Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website. Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website. Indeed, reducing the size of the images is exceptionally important in order to improve the performance of the site. Leonardo Losoviz.

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DZone

MAY 10, 2023

Every internet user, knowingly or unknowingly, uses a CDN while watching a video, reading a newspaper, or enjoying a TV show. It’s a network of geographically distributed servers and data centers designed to deliver higher performance and high availability of internet content. In fact, it has been around for many years.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

More than half of our critical streaming video services are now running on JDK 21 with Generational ZGC, so it’s a good time to talk about our experience and the benefits we’ve seen. Half of all services required for streaming video use our Hollow library for on-heap metadata. That became a nearly 10% improvement with generational ZGC.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. However, just as out-of-control spending bodes ill in the long run, so does unbudgeted digital media decimate site performance. Performance Budgets. “A A performance budget is ‘. Business Performance. Akshay Ranganath.

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Media Performance Mobile Latency 118

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Robin Marx. 2021-08-23T06:20:00+00:00.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Successful deployments of cloud-native workloads at the edge help to reduce costs, boost performance, and improve customer experience. ActiveGate acts as a secure proxy and compresses and routes observability signals in an optimized manner to Dynatrace servers. Data is integrated seamlessly with Kubernetes topology.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2020

i.e. video would play for a very short time, then pause, then start again, then pause. They supplied a video and it looked terrible. I walked upstairs and found the engineer who wrote the audio and video pipeline in Ninja, and he gave me a guided tour of the code. In Ninja, this job is performed by an Android Thread.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). It was at this point that we realized we needed to make a significant change in our approach towards performance, and that we must embrace performance as part of our culture. Dan Shappir. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Similar to the tutorial extension, we created an extension that performs queries against databases. SQL Username: Username of the user who has permission to login on the SQL server remotely and access the database. Notably, the SQL query is not limited to specific columns or data with specific metric values (int or float).

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Database Artificial Intelligence Metrics Monitoring 277

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Thanks to their simplicity and widespread support, GIF files remain wildly popular despite the dozens of other image and video formats available today. That said, GIFs can drag down a web page’s performance, especially if not optimized. Converting your animated GIFs to MP4 videos can make your files up to 95 percent smaller.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. Part 3: Optimizing Size And Performance. Adrian Bece. 2021-08-30T10:00:00+00:00. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Modern web browsers use all sorts of techniques to help improve page load performance by guessing what the user may be likely to do next. One step on from DNS prefetching is preconnecting to a server. Drew McLellan. Preconnecting.

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Performance Games Servers Cache 106

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., Does 5G improve the end-user experience for applications (web browsing, and 4K+ video streaming)? Application performance. SIGCOMM’20. The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz). energy consumption).

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

DZone

JUNE 7, 2019

It's easy for modern, distributed, high-scale applications to hide database performance and efficiency problems. Optimizing performance of such complex systems at scale requires some skill, but more importantly it requires a sound strategy and good observability, because you can't optimize what you can't measure.

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

They can also let the user easily see how good or bad the performance of their website is, showing you exactly what is slowing down your site. Users can also watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window. Element Performance : A user can reach the information of the performance of each element that exists in waterfall chart.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

What does this example have to do with software development and video encoding? Intel and Netflix announced their collaboration on a software video encoder implementation called SVT-AV1 on April 8, 2019. The first successful digital video standard was MPEG-2, which truly enabled digital transmission of video.

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CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In this week's roundup: fighting shifty layouts, some videos might be a bit stalled, and a new way to take screenshots in Firefox. A high bitrate can cause your videos to stall. If you serve videos for your website from your own web server, keep an eye on the video bitrate (the author suggests FFmpeg and streamclarity.com ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Before delving into details about code-splitting, let’s quickly remind ourselves what makes JavaScript so impactful on overall performance. Performance Costs. Adrian Bece. 2022-02-02T10:30:00+00:00.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

When Reloaded was designed, we were a small team of developers operating a constrained compute cluster, and focused on one use case: the video/audio processing pipeline. In the diagram below of a typical Cosmos service, clients send requests to a Video encoder service API layer. debian packages).

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Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

Below is a step-by-step guide on how to do so, but if you’d prefer to watch the steps check out my Performance Clinic here. As Dynatrace is an all in one solution, you have multiple options to capture the needed data; you can use Real User Monitoring (RUM) properties , Server-side request attribute , and Log metrics. Thanks, Lucas!

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Traffic Analytics Metrics Servers 264

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 116

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

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. Recommended reading : How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. Performance And Emissions. Suddenly, that mirage was beginning to look rather more solid.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 135

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DevOps platform engineers are responsible for cloud platform availability and performance, as well as the efficiency of virtual bandwidth, routers, switches, virtual private networks, firewalls, and network management. Open source CI/CD pipeline tool with extensible server automation for distributed builds and scaling.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Video files? Like many static site frameworks in the Jamstack, Gatsby has traditionally enjoyed a great reputation as a performant framework , although it has taken a hit in recent years. That means we will have to use vanilla methods for videos and audio in Gatsby. Check the docs and install one — or more!

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

They can also let the user easily see how good or bad the performance of their website is, showing you exactly what is slowing down your site. Users can also watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window. Interactive Slider : The Interactive Slider is an indicator of the performance of each element in terms of milliseconds.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

According to the official AWS announcement, Graviton2-based Lambda functions offer up to 34% better price-performance improvement. Workloads using multi-threading and multi-processing, or performing many I/O operations, can experience lower execution time and, consequently, even lower costs based on execution time and configured memory size.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I plan on sharing specifically what I learned from performance and accessibility practices as a first-time lead developer of a team , as well as what I wish I had known before we started. My team measured the impact, noting that on the first load, this video category page serves up as many as 14 images.

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Cache Strategy Best Practices Design 72

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. To investigate this topic, let’s first check how important your website performance is to your online business. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance? Main Performance Issues.

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time. SLOs improve software quality.

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