Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. However, their focus has always been on making a great-looking and effective design. Suzanne Scacca. seconds too long.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

Towards federated learning at scale: system design Bonawitz et al., This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. The core idea is to make individual device updates opaque to the server, only revealing the sum after a sufficient number of updates have been received. SysML 2019.

Systems 71

Systems Design Google Servers 71

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

In fact, giants like Google and Microsoft once employed monolithic architectures almost exclusively. As the demand for services grows and containerized applications deploy across multicloud environments, organizations need a more flexible, cohesive approach for designing and developing a distributed systems architecture.

Architecture 189

Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 189

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. Cloud providers such as Google, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft also followed suit with frameworks such as Google Cloud Functions , AWS Lambda , and Microsoft Azure Functions. How does function as a service work?

Development 239

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 239

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

Repository means the location/path on the server or the cloud where the actual copy of the backup will reside. This attribute helps take the redundant copies of the databases at multiple locations remotely on different servers or locally on the same server. Let’s discuss a few scenarios one by one. Scenarios: 1.

Servers 81

Servers Azure AWS Cloud 81

Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

ScaleGrid offers managed DBaaS solutions to simplify scaling and managing Redis deployments with features such as dynamic scaling with minimal downtime, automated backups, and high availability, suitable for cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. How Does Redis Sharding Work? Visualize it as a relay race.

Scalability 130

Scalability Efficiency Java Database 130

KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Responsive Design - Any site that you develop should render properly across all devices, as more and more people access the internet via mobile devices. Therefore, stick with frontend frameworks that support responsive web design so that you have one less thing to worry about. was developed as an alternative to Angular and React.

Google 135

Google Mobile Open Source Website 135

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Kubernetes forged by the rise of Google. If there was any company positioned to understand the problems and limitations of containers before anyone else, it was Google. Google has been running production workloads in containers longer than any other organization. Kubernetes design principles. Declarative.

Virtualization 132

Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 132

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

million AI server units annually by 2027, consuming 75.4+ Orchestration frameworks such as LangChain provide application developers with several components designed to help build RAG applications—first by providing a pipeline for ingesting data from external data sources and indexing it.

Cache 196

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 196

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

You can remotely access and navigate another database server. The dashboard lets you monitor server activities such as database locks, connected sessions, and prepared transaction. Since pgAdmin is a web application, you can deploy it on any server and access it remotely. Graphical query planning tool with syntax highlighting.

Open Source 262

Open Source Database Azure Cloud 262

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

PWAs are designed to work offline, be fast, and provide a seamless user experience across different devices. Motion UI Motion UI is a design trend involving animation and other interactive elements to create a more dynamic and engaging user experience. They thus adapt to the user's browser, screen size, and device specifications.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Artificial intelligence can automate tasks ranging from: data analysis resource provisioning system maintenance decision-making natural language processing This not only improves accuracy and reliability but also frees up valuable time for IT teams to focus on strategic tasks, such as resource management on platforms like Google Cloud.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) supports all types of compression and enterprise-grade features for free. Snappy compression is designed to be fast and efficient regarding memory usage, making it a good fit for MongoDB workloads. Snappy is a compression library developed by Google. I am using PSMDB 6.0.4

Storage 105

Storage Network Open Source Latency 105

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.

Performance 75

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Kubernetes Dashboard as a part of a comprehensive monitoring solution This article introduces the key building blocks to consider when designing your Kubernetes monitoring solution. After applying the first manifests (which are likely copied and pasted from a how-to tutorial ), a web server is up and running within minutes.

Virtualization 158

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 158

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. You can export the results as a CSV file for Excel, Google Sheets or Apple Pages. The success of your website depends on the impression it leaves on its users.

Performance 131

Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 131

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Examples include associations with Google Docs, Facebook chat group interactions, streaming live forex market feeds, and managing trading notices. These include popular technologies such as web servers and web applications, along with advanced solutions like distributed data stores and containerized microservices.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees. The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile.

Google 143

Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. Consider Google Analytics, which collects and sends tracking data using navigator.sendBeacon().

Website 82

Website Google Open Source Mobile 82

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

From connecting back-office operations to front-of-the-house A/B testing and dynamic personalization for each customer, the shared foundation is fast server-side rendering powered by fast storefront data access. Hydrogen fuels dynamic commerce by uniting React Server Components, streaming server-side rendering, and smart caching controls.

Cache 137

Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 137

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

Back-end servers. 2022: Upstreaming, first attempt Other large companies with OS and perf teams (Meta, Google) hinted strongly that they had already enabled frame pointers for everything years earlier. Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.) The main users of this change are enterprise Linux.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Therefore, they are designed to adapt to the browser, screen size, and device specifications of the user. It can be used to decouple your frontend from your backend and improve server efficiency. Serverless Applications Managing your own server is so 2018. They are especially useful in grid-based design.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Considering how important images are to web design, this isn’t an element we can dispose of so easily nor can we afford to cut corners when it comes to optimizing them.

Website 72

Website Speed Cache Google 72

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. Why are developers using RInK systems as part of their design? What have the authors got against this combination? From RInK to LInK.

Cache 79

Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

enables the development of server-side and networked applications and has become widely popular for building scalable and real-time web applications. for server-side development, it’s not limited to that role. Experts use this platform to build and integrate server-side components with front-end development.

Development 52

Development Virtualization Open Source Architecture 52

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. Importance of page loading speed – Google checks your website load time and they like it as fast with a better user experience.

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

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. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all.

Google 93

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 93

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. The design was made by a design and UX agency that also handled the HTML prototype (based on Bootstrap 4). They are basically everywhere and will dominate your design. Jennifer Brehm. 2021-06-02T10:30:00+00:00.

Performance 117

Performance Cache Website Mobile 117

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

The new WebPageTest website design. Unveiling the new WebPageTest UI — I absolutely love seeing WebPageTest’s design evolve and improve. It’s one of those products that’s clearly a best-in-class tool for performance practitioners, yet had a prettttty gnarly design for a lot of years. This is way better.

Performance 68

Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 68

Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2022

John Doerr, who had worked at Intel, brought OKRs to Google in 1999, where they helped fuel massive growth and raise employee morale. OKRs should be designed so that every team’s activities can be traced up to the company’s vision. Get the ebook on designing flow-based OKRs. Adopt a security by design approach.

Software 96

Software Software Healthcare Mobile 96

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52