Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Displaying cooperating, second-party content like ads. Web Bluetooth.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Often it is hidden from the consumer’s eye as it empowers applications rather than being the end game but analytics is becoming more prevalent. In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

A process that was developed to automate the processes from build creation to deployment and maybe everything in between. DevOps and cloud-based solutions mingle in such a synchronous manner, it seems like they were developed to support each other even though this is not true in any aspect. Why Opt For Cloud-Based Solutions and DevOps?

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Meanwhile, developer behaviour offers little hope: Median mobile JavaScript payloads have only grown since 2016, now hovering above 400KiB of script transferred, or nearly 2.5MiB of uncompressed JS. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Compared to devices wealthy developers carry, the performance is night and (blinding) day.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The same can be said for web development. Thus, implementing error tracking from the very beginning of the development cycle will save your team a lot of time and headaches. Reproducing Bugs Reproducing bugs in web development means seeing errors for yourself by recreating the conditions under which they occur.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Particular Software

MARCH 11, 2019

As developers, this is not unfamiliar to us. Instead of scaling up, where you buy more powerful and expensive hardware, you scale out by having more servers processing messages. But maybe I get delayed in traffic or wait until the end of that Game of Thrones episode I'm watching for the tenth time.

Virtualization 69

Virtualization Scalability Servers Processing 69

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Within a few years, we saw significant expansion of contract labor firms (or "services", or "consulting", whichever you prefer): firms like Accenture and Infosys grew rapidly, while firms like IBM ditched hardware for services. With all cash and no equity, employees now had clear rules of the game, too.

Innovation 40

Innovation Energy Serverless Hardware 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. that are used across multiple applications. They could do nothing, because they aren’t paying attention.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. that are used across multiple applications. They could do nothing, because they aren’t paying attention.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s Dynamo technology , which was one of the first non-relational databases developed at Amazon. s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. DynamoDB is the result of 15 years of learning in the areas of large scale non-relational databases and cloud services.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

Let’s assume that you’ve decided to develop a library and publish it to NPM. This saves clients traffic — sometimes traffic which the client is paying for. To keep the size of the library as small as possible, we need to carefully watch how it changes over development time. Library And Its Size As A Metric.

Performance 99

Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 99

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This part is a bit more technical than the first, though it offloads most of the really deep stuff to outside sources, focusing on explaining why these things matter to the average web developer. As such, tuning congestion logic is usually only done by a select few developers, and evolution is slow. Head-of-Line Blocking Removal.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what strategies should be used to fix them. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. Establish a performance culture. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

After the latest redesign in late 2017, it was Ilya Pukhalski on the JavaScript side of things (part-time), Michael Riethmueller on the CSS side of things (a few hours a week), and yours truly, playing mind games with critical CSS and trying to juggle a few too many things. It’s used in development and editing but obviously not in production.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. So every time a conversation about further development happens, performance is a part of that conversation as well. Establish a performance culture. thanks, Guy Podjarny! Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. The former is particularly useful during development as it will help you identify, isolate and fix performance issues while working on the product. Establish a performance culture.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104