Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. The key metric for measuring the sustainability of a digital product is its energy usage. You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure”.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

2% : of sales spent by consumer packaged goods companies on R&D (14% for tech); 272 million : metric tons of plastic are produced each year around the globe; 100+ fp s: Google's Edge TPU; 6,000 : bugs per million lines of code; 2.2 They'll learn a lot and love you forever. You owe me for the years, not the minutes.

Internet 39

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 39

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Container technology is very powerful as small teams can develop and package their application on laptops and then deploy it anywhere into staging or production environments without having to worry about dependencies, configurations, OS, hardware, and so on. The time and effort saved with testing and deployment are a game-changer for DevOps.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 302

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines. Performing updates, installing software, and resolving hardware issues requires up to 17 hours of developer time every week.

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Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 244

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 140

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In the workshop, I also answered the question: How can we measure those metrics (=SLIs) that are behind our objectives? Whether its our Metrics Ingest API or building a Dynatrace Extension. This allows pulling or pushing mobile app ratings through the APIs that Google and Apple offer into Dynatrace. App Rating. Availability.

DevOps 204

DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics 204

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

Additionally, ITOA gathers and processes information from applications, services, networks, operating systems, and cloud infrastructure hardware logs in real time. Define core metrics. Cloud-as-a-service platforms, such as Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft, have made it easier to set up and manage Hadoop clusters in the cloud.

Analytics 188

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 188

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. Cloud providers such as Google, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft also followed suit with frameworks such as Google Cloud Functions , AWS Lambda , and Microsoft Azure Functions. How does function as a service work?

Development 251

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 251

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

They use the same hardware, APIs, tools, and management controls for both the public and private clouds. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost : This offering provides pre-configured hardware and software for customers to run native AWS computing, networking, and services on-premises in a cloud-native manner.

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Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 182

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? A Google machine-learning study I participated in a few years ago found that the total number of page elements was the single greatest predictor of conversions. This falls short of Google's threshold of 2.5 How does page bloat hurt your business?

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. Modern operating systems provide capabilities to observe and report various metrics about the applications running. The last aspect is the centralization of compute.

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Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System 226

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. All this was made possible without any need for hardware upgrades : Misconfigured queue and pool sizes are a common issue in distributed architectures. . Benefits: Increased user adoption.

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Cache Architecture Database Government 198

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The webp format was introduced by Google around 2010. Google added decoding support on Android devices and Chrome browser and also released libraries that developers could add to their apps on other platforms, for example iOS. There is a potential benefit in reusing the hardware in place for video compression/decompression.

Code 212

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

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).” ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Enter zswap!

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Software Software Google Hardware 78

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

That's because video seems to have had a surge in growth, which should be a cause of concern for anyone who cares about metrics like Largest Contentful Paint, which measures the largest visual element on a page – including videos. Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. More on that below.) That's huge.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Another window into this question is provided by the Web Confluence Metrics project. It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier. A standard version of an approach demonstrated in Google's web applications to dramatically improve security.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. This reduces friction and commensurately increases "engagement" metrics. [6].

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

There are certain metrics to be considered for a user to have a hassle-free experience. Hardware resources. Hardware Resources. Effective usage of hardware resources can help in capacity planning and provide a better end-user experience. Metrics to monitor during page load include the following: Start and end time.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

According to other comparisons [Google for 'Performance of Programming Languages'] spread over the net, they clearly outshine others in all speed benchmarks. These include Python, PHP, Perl, and Ruby. Considering all aspects and needs of current enterprise development, it is C++ and Java which outscore the other in terms of speed.

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Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

From outright misstatements about a competitor's security, to claims that performance differences in hardware show Safari is faster, to [geographic brinksmanship](/2022/02/minimum-standards/), the confident bluster hasn't gone down particularly well. This was all considered at length. And yet, Apple continued to apply stop-energy.

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. Since then, the metrics conversation has moved forward significantly, culminating in Core Web Vitals , reported via the Chrome User Experience Report to reflect the real-world experiences of users. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” Our current set of AI algorithms are good enough, as is our hardware; the hard problems are all about data. Should it be?

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL backups play a pivotal role in safeguarding the integrity of your data, providing defense against various unforeseen calamities, hardware malfunctions, data loss, corruption, and inadvertent deletions. This action validates your backups are not corrupted and it provides critical metrics on recovery time.

Best Practices 79

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 79

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

is an open collaboration between Google, Microsoft , Intel , Samsung , and others to safely bring capabilities to the web which native developers have come to expect. In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. This is often determined by hardware integration and device replacement rates.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) can also be used to gather metrics. Considering a Fully Managed DBaaS Offering For Your Business? Want to learn more? Contact us today.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

For web-page loading, this slow-start approach can also affect metrics such as the first contentful paint, because only a small amount of data (tens of to a few hundred KB) can be transferred in the first few round trips. Initial tests by Google , for example, show low percentage improvements for its use cases. What does it all mean?

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

This helps support executive sponsors who then have meaningful metrics to point to in justifying the investments being made. Very rarely have we seen a team succeed that doesn’t set budgets, gather RUM metrics, and carry representative customer devices. Teams with budgets also find it easier to track and graph progress.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this role, I am leading a global team that works closely with our strategic partners such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Pivotal, Red Hat and others. Lift & Shift is where you basically just move physical or virtual hosts to the cloud – essentially you just run your host on somebody else’s hardware.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

There are many more opportunities to customize your infrastructure with an on-premise setup, but requires a significant upfront investment in hardware and software computing resources, as well as on-going maintenance responsibilities. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) came in 2nd at 26.2% of all cloud deployments from this survey.

Open Source 55

Open Source Database Cloud Infrastructure 55

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

It’s an initiative by Google to share unified guidance for quality signals that can be key to delivering a great user experience on the web. CWV is part of a set of page experience signals Google Search will be evaluating for ranking. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS, a Core Web Vitals metric) measures the instability of content.

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

We wanted to have control of the hardware that runs our tests and deliver consistent results. The website hasn’t had any changes made to it, (it’s a personal site I haven’t updated in some time), and you can see how each individual metric varies. Google Pagespeed Insights is a notable example of this.

Speed 62

Speed Testing Website Cache 62

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Table Of Contents.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ). The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world. This is where we started. With Lighthouse scores being somewhere between 40 and 60, we decided to tackle performance (yet again) heads on.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Google cloud.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52