Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Engine diversity is essential, as it is the mechanism that causes competition to deliver better performance, capability, privacy, security, and user controls. Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. More on that when we get to iOS. How can that be?

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

Each drone is rated with a game mechanic and gets special privileges based on performance (just kidding). 40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S, Hey, it's HighScalability time: 4 th of July may never be the same.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. Without the ability to differentiate on features, security, performance, and privacy, what's to sell? And that's a choice. "WebKit

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The focus of most published research in architecture is on applications implemented in high-performance, “ close-to-the-metal” languages essentially developed before computers got fast. The current state-of-the-art Python compiler, pypy , often yields around a 2x improvement in performance (and sometimes less).

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. Thanks to cloud-based virtual servers, LoadView can send traffic to your site or application from around the world. This review will focus on performing a simple load test with LoadView.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

MachMetrics

APRIL 15, 2020

Once you begin to view web performance in terms of how to provide the best experience to your visitors, you’ll find your results begin to match up with what other experience. It falls on you to make sure your site is performant for the average user using a lower-end device. Mistake #1: Only Testing Desktop.

Speed 88

Speed Testing Website Mobile 88

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

High Scalability

AUGUST 8, 2018

There are a lot of cool nuggets in Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook. It was the first new Pokémon game in years, the first official Pokémon smartphone game, and Niantic’s first project in concert with a major entertainment company. Niantic launched Pokémon GO in the summer of 2016.

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Google Games Entertainment Cloud 130

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Throughout the experiment I will suggest performance tips to speed up the first contentful paint and perceived loading time of the page. Google Homepage — DOM. Performance Tip #1: Inline Critical CSS. Performance Tip #2: Minify And Uglify Your Assets. Performance Tip #3: Less Is More. Large preview ).

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Error tracking is a vital component to any web project because it helps you pinpoint performance problems before they get out of hand. The Google DevTools console can give you real-time feedback to help you trace the source of errors, and you can set handlers to automate exception data collection. What is Error Tracking?

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Robin Marx. 2021-08-23T06:20:00+00:00.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. Between Google (Vertex AI and Colab) and Amazon (SageMaker), you can now get all of the GPU power your credit card can handle. The solution led us to the next structural evolution.

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Often they make it seem as if HTTP/3 is a revolution in performance, while it is really a more modest (yet still useful!) It was heralded as an amazing performance revolution, with exciting new features such as server push, parallel streams, and prioritization. HTTP/3 performance features ( coming up soon! ).

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

vl : I have a hilarious story about this from Google: I wanted second 30" monitor, so I filed a ticket. . $2 billion : Pokémon GO revenue since launch; 10 : say happy birthday to StackOverflow; $148 million : Uber data breach fine; 75% : streaming music industry revenue in the US; 5.2 That's not an obvious statement at all. There more.

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35