The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds via HTML5 web worker migration , Jeong et al., This paper caught my eye for its combination of an intriguing idea (opportunistic offload of computation from mobile devices to the edge) and the elegance of the way the web worker interface supports this use case.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Facebook’s mobile device testing lab at the Prineville Data Centre is equipped with Android and iOS devices that test Facebook applications and Instagram. Thousands of mobile devices are racked that are used for testing apps that would soon launch into the real world. The Need For Mobile Testing Lab. Internet and Power Supply.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing. What are Mobile Web Applications? What are Native Applications?

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Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Results may vary because of factors like resolution, internet speed, and different OS versions. For medium to large scale applications, compatible with all commonly available operating systems and internet browsers is essential. Why Perform Compatibility Testing?

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

Armed with this knowledge, we can soon understand why TTFB can often increase so dramatically on mobile. Surely, you’ve wondered before, the server has no idea that I’m on a mobile device—how can it be increasing its TTFB?! The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections. Expect closer to 75ms.

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The Polyglot Developer

JULY 29, 2016

I’ve spent most of my developer life creating applications for the web, desktop, and mobile, but when it comes to possibilities it doesn’t end there. In recent years the Internet of Things (IoT) has been taking over. Jen Looper is a developer advocate at Progress Software, but is also a huge advocate for IoT.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Budget, 2024 JavaScript-Heavy Markup-Heavy Calculate Your Own Situation Report Mobile Desktop Takeaways The Great Branch Mispredict The Budget, 2024 # In a departure from previous years, we'll evaluate two sets of baseline numbers for first-load under five seconds on 75 th ( P75 ) percentile devices and networks. In the U.S.,

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Tech News Gather

JULY 19, 2023

Smart home automation is the process of automating your house by using Internet of Things (IoT) devices to manage your lights, appliances, HVAC, entertainment, security cameras, and alarms, and other sensors for things like water or gas leaks. Selecting the right home automation equipment is increasingly crucial for household management.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Today, most applications are being rolled out on the web, mobiles, TV as well as tablets, simultaneously. During upgrade or maintenance, the devices are updated either with software or hardware. So, the company decides to launch it on mobile and smart TV as well. software and hardware installation upgrades wear and tear.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For example, you can think of a cell phone network as a type of distributed system, consisting of a network of internet-connected devices that share resources workload. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently. Today, there are a variety of architectures and systems in use. Peer-to-Peer.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The entire country of China’s internet connectivity is shielded by the Great Firewall (GFW). There are three state-owned ISP providers, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile , that control internet in China. The most recent technology automatically shuts internet off whenever blacklisted URLs are accessed.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Similarly, there is a growing gap between what a top of the line network connection can handle and what someone with a poor mobile connection or satellite connection can handle. My home internet connection gives me somewhere around 3 Mbps down. Hardware gets better, sure. It seems blazingly fast compared to the 0.42

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Ten years ago, when the mobile handset wars were in full swing, I wrote a blog analyzing the differences among the leaders in the space. Nokia hired a manager from Microsoft to wed the handset business to any alternative mobile operating system to iOS that wasn't made by Google. With the benefit of hindsight, we know how it played out.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

When it comes to latency the authors measured RTTs for four 5G base stations spread across the city, and 20 other Internet servers nationwide. The authors tested a mobile UHD panoramic video telephony app. The long handoffs that we saw earlier also hurt throughput, with an 80% throughput degradation during handover.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

At first glance, the market for mobile browsers looks roughly functional. Tech pundits and policymakers form expectations of browsers on the desktop and think about mobile browser competition the same way. The mobile ecosystem appears to retain these properties, but the resemblance is only skin deep. The Baseline Scenario #.

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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. Hardware And E-Waste. Image credit: BBC.com ) ( Large preview ).

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Industry commentators often write as though the transition to mobile rigidly aligned OSes with specific technology platforms.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

We wanted to have control of the hardware that runs our tests and deliver consistent results. Some visitors will be coming to your site via a blazing fast internet on an overpowered, flagship mobile device. Others will be coming to you from a slow, rural internet connection on a budget laptop.

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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). Critical in adapting web content to mobile, particularly regarding multi-touch gestures. is access to hardware devices.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. After the Free Usage Tier, you can run Amazon RDS for SQL Server under two different licensing models - "License Included" and Microsoft License Mobility. pricing starts at $0.035/hour and is inclusive of SQL Server software, hardware, and Amazon RDS management capabilities.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

A counterpoint however is that, for many Western sites at least, our mobiles are perhaps not quite as low-powered as tools such as Lighthouse in mobile mode suggest, as these are quite throttled. not to mention older browsers (Internet Explorer — hurry up and fade out would you!) CrUX is Chrome only.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

software” rather than “hardware” in our brains). Lastly, ChatGPT is trained on data on the public internet (and can also browse the web to get more updated web contents), so it won’t do as well if you’re asking about things that haven’t been discussed much online. We still have a long way to go, though.

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KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

I’m almost always on a slow connection and the amount of time it takes images to load on most websites is just horrid… - Sara Soueidan Desktop and Mobile Images Just how much of a website is made up of images? KB and the average mobile page is 1,683.5 KB and on a mobile page take up an average of 865.9

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Testsigma is one such platform that gives you the total mobile test automation solution. We have software that communicates with different components, such as APIs, databases, and hardware, and data flows in real-time across many connected devices in the IoT environment (internet of things).

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds. Today’s applications are built on multiple technologies, relying on vast networks of third-party providers and CDN’s.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Monitoring errors on the front-end requires a bit more work because front-end performance is highly dependant on the user’s hardware, software and connection. DebugMe The DebugMe extension is compatible with most web browsers including Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge and Opera.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The only time the Internet was mentioned was as a tool for communicating with one another without the need to chop down more trees, or for working without a commute. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 22, 2010

Each sought to develop and sponsor a library of applications and add-ons so they could sell hardware. And while they lost control of that which they had created, IBM had strong hardware sales, while Apple was for many years relegated to being a provider in niche markets such as education and desktop publishing. Fast forward 30 years.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Developments like cloud computing, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are proving that IT has (again) become a strategic business driver. That can be seen when sales people, for example, interact with their customers in online shops or via mobile apps. Nearly 15 years later, the situation has changed.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop. Study your main competitors, collect metrics on how they perform on mobile and desktop and set thresholds that would help you outpace them. Keep in mind that on a mobile device, you should be expecting a 4×–5× slowdown compared to desktop machines.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Study your main competitors, collect metrics on how they perform on mobile and desktop and set thresholds that would help you outpace them. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). On mobile, per session, users who experienced fast load times bring 17% more revenue than average. of all shipped mobile phones are Android devices. Impact of Web Performance , via Addy Osmani ).

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Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Powerful mobile devices like the iPhone 5s also fared very well. Another interesting note was how significant the impact of hardware has on the timing. Those markets are going to dominate internet growth over the next few years, and affordability is a more necessary feature than a souped up device.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 10, 2011

The success of both tablets and smartphones (and to a lesser extent the fringe battlegrounds of e-readers and other specialized devices), as well as the rapid maturation of cloud-based services, has created a tech hardware war, an OS war, a bidding war for tech firms, and spawned a feeding frenzy in application development.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

For example, for an internet shop, it may be a page with a product list, product details page, shopping cart, checkout, and so on. It also allows the project to be loaded faster, which is pretty important in regards to the growing mobile share and new markets with slow connection speeds and fragmented internet coverage.

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

High performance and mobility. For example, consider a system that calculates average purchase value in the internet shop for each hour. For example, consider a system that counts unique visitors on some internet site. Interoperability with Hadoop. Daily average cannot be obtained from 24 hourly average values.

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Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

If they’re using a particular browser, or if they want their font bigger, or if they’re on a mobile device — it’s our job to give them that great experience…We want to have stubborn empathy for what they need, and what they want, and what they’re going through — what can we do to make all that better? Here at Yahoo!,

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