Incident Review: Google Cloud Outage
DZone
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
Outages on the Internet always catch you by surprise, whether you are the end user or the Head of Site Reliability trying to keep a clear mind while you execute your incident playbook.
Check Internet Speed With Apple Network Responsiveness
DZone
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
There are umpteen tools available to check the internet speed. SpeedTest, Speed from Cloudflare , Netflix's Fast , or if you use Google search , you can test the internet speed and its analytics. In macOS Monterey, Apple has released a command-line tool called networkQuality.
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The Complete Checklist For App Store Optimization In Google Play
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. With the invention of the internet, e-commerce gained immense popularity and the launch of the app store by google changed the market, especially the on-demand one for good.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19th, 2018
High Scalability
OCTOBER 19, 2018
four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC! They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.
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Google planning a new ‘Badge of Shame’ for slow websites
MachMetrics
DECEMBER 12, 2019
Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. If you’re using best practices and keeping web performance in mind, you shouldn’t need to worry about being badged. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 7th, 2018
High Scalability
DECEMBER 7, 2018
This is how PCM is able to perform calculations. 2: Alphabet (Google); No.3: Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). 1: Amazon; No.2:
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163 Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 22nd, 2019
High Scalability
MARCH 22, 2019
Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). It has 41 mostly 5 star reviews. They'll learn a lot and love you even more.5 Yep, there are more quotes.
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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon
Brendan Gregg
JULY 4, 2021
It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.
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Overseeing SaaS security with AWS AppFabric and Dynatrace
Dynatrace
MARCH 27, 2024
Modern enterprises today use a myriad of enterprise Software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and productivity suites to run business operations, such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Slack, Zendesk, Zoom, GitHub, and many more. 16) our company users access the internet from.
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DZone
AUGUST 13, 2019
Speed Matters on the Internet. billion fewer in sales per year, while Google claims that less than a one-second delay results in eight million fewer searches per day. When it comes to whether visitors look at your page or not, the most significant factor is how fast your page loads.
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Fostering a Web Performance Culture
Jos
JUNE 2, 2018
Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.
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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon
Brendan Gregg
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.
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110 Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 31st, 2018
High Scalability
AUGUST 31, 2018
shocker) Low performers are almost 4x as likely to use functional outsourcing. Read about it and some of the consequences (search for “Misguided performers”) in the 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Report. They'll love you even more. They'll love you even more. nicolefv : Outsourcing is a bad idea. More more more.
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How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China
Dotcom-Montior
MARCH 27, 2022
The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.
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The future of AI: Kelsey Hightower on how AI can raise the bar for humanity
Dynatrace
MARCH 2, 2023
Google Cloud Distinguished Engineer Kelsey Hightower hopes to solve the many problems facing IT culture by equipping people with the mental and computational software they need to succeed in the competitive world of technology. He noted that a boundary is beneficial between an internet service provider and its customer. “I
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 22nd, 2018
High Scalability
JUNE 22, 2018
Each drone is rated with a game mechanic and gets special privileges based on performance (just kidding). Setting aside the network quality & performance, which is objectively superior with Google, outside of GCE almost every other GCP product is offered as a managed service. Do you like this sort of Stuff?
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How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China
Dotcom-Montior
JUNE 25, 2020
The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.
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What is software automation? Optimize the software lifecycle with intelligent automation
Dynatrace
JUNE 26, 2023
Software analytics enables software automation Software analytics enables software automation with targeted machine learning and AI algorithms that mimic the way humans think to perform repetitive tasks. These algorithms analyze massive amounts of complex structured and unstructured data to enhance human decision making and performance.
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Automated Browser Testing With Opera and Selenium in Python
DZone
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
When it comes to cross-browser testing, we tend to focus on executing test cases for bigwigs like Google Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. Opera may not be your default browser, but it still is a popular web browser in the market and is especially loved in areas that don’t have high-speed Internet. What about the other browsers?
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AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of things
The Morning Paper
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of Things , Abadi et al., Note that AnyLog also differs from projects such as DeepDive or Google’s Knowledge Graph. Despite the "Internet of Things" featuring prominently in the title, there’s nothing particular to IoT in the technical solution at all.
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The Great Firewall of China: Obstacles to Monitoring Performance
Dotcom-Montior
JUNE 15, 2020
The entire country of China’s internet connectivity is shielded by the Great Firewall (GFW). There are three state-owned ISP providers, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile , that control internet in China. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. Keyword Filtering and Blocking.
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Top UI Automation Tools You Should Try
DZone
JUNE 1, 2020
These mind-blowing software testing tools utilize test cases to make sure that the software and application meet its specification and performs the proposed functions. 75% of all site traffic at present mainly runs through search engine-Google. 90% of audiences stopped using applications because of poor performance.
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ChatGPT, Author of The Quixote
O'Reilly
MARCH 26, 2024
To me, the analogy breaks down before it begins: firstly, LLMs don’t merely blur, but perform highly non-linear transformations, which means you can’t just squint and get a sense of the original; secondly, for the photocopier, the error is a bug, whereas, for LLMs, all errors are features. It’s called Google News Showcase.
How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China
Dotcom-Montior
JUNE 25, 2021
The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.
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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon
Brendan Gregg
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!
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How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China
Dotcom-Montior
APRIL 27, 2021
The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.
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Notes on: 'Performance Culture' at Google I/O 2014
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. Performance cops (developers or designers who enforce performance) is not sustainable.
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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality
Dynatrace
DECEMBER 27, 2022
When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time. SLOs improve software quality.
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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch
Rigor
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Jake Archibald.
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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon
Brendan Gregg
JULY 4, 2021
It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.
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52 Fostering a Web Performance Culture
Jos
JUNE 2, 2018
Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.
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Web Performance Bookshelf
Rigor
JANUARY 13, 2020
Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.
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SpaceX Spending $10 Billion to Make the Internet 20ms Faster
MachMetrics
OCTOBER 16, 2019
A lot of coverage on this project is centered (rightfully) around the potential of this project to deliver fast internet to underdeveloped nations at a minimal cost. Starlink’s Goal: Reduce Internet Latency. – Google loses 20% of their traffic for every additional 100 milliseconds it takes a page to load.
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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet
Smashing Magazine
JANUARY 15, 2019
How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. This electricity needs to be produced somewhere.
Cloud observability delivers on business value
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
According to a recent Forbes articles, Internet users are creating 2.5 According to data cited by McConnell, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform grew in the last quarter, ending in June [2023] and jointly delivered almost $50 billion. quintilion bytes of data each day. McConnell said. Cloud modernization.
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Year in Web Performance: 2019
MachMetrics
DECEMBER 27, 2019
Offering 20 chapters with insights into Page Content, User Experience, Content Publishing, and Content Distribution, it can also be overwhelming, so we’ll be summarizing the web performance section in an easy-to-understand manner. We’ll be diving into Chapter 7 – Performance. 20% of sites are considered slow.
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Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF)
Smashing Magazine
DECEMBER 17, 2020
The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). With Google Search Console you can see exactly where your pages are (or aren’t) ranking for different keywords. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.
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Average Page Load Times for 2020 – Are you faster?
MachMetrics
DECEMBER 14, 2019
With another year winding down, it’s time for us to take stock of how our site performance compares to the average page load times for 2020. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. seconds on mobile.
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Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study
Smashing Magazine
DECEMBER 19, 2021
Sometimes it’s easy enough to find the answer to that question and the site just needs to invest in performance. Sometimes though, it’s a little trickier and, despite thinking your site was great on the performance for some reason it still fails. Many developers have been asking themselves that question lately.
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Are Times still Good for Load Testing?
Alex Podelko
JUNE 12, 2019
If we talk about commercial vendors targeting the corporate market, I guess only Neotys remains independent and active (I mean contributing into the performance testing ecosystem – innovation, publishing content, participating in events, etc). Microfocus acquired both LoadRunner from HP and Silk Performer (as a part of Borland).
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Compatibility Testing – An introduction
Testlodge
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Software testers explore the effectiveness of processes that should lead to quality software products to make sure they perform the purpose for which they have been designed. Results may vary because of factors like resolution, internet speed, and different OS versions. Why Perform Compatibility Testing? Conclusion.
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Why Page Speed Scores can be Dangerous
MachMetrics
APRIL 24, 2019
Google PageSpeed Insights has a their “Speed Score.” ” Pingdom has a “Performance Grade.” The reality is that these scores are estimates of how well your site implements performance best practices. Who is your website’s users – Google, or your real customers? seconds to.27
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How do you decide your approach for mobile website testing?
Testsigma
JANUARY 29, 2021
The rise of mobile internet usage is evident across developed economies as well as developing ones (India, Bangladesh, etc.)[3]. Globally, consumers are preferring their mobile phones for performing activities (e.g. that require internet connectivity. online shopping, bill payments, etc.) Mobile-first indexing.
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What is?OpenTelemetry??Everything you wanted to know
Dynatrace
JULY 31, 2020
These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. The OpenCensus project was made open source by Google back in 2018, based on Google’s Census library that was used internally for gathering traces and metrics from their distributed systems. Dynatrace news.
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