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. Jump to table of contents ?.

Website 135

Website Energy Internet Internet 135

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Critical for gaming with a mouse. Converging Views. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. The disincentive to game service pricing levels in order to create short-term profits at the expense of long-term investment will be overwhelming. It would have had no way of propagating Nitro across an entire vertical stack of hardware and software services.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. The benefits to apps that adopt WebView-based IABs are numerous: WebViews are system components designed for use within other apps. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Web Bluetooth.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. This challenging situation gave rise to app stores: OS vendors understood that fast-enough-for-games needed dangerous trade-offs. AAA gaming, CAD).

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB â?? By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We designed DynamoDB to operate with at least 99.999% availability. We built DynamoDB as a fully-managed service because we wanted to enable our customers, both internal and external, to focus on their application rather than being distracted by undifferentiated heavy lifting like dealing with hardware and software maintenance.

Availability 145

Availability Performance Scalability AWS 145

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Today we’ll be reviewing LoadView , an on-demand load-testing platform from Dotcom-Monitor that makes realistic load testing possible without an up-front investment in hardware or software infrastructure. Utilizing the cloud to generate virtual users, and emulating real user behavior via EveryStep scripts are game-changing features.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. On the Internet, however, we typically have a long series of connected pipes , some of which can be wider than others (leading to so-called bottlenecks at the narrowest links).

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

If the site’s not available to people, game over, we might as well not even bother. A Dao of Web Design was written by John Allsopp in 2000. I mean, just listen to some of the wisdom that is just as relevant, if not more so, today. And so our job is to make sure that everything we do is out there, working, available to everybody.

Google 40

Google Website Hardware Games 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Setting Realistic Goals.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. It’s designed to capture delays that result from the main thread being busy, especially during page load.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145