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Optimizing Google Fonts Performance

Smashing Magazine

Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. It’s fair to say Google Fonts are popular. Without Google Fonts you would be limited to the handful of “ system fonts ” installed on your user’s device. Like all good things, Google Fonts do come with a cost. Danny Cooper.

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What is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)?

Dotcom-Montior

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

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SRE Principles: The 7 Fundamental Rules

Dotcom-Montior

Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. When Google first introduced the role of SRE, they set a goal that half of an SREs time should be focused on reducing future operational work or adding service features. Read : Top 13 Site Reliability (SRE) Tools.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake worked at the BBC for four years, writing low-level JavaScript that catered to their strict accessibility, performance and browser support requirements.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

Interestingly, and perhaps not coincidentally, 100 milliseconds is Google's stated goal when it comes to page load times. Slow websites are just one problem, but for those of us who spend much of our work and personal time online, slow sites creates extra friction in an already friction-filled world.

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Top 13 Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Tools

Dotcom-Montior

Golang, or Go, is an open-source programming language created by Google in 2009 that is used to create software programs. Terraform is an open-source software from HashiCorp that is considered an IaC, or Infrastructure-as-code solution. Kibana is another dashboard visualization software that is popular among SREs.

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The Great Firewall of China: Obstacles to Monitoring Performance

Dotcom-Montior

The censorship and monitoring of internet have evolved from anti-virus-like and firewall software to hardware security patches for all devices that uses internet. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. IP Blocking. IP addresses from other countries are immediately filtered at the backbone router.