google Ads.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 117

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 1, 2017

In many ways, Amazon Time Sync Service is truly inspired by Google' TrueTime. Google's data centers are equipped with a series of GPS receivers and atomic clocks. So what really inspired Amazon to replicate Google' TrueTime? Before we answer that let's have a quick look why Google's TrueTime was introduced at first place.

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AWS Google Database Virtualization 55

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV. Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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. Are there inherent time relationships in the messages that need to be preserved as they travel across the system? Back in the days of Web 1.0, Clean and reprocess it?

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Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

But we’ll definitely help you decide which is the best choice for your situation. These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. SV1)"; gzip_vary on; Disclaimer: please consult your system admin before making any server configuration changes. OK, not really.

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Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He and his colleagues spend their productive hours scaling large distributed file systems. 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. Google cloud. Google Pub/Sub. Java used to power core file system code.

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Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

Popular search engines like Google give preference to websites that are mobile-ready[4]. It also lets you perform mobile website testing on throttling network conditions – a scenario that is so real in today’s world where the usage of mobile internet is rising at an alarming rate! Mobile-first indexing.

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Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. 300ms RTT, 1.6

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This is a question recently asked and explored by a team of Google researchers led by Jeff Dean with a major focus on database indexes. Jeff is a Google Senior Fellow in the Google Brain team and widely known as a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning community. Learned Bloom filters. What's next.

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Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As you may already know, image optimization is the process that a high-quality image has to go through to be delivered in ideal conditions, sometimes with the help of an Image Transformation API and a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) to make the process simpler and scalable.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 108

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Tools and CI systems help them monitor progress & prevent regressions. The median user is on a slow network. Global Ground-Truth. Where to start?

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

According to SplashData's annual list that they compile, the top ten most widely used passwords are: 123456 password 12345 12345678 qwerty 123456789 1234 baseball dragon football These are definitely not the types of passwords we recommend using! Varonis) In 2017 there was a 13 percent overall increase in reported system vulnerabilities.

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Transportation Website Google Infrastructure 47

High Scalability

JANUARY 24, 2019

The most famous of these companies—the so-called faangs, of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google—have seen their price-earnings ratios collapse by more than 60 percent in the past two years. George Dyson : The next revolution will be the rise of analog systems that can no longer be mastered by digital programming.

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Games 29

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Nor will I talk too much about the mechanics of how CLS is calculated: Google has some good documentation on that , and Jess Peck ’s The Almost-Complete Guide to Cumulative Layout Shift is an awesome deep dive into that too. On design systems, CSS/JS and smart interface design patterns. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Media Metrics Website Google 126

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2019

One way this can be achieved is through the use of methodologies such as Object-Oriented CSS (OOCSS), which rather than organizing CSS around page context, encourages separating structure (grid systems, spacing, widths, etc.) Google has recognized this as well. from decoration (fonts, brand, colors, etc.). list-group.card.

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Performance C++ Media Website 95

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Definitions. Imagine a professional networking site with a database of users. While small-to-medium projects can get away without one, a CDN (content delivery network) is easy to use and improves the performance of applications of any size. Previous Parts In The Series: Part 1 : User Models And Authentication. Media Files.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 70

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Resources like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that had previously been the reserve of giant corporations were becoming commonplace for everyday folk building snappy websites. I can test this out by putting that tag in a page, and then flipping to the Network tab in my browser tools to see that the file has been loaded.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 59

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While experienced AI developers are starting to leave powerhouses like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, not enough are leaving to meet demand—and most of them will probably gravitate to startups rather than adding to the AI talent within established companies. Microsoft, Google, IBM, and OpenAI have offered more general indemnification.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 112

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

As seen in the discussions about privacy at Facebook and AI-powered imaging at Google among other examples, when there are no ethical considerations during the creation of technology then the interaction between humans is compromised. You’ll definitely notice a few strong patterns and a lot of overlap. Credit: Devin Harold.

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