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. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all. Bend Google Tag Manager To Your Will Or any tag manager, for that matter.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations.

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Testsigma

JUNE 17, 2021

A few years back, I gave my friend a keyword to search on Google and asked him to open the third link that pops up in the results. This urged me to check out the support page of Google and find out this written on it, “ When you search on Google, your results are customized to your current region. Source: My Private Network.

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Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

Example: A new functionality is added in a gaming iOS application and is unit tested successfully. It is observed that when the layout is changed from landscape to portrait during the game then the application crashes unexpectedly. The iOS app should work well on the networks of different bandwidths, speeds, data transfer rates, etc.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. Jack Dongarra talked about the scores, and pointed out the low efficiency on some important workloads.

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Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

If your mobile app is some arcade game security testing is probably of a minimum priority. Network related scenarios in mobile testing. A tester needs to always keep in mind that a mobile device does not stay in a single place like a desktop and is neither connected to superfast broadband networks such as optical fibres.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] , Oct 2022 [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] , accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Fairly rapidly, text messaging (SMS, short for “Short Message Service”) was added, as it was baked into the network itself, originally as a way to send messages internally or for testing. Many phones come preinstalled with common apps such as social networking, email, and maps, or with shortcuts to the browser. Large preview ).

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Examples: Siri, Alexa, Self-driving cars, Google search. Deep learning: employs artificial neural networks that keep learning constantly by processing both negative and positive data. Artificial neural networks are made to mimic the human brain. Almost all artificial machines built to date fall under this category.

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Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Programming Logistics 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7% Google Homepage — DOM. per GB respectively.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV. Large preview ).

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Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

is an open collaboration between Google, Microsoft , Intel , Samsung , and others to safely bring capabilities to the web which native developers have come to expect. full TCP/IP & UDP networking, including local network discovery. This is playing out now with video conferencing, screen-sharing , and streamed gaming (e.g.

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Hardware Games Java Media 55

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Error monitoring can get increasingly complicated as you deal with bugs reported by users and your production team, which is why having an efficient error tracking workflow from the beginning is so important. Source: Google Keep in mind that not all code errors are noticeable to users. How is Error Tracking Useful?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. 300ms RTT, 1.6

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Cost-Efficient And Effort-Saving Development. Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. As shown on the screenshots below, the product page of the store can be found via Google. These may, for instance, include the game and social media app sectors. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As you may already know, image optimization is the process that a high-quality image has to go through to be delivered in ideal conditions, sometimes with the help of an Image Transformation API and a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) to make the process simpler and scalable. Load your images after critical resources.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Considering this requirement and the website load, enterprises generally set up multiple servers and machines that can talk to each other through a network. Alternatives today such as Google Meet do not even require an installation hence there is no trouble in switching from A to B. You don’t even have to do bad product marketing.

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Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

If the site’s not available to people, game over, we might as well not even bother. Instead, to support a browser, we want to give the browser what it can handle, in the most efficient way possible. In a comment on my last post I referenced the Boston Globe and how it appears on Google Glass.

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Google Website Hardware Games 40

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. Between Google (Vertex AI and Colab) and Amazon (SageMaker), you can now get all of the GPU power your credit card can handle. Not that you’ll even need GPU access all that often.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” Hyperautomation may just be another ploy in the game of buzzword bingo, but we need to look behind the game to discover what’s important.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

QUIC is needed because TCP, which has been around since the early days of the Internet, was not really built with maximum efficiency in mind. It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips. itself directly.

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