Speed Curve

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Earlier this year, when Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will replace First Input Delay (FID) as the responsiveness metric in Core Web Vitals in *gulp* March of 2024, we had a lot to say about it. TLDR: FID doesn't correlate with real user behavior, so we don't endorse it as a meaningful metric.) for mobile.

Mobile 54

Mobile Performance Metrics Google 54

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 24, 2014

At Google I/O 2014 , Lara Swanson and Paul Lewis discussed performance culture. Mobile networks add a tremendous amount of latency. The new devices and fast networks we use are not necessarily what our users are using. The new devices and fast networks we use are not necessarily what our users are using.

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Google Performance Latency Internet 49

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. Since that time, the SRE role has evolved as the industry has changed and shifted from the traditional monolithic structures to large, widely distributed networks and microservices.

Monitoring 91

Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As developers, we rightfully obsess about the customer experience, relentlessly working to squeeze every millisecond out of the critical rendering path, optimize input latency, and eliminate jank. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smart Interface Design Patterns , with Vitaly Friedman. Ilya Grigorik. 2021-11-08T14:30:00+00:00.

Cache 135

Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 135

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

The applications are designed using the same code base as Desktop like HTML, Javascript, and CSS. Unlike Native Applications, Mobile web applications do not have to be designed separately for IOS and Android. Test how user-friendly an application is: Google search engine gives high priority to websites in comparison to desktop apps.

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Remote calls are never free; they impose extra latency, increase probability of an error, and consume network bandwidth. How can we achieve a similar functionality when designing our gRPC APIs? This can become an issue for some applications, for example, on mobile devices with limited network bandwidth.

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Design Java Efficiency Code 245

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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Performance Cache Servers Social Media 125

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The network constraints and what makes the web slow? Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web. Diagnotic Tools WebPagetest and how to read a browser waterfall Google Pagespeed Insights YSlow. Performance Tools. Uptime Monitoring Pingdom. Competitive Benchmarking SpeedCurve. Performance Checklists.

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Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Enter Google! The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand. SOSP’19. Emphasis mine).

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Here are 8 fallacies of data pipeline The pipeline is reliable Topology is stateless Pipeline is infinitely scalable Processing latency is minimum Everything is observable There is no domino effect Pipeline is cost­-effective Data is homogeneous The pipeline is reliable The inconvenient truth is that pipeline is not reliable.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Tim Kadlec

JULY 28, 2015

I’d venture to say that most developers and designers are not big fans of proxy browsers—assuming they pay attention to them at all. Steps 1-3 are all network constrained. How quickly they happen, and the cost, depends mostly on the characteristics of the network: the bandwidth, latency, cost of data, etc.

Architecture 75

Architecture Servers Network Latency 75

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB. We will discuss snappy and zstd for data block and zstd compression in a network. By default, MongoDB provides a snappy block compression method for storage and network communication. Snappy is a compression library developed by Google.

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 112

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

When delving into the networking aspect of a hybrid cloud deployment, complexities arise due to the requirement of linking or expanding existing on-premises network architectures into the cloud sphere. We will examine each of these elements in more detail.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Certain tools are designed for certain metrics with certain assumptions that produce certain results. The other issue is that the data I’m getting back is based on lab simulations where I can add throttling, determine the device that’s used, and the network connection, among other simulated conditions. Lighthouse results.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This is sometimes referred to as using an “over-cloud” model that involves a centrally managed resource pool that spans all parts of a connected global network with internal connections between regional borders, such as two instances in IAD-ORD for NYC-JS webpage DNS routing.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Why are developers using RInK systems as part of their design? Keeping application services stateless is a design guideline that achieved widespread adoption following the publication of the 12-factor app manifesto. The network latency of fetching data over the network, even considering fast data center networks.

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Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Most of the top supercomputers are similar to Frontier, they use AMD or Intel CPUs, with GPU accelerators, and Cray Slingshot or Infiniband networks in a Dragonfly+ configuration. The emergence of chiplet technology also allows higher performance and integration without having to design every chip from scratch.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

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. Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT). Congestion Control.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

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. Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

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. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Anchored in the primary use case of supporting Google’s YouTube business, what we’re looking at here could well be the future of data processing at Google. Google already has Dremel , Mesa , Photon , F1 , PowerDrill , and Spanner , so why did they need yet another data processing system? Procella system overview.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

Examples include popular home assistants and smart displays like the Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod, and many others. But we, as technologists, have typically ignored our own expectations when designing and building those devices. The concept of Zero Trust Networks speaks to this problem. That makes me uneasy.”.

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Google Games Technology Technology 121

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You’ve probably heard things like: “HTTP/3 is much faster than HTTP/2 when there is packet loss”, or “HTTP/3 connections have less latency and take less time to set up”, and probably “HTTP/3 can send data more quickly and can send more resources in parallel”. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips. itself directly.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites. Gone the days when you required to have big fat-contract with Akamai.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

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. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The median user is on a slow network.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

is an open collaboration between Google, Microsoft , Intel , Samsung , and others to safely bring capabilities to the web which native developers have come to expect. full TCP/IP & UDP networking, including local network discovery. For different reasons, they are both working to cast the web in amber. floppy/CD/DVD).

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The technology develops single-page applications , websites, and backend API services designed with real-time and push-based architectures. with its low latency I/O operations, gives the benefit of ‘No buffering’ to developers. Network: Node.js uses an event-driven and non-blocking I/O model, so it is practical and lightweight.

Open Source 52

Open Source Virtualization Programming Servers 52

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

It offers reliability and performance of a data warehouse, real-time and low-latency characteristics of a streaming system, and scale and cost-efficiency of a data lake. A unified data management (UDM) system combines the best of data warehouses, data lakes, and streaming without expensive and error-prone ETL.

Big Data 49

Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The implementation of emerging technologies has helped improve the process of software development, testing, design and deployment. The growing demand for IoT-testing is the government’s gradual acceptance of smart cities’ concept, which is why businesses are keen to incorporate IoT into their networks. from $12.6

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Artificial Intelligence Software Software IoT 92

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. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. thanks, Guy Podjarny! ).

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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. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103