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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf.

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How We Improved SmashingMag Performance

Smashing Magazine

A big JavaScript bundle might seem out of place on a magazine that merely publishes articles, but actually, there is plenty of scripting happening behind the scenes. The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world.

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Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt)

Smashing Magazine

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. The hardware matters, but the underlying OS is the same , and pretty much all apps will run on any device of the same age.

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HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

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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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. Also, the amount of data that is required for the page, and the complexity of the route it must travel through, will determine the amount of carbon released by the network itself.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. Reduce Network Requests. Large preview ).