The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Ten years ago, when the mobile handset wars were in full swing, I wrote a blog analyzing the differences among the leaders in the space. Nokia hired a manager from Microsoft to wed the handset business to any alternative mobile operating system to iOS that wasn't made by Google. Neither strategy paid off.

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Artificial Intelligence Social Media Automotive Mobile 52

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 22, 2010

Each sought to develop and sponsor a library of applications and add-ons so they could sell hardware. And while they lost control of that which they had created, IBM had strong hardware sales, while Apple was for many years relegated to being a provider in niche markets such as education and desktop publishing. Fast forward 30 years.

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Google Hardware Education Operating System 40

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

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. Source: Google Keep in mind that not all code errors are noticeable to users. More traffic is coming from smart devices every year, so don’t neglect mobile testing!

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High Scalability

JULY 26, 2018

143 billion : daily words Google Translated; 73% : less face-to-face interaction in open offices; 10 billion : Uber trips; 131M : data breach by Exactis; $123 billion : Facebook value loss is 4 Twitters and 7 snapchats; $9.1B : spent on digital gaming across all platforms; 20-km : width of lake on mars; 1 billion : Google Drive users; $32.7

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Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 124

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Powerful mobile devices like the iPhone 5s also fared very well. Another interesting note was how significant the impact of hardware has on the timing. This is notable because we’re seeing companies such as Mozilla and Google targeting emerging markets with affordable, low-powered devices that otherwise run modern browsers.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 141

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

At first glance, the market for mobile browsers looks roughly functional. Tech pundits and policymakers form expectations of browsers on the desktop and think about mobile browser competition the same way. The mobile ecosystem appears to retain these properties, but the resemblance is only skin deep. The Baseline Scenario #.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While experienced AI developers are starting to leave powerhouses like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, not enough are leaving to meet demand—and most of them will probably gravitate to startups rather than adding to the AI talent within established companies. Microsoft, Google, IBM, and OpenAI have offered more general indemnification.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 111

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Critical in adapting web content to mobile, particularly regarding multi-touch gestures. This adds to the expense of developing for iOS.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Budget, 2024 JavaScript-Heavy Markup-Heavy Calculate Your Own Situation Report Mobile Desktop Takeaways The Great Branch Mispredict The Budget, 2024 # In a departure from previous years, we'll evaluate two sets of baseline numbers for first-load under five seconds on 75 th ( P75 ) percentile devices and networks. In the U.S.,

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. On the Internet, however, we typically have a long series of connected pipes , some of which can be wider than others (leading to so-called bottlenecks at the narrowest links).

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KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

I’m almost always on a slow connection and the amount of time it takes images to load on most websites is just horrid… - Sara Soueidan Desktop and Mobile Images Just how much of a website is made up of images? KB and the average mobile page is 1,683.5 KB and on a mobile page take up an average of 865.9

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Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

If they’re using a particular browser, or if they want their font bigger, or if they’re on a mobile device — it’s our job to give them that great experience…We want to have stubborn empathy for what they need, and what they want, and what they’re going through — what can we do to make all that better? Here at Yahoo!,

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Google Website Hardware Games 40

MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

We wanted to have control of the hardware that runs our tests and deliver consistent results. Some visitors will be coming to your site via a blazing fast internet on an overpowered, flagship mobile device. Others will be coming to you from a slow, rural internet connection on a budget laptop.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Study your main competitors, collect metrics on how they perform on mobile and desktop and set thresholds that would help you outpace them. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop. Study your main competitors, collect metrics on how they perform on mobile and desktop and set thresholds that would help you outpace them. Keep in mind that on a mobile device, you should be expecting a 4×–5× slowdown compared to desktop machines.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The internet accounts for an estimated 3–4% of global emissions — equivalent to some countries. The carbon emissions of the internet are roughly equivalent to those generated by the entire aviation industry, or the whole of Africa. Do you really need Google Analytics on every site you build? Hardware And E-Waste.

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