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Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters

CSS Wizardry

This is understandable—forgivable, almost—when you consider that TTFB begins to move into back-end territory, but if I was to sum up the problem as succinctly as possible, I’d say: While a good TTFB doesn’t necessarily mean you will have a fast website, a bad TTFB almost certainly guarantees a slow one. But what else is TTFB?

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Monitoring Distributed Systems

Dotcom-Montior

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. For basic and simple websites, a developer was able to easily automate these checks and fix any problems before a user encountered them. The recipe was straightforward. Do you have a database?

Systems 74
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Mobile browser testing – what is it and when is it done?

Testsigma

With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. For example, if you are using internet banking via a Mobile Web application, it will not allow you to save cards or mark any transaction as favourite. What are Mobile Web Applications?

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Image CDN - Speed Up the Delivery of Your Most Important Asset

KeyCDN

Well, that is probably true, as long as they don’t slow down your website to the point where you are losing visitors. When it comes to optimizing your website, images are generally the most important asset you should spend time on figuring out how to reduce in size and deliver in a more efficient way. Mbps ( Opensignal ).

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] Limits help teams steer away from complexity and towards tools that generate simpler output that's easier to manage and repair. In the U.S.,

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

In particular this has been true for applications based on algorithms - often MPI-based - that depend on frequent low-latency communication and/or require significant cross sectional bandwidth. There is no more need for hardware tinkering to keep the clusters up and running (I spent many nights doing this; there is no glory in it).

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Hobson's Browser

Alex Russell

Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. The confusion that reliably results is the consequence of an inversion of the power relationship between app and website. PWA Feature Detector.

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