The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Google Docs, Trello, …). It should work without a network. One of the fruits of this work is an open-source JavaScript CDRT implementation called Automerge which brings CRDT-style merge operations to JSON documents. Used in conjunction with the dat:// networking stack the result is Hypermerge. I’m all in :).

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Cloud Software Software Internet 83

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. Despite being largely open source, browsers and their engines are not loss leaders. What does this almighty torrent of cash buy Google?

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Unfortunately, the network operations had a cruel surprise for us. This maxim applies just as well to servers and networks as it does to the entirety of existence. In any interesting business environment, we try to think in terms of server and network diagrams that do not change. And so we started it all again.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The Google DevTools console can give you real-time feedback to help you trace the source of errors, and you can set handlers to automate exception data collection. Source: Google Keep in mind that not all code errors are noticeable to users. If you are a hobbyist you can use Sentry completely free.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. Many of the new open source models are much smaller and not as resource intensive but still deliver good results (especially when trained for a specific application). Microsoft, Google, IBM, and OpenAI have offered more general indemnification.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One free tool has become prominent in the space – Google Lighthouse – and one question often bubbles up: “I use Google Lighthouse for one-off snapshots of my site’s performance, so why do I need a performance monitoring solution?” Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright.

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Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Large preview ).

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Website Performance Google Media 126

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().

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Website Google Open Source Mobile 80

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple Corporate is at fault, not Open Source engineers or the line managers who support them. Next-generation video codecs, supported in many modern chips, but also a licensing minefield. The open, royalty-free codec AV1 has been delivered instead. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps. getUserMedia().

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The gotcha here is that, if your mobile experience isn’t optimized for various devices and network conditions, these customers will never appear in your analytics — just because your website or app will be barely usable on their devices, and so they are unlikely to return. What’s a representative device to test on in 2021? Large preview ).

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. This could be an image, a block of text, or even an embedded video.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. Between Google (Vertex AI and Colab) and Amazon (SageMaker), you can now get all of the GPU power your credit card can handle. Not that you’ll even need GPU access all that often.

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Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

There are various implementations–from the industrial-grade AWS SageMaker Autopilot and Google Cloud Vertex AI , to offerings from smaller players–but, in a nutshell, some developers spotted that same for() loop and built a slick UI on top. “What if we build a model to detect motion in the video feed?

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Tuning Open Source AWS Software 130

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Web pages, such as the one you’re reading now, have text, images, videos and other assets to bring information to you. If you see authors turning to other authoring tools such as Google Docs for its commenting or suggestions capabilities, it may be a red flag as to what features you are missing. External best of breed video services.

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Cache Website Mobile Google 143

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 is used in sensitive data such as your video footages via CCTVs or your personal health data etc. 2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies.

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Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

is an open collaboration between Google, Microsoft , Intel , Samsung , and others to safely bring capabilities to the web which native developers have come to expect. rich multimedia (animations, video, audio). full TCP/IP & UDP networking, including local network discovery. Chromium's Project Fugu ??

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Hardware Games Java Media 55

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

is a server-side, open-source, JavaScript runtime environment that allows developers to write JavaScript on the client and the server-side. Real-time software system – Collaboration tools used for video/audio conferencing, document writing, Chat applications, etc. Open-source: Large ecosystem for the open-source library.

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Open Source Virtualization Programming Servers 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As you may already know, image optimization is the process that a high-quality image has to go through to be delivered in ideal conditions, sometimes with the help of an Image Transformation API and a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) to make the process simpler and scalable. The Relation Between Images And Web Performance.

Media 105

Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

When evaluating open source tools or enterprise-grade synthetic monitoring tools, you want to look for capabilities that maximize its strengths. Does it capture screenshots or a video of script running, so you can see what the screen looked like when a button or form field couldn’t be found? Can you specify the location?

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Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Get the eBook.

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Let’s figure it all out.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. The project consisted of upgrading the shop software to our own open-source system and redoing the shop’s front end from scratch. Additionally, page speed is a ranking factor for search and also for your Google Ads.

Performance 115

Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Mosh is a remote terminal app (or mobile shell) for interactive SSH usage that includes several useful features for those who need to do terminal-based tasks over weak WiFi, cellular networks, or other less-reliable connections. Large preview ). Large preview ). Large preview ). Large preview ). Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Lazy-load offscreen images (reduce network contention for key resources). For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS. CWV is part of a set of page experience signals Google Search will be evaluating for ranking. Lighthouse. Large preview ).

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Compression achieved is relevant because the higher the compression, the smaller the file size, and the lower the data required to transfer the image on the network. However, you should ideally replace such images with videos. The AV1 image file format (AVIF) is an open-source image format for storing still and animated images.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7

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