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. These include data transfer (i.e.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Container technology is very powerful as small teams can develop and package their application on laptops and then deploy it anywhere into staging or production environments without having to worry about dependencies, configurations, OS, hardware, and so on. The time and effort saved with testing and deployment are a game-changer for DevOps.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 298

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

Public cloud refers to on-demand infrastructure and services provided by a third party over the public internet. They use the same hardware, APIs, tools, and management controls for both the public and private clouds. After deployment, IT teams can also optimize the software and supporting hardware to ensure high performance.

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Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 179

High Scalability

JULY 26, 2018

143 billion : daily words Google Translated; 73% : less face-to-face interaction in open offices; 10 billion : Uber trips; 131M : data breach by Exactis; $123 billion : Facebook value loss is 4 Twitters and 7 snapchats; $9.1B : spent on digital gaming across all platforms; 20-km : width of lake on mars; 1 billion : Google Drive users; $32.7

Internet 124

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 124

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. So is speedy resolution and agreement.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While experienced AI developers are starting to leave powerhouses like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, not enough are leaving to meet demand—and most of them will probably gravitate to startups rather than adding to the AI talent within established companies. Microsoft, Google, IBM, and OpenAI have offered more general indemnification.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking. These include Python, PHP, Perl, and Ruby.

Java 207

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The 85% global-share OS (Android) has historically facilitated browser choice and diversity in browser engines. Engine diversity is essential, as it is the mechanism that causes competition to deliver better performance, capability, privacy, security, and user controls. If so, it's a browser regardless of the underlying engine.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. What Exactly is Greenplum?

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons).

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL backups play a pivotal role in safeguarding the integrity of your data, providing defense against various unforeseen calamities, hardware malfunctions, data loss, corruption, and inadvertent deletions. DataCenter Failure : power outage or internet provider issues. For offsite backups (like S3, Google Cloud, etc.),

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 80

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. On the Internet, however, we typically have a long series of connected pipes , some of which can be wider than others (leading to so-called bottlenecks at the narrowest links).

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Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

One of the ones that stands out is Nate Koechley’s “Professional Frontend Engineering” presentation ( transcript and video ). and was preaching about the importance of progressive enhancement, graded browser support, and the massive scope of knowledge a professional front-end engineer needed to know. Here at Yahoo!,

Google 40

Google Website Hardware Games 40

Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

This comes as no surprise, as MySQL has held this position consistently for many years according to DB-Engines. This again could be expected based on the DB-Engines Trend Popularity Ranking, but we saw MongoDB in 2nd place at 24.6% Public cloud is a cloud computing model where IT services are delivered across the internet.

Open Source 55

Open Source Database Cloud Infrastructure 55

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Deviation metrics As noted by Wikipedia engineers , data of how much variance exists in your results could inform you how reliable your instruments are, and how much attention you should pay to deviations and outlers. In 2015, Google introduced Brotli , a new open-source lossless data format, which is now supported in all modern browsers.

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