Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Web Bluetooth.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

Infrastructure as a Service is the term used for those cloud-based solutions that provide complete infrastructure to the users including all the overheads, hardware, and networking facilities. As a user, you just need to pay for the services, install low-level requirements and set up the networking. Software as a Service (SaaS).

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. This challenging situation gave rise to app stores: OS vendors understood that fast-enough-for-games needed dangerous trade-offs.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

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.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Today we’ll be reviewing LoadView , an on-demand load-testing platform from Dotcom-Monitor that makes realistic load testing possible without an up-front investment in hardware or software infrastructure. One noteworthy feature is the Network Elements Filter. This breadth of options allows for impressively thorough load testing.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Monitoring errors on the front-end requires a bit more work because front-end performance is highly dependant on the user’s hardware, software and connection. Of course, there are also times when the problem lies not with your application but with the user’s connection or network configuration.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Moto G4) on a slow 3G network, emulated at 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The only time the Internet was mentioned was as a tool for communicating with one another without the need to chop down more trees, or for working without a commute. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical.

Website 135

Website Energy Internet Internet 135

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Network effects are not the same as monopoly control. Cloud providers incur huge fixed costs for creating and maintaining a network of datacenters spread throughout the word. And even that list is not invulnerable. Neither are clouds.

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Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

If the site’s not available to people, game over, we might as well not even bother. Others who made assumptions about capabilities, support, networks, etc are going to be scrambling to fix bugs and make their site just “work”. I mean, just listen to some of the wisdom that is just as relevant, if not more so, today. Here at Yahoo!,

Google 40

Google Website Hardware Games 40

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe. Supercell is responsible for several of the highest grossing mobile games in history, and they rely on AWS for their entire infrastructure. In making the switch to AWS, WOW air has saved between $30,000 and $45,000 on hardware, and software licensing.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

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. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105