Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents.

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Social Media Google Internet Internet 135

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] Oct 2022 - [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Services like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Stripe made it possible to do formerly difficult, high-stakes enterprise tasks like taking payments with minimal programming expertise. Yet this explosion of internet sites and the network protocols and APIs connecting them ended up creating the need for more programmers.

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Programming Google Infrastructure Internet 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. For example: Think with Google suggests the typical page speed optimizations.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 111

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

With Luminary’s 21 years of experience in the digital space, my experience of 17 years in the CMS space as well as our focus on Headless since 2016, here are my two cents on what you should look out for. Microsoft word documents, spreadsheets, Google docs always rear their heads up when working with content authors. Omnichannel.

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Cache Website Mobile Google 145

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 94

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. Large preview ).

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

At the time of the last Confluence run, the gap had stretched to nearly 1000 APIs, doubling since 2016. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. Delayed five years.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Google founders figured out smart ways to rank websites by analyzing their connection patterns and using that information to improve the relevance of search results. In 2016, Apache Spark introduced Structured Streaming , a new streaming engine based on the SparkSQL abstractions and runtime optimizations. Back in the days of Web 1.0,

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Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix. That early decision was notable because whereas the GPL is applied if derivative work is distributed, the AGPL license applies both for distributed work and whenever end users interact with a program over a network. Is MongoDB free for commercial use?

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 98

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. Network interceptor is introduced for ChromeDevTools for the responses related to the network requests. So the trend of mobile web testing came into the picture.

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Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 52

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. High Performance Browser Networking. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.” Time is Money.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. Importance of page loading speed – Google checks your website load time and they like it as fast with a better user experience.

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The median user is on a slow network.

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Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] , Oct 2022 [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] , accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

Time spent on redirect is most noticeable on mobile devices, especially since they tend to use slower networks. Google sometimes refers to such practices as sneaky redirects , and if your page engages in what search engines deem inappropriate, your page will be penalized in the rankings. Reducing the Use of Redirection.

Mobile 60

Mobile Traffic Google Latency 60

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Because the HTML parser stopped, all network traffic also stopped (because no other HTML tags were parsed to initiate HTTP requests). The number of sync dropped and async rose in June 2016. This is likely when some dominant third party snippets (Google Analytics, Facebook, etc.) Enter the Preloader. switched from sync to async.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Network propaganda works in much the same way as microphones and music. We saw those feedback loops in 2016, we’ve been seeing them ever since, and we will certainly see them used in 2020. While many of our systems are vulnerable to attack, social networks have proven the most vulnerable. Propaganda isn’t a new phenomenon.

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Social Media Media Network Energy 56

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

De-duplication can prevent multiple copies on disk, but we're out of luck on reducing network costs. One available proxy is the distribution of use from Google's hosted JS libraries. The most enfranchised users with the most high-performance devices and networks will feel their initial (and ongoing) download impacted the least.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 89

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

on December 6th, 2016. My team and I first encountered the strange WordPress-lagging REST API on a client site (not decoupled), where we used the custom endpoints to get the list of locations on a Google map, alongside other meta information created using the Advanced Custom Fields Pro plugin. Working With WordPress REST API.

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Cache Website Speed Testing 88

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

billion in 2016. The growing demand for IoT-testing is the government’s gradual acceptance of smart cities’ concept, which is why businesses are keen to incorporate IoT into their networks. million Google Play Store applications, followed by 1.96 Better and quicker services are urgently needed today.

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Artificial Intelligence Software Software IoT 92

Testsigma

DECEMBER 8, 2019

It has been since 2016 that a major IT firm WIPRO has been pushing for the application of hyper-automation to all their processes in their own firm. 75% of all website traffic runs through Google. According to Gartner , Hyper automation is a technology trend to look out for in 2020. IoT or Internet of Things is an example of that.

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IoT Software Software Testing 78

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

Public API as -a-service has become a good business model: examples include social networks like Facebook/Twitter, messaging as a service like Twilio, and even credit card authorization platforms like Marqeta. So can we use it as our main datastore? Let’s imagine we are running a webservice and provide a public API. voting','maven'] ?

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Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 48