High Scalability

AUGUST 3, 2018

It was the very first time (1968) the world had ever seen a mouse, seen outline processing, seen hypertext, seen mixed text and graphics, seen real-time video conferencing. Instead, let’s get every possible edge case understood by mingling Google’s training data with that from the other manufacturers. Most importantly?

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

jedberg : Despite being a strong advocate for AWS, this is where I will say Google completely outshines Amazon. Google's approach to pricing is, "do it as efficiently and quickly as possible, and we'll make sure that's the cheapest option". Google applies bulk discounts after the fact, AWS makes you ask for them ahead of time.

Scalability 131

Scalability Internet Internet Wireless 131

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. With its search engine being easily the most used on the internet, Google has an incredible influence on the web. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move.

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Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

1.6x : better deep learning cluster scheduling on k8s; 100,000 : Large-scale Diverse Driving Video Database; 3rd : reddit popularity in the US; 50% : increase in Neural Information Processing System papers, AI bubble? They'll love you even more. Domain Specific Architectures are getting 20x and 40x improvements, not just 5-10%.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

O'Reilly

MARCH 26, 2024

And the space is moving quickly: SORA , OpenAI’s text-to-video model, is yet to be released and has already taken the world by storm. To zoom out again, we live in a society where mainstream journalism has been carved out and gutted by the internet, search, and social media. Google has an alternative solution that supports journalism.

Artificial Intelligence 109

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Google Internet 109

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Improve Animated GIF Performance With HTML5 Video. Improve Animated GIF Performance With HTML5 Video. It has been brought to our attention that this piece is a reworded version of an article published on the Google Web Fundamentals site, written by our friend Jeremy Wagner. Convert Animated GIFs To Video. Ayo Isaiah.

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Performance Website C++ Open Source 59

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.

Internet 44

Internet Internet Latency Speed 44

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

According to Google’s SRE handbook , best practices, there are “ Four Golden Signals ” we can convert into four SLOs for services: reliability, latency, availability, and saturation. To see these principles in action, check out our videos about implementing service-level objectives. Define SLOs for each service.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 272

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In this paper, we examine the advertising and tracking ecosystems of Over-The-Top ("OTT") streaming devices, which deliver Internet-based video content to traditional TVs/display devices. smart TVs) to facilitate the delivery of Internet-based video content. What they found. Trackers are everywhere!

Systems 104

Systems Traffic Internet Internet 104

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on [YouTube]: The slides are [online] and as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

The video is on [youtube]: The slides are on [slideshare] or as a [PDF]: I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF. This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

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). It is a huge industry, with its own publications, thought leaders, podcasts, video series, and more. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.

Engineering 130

Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 3, 2019

After HTTP/2, coming up next is QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections). Google has been working for quite some time to speed up its network protocols in order to minimize website response times. Google is hopeful that QUIC can reduce connection costs towards zero RTTs. Google plans to propose QUIC as an IETF standard.

Transportation 51

Transportation Internet Internet Google 51

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I downloaded TripMode ; an application for Mac which gives you control over which apps on your Mac can access the internet. Any other application’s internet access is automatically blocked. Google Homepage — DOM. I enabled Chrome. Large preview ).

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Testsigma

MAY 5, 2021

MultiBrowser supports testing on all versions of Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Internet Explorer 11. Rapise supports multiple versions of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Chrome; plus, the test scripts can be executed across different browsers that you have on your local machine. Picture Credit: MultiBrowser. Highlights.

Testing Tools 74

Testing Tools Testing Internet Internet 74

High Scalability

MARCH 15, 2019

trillion : new record for calculating digits of pi (121 days); 112Gbps : Intel's SerDes; 100M : image and video dataset; 1.5 were using Google Cloud Storage, but given too many issues big and small over the year, we’ll be migrating to AWS S3 for storage going forward. They'll learn a lot and love you even more.

Internet 34

Internet Internet Scalability IoT 34

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. Watch the video of Jamie’s talk from Green Tech South West. Notably, this makes for 17.28

Strategy 123

Strategy Development Energy Website 123

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. Since then the world has chosen to ride along with Google. If you like this kind of stuff, you might also like Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

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). Next-generation video codecs, supported in many modern chips, but also a licensing minefield. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

MachMetrics

JULY 21, 2018

The changing nature of our Internet usage is having a big impact on this issue. If you’re old enough, you may remember an early-internet when getting an image onto a website was a lot of work. If you thought images were heavy, consider video – which is essentially a collection of images – plus audio.

Website 71

Website Speed Internet Internet 71

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. While bandwidth does continue to increase each year, so does the quality and size of most Internet media. AV1 is the royalty-free video coding format that has most tech experts believing it is the next step in media compression.

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Media Internet Internet Speed 43

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Watch the “Using Open Source Software to Optimize and Troubleshoot Your MySQL Environment” video sessions Open source software powers the Internet. Consider all the projects in Google’s graveyard, like Google Reader, Stadia, G+, and too many messaging apps to even try to recount.

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Open Source Software Software Social Media 85

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. Consider Google Analytics, which collects and sends tracking data using navigator.sendBeacon().

Website 80

Website Google Open Source Mobile 80

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. Are we embedding YouTube videos?

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on YouTube : The slides are online and as a PDF : first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. IoT (Internet of things) devices have been on an increase for a long time now. In 2021, more than 23 billion IoT devices were active and connected to the internet.

Artificial Intelligence 89

Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

High Scalability

JANUARY 24, 2019

The most famous of these companies—the so-called faangs, of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google—have seen their price-earnings ratios collapse by more than 60 percent in the past two years. Rob Pike (1984) : A collection of impressions after doing a week’s work (rather than demo reception) at PARC.

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Games 29

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The internet. This includes: waterfall charts with details about every request, filmstrips and videos that help you visualize the rendering experience, and. Using filmstrips or videos to illustrate a point goes a really long way when speaking to stakeholders that are out of the loop on performance. Benchmark yourself.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In the late 1990s, marketing and advertising agencies saw the potential of eye-tracking for the Internet and started using the technology to analyze how people consume content online. For instance, Nielsen’s research conducted in 2006 showed that people read content on the Internet in an F-shaped pattern.

Mobile 111

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Here’s what Google suggests: PageSpeed Insights demonstrates how much storage and bandwidth websites stand to save with WebP. Source: Google ) ( Large preview ).

Website 72

Website Speed Cache Google 72

MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

If you asked the average internet user how slow a website would need to load before they gave up and left, they might say something like 8 or 10 seconds. Looking again at the websites above, you’ll see that Google uses one image (their logo), Craigslist uses 0(!), Unfortunately, visitors actually give up on websites much faster.

Website 57

Website Speed Google Cache 57

Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

Using a Composite Score: Google Lighthouse. The most common example of this is the Google Lighthouse Performance score. Lighthouse collects each of these metrics, grades each on a curve relative to other sites from the broader Internet, and then combines those grades together using a weighted average.

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Metrics Performance Media Google 89

Testsigma

JUNE 17, 2021

A few years back, I gave my friend a keyword to search on Google and asked him to open the third link that pops up in the results. This urged me to check out the support page of Google and find out this written on it, “ When you search on Google, your results are customized to your current region. Google Chrome Developer Tools.

Website 52

Website Testing Google Ecommerce 52

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

As if website speed wasn’t enough, Google has recently announced that user metrics will become a core ranking factor by 2021. Additionally, the solution captures a video that is synced with the waterfall chart, so you can easily diagnose page errors, minimize downtime, and ultimately, impact to visitors.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

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Internet Internet Google Design 135