Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Eye-Tracking Evolution. Source: Oculid) ( Large preview ).

Mobile 111

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

Web standards are best defined as guidelines developed by the World Wide Web Consortium W3C to promote consistency in design code which makes up a web page. These standards allow the web to be free and accessible to anyone that has an internet connection, essentially evening the playing field for those surfing the web.

Internet 56

Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The entire country of China’s internet connectivity is shielded by the Great Firewall (GFW). There are three state-owned ISP providers, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile , that control internet in China. The most recent technology automatically shuts internet off whenever blacklisted URLs are accessed.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons).

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The applications are designed using the same code base as Desktop like HTML, Javascript, and CSS. The reason behind being the speed and convenience of using mobile phones.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] , Jul 2008 [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] , 2010 [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you’re a developer, a web designer, or a QA manager, you would want to ensure that your product delivers as promised. The high tech lab is remotely operational and specifically targets device behaviour in terms of speed, memory usage, and battery consumption. Internet and Power Supply. These are the lifelines of any test lab.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Hardware DevOps 52

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Attendees could be broken down into several distinct groups. Very Well!”

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Attendees could be broken down into several distinct groups. Very Well!”

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

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. The world didn't yet have pervasive multi-process browser sandboxing, JS JITs , or metal-speed binary isolation. Don't like the consequences?

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds. Response times, quality, and availability are critical factors that need to be assessed before pushing applications into production.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

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. The founders had noticed that in many companies, product designers worked in a very detached manner from the rest of production.

Artificial Intelligence 79

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Logistics AWS 79

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. until today.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

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

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. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about.

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. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience. Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Content Loaded, Start Render, Speed Index) — but from the experience of the user. What Are The Core Web Vitals?

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. Don’t worry about taking screenshots or speed reading. So the initial time to run this all depends on your network speed. This option is not necessarily designed to save the setup files for use for subsequent basic installer setup. Go install it”. on my Windows NT 3.1

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Such policies would be designed to mitigate legal problems and require regulatory compliance. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. Design tools suitable for professional use don’t exist yet, but they will appear very soon. of users and 3.9%

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

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

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. A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105