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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). For example, the ability to test against a wireless provider in a remote area.

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Fallacy #5: Topology doesn't change

Particular Software

I once had a client who started out with a very noncomplex server infrastructure. The hosting provider had given them ownership of an internal IP subnet, and so they started out with two load-balanced public web servers: X.X.X.100 It's easy enough to upgrade load-balanced web servers. It's not so easy with a junk drawer server.

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A 5G future

O'Reilly

Back in the 1980s, Nicholas Negroponte said everything wired will become wireless, and everything wireless will become wired. Can 5G replace wired broadband, allowing one wireless service for home and mobile connectivity? I’d gladly give up my 50 Mbps wired connection for gigabit wireless. I don’t, do you?

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Record IP Camera Surveillance Video With A Raspberry Pi

The Polyglot Developer

As some of you may know, I have wireless surveillance cameras around my home. Up until recently I would have these cameras upload a sequence of images to a remote FTP server every time there was motion. Many years back I even released an Android application called SpyFi to be able to view the video feed from these cameras.

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The Future in Visual Computing: Research Challenges

ACM Sigarch

For many IoT applications involving wireless video sensors (e.g. As the amount of video being streamed keeps increasing at a rapid pace, it is important to make efficient use of wireless bandwidth, while not adversely impacting the accuracy of computer vision analysis. E2E Architecture and Orchestration.

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

One wireless company for example has an international plan that will charge you $25 per month for 50MB after which they will charge you $20 per MB. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The one thing that I have always struggled with during my travels are the data plans of the cell phone companies.

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HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). This is one of the main reasons why content delivery networks (CDNs) exist: They place servers physically closer to the end user in order to reduce latency, and thus delay, as much as possible. and prior (a)).