Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Source: Test My Site ) ( Large preview ). Source: Test My Site ) ( Large preview ). Source: Test My Site ) ( Large preview ). Source: Test My Site ) ( Large preview ). Host Fonts From A CDN. Thankfully, a CDN could end up being your saving grace. Source: KeyCDN ) ( Large preview ).

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But cloud transformation makes detecting the epicenter of a failure much more challenging, as outages can be caused by your cloud provider, a third party helping deliver personalized experiences, your content delivery network (CDN), and many other services you may be leveraging. Collaborate and keep an open mind. What does that mean?

Mobile 225

Mobile Social Media Monitoring Metrics 225

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. We chose Open-Zipkin because it had better integrations with our Spring Boot based Java runtime environment.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

In 2015, Google published a blog post announcing Brotli and released its source code on GitHub. It took a few months for major CDN players to support Brotli, but meanwhile it was seeing widespread adoption in tools, services, browsers and servers. Brotli’s beginning…. A story of disappointment. Try it yourself!

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Cache Website Servers Open Source 79

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Jump to the workshops ↬ Using CDN For Caching And WebP For Lighter File Sizes As I mentioned a little earlier, our stack includes Sanity’s CMS. It offers a robust content delivery network (CDN) out of the box , which serves two purposes: (1) optimizing image assets and (2) caching them. Cloudinary supports it , for example.

Cache 72

Cache Strategy Best Practices Design 72

High Scalability

JUNE 4, 2019

PerfOps is a data platform that digests real-time performance data for CDN and DNS providers as measured by real users worldwide. Check out the job opening on AngelList. View and analyze all your logs and system metrics from multiple sources in one place. With your help we'd like to ad a few zeros to that number.

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Java Metrics Software Engineering Traffic 116

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab. You make an asynchronous call to an API, after which you get the URL for the asset on the CDN. However, Jamstack apps serve pre-generated HTML directly from the CDN. Data Event Sourcing. Event Sourcing Architecture. Medium Homepage.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 17, 2020

The ‘Age’ header is used by upstream caching layers (Varnish, CDNs, other proxies, etc.) It’s not just something that Netlify does—open just about any site and you’ll find resources with the ‘Age’ header set. Eventually, the CDN needs to talk to the origin server again. Age , too, factors in.

Cache 80

Cache Servers Testing Performance 80

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. At a very high level, gzip works by finding common, repeated parts in the content, stores these sequences once, then removes them from the source text. Besides, if we crack open the three files, each one contained such a tiny amount of CSS that the three network requests are simply unjustified.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Defining The Environment Choosing a framework, baseline performance cost, Webpack, dependencies, CDN, front-end architecture, CSR, SSR, CSR + SSR, static rendering, prerendering, PRPL pattern. dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. Image source ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

consumers have tried new brands or outlets, diminishing the loyalty factor (Source McKinsey ). No, you will require them, but you need to be open-minded. You may think you can rely on customer loyalty, but be aware that since the start of the COVID pandemic in March 75% of U.S. It’s also from a brand perspective highly relevant.

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Social Media Mobile Google Ecommerce 159

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

As a discovery tool, request maps are great for identifying the source of third-party, fourth-party, fifth-party, etc., Is it hard-coded into the page HTML source? Is there JavaScript injected on the page by a CDN configuration? CDN Finder is a convenient tool to investigate which CDNs (if any) a third-party tag is using.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

using Squoosh , Sharp , ImageOptim or an image CDN ), and using a modern image format, you can tweak the <img> element to serve the most appropriate responsive version of an image or lazy-load it. Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. Large preview ). Lighthouse.

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

If you’re using any third-party services that are blocked in China, even including open-source libraries from blocked vendors, your websites or applications will fail to function properly, or even be inaccessible from China. Pair with a local CDN. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

We try to follow best practice by serving as much as we can over a CDN, avoiding as many third-party scripts as possible, and using simple SVG graphics instead of bitmap PNGs. This way, the initial content can be served from a CDN, and then Next can “hydrate” the page to make elements dynamic. It wasn’t enough. Large preview ).

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Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 93

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

If you’re using any third-party services that are blocked in China, even including open-source libraries from blocked vendors, your websites or applications will fail to function properly, or even be inaccessible from China. Pair with a local CDN. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China.

Website 97

Website Internet Internet Performance 97

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Be sure that the lines of communication between teams are open so that all involved on both sides of an organization have early awareness of upcoming high-load days and can plan accordingly to manage them. Slow CDN times [Synthetic or RUM]. CDN offload issues [CDN]. STEP 7: Tune Your CDN Performance.

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Smashing Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

Gatsby recently announced the launch of Functions which opens up a new dimension of possibilities — and I for one couldn’t be more excited! This next step requires the use of three-geojson-geometry and a CDN resource that contains Natural Earth Data. Using a useEffect I request the geojson from the CloudFront CDN.

Serverless 142

Serverless Code Servers Open Source 142

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Secondly, Let’s Encrypt managed to find a sustainable funding model for a combination of an open source project and free online service, as compared to the more normal pattern which sadly seems to involve running a small number of beneficent maintainers into the ground. The ACME protocol.

Internet 119

Internet Internet Open Source Transportation 119

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

If you go for Jetpack (and I highly encourage you to ), you flip on the (incredibly, free) Site Accelerator feature , which takes all those images, optimizes them, CDN-hosts them, lazy loads them, and serves them in formats, like WebP, when possible (I would assume more next-gen formats will happen eventually).

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Google Best Practices Open Source Website 49

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unoptimized content (generally images) Slow WordPress themes Sluggish WordPress plugins A huge number of HTTP requests from external sources Not utilizing a specifically dedicated resource to serve content (video hosting, CDN, etc.) A CDN that has broad global coverage.

Cache 52

Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

If you’re using any third-party services that are blocked in China, even including open-source libraries from blocked vendors, your websites or applications will fail to function properly, or even be inaccessible from China. Pair with a local CDN. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

If you’re using any third-party services that are blocked in China, even including open-source libraries from blocked vendors, your websites or applications will fail to function properly, or even be inaccessible from China. Pair with a local CDN. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

For example, we could add throttling to the test environment to enforce an artificial condition where the test opens the page on a slower connection. Source: Source: DebugBear. Different tools and data sources often report different metric values. It really depends on both the user and how you serve data.

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Alex Podelko

AUGUST 15, 2017

An interesting discussion started around a very good post Open Source Load Testing Tool Review by Ragnar Lönn. In my experience it is a major factor – and a weak spot of most open source products (some of which don’t support it at all). Regards, Alex. Ragnar Lönn: Hi Alexander, I agree.

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Testing Tools Testing Website Open Source 100

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. Image source ). Image source: Katie Hempenius ) ( Large preview ). Source Map Explorer. Large preview ). There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io Defining The Environment.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use Python through the full content lifecycle, from deciding which content to fund all the way to operating the CDN that serves the final video to 148 million members. We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below. video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network.

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

An open-source tool that wraps custom SQL databases with a dynamic API and provides an intuitive admin app for managing its content. You can also use the open-source single page application Sanity Studio to quickly set up an editing environment that you can customize. Open up the Navbar.js Netlify CMS. Product.js.

Open Source 103

Open Source Website Mobile Code 103

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The project consisted of upgrading the shop software to our own open-source system and redoing the shop’s front end from scratch. We convinced jewellerybox to try a self-hosted open-source chat widget instead , which gives us more control over how it gets loaded and which is a lot smaller, too.

Performance 115

Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Note : In your browser development tools, open the Network > Img tabs to see the image chosen by the browser according to each viewport and DPR. Now with the source code of our third demo , and regardless of the DPR, the browser can load the perfect image: For a display width of 280px for a viewport of 320px (87.5%

Media 104

Media Mobile Website Metrics 104

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Sanity pairs a real-time data store with three open-source tools: a powerful query language (GROQ), a CMS (Sanity Studio), and a rich-text data specification (Portable Text). Portable Text is an open-source specification designed to treat rich text as data. Portable Text. 11ty And 11ty Serverless. In the upcoming 1.0

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Serverless Cache Open Source Code 77

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I launched Chrome and opened the dev tools, where I throttled the network to a slow 3G connection. If you want to see what was actually downloaded to the browser, switch to the Sources tab and find the document. Switching to Sources and finding the index shows the ‘raw’ HTML that was delivered to the browser. What a mess!

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

When a new browser technology is released to a single browser, the open-source community usually releases a JavaScript polyfill to provide the same technology to the rest of the browsers. data-sizes="100w"> If you prefer to use the picture tag, change the srcset , sizes and src also in the source tags. <picture>

Website 103

Website Best Practices Media Open Source 103

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 18, 2022

It is not open source. Just as an example, I've been asked many times why my company uses FreeBSD for its CDN, with the assumption that there must be some dumb reason we didn't choose Linux. " X may be an application, programming language, operating system, hypervisor, processor, or tool. It is too expensive.

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Energy Technology Technology Open Source 40