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Google recently announced the launch of their Speed Update. This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. This announcement is part of a Google’s ongoing efforts to incentivize good web performance. Google won’t notify you if your ranking is dinged by mobile speed, but you will see the impact in your Google Search Console and your traffic. Web Performance google SEO Speed MORE
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. MORE
In Google Ads the bid strategy you choose determines how Google calculates your ad bids. Different bid strategies have different uses and advantages, and include manual and automated bid strategies like "Maximize Clicks" and "Target CPA" (see Figure 1). PPC Optimization MORE
In this post, I wanted to share how I use Google Analytics together with Dynatrace to give me a more complete picture of my customers, and their experience across our digital channels. Google Analytics. Almost all marketers will be familiar with Google Analytics. Dynatrace news. MORE
The authors of today’s paper should know a thing or two about that: Jeffrey Mogul and John Wilkes at Google 1 ! About that recent outage… I know this has been a longer write-up than usual, but I can’t resist quoting this paragraph about risks that are under the cloud provider’s control, to be juxtaposed with the emerging details of the recent Google Cloud Networking Incident #19009. Uncategorized Google Operations MORE
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) came in 2nd at 26.2% Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Or, considering adding a new database to your application and want to see which combinations are most popular? MORE
In ProtoCache (a component of a widely used Google application), 27% of its latency when using a traditional S+RInK design came from marshalling/un-marshalling. (We’ve Uncategorized Datastores GoogleFast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone Adya et al., HotOS’19. MORE
If you'd like to learn more about the Timeline tab, I recommend checking out the Google Developers Website for more information. Google Chrome Chrome Web Performance JavaScript Speaking MORE
cloud tutorial performance google load testing load balancing google cloud gcp proxysqlThere are three different ways ProxySQL can direct traffic between your application and the back-end MySQL services. Locally, on the MySQL servers. Between the MySQL servers and the application. Colocated on the application servers themselves. Without going through too much detail, each has its own limitations. MORE
At Google I/0 2019 , we announced that we would finally be bringing support for font-display to Google Fonts. I'm happy to share this is now available in production for all Google Fonts users via the new display parameter MORE
Anchored in the primary use case of supporting Google’s YouTube business, what we’re looking at here could well be the future of data processing at Google. Uncategorized Datastores GoogleProcella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube Chattopadhyay et al., MORE
Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform tied neck and neck at 17.5% PostgreSQL is an open source relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. MORE
of PostgreSQL cloud deployments were hosted through Google Cloud Platform (GCP), growing 11% from April where they only averaged 17.5% PostgreSQL popularity is skyrocketing in the enterprise space. As this open source database continues to pull new users from expensive commercial database management systems like Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server, organizations are adopting new approaches and evolving their own to maintain the exceptional performance of their SQL deployments. MORE
During the event, I saw that Google embeds live score updates within search results, which is pretty nifty. Computers in the 90s. Ably recently had the pleasure of delivering real-time scoring and commentary updates to fans of the Laver Cup tennis championship, on behalf of Tennis Australia, for the third year in a row. It seems this first appeared in results sometime in 2016 and received an update for the. apis websockets browsers realtime data realtime communication MORE
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Run custom-built images as containers at scale with Google Cloud Run. The post AI-powered, automated observability and deep visibility into serverless apps running on Google Cloud Run appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Dynatrace news. Cloud Run brings serverless to containers. MORE
PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines. So what makes PostgreSQL so special, and how is it being used today? MORE
Google’s Inbox email client is going away in a couple of months, and I’m sad. As I’ve been looking around for a replacement, I realized that I never wrote about how I came to appreciate it. MORE
At Google I/O 2014 , Lara Swanson and Paul Lewis discussed performance culture. Since it’s one of my favorite topics, I decided to share my notes: 34% of US adults use a smartphone as their primary means of internet access. Mobile networks add a tremendous amount of latency. We are not our end users. The new devices and fast networks we use are not necessarily what our users are using. 40% of people abandon a site that takes longer than 2-3 seconds to load. MORE
This makes memory a critical factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of large compute clusters, or as Google like to call them “Warehouse-scale computers (WSCs).” Google were able to bring about a 4-5% reduction in memory TCO (worth millions of dollars!) MORE
Google’s servers are still involved, by as a proxy service forwarding the initial request along. It’s probably important to remember that the reason why Google is doing this isn’t to break our designs or mess with our websites — they’re doing this because there are serious performance concerns with the web, and those concerns aren't limited to developing nations. Article android chrome google lite pages performance MORE
In July 2018 Google rolled out Smart Campaigns in Google Ads in the US. Smart campaigns are designed for small businesses without a dedicated marketing staff. MORE
I recently visited Google’s Inbox and noticed a notification a little like the image below. This is where a pop up notification like Google’s Inbox provides the user with a means of always having the latest version of cached resources. MORE
Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Google wrote: Faster sites don’t just improve user experience; recent data shows that improving site speed also reduces operating costs. What is Google Lighthouse? MORE
Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Or, considering adding a new database to your application and want to see which combinations are most popular? MORE
Optimization Explained google lighthouse page optimization PageSpeed PageSpeed Insights Pingdom Pingdom Tools WebPagetest yslowIf you’ve used any of these tools, you may wonder why the results are sometimes different. MORE
Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. It’s fair to say Google Fonts are popular. Without Google Fonts you would be limited to the handful of “ system fonts ” installed on your user’s device. Google Fonts Are Already Optimized. MORE
Google PageSpeed Insights has a their “Speed Score.” Who is your website’s users – Google, or your real customers? Many people assume that Google takes the score from their Insights into account, but that’s simply untrue. MORE
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. cloud performance google outage MORE
One free tool has become prominent in the space – Google Lighthouse – and one question often bubbles up: “I use Google Lighthouse for one-off snapshots of my site’s performance, so why do I need a performance monitoring solution?” MORE
This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. There’s a good high-level overview of federated learning on Google’s AI blog. FL at Google has been used for on-device item ranking (e.g. Uncategorized Google Machine Learning MORE
There are a lot of cool nuggets in Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook. In addition, many engineers across Google provided their assis? Load Balancing google MORE
Google recently entered this market. They also have brand and reach, although it can't be confirmed whether somebody has been fired for buying Google. And Google has entered the hardware business on the Droid platform, but they're not a hardware company. This means Google is following a similar pattern, but changing the attributes. In the late 1970s, the microcomputer industry was still in its emergent stages. MORE
This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Enter Google! Uncategorized Google NetworkingSnap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., SOSP’19. MORE
The year 2008 changed the way humans interact with their phones and businesses were being conducted with the launch of the android app store by Google. mobile performance optimization applications app store google play MORE
According to Google, a website can lose as many as half its visitors while loading. Google’s PageSpeed Insights tools may be just what you need to leverage data collected through speed testing. So does that mean Google Pagespeed Insights is worthless? MORE
Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. According to Google, the best practice for a website’s speed is to keep it under 3 seconds load time. MORE
As of 2019, the number of apps on the Google Play store exceeds 2 million and that on the Apple store stands at 1.83 Make your apps the best they can be! million. Now, if that is the competition, enterprises looking to cast their mobile apps, ought to do things differently. MORE
Google Cloud. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) was the second most popular cloud provider for ScyllaDB, coming in at 30.4% Google Cloud does offer their own wide column store and big data database called Bigtable which is actually ranked #111, one under ScyllaDB at #110 on DB-Engines. Amazon AWS Azure Benchmarks Cassandra Cloud Database Google Cloud On-Premise ScyllaDB Trend Report #1. Google Cloud #3. MORE
Testing on Google Chrome is necessary for any app-designer. performance testing google web developement chrome website testing chrome browser google chrome cross-browser testing app testing MORE
A customer who is visiting your website from Google Chrome may have a different user experience than a customer who is visiting your website from Safari, Mozilla Firefox, or any other browser. Meaning, Google Chrome 72 may render a website differently than Google Chrome 65. MORE
Google has released a new book: The Site Reliability Workbook — Practical Ways to Implement SRE. David Rensin, a SRE at Google, says : It's a whole new book. It's the second book in their SRE series. How is it different than the previous Site Reliability Engineering book? MORE
You may also like: Lessons From the Birth of Microservices at Google. You may have heard that as of early July, Google updated its search algorithm to include the load time of mobile URLs. While we knew this was coming back in January (way to go Google for the pre-update announcement). MORE
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OCTOBER 28, 2019
In this post, I wanted to share how I use Google Analytics together with Dynatrace to give me a more complete picture of my customers, and their experience across our digital channels. Google Analytics. Almost all marketers will be familiar with Google Analytics. Dynatrace news.
DZone
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
You may also like: Lessons From the Birth of Microservices at Google. You may have heard that as of early July, Google updated its search algorithm to include the load time of mobile URLs. While we knew this was coming back in January (way to go Google for the pre-update announcement).
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Rigor
OCTOBER 30, 2019
One free tool has become prominent in the space – Google Lighthouse – and one question often bubbles up: “I use Google Lighthouse for one-off snapshots of my site’s performance, so why do I need a performance monitoring solution?”
Smashing Magazine
JUNE 20, 2019
Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. It’s fair to say Google Fonts are popular. Without Google Fonts you would be limited to the handful of “ system fonts ” installed on your user’s device. Google Fonts Are Already Optimized.
DZone
AUGUST 23, 2019
The year 2008 changed the way humans interact with their phones and businesses were being conducted with the launch of the android app store by Google. mobile performance optimization applications app store google play
DZone
APRIL 30, 2019
cloud tutorial performance google load testing load balancing google cloud gcp proxysqlThere are three different ways ProxySQL can direct traffic between your application and the back-end MySQL services. Locally, on the MySQL servers. Between the MySQL servers and the application. Colocated on the application servers themselves. Without going through too much detail, each has its own limitations.
DZone
OCTOBER 9, 2019
During the event, I saw that Google embeds live score updates within search results, which is pretty nifty. Computers in the 90s. Ably recently had the pleasure of delivering real-time scoring and commentary updates to fans of the Laver Cup tennis championship, on behalf of Tennis Australia, for the third year in a row. It seems this first appeared in results sometime in 2016 and received an update for the. apis websockets browsers realtime data realtime communication
High Scalability
JULY 25, 2018
Google has released a new book: The Site Reliability Workbook — Practical Ways to Implement SRE. David Rensin, a SRE at Google, says : It's a whole new book. It's the second book in their SRE series. How is it different than the previous Site Reliability Engineering book?
DZone
JUNE 20, 2019
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. cloud performance google outage
KeyCDN
AUGUST 29, 2019
Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. According to Google, the best practice for a website’s speed is to keep it under 3 seconds load time.
MachMetrics
DECEMBER 12, 2019
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.
Addy Osmani
MAY 16, 2019
At Google I/0 2019 , we announced that we would finally be bringing support for font-display to Google Fonts. I'm happy to share this is now available in production for all Google Fonts users via the new display parameter
Baron Schwartz
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Google’s Inbox email client is going away in a couple of months, and I’m sad. As I’ve been looking around for a replacement, I realized that I never wrote about how I came to appreciate it.
Dynatrace
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Run custom-built images as containers at scale with Google Cloud Run. The post AI-powered, automated observability and deep visibility into serverless apps running on Google Cloud Run appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Dynatrace news. Cloud Run brings serverless to containers.
Rigor
FEBRUARY 2, 2018
Google recently announced the launch of their Speed Update. This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. This announcement is part of a Google’s ongoing efforts to incentivize good web performance. Google won’t notify you if your ranking is dinged by mobile speed, but you will see the impact in your Google Search Console and your traffic. Web Performance google SEO Speed
CSS - Tricks
JULY 25, 2019
Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Google wrote: Faster sites don’t just improve user experience; recent data shows that improving site speed also reduces operating costs. What is Google Lighthouse?
Scalegrid
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Google Cloud. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) was the second most popular cloud provider for ScyllaDB, coming in at 30.4% Google Cloud does offer their own wide column store and big data database called Bigtable which is actually ranked #111, one under ScyllaDB at #110 on DB-Engines. Amazon AWS Azure Benchmarks Cassandra Cloud Database Google Cloud On-Premise ScyllaDB Trend Report #1. Google Cloud #3.
DZone
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Testing on Google Chrome is necessary for any app-designer. performance testing google web developement chrome website testing chrome browser google chrome cross-browser testing app testing
High Scalability
JUNE 27, 2019
Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Or, considering adding a new database to your application and want to see which combinations are most popular?
MachMetrics
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
According to Google, a website can lose as many as half its visitors while loading. Google’s PageSpeed Insights tools may be just what you need to leverage data collected through speed testing. So does that mean Google Pagespeed Insights is worthless?
Scalegrid
APRIL 2, 2019
Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform tied neck and neck at 17.5% PostgreSQL is an open source relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community.
Tim Kadlec
JUNE 24, 2014
At Google I/O 2014 , Lara Swanson and Paul Lewis discussed performance culture. Since it’s one of my favorite topics, I decided to share my notes: 34% of US adults use a smartphone as their primary means of internet access. Mobile networks add a tremendous amount of latency. We are not our end users. The new devices and fast networks we use are not necessarily what our users are using. 40% of people abandon a site that takes longer than 2-3 seconds to load.
Scalegrid
OCTOBER 7, 2019
of PostgreSQL cloud deployments were hosted through Google Cloud Platform (GCP), growing 11% from April where they only averaged 17.5% PostgreSQL popularity is skyrocketing in the enterprise space. As this open source database continues to pull new users from expensive commercial database management systems like Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server, organizations are adopting new approaches and evolving their own to maintain the exceptional performance of their SQL deployments.
The Morning Paper
NOVEMBER 10, 2019
This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Enter Google! Uncategorized Google NetworkingSnap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., SOSP’19.
High Scalability
APRIL 3, 2019
PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines. So what makes PostgreSQL so special, and how is it being used today?
The Morning Paper
MAY 21, 2019
This makes memory a critical factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of large compute clusters, or as Google like to call them “Warehouse-scale computers (WSCs).” Google were able to bring about a 4-5% reduction in memory TCO (worth millions of dollars!)
The Morning Paper
JUNE 23, 2019
In ProtoCache (a component of a widely used Google application), 27% of its latency when using a traditional S+RInK design came from marshalling/un-marshalling. (We’ve Uncategorized Datastores GoogleFast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone Adya et al., HotOS’19.
The Morning Paper
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
Anchored in the primary use case of supporting Google’s YouTube business, what we’re looking at here could well be the future of data processing at Google. Uncategorized Datastores GoogleProcella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube Chattopadhyay et al.,
The Morning Paper
JUNE 6, 2019
This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. There’s a good high-level overview of federated learning on Google’s AI blog. FL at Google has been used for on-device item ranking (e.g. Uncategorized Google Machine Learning
The Morning Paper
JUNE 18, 2019
The authors of today’s paper should know a thing or two about that: Jeffrey Mogul and John Wilkes at Google 1 ! About that recent outage… I know this has been a longer write-up than usual, but I can’t resist quoting this paragraph about risks that are under the cloud provider’s control, to be juxtaposed with the emerging details of the recent Google Cloud Networking Incident #19009. Uncategorized Google Operations
Rigor
JULY 2, 2019
Google sometimes refers to such practices as sneaky redirects , and if your page engages in what search engines deem inappropriate, your page will be penalized in the rankings.
Gtmetrix
AUGUST 2, 2017
Optimization Explained google lighthouse page optimization PageSpeed PageSpeed Insights Pingdom Pingdom Tools WebPagetest yslowIf you’ve used any of these tools, you may wonder why the results are sometimes different.
Dean Hume
MAY 16, 2018
I recently visited Google’s Inbox and noticed a notification a little like the image below. This is where a pop up notification like Google’s Inbox provides the user with a means of always having the latest version of cached resources.
The Agile Manager
JANUARY 22, 2010
Google recently entered this market. They also have brand and reach, although it can't be confirmed whether somebody has been fired for buying Google. And Google has entered the hardware business on the Droid platform, but they're not a hardware company. This means Google is following a similar pattern, but changing the attributes. In the late 1970s, the microcomputer industry was still in its emergent stages.
Scalegrid
JUNE 11, 2019
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) came in 2nd at 26.2% Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Or, considering adding a new database to your application and want to see which combinations are most popular?
CSS - Tricks
MARCH 19, 2019
Google’s servers are still involved, by as a proxy service forwarding the initial request along. It’s probably important to remember that the reason why Google is doing this isn’t to break our designs or mess with our websites — they’re doing this because there are serious performance concerns with the web, and those concerns aren't limited to developing nations. Article android chrome google lite pages performance
DZone
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Google needs to step up their speed. Quantum Supremacy Is Arguable, but We Are Almost There.
Dean Hume
JUNE 28, 2016
If you'd like to learn more about the Timeline tab, I recommend checking out the Google Developers Website for more information. Google Chrome Chrome Web Performance JavaScript Speaking
DZone
AUGUST 28, 2019
A customer who is visiting your website from Google Chrome may have a different user experience than a customer who is visiting your website from Safari, Mozilla Firefox, or any other browser. Meaning, Google Chrome 72 may render a website differently than Google Chrome 65.
DZone
OCTOBER 21, 2019
As of 2019, the number of apps on the Google Play store exceeds 2 million and that on the Apple store stands at 1.83 Make your apps the best they can be! million. Now, if that is the competition, enterprises looking to cast their mobile apps, ought to do things differently.
Website Optimization
JULY 14, 2019
In Google Ads the bid strategy you choose determines how Google calculates your ad bids. Different bid strategies have different uses and advantages, and include manual and automated bid strategies like "Maximize Clicks" and "Target CPA" (see Figure 1). PPC Optimization
MachMetrics
APRIL 24, 2019
Google PageSpeed Insights has a their “Speed Score.” Who is your website’s users – Google, or your real customers? Many people assume that Google takes the score from their Insights into account, but that’s simply untrue.
Website Optimization
SEPTEMBER 29, 2019
In July 2018 Google rolled out Smart Campaigns in Google Ads in the US. Smart campaigns are designed for small businesses without a dedicated marketing staff.
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