CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

So, for the last several years, I, along with other performance engineers like me, have been recommending that our clients move over from Gzip and to Brotli instead. The uncompressed version, on the other hand, takes a full two round trips more to be fully transferred, which—particularly on a high latency connection—could be quite noticeable.

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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.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Developers love the performance, simplicity, and in-memory capabilities of Redis, making it among the most popular NoSQL key-value stores. Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. ElastiCache for Redis delivers predictable microsecond latencies and is super easy to use. Under the hood.

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Games Retail Latency Education 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Modern web browsers use all sorts of techniques to help improve page load performance by guessing what the user may be likely to do next. Drew McLellan. 2019-04-17T12:30:16+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. When Should I Use dns-prefetch ?

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Randon ASCII

AUGUST 30, 2020

A few years ago I spent a few weeks doing some memory investigations on live game servers. I found a series of bugs that were causing memory usage to be triple what it needed to be and I fixed those: I found map ID mismatches which meant that a new copy of ~20 MB of data was loaded for every game instead of being reused I found an unused (!)

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

on Myths and Legends of High Performance Computing  — it’s a somewhat light-hearted look at some of the same issues by the leader of the team that built the Fugaku system I mention below. The emergence of chiplet technology also allows higher performance and integration without having to design every chip from scratch.

Architecture 52

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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.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. What is a CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer?‍ The solution?

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Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

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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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. What is a CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer?‍

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

However, we also knew that building a distributed database that has unlimited scale and maintains predictably high performance while providing rich and flexible query capabilities, is one of the hardest problems in database development, and will take a lot of effort and invention from our team of distributed database engineers to solve.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In this blog post, I will explain how these three new capabilities empower you to build applications with distributed systems architecture and create responsive, reliable, and high-performance applications using DynamoDB that work at any scale. Cross-region replication allows us to distribute data across the world for redundancy and speed. ”

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

How To Make Performance Visible With GitLab CI And Hoodoo Of GitLab Artifacts. How To Make Performance Visible With GitLab CI And Hoodoo Of GitLab Artifacts. Performance degradation is a problem we face on a daily basis. Performance is a competitive advantage that can bring and retain customers. Anton Nemtsev.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

This work is latency critical, because volume IO is blocked until it is complete. When a node joins or re-joins a cell it needs to be brought up to speed, a process the authors call teaching. Larger cells have better tolerance of tail latency (e.g. Performing a number of game days against physical deployments of Physalia.

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Rigor

JANUARY 25, 2018

From Facebook reworking their News Feed (again) to show fewer posts from publishers to Google’s Speed Update including mobile load time in search rankings , the digital publishing industry has a lot to grapple with these days. Likewise, you can use Performance KPIs to track if your digital experience is improving over time.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

At Amazon we have hundreds of teams using machine learning and by making use of the Machine Learning Service we can significantly speed up the time they use to bring their technologies into production. Synchronous events operate with low latency so you can deliver dynamic, interactive experiences to your users.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. HPC and Amazon EC2.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

Absent compelling content and attentive security and performance focus, it soon retreated to the server. [6]. Meta-platforms enter this calculus with a deficit to maximum capability and performance but (hopefully) gains to reach. This is playing out now with video conferencing, screen-sharing , and streamed gaming (e.g.

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Hardware Games Java Media 55

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 ). A Primer on Speed. Robin Marx.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Ben and Mena Trott created MovableType because of a “Dissatisfacion with existing blog CMSes — performance, stability.” In 2006, Denis Defreyne tried to set up a Ruby-based blog platform and ran into performance problems — “Having a VPS with only 96 MB of RAM, any Ruby-based CMS ran extremely slowly.”

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