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Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

Just like shipping containers revolutionized the transportation industry, Docker containers disrupted software. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Containers can be replicated or deleted on the fly to meet varying end-user traffic.

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Measuring Carbon is Not Enough?—?Unintended Consequences

Adrian Cockcroft

Buildings, food and transport have a much bigger carbon footprint than IT globally. In the simplest case, you have a growing workload, and you optimize it to run more efficiently so that you don’t need to buy or rent additional hardware, so your carbon footprint stays the same, but the carbon per transaction or operation is going down.

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An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals

Smashing Magazine

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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HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. One aspect of performance is about how efficiently a transport protocol can use a network’s full (physical) bandwidth (i.e. Initial tests by Google , for example, show low percentage improvements for its use cases. Congestion Control. see figure 2c above).

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Can You Afford It?: Real-world Web Performance Budgets

Alex Russell

Our metrics at Google show a conflicted picture (which I’m working to get to clarity on). Contended, over-subscribed cells can make “fast” networks brutally slow, transport variance can make TCP much less efficient , and the bursty nature of web traffic works against us. The median user is on a slow network.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

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 ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.