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How Google PageSpeed Works: Improve Your Score and Search Engine Ranking

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Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Last year, Google made two significant changes to their search indexing and ranking algorithms : In March, indexing became based on the mobile version of a page , rather than desktop. What is Google Lighthouse?

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. Mobile app platforms are much more standardized around iOS and Android, with Apple and Google providing the platform.

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Compress objects, not cache lines: an object-based compressed memory hierarchy

The Morning Paper

Last time out we saw how Google have been able to save millions of dollars though memory compression enabled via zswap. … to realize these insights, hardware needs to access data at object granularity and must have control over pointers between objects. It also reduces memory traffic by 56% and improves performance by 17%.

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The Great Firewall of China: Obstacles to Monitoring Performance

Dotcom-Montior

Essentially, all traffic between China and the rest of the world goes through a few national level and a handful of core level access points in different regions. The censorship and monitoring of internet have evolved from anti-virus-like and firewall software to hardware security patches for all devices that uses internet.

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Mobile browser testing – what is it and when is it done?

Testsigma

Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities. Test how user-friendly an application is: Google search engine gives high priority to websites in comparison to desktop apps. Google ranks applications based on how user friendly it is.

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Monitoring Serverless Applications

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those resources now belong to cloud providers, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and others. Traffic refers to how much demand is being placed on your system, which depending on the service, is typically HTTP requests per second. This is known as a cold start.

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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic. Bottlenecks can occur, for example, if you have a sudden surge in traffic that your servers are not equipped to handle. What Are the Benefits of Performance Testing?