KeyCDN

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Google has been working for quite some time to speed up its network protocols in order to minimize website response times. TCP support is built into the kernel of operating systems. Especially for video services like YouTube, where users report 30% fewer rebuffers when watching videos over QUIC. That is our goal.

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Transportation Internet Internet Google 51

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. Let’s get back to home networking.

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Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

These applications range from critical low-latency services powering our customer-facing video streaming service, to batch jobs for encoding or machine learning. The idea CFS operates by very frequently (every few microseconds) applying a set of heuristics which encapsulate a general concept of best practices around CPU hardware use.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

On the other hand we have good old-fashioned native apps that you install on your operating system (a dying breed? It should work without a network. This follows from reading and writing to the local file system, with data synchronisation happening in the background when a connection is available. In section 4.2.4

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Cloud Software Software Internet 83

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity. Reduce Network Requests. Are we embedding YouTube videos? Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 28, 2017

In the past I've shared similar methodologies applied to other operating systems, and finished porting them to BSD for this talk. It was a few days of work, which is really not bad.

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Systems Performance C++ Operating System 52

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Of course, there are also times when the problem lies not with your application but with the user’s connection or network configuration. When LogRocket detects a bug, it automatically creates a video capturing exactly what users see on their screens. LogRocket LogRocket is a little bit different from the others.

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Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2011 04:00 PM. Comments ().

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

After content ingestion, inspection and encoding, the packaging step encapsulates encoded video and audio in codec agnostic container formats and provides features such as audio video synchronization, random access and DRM protection. It is worth pointing out that cloud processing is always subject to variable network conditions.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required.

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. This testing is crucial to ensure standard usage and performance of your app on various devices, operating systems, hardware, browsers, and their different versions. You’d be thinking of a no right?

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Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. However, countless research (including the stats for our own site here, and others by the likes of Alex Russell ) has shown that Android devices are the platform of choice for poorer countries with slower networks.

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Website Media Mobile Network 103

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 134

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Worth another mention is Miriam Suzanne’s video: Why is CSS So Weird? More ideas, tips, and tools will be discussed next.

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Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Keep in mind that the operating system will remove the saved state when the app is being force-closed by the user, in order to avoid getting stuck in a broken state in case something goes wrong in the state preservation and restoration. Avoid doing complex calculation, networking, and heavy IO operation (e.g.

Performance 76

Performance Energy Operating System Code 76

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Failures are a given and everything will eventually fail over time: from routers to hard disks, from operating systems to memory units corrupting TCP packets, from transient errors to permanent failures. The importance of the network. Each of those workloads have unique requirements when it comes to the network.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Watch the “Using Open Source Software to Optimize and Troubleshoot Your MySQL Environment” video sessions Open source software powers the Internet. Linux, for example, is the most widely used operating system to run services you use daily.

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Open Source Software Software Social Media 84

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

for block IO, process scheduling and memory management, and the TUN/TAP virtual network interfaces). no support for USB, video, and audio devices). virtio is used for network and block devices. Wherever possible Firecracker makes use of components already built into Linux (e.g.

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Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. AnimXYZ works perfectly with regular HTML and CSS, and it can be integrated in a project using the content delivery network (CDN) link.

Media 120

Media Code Efficiency Tuning 120

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? House Antitrust Subcommittee includes their most specific claims: 4. If yes, please describe any restrictions that Apple imposes and all the reasons for doing so.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Of course, a shop needs interactive elements , be it product image zooming, some videos, a countdown to today’s shipping deadline, or a chat window to get in contact with customer support. Here is a tip: If you haven’t seen people use a screen reader or navigate with just a keyboard, videos on this can be easily found on YouTube.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 116

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This section features terminals, multiplexers, console emulators, mobile terminals, and command-line workspaces that you can use to replace the default terminal app on your system. gtop is another enhancement on the top command that provides a system monitoring dashboard for your terminal. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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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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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Video Transcoding. We already use the public cloud to autoscale some async processing like Video Transcoding, text extraction, data migration, Search, etc. Document store.

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