Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? “You

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The vulnerability enables a remote attacker to take control of a device on the internet if the device runs certain versions of Log4j 2. The traditional approach to determining whether the Log4Shell vulnerability affects an organization is to perform static analysis, known as software composition analysis or SCA, on code repositories.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. Here are some of the key Greenplum advantages that can help you improve your database performance: High Performance.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The internet accounts for an estimated 3–4% of global emissions — equivalent to some countries. The carbon emissions of the internet are roughly equivalent to those generated by the entire aviation industry, or the whole of Africa. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. The Bigger Picture. Get Organized.

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CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Also the same energy: Umar Hansa’s recent blog post JavaScript: Conditional JavaScript, only download when it is appropriate to do so. You could use both from JavaScript as well.

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High Scalability

MAY 10, 2019

1% : performers raked in 60% of all concert-ticket revenue world-wide in 2017—more than double their share in 1982. Not everyone needs high performance but the blatant waste and energy consumption of our industry cannot continue. They'll learn a lot and hold you in awe. Also Thurs are now much more productive.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The main takeaway is the distributed consensus kills performance, that local state can actually be a good thing, use an immutable log as the source of truth (basically what the Kafka folks have been preaching). Or, in Fristonian terms, it is to minimize free energy. The infrastructure is typically consumed on public clouds.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

While performing the mobile app testing, we need to take care of specific challenges for each of them. For native applications, you can skip installing emulators as they do not give you the precise performance of the application. This requires us to perform frequent mobile application testing cycles or regression tests maybe.

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High Scalability

MARCH 1, 2019

Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). They'll learn a lot and love you forever. They'll learn a lot and love you forever. So much more.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Since we’re talking about mobile applications, we have to assume a changing environment over time, including the possibility of losing internet connectivity altogether. due to total loss of internet connectivity) then the worker needs to be restarted. The Mobile Web Worker (MWW) System. Is the migration worth it though?

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Testsigma

MARCH 12, 2021

Robotic Process Automation is the process of mimicking a user’s actions on the system and performing them automatically. RPA is achieved through software bots with varying capabilities and made available by various developers on the internet. Rather, they are run when a user is performing actions on the graphical user interface.

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Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

While investigating some performance mysteries in Chrome I discovered that Microsoft had parallelized how they zero memory, and in some cases this was making it a lot slower. 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.

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Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

Another research supported this conclusion by providing data that depicts 90% of the total internet time of the users is spent on mobile apps. Performance related scenarios in mobile testing. After security, the next scenario that is critical for our mobile testing journey is the performance metric.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

It’s a sign that you need to implement test automation and let your computer perform a cross-platform, cross-device, and cross-browser test. For example, if you have a health tracker, you would like to verify one case to ensure that the details on the internet, on the desktop, on the mobile native app, and the wearable are the same.

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Performance optimization is the Rodney Dangerfield of web development–it “don’t get no respect” In spite of its great importance in the overall user experience, it is all too often pushed aside and treated as an afterthought. Performance optimization isn’t that necessary. Performance matters.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It may have gone through rough testing phases but is there a point in exhausting all your energy when the end-user is not able to communicate with the website properly? Perform Code Validation. Remember how Internet Explorer sank just because they were not following the guidelines?

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

When there is an incentives mismatch, a lot of energy can be expended. And for many internet-era companies, developing quality products at speed is necessary to gain market share and avoid being disrupted. Every person in the team had their own personal list of objectives to complete and was rewarded for individual performance.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

The Problem Of Unpredictable Performance. At the same time, we have a widening performance gap. Low-end phones on the other hand are getting cheaper , making the mobile internet accessible to demographics that previously maybe couldn’t afford it. The performance of the user’s device is completely unpredictable.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Steve & Tim's Close-up Magic.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. As a result of this, my view of the Internet for a long time was a little ephemeral, a sort of mirage.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 29, 2019

It takes very little energy: the feedback loop doesn’t power the amplifier. You can’t hear the performers, you can’t even hear your noisy neighbor. Chris Wiggins of Columbia University’s Data Science Institute argues that organizations need to take ethical principles into account when formulating their key performance metrics.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2023

In pursuit of this overriding goal, our fossil fuel companies continue to deny climate change and hinder attempts to switch to alternative energy sources, drug companies peddle opioids, and food companies encourage obesity.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. Real-time monitoring and evaluation of events have led to a positive impact on performance or operations.

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