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The Fastest Google Fonts

CSS Wizardry

It’s widely accepted that self-hosted fonts are the fastest option: same origin means reduced network negotiation, predictable URLs mean we can preload , self-hosted means we can set our own cache-control. That said, the convenience of a service like Google Fonts cannot be overstated. What else could I do to make Google Fonts fast ?

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Check Internet Speed With Apple Network Responsiveness

DZone

SpeedTest, Speed from Cloudflare , Netflix's Fast , or if you use Google search , you can test the internet speed and its analytics. In this blog article, we will deep dive into network quality and its usage. There are umpteen tools available to check the internet speed. Launching networkQuality.

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How to Monitor Active Directory With Google Stackdriver

DZone

Confirgure Google Stackdriver and Bindplane to monitor your Active Directory What is Active Directory? Active Directory stores information about objects handled on a network and makes it easy for admins and other users to access and utilize the data.

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Google's June 2nd Outage: Their Status Page ? Reality

DZone

On Sunday June 2nd, Google Cloud Platform had an extended networking-based outage. There was significant disruption of commonly used services like YouTube and Gmail, as well as Google-hosted applications like Snapchat. Previously we've written about having hard conversations with cloud providers.

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Building Resilience With Chaos Engineering and Litmus

DZone

Various factors, such as network communication, inter-service dependencies, external dependencies, and scalability issues, can contribute to outages. Prominent companies like Slack , Twitter , Robinhood Trading , Amazon , Microsoft , Google , and others have recently encountered outages resulting in significant downtime expenses.

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Fallacy #8: The network is homogeneous

Particular Software

Google built BigTable, Amazon built Dynamo, Facebook built Cassandra, LinkedIn came up with Voldemort. From Udi Dahan's free Distributed Systems Design Fundamentals video course Semantic interoperability The true challenge of non-homogenous networks lies in semantic interoperability. None of these things can talk to each other.

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Google planning a new ‘Badge of Shame’ for slow websites

MachMetrics

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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