KeyCDN

OCTOBER 3, 2019

After HTTP/2, coming up next is QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections). Google has been working for quite some time to speed up its network protocols in order to minimize website response times. By contrast, QUIC is based on UDP, which is used for streaming data (hence the name Quick UDP Internet Connections).

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Transportation Internet Internet Google 51

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The idea behind these UI decisions is that a badge would let a user know quickly if a site is loading slowly due to a problem on their end (network issue, internet is down, etc) or if the website is known to be built in a way that loads slowly. Another displays a green loading bar for a website known to load quickly.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping from one source to another with just a tap of a finger. High Performance Browser Networking. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. ” – Andy King, 2003.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A study by Wappalyzer says that PHP runs 82% of the Internet. PHP is also used to build and run popular social networking sites like Tumbler, Facebook, MailChimp, and Digg. It has a PHP engine that turns PHP code into bytecode, which makes it run faster. Why is PHP known for its speed and performance in web development?

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Website Development Open Source Database 59

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

My talk was on Innovation and Tipping Points, the first half was based on some content I’ve given before on how to get out of the way of innovation by speeding up time to value or idea to implementation. This is disrupting journalism, education, marketing, and search engine optimization, as well as causing concerns around deep fake images.

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Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

## References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Steve Souders was one of the first in reverse-engineering how browsers requested and waited for resources. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. For example, if you are using internet banking via a Mobile Web application, it will not allow you to save cards or mark any transaction as favourite. What are Mobile Web Applications?

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 18, 2021

The possibility is that the web developer and test automation engineer did not do thorough cross browser testing! Consider a scenario where the end-users are using Internet Explorer browser to reach your website but you have not considered ‘testing on IE’ a part of your testing process!

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Testing Operating System Website Internet 55

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

The rise of mobile internet usage is evident across developed economies as well as developing ones (India, Bangladesh, etc.)[3]. that require internet connectivity. Popular search engines like Google give preference to websites that are mobile-ready[4]. Speed and Accuracy. online shopping, bill payments, etc.)

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Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

A bug had been filed suggesting that Chrome download speeds (such as those measured by speedtest.net ) seemed to be affected by some anti-virus software. 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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Cache Energy Google Processing 105

Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

The top myth Gringaus says she had to bust was: “The Internet is designed for optimal performance.” Instead, she explains, “the Internet was built for resilience, not for performance.”. The Internet was built for resilience, not for performance. This is untrue, she says. Alla Gringaus #webperf Click To Tweet. says Gringaus.

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Performance Social Media Internet Internet 72

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] , Jul 2008 [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] , 2010 [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

Without having network visibility, it’s not possible to improve our reliability, security and capacity posture. Network Availability: The expected continued growth of our ecosystem makes it difficult to understand our network bottlenecks and potential limits we may be reaching. 43416 5001 52.213.180.42

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Here is our (ever-growing!) Rick Byers.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Steve Souders was one of the first in reverse-engineering how browsers requested and waited for resources. At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more …. Ideally, shoot for 30% speed improvements.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

The decision to ban competing browser engines is as old as iOS, but Apple has only attempted to explain itself in recent years. Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? Apple's Arguments #. If no, please explain why not.

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Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

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.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

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 service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection.

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Cache Internet Internet Google 124

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

To function effectively, containers need to be able to communicate with each other and with network services. If containers are run with privileged flags, or if they receive details about host processes, they can easily become points of compromise for corporate networks. Network scanners. Let’s look at each type.

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 249

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. Following from the above, an undeniable strength of PWAs, when compared to native applications, is that their pages are findable via search engines. Why is that? Read point 2.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

Quirky : Thus there is a tradeoff: separateness enables inventors to create heterodox ideas, but strong cohesive networks are likely to be better for getting them implemented. Valeriy Kravchuk : Partitioning bugs do not get proper attention from Oracle engineers. They were implementations of solutions to problems. Don't stop here.

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Scalability Internet Internet Wireless 131

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

In those days, what you got was the core SQL Server engine and tools. For the user who wants to install SQL Server Express, SQL Server Developer, and perhaps even the Evaluation Edition of SQL Server, all these choices get a bit frustrating especially for the “core SQL engine” user. It would scare you). So what actually got installed?

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Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. 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. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Of course, it matters what your users experience rather than what some search engine crawler sees, but one of the great things about the Core Web Vitals initiative is that it does measure real user experience rather than what Google Bot sees! So, if GSC says you have bad experiences, then you do have bad experiences according to your users.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. Â The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content.Â

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Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content.

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Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In our increasingly digital world, the speed of innovation is key to business success. As a result, e xisting application security approaches can’t keep up with this speed and vari ability of modern development processes. . This automation is powered by Dynatrace’s AI engine, Davis. Dynatrace news.

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Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 289

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

These vendors serve data center players and offer advanced options, such as ScaleGrid’s engine, which ensures that different elements work well together automatically, eliminating the need for manual effort in managing heterogeneous environments. This opens up possibilities not only difficult but almost impossible to attain conventionally!

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum interconnect is the networking layer of the architecture, and manages communication between the Greenplum segments and master host network infrastructure. If you have mirroring enabled, you must increase your segment hosts in increments of at least two. So, how is this all coordinated? Greenplum Advantages.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The cloud-hosted version would need to be: Scalable – The service would need to support hundreds of thousands, or even millions of AWS customers, each supporting their own internet-scale applications. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. "We are using DAX to scale our reads across our network of services.

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

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. A Primer on Speed.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A lot of the time it’s a front-end developer or head of engineering, but more and more I’m finding myself in great conversations with product leaders. The internet. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) like Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, Cloudfront can sometimes have a big impact on performance. The audience varies.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. 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. per GB respectively.

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