CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

However, one metric I feel that front-end developers overlook all too quickly is Time to First Byte (TTFB). A lot of people surmise that TTFB is merely time spent on the server, but that is only a small fraction of the true extent of things. The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections.

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Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

A vast majority of the features are the same, outside of these advanced features available through the BYOC model: Virtual Private Clouds / Virtual Networks. Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) and Azure Virtual Networks (VNET) are private, isolated sections of the cloud infrastructure where you can launch resources. Security Groups.

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Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g.,

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. Amazon S3 is much more than just storage; the network and distributed systems infrastructure to ensure that content can be served fast and at high rates without customers impacting each other, is amazing. It has been developed by Tom Preston-Werner of GitHub fame. All Things Distributed.

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Servers Social Media AWS Website 126

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This occurs when you are revalidating the page on the server. The first solution that comes to mind may be to simply server side render the pages, ensuring that the client is always sent the most up to date data. seconds for the Server Side Rendering variant (plus a warning regarding initial server response time).

Cache 105

Cache Internet Internet Servers 105

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2020

Are the systems we rely on every day as reliable via the home internet connection? Both types of users mentioned access the same system, the only difference is that employees access it via the internal network and externals through a public exposed URL. Are people changing their working patterns?

DevOps 169

DevOps Traffic Monitoring Engineering 169

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure”.

Website Performance 74

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

HTTP(s) Headers are key-value pairs that can be used by the client or server to pass additional information along with an HTTP(s) request or response. It was very important to load the page in iframe , I was wandering around the internet to find a way to load it. That was when I first got to witness the power of network headers.

Testing 102

Testing Network Website Google 102

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Although they let you access your data anywhere, all data access must go via the server, and you can only do the things that the server will let you do. Servers still exist, but they hold secondary copies of your data in order to assist with access from multiple devices. It should work without a network.

Cloud 83

Cloud Software Software Internet 83

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. After the file is uploaded to a server on step 1, the file must be available to whichever server handles the request for steps 2 and 3, which may or may not be the same one for step 1. Leonardo Losoviz.

AWS 45

AWS Servers Storage Cloud 45

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

This slowdown may be mitigated in Windows 11 but in the latest Windows Server editions – where it matters most – this bug is alive and well. I’d been testing on a virtual machine in a data center that I had access to, purely because this machine has an internet connection that runs at over 2 Gbps. So, what is an OS developer to do?

Cache 105

Cache Energy Google Processing 105

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

It’s about creating awareness amongst both developers and non-developers. They can be run as a one-off or integrated in our development and deployment pipelines. If you are reading this you are likely a developer who knows about web and cares about performance. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

20+ years ago when I joined Microsoft I was handed a diskette (maybe it was two), and was told “Here is SQL Server. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20 There was a GUI as part of setup but within just a few clicks, SQL Server was installed and ready for use. So now there are more choices to make when installing SQL Server.

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

Thankfully, there are simple measures that web developers can take to ensure that the files being served to their visitors are as small as possible. Simply put, compression allows the web server to send smaller files to your web site viewers. Adding Gzip to your site will vary based on your hosting provider and web server.

Speed 67

Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

Android development is a booming business because of the number of users it has. It is open source and its development can be ported across devices with relative ease. Unlike iOS development, Android development requires proper standards and varying benchmarks for performance and optimization.

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications. Time is Money.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Testing for upcoming OS Versions: New OS versions with major changes in the development kit, design or libraries are announced quite often. A mobile application should be able to adapt itself as per the network condition available. It is important to understand how these changes would impact your mobile application.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Network Analytics 52

All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. With Import into EBS customers can now develop arbitrary complex layouts as the import service is doing a full binary copy of the disk into Amazon EBS and is not interpreting file system layouts, etc.

AWS 96

AWS Cloud Storage Internet 96

DZone

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Kerberos is a secure authentication protocol for networked systems. It was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was first released in the 1980s. The protocol provides secure authentication of users and services, allowing them to communicate over an insecure network such as the Internet.

Internet 262

Internet Internet Network Servers 262

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. Back-End Error Tracking Back-end, or server-side, errors include things like page exceptions and JavaScript errors. What is Error Tracking?

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

While the agile approach is focused on implementing small, iterative tests throughout the development and testing phases, the primary goal should be to deliver a world-class, consistent user experience. Today’s applications are built on multiple technologies, relying on vast networks of third-party providers and CDN’s.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

It’s about creating awareness amongst both developers and non-developers. They can be run as a one-off or integrated in our development and deployment pipelines. If you are reading this you are likely a developer who knows about web and cares about performance. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such.

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Testsigma

MAY 2, 2020

For example, having an automated CI/CD workflow where after every check-in, a regression test suite is executed automatically will save testers and the developers a lot of time. There are organizations where testers need access to different machines and servers for testing. Enable selective access to the testing machines on need-basis.

Testing 53

Testing Cloud Internet Internet 53

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Comments ().

AWS 115

AWS Cloud Java Scalability 115

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Cost-Efficient And Effort-Saving Development. Due to the use of modern frameworks, advanced caching and rendering, and data transmission via API, properly developed PWAs can be a seven-league step up to boost the store’s speed. Below are some main things to consider. Perhaps these two points are worth mentioning first of all.

Code 75

Code Cache Retail Mobile 75

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. 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. Rachel Andrew. Jake Archibald. Jake Archibald.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices. Just as people use Xerox as shorthand for paper copies and say “Google” instead of internet search, Docker has become synonymous with containers. Networking.

Open Source 294

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 294

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The convenience of having it tucked into Chrome DevTools is what makes it an easy go-to for many developers. Barry Pollard, a web performance developer advocate for Chrome, wrote an excellent primer on the CrUX Report for Smashing Magazine. ( Large preview ) Lighthouse is only one performance auditing tool out of many.

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Speed Google Website Metrics 99

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. The good news is that developing a PWA isn’t something that only big-budget companies can afford. Application shell architecture.

Cache 125

Cache Internet Internet Google 125

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Open Connect Open Connect is Netflix’s content delivery network (CDN). video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. The network devices that underlie a large portion of the CDN are mostly managed by Python applications. If any of this interests you, check out the jobs site or find us at PyCon. are you logged in?

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

Many decide to move to a MySQL DBaaS to automate these time-consuming tasks so they can focus more on the development and optimization of their applications databases. Standalone deployments are a single node without any replication, and should really only be used for development or testing environments. Azure Virtual Networks.

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Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219