DZone

AUGUST 23, 2019

The Importance of DNS for a Healthy Internet. Picking a DNS vendor is one of the most important choices you can make when it comes to the reliability of your services. It is also arguably the most important element of web performance to monitor. If DNS infrastructure goes down, all the digital services relying on it go down with it. This became alarmingly clear when the massive series of DDoS attacks hit Dyn in 2016, and much of the websites and applications on the Internet became inaccessible t

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Monitoring Internet Internet Website 100

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2019

Faster Image Loading With Embedded Image Previews. Faster Image Loading With Embedded Image Previews. Christoph Erdmann. 2019-08-23T13:30:59+02:00. 2019-08-23T13:06:42+00:00. Low Quality Image Preview (LQIP) and the SVG-based variant SQIP are the two predominant techniques for lazy image loading. What both have in common is that you first generate a low-quality preview image.

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Network Servers Programming Code 103

DZone

AUGUST 23, 2019

When we talk about quality we may think of a fine piece of furniture or the quality service we receive at a fancy restaurant but what does quality mean in the context of software? I find that when we talk about the domain of ideas, and software is in the domain of ideas, that we often use metaphors that are based upon the physical world and are not always accurate.

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Software Software Testing Performance 100

SQL Performance

AUGUST 23, 2019

Background. In traditional row-mode execution plans, SQL Server may introduce a Bitmap operator as part of performing early semi join reduction before a parallel hash or merge join. The bitmap is constructed from the build input, and used to filter rows on the probe input before they reach the join. I have written about row-mode bitmaps before and they are also covered in the documentation.

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Servers Engineering Efficiency Retail 75

DZone

AUGUST 23, 2019

The year 2008 changed the way humans interact with their phones and businesses were being conducted with the launch of the android app store by Google. With the invention of the internet, e-commerce gained immense popularity and the launch of the app store by google changed the market, especially the on-demand one for good. Be it a taxi, salon, food, plumbing services, shopping, or just about any service that comes to your mind, has an app-based solution for that.

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Google Internet Internet Mobile 100

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 23, 2019

I really enjoyed this interview with Jeremy Keith on the state of the web, how things have changed in recent years and why he’s a mix of optimistic and nervous for the future. One thing that caught my attention during the interview more than anything was where Jeremy started discussing how folks think that websites are pretty crummy in general. This reminded me that I cannot count the number of times when someone has said to me “ah, I can’t view this website on my phone.”.

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Website Mobile Design Performance 43

High Scalability

AUGUST 23, 2019

Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Absurd no more. This Far Side cartoon is now reality. Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd love your support on Patreon. I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud. And who doesn't these days? On Amazon it has 54 mostly 5 star reviews (125 on Goodreads ). They'll learn a lot and likely add you to their will.

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Internet Internet Scalability Cloud 31