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. Greenplum interconnect is the networking layer of the architecture, and manages communication between the Greenplum segments and master host network infrastructure.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your app runs in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the provider secures the infrastructure, while you’re responsible for security measures within applications and configurations. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications?

Cloud 177

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 177

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Last year, Google made two significant changes to their search indexing and ranking algorithms : In March, indexing became based on the mobile version of a page , rather than desktop. What is Google Lighthouse?

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

For example, Nvidia’s Volta-based Quadro GV100 and DGX-2 was just announced at GTC’18. HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens. Image Processing Unit (IPU) is the Pixel Visual Core designed by Google and integrated in Google Pixel 2 released in 2017.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For some background, Kubernetes was created by Google and is currently maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Kubernetes manages and orchestrates these containers, handling tasks such as deployment, scaling, load balancing, and networking. have adopted Kubernetes.

Efficiency 106

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 106

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? This falls short of Google's threshold of 2.5

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

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.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Too many fine-grained services leading to network and communication overhead. MAMPU showed two great examples for this section; database connectivity and web-server threats. Missing caching layers, e.g. provide a read-only cache for static data.

Cache 198

Cache Architecture Database Government 198

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

Example: Consider an e-commerce app that is running an offer of providing 50% off on the next order to the customer. Example: A new functionality is added in a gaming iOS application and is unit tested successfully. The iOS app should work well on the networks of different bandwidths, speeds, data transfer rates, etc.

Testing 84

Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Network or connection error. Network latency. Hardware resources. Network Latency. With the evolution of cloud technologies, such as Single Page Applications (SPAs), Web APIs, and Model View Controller (MVC), network latency has become a crucial factor to be monitored. Network latency can be affected due to.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. Since then the world has chosen to ride along with Google. If you like this kind of stuff, you might also like Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking. Image size is another issue, as excessive image weight hurts your SEO ranking in Google Image Search. How does page bloat hurt Core Web Vitals?

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

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. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

For example, the existence and support of open-source frameworks such as LLVM or Tensorflow/Pytorch are an attractive element to many newcomers. This is arguably a fundamentally hard problem for computer architecture, but efforts towards open source hardware (eg. Lena Olson is a Software Engineer at Google. .

Architecture 74

Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Lazy-load offscreen images (reduce network contention for key resources). For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS. CWV is part of a set of page experience signals Google Search will be evaluating for ranking. Large preview ).

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

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. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Web OTP (for easier/faster sign-in). Web Bluetooth.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. For example, a site reliability engineer may be involved with help desk tickets, on-call incidents, manual tasks, etc. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

We wanted to have control of the hardware that runs our tests and deliver consistent results. For example, if you implement a caching plugin into your WordPress site, many of your resources will be cached, drastically improving the load time for someone coming back to your site. Another example of this can be found below.

Speed 62

Speed Testing Website Cache 62

The Morning Paper

JULY 18, 2019

Being an ICLR paper of course, you won’t be surprised to learn that the solution involves neural networks. Instead of learning from scratch, we draw inspiration from the few-shot leaning advances obtained by meta-learning memory-augmented neural networks.

Network 86

Network Java Database Hardware 86

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. The Moto G4 , for example. Hard Reset.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Rather than focusing on full page loading time (via onLoad and DOMContentLoaded timings, for example), prioritize page loading as perceived by your customers. What does it mean? 300ms RTT, 1.6

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. Large preview ).

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

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. Example of such apps: We all are aware of how online shopping has taken over the world. Google ranks applications based on how user friendly it is. Signup Now.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

” Willing also offered a shout-out to the CircuitPython and Mu projects, asking, “Who doesn’t love hardware, blinking LEDs, sensors, and using Mu, a user-friendly editor that is fantastic for adults and kids?” ” Java. It’s mostly good news on the Java front.

Programming 130

Programming Java Google C++ 130

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

One way or another, rather than focusing on full page loading time (via onLoad and DOMContentLoaded timings, for example), prioritize page loading as perceived by your customers. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Google founders figured out smart ways to rank websites by analyzing their connection patterns and using that information to improve the relevance of search results. For example, we can combine a machine learning job for anomaly detection with a dashboard that summarizes the findings to facilitate further investigation.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Bottlenecks can occur, for example, if you have a sudden surge in traffic that your servers are not equipped to handle. For example, you can use load testing tools to see how your application performs with a certain number of simultaneous users. There are many common issues that performance testing can uncover, such as bottlenecks.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

This is crucial due to mobile devices requiring additional optimizations because they typically have less powerful hardware and a slower network connection when compared to desktop devices. For example, while the average mobile download speed on 4G in Switzerland is fast at 35.2 For example, the query string ?width=600&quality=70

Speed 52

Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

When even a bit of React can be a problem on devices slow and fast alike, using it is an intentional choice that effectively excludes people with low-end hardware. Server rendering is also cool—even if that’s just how we say “send HTML over the network” these days. Google Chrome on Nokia 2. It makes organizing code easier.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this role, I am leading a global team that works closely with our strategic partners such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Pivotal, Red Hat and others. While most of our cloud & platform partners have their own dependency analysis tooling, most of them focus on basic dependency detection based on network connection analysis between hosts.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Harry Roberts ran his (excellent) Web Performance Masterclass as an online workshop with us, and throughout the entire workshop, he was using Smashing as an example by highlighting issues that we had and suggesting solutions to those issues alongside useful tools and guidelines. The turning point came unexpectedly. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The median user is on a slow network.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable. Although based on the load it may be possible to infinitely scale the data pipeline but that will come with a cost which most companies other than Google or Amazon will struggle to justify.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

I cannot disclose customer’s name, so I will explain business logic using amazon.com as an example, fortunately the basic functionality is very similar. For example, if the user opens a category that contains clothes, products will be characterized by properties like size, brand, color and so on. Entity Gateway.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

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