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The Fastest Google Fonts

CSS Wizardry

It’s widely accepted that self-hosted fonts are the fastest option: same origin means reduced network negotiation, predictable URLs mean we can preload , self-hosted means we can set our own cache-control. That said, the convenience of a service like Google Fonts cannot be overstated. What else could I do to make Google Fonts fast ?

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Google's June 2nd Outage: Their Status Page ? Reality

DZone

On Sunday June 2nd, Google Cloud Platform had an extended networking-based outage. There was significant disruption of commonly used services like YouTube and Gmail, as well as Google-hosted applications like Snapchat. Previously we've written about having hard conversations with cloud providers. Summary of Findings.

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Fallacy #8: The network is homogeneous

Particular Software

Google built BigTable, Amazon built Dynamo, Facebook built Cassandra, LinkedIn came up with Voldemort. From Udi Dahan's free Distributed Systems Design Fundamentals video course Semantic interoperability The true challenge of non-homogenous networks lies in semantic interoperability. As an example, let’s take nullability.

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Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

Dynatrace

And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks? For example, optimizing resource utilization for greater scale and lower cost and driving insights to increase adoption of cloud-native serverless services.

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OpenShift vs. Kubernetes: Understanding the differences

Dynatrace

” In recent years, cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM, and Google began offering Kubernetes as part of their managed services. For example, OpenShift simplifies Kubernetes management tools, giving developers everything they need to manage Kubernetes nodes, as well as the underlying control plane.

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Driving your FinOps strategy with observability best practices

Dynatrace

For example, Amazon Web Services (AWS) charges for data transfer between Amazon EC2 instances within the same region. For example, poorly written code can consume a lot of resources, or an application can make unnecessary calls to cloud services. Unnecessary data transfer. On-demand payment agreement. Suboptimal architecture design.

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Google planning a new ‘Badge of Shame’ for slow websites

MachMetrics

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. With its search engine being easily the most used on the internet, Google has an incredible influence on the web. A thread on Reddit provided many examples of the initial concerns.

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