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Case Study: Pokémon GO on Google Cloud Load Balancing

High Scalability

There are a lot of cool nuggets in Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook. Niantic launched Pokémon GO in the summer of 2016. Prior to launch, they load-tested their software stack to process up to 5x their most optimistic traffic estimates. In addition, many engineers across Google provided their assis?

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Top Software testing trends to look out for in 2022

Testsigma

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. The software industry goes through a lot of research and modified methodologies that keep the software quality top-notch for the end-user.

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How To Avoid Landing Page Redirects (10 min read)

Rigor

This is similar to the type of redirect used if you’ve registered multiple domains and you want to direct all of your traffic to your primary URL. In all of these instances, you should identify which URL garners the most traffic and then configure an HTTP 301 -type redirect for all of the lesser-used URLs to the most-trafficked.

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Load scripts async

Speed Curve

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.

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Cache and Prizes

Alex Russell

One available proxy is the distribution of use from Google's hosted JS libraries. Late in the drafting of this post, it was pointed out to me by Frederik Braun that Brad Hill had considered the downsides of a site-populated SRI addressable cache back in 2016. It turns out this idea has been circulating for a while.

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Comparison between Testsigma and Protractor alternatives

Testsigma

You might already know that Google is going to stop the development of Protractor soon. Angular, a Javascript-based framework for developing mobile and web applications, was first introduced by Google in 2009. Because of its increasing popularity and usage, Google rewrote and rereleased it in 2016. What is Protractor?

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Can You Afford It?: Real-world Web Performance Budgets

Alex Russell

Our metrics at Google show a conflicted picture (which I’m working to get to clarity on). Contended, over-subscribed cells can make “fast” networks brutally slow, transport variance can make TCP much less efficient , and the bursty nature of web traffic works against us. 75% of of connections occur on either 2G or 3G.