High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

Quirky : Thus there is a tradeoff: separateness enables inventors to create heterodox ideas, but strong cohesive networks are likely to be better for getting them implemented. Mark Lapedus : Costs of developing a complex chip could run as high as $1.5B, while power/performance benefits are likely to decrease. Don't stop here.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Developments like cloud computing, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are proving that IT has (again) become a strategic business driver. This allows the customers to come up with measures in order to expand their networks or new offerings for a more efficient utilization of their capacity.

Artificial Intelligence 79

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Logistics AWS 79

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required. Vendors like Apple. ??.

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

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! This allows you to restrict the access to your account by IP (/32) or network (e.g. /24).

Transportation 47

Transportation Website Google Infrastructure 47

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. Â The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

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.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 135

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Historically we have been responsible for connecting, routing, and steering internet traffic from Netflix subscribers to services in the cloud. We eventually were able to add so much security leverage into Wall-E that the bulk of the “going internet-facing” checklist for Studio applications boiled down to one item: Will you use Wall-E?

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Internet Internet Cloud Traffic 220

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

IoT (Internet of things) devices have been on an increase for a long time now. In 2021, more than 23 billion IoT devices were active and connected to the internet. Such sensitive data needs to be protected well before propagating it through the internet channels. Take the 30 day free trial of Testsigma and see it for yourself.

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Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

DNS, which stands for domain name system , is an Internet service that translates domains names into IP addresses. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. So DNS services definitely go down! Just like with content delivery networks, DNS hosting providers also have multiple POPs. What is DNS?

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Cache Website Internet Internet 134

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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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

There are many ways of measuring your Core Web Vitals , but the definitive way — even if it’s not the best way, as we’ll see soon — is in Google Search Console (GSC). Running it through web performance tools like Lighthouse and WebPageTest showed that — even on slower network speeds. But hold up a minute.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Network effects are not the same as monopoly control. Cloud providers incur huge fixed costs for creating and maintaining a network of datacenters spread throughout the word. And even that list is not invulnerable. With solar power, the centralization of power generation is giving way to a more decentralized model. Neither are clouds.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Otherwise, our site will suffer an overhead from data traveling among different companies’ networks. The most common options are to keep the file private (ACL => “private”) and to make it accessible for reading on the internet (ACL => “public-read”). Creating The Bucket. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. As another example, most applications on the Internet use TCP internally to ensure that all of their data are transmitted in full. Did You Know? Did You Know?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Safe communication : Transmission of sensitive data over networks without encryption may cause havoc to user sensitive data. Definitely writing the automation code covering all of these differences is quite challenging.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. By definition, a distributed system is any system that comprises of multiple components on variety of machines that work together to appear as a single, organized system. The recipe was straightforward.

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Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

These tools run page loads on simulated networks and devices and then tell you what the metrics were for that test run. LCP is going to be very dependent on network conditions and the processing power of devices being used (and a lot of your users are likely using a lot of lower-powered devices than you realize! ).

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

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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Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Watch the “Using Open Source Software to Optimize and Troubleshoot Your MySQL Environment” video sessions Open source software powers the Internet. WordPress has been chugging along for years and years and powers a huge chunk of the Internet, and it’ll still be used for blogs well into the future.

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Open Source Software Software Social Media 81

High Scalability

JANUARY 24, 2019

Right now api gw is good enough for our poc, but definitely not for our production load. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading).

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Games 29

Testsigma

JULY 23, 2020

Some are accessed via the internet while some of them are installed on the user’s computer. Let’s briefly describe the basic definitions of each of them first and then describe in detail the underlying differences that make them fall apart in certifying the quality of each of them. These have clients and servers in their architecture.

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Testing Internet Internet Latency 63

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

I've got a long blog post brewing on this, but jumping to the end, an operable definition is: A browser is an application that can register with an OS to handle http and https navigations by default. Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

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. The VM is reachable from the Internet? As a simple example, an SLO around network throughput might rely on the customer running software capable of driving the network fast enough.

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Metrics Cloud Google Network 79

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Definitely trigger warning for explicit mentions of domestic violence, also possibly some elder abuse and child abuse. Definitely anytime you’re allowing users to send any type of text to each other, there’s the possibility for abuse. Definitely not always the case. Eva: Absolutely, yes. Thank you for bringing that up.

Design 98

Design Education Network Google 98

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

This also puts extra work on the browser to recalculate the page layout as each image arrives across the internet. As you can see, the impact is considerable — especially on lower-end devices and slow network speed, where images are coming in separately. The user-agent stylesheet is where default CSS definitions are set (e.g.

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Website Code Mobile Network 125

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. If we think about social networks, we can see two clear trends, those focusing on text and those focusing on multimedia content. An Image Service CDN is a combination of an Image Transformation API and a CDN network. Alba Silvente. 2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Note : Another timely note here is that Internet Explorer will reach end of life officially on June 15, 2022 ). Then, we can see that the color property for just p is crossed-out as an extra indicator that that rule definition is not applied. It can be found in many, many projects and is quite an opinionated reset. Large preview ).

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Quote : “40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load” Neil Patel, Internet Marketing expert. John Mueller answered “YES” to this question in 2019, “site speed is definitely a ranking factor?”. It’s been a consistent discussion on the topic of page speed, site security, the structure of the site, etc.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

AI users are definitely facing these problems: 7% report that data quality has hindered further adoption, and 4% cite the difficulty of training a model on their data. The same thing happened to networking 20 or 25 years ago: wiring an office or a house for ethernet used to be a big deal.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

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.

Website 57

Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The closer one looks, the less a definition of "appiness" can be pinned down to specific technologies. So that's apps: they're whatever the OS says they are, that definition can change at any moment, and both reasonably constrained and superpowered programs can "be apps."

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Java Programming 64

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.

Media 69

Media Cache Storage AWS 69

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For example, a movie studio can now store and manage their entire catalog of high definition origin files on Amazon S3 as individual objects. Also, if a given upload runs into a networking issue, you only have to restart the part, not the entire object allowing you recover quickly from intermittent network errors.

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AWS Big Data Scalability Storage 82

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

At my employer we sometimes use SR-IOV for direct network interface access, and NVMe for direct disk access. The odd time we hit them, we'll take the "oops message" – a dump of the kernel stack trace and other details from the system log – and search the Internet. x series. Details in the appended shortlog. [.].

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

I rarely have to use it, but it is definitively useful to know that it exists. However, I can definitely recommend the MDN documentation should you want to read on the topic. WebPageTest allows us to select which location, browser and network conditions the test will use. Going nuclear: XPath selectors.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Open Source 51

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Moto G4) on a slow 3G network, emulated at 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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