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.

Social Media 135

Social Media Google Internet Internet 135

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Facebook took notice of the 3-second abandonment statistic and declared in August 2017 that information feed updates with slow-loading links will be shown reduced in the newsfeed: “With this update, we’ll soon take into account the estimated load time of a webpage that someone clicks to from any link in News Feed on the mobile app.

Speed 93

Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 21, 2022

HTTP/3 work started in 2012 with Google working on QUIC, adopted by IETF in 2017, RFC’s published in June 2022. The TLS + QUIC layer makes UDP safer to use, but a lot of networks will likely still block for awhile. The RSVP problem: HTTP/3 might be blocked on the network or may not be enabled on the server.

Network 65

Network Mobile Google Cache 65

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7% Google Homepage — DOM. per GB respectively.

Cache 99

Cache Mobile Google Network 99

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the newest metric of the bunch and is set to formally be a ranking factor in Google search results beginning in March 2024. This is readily available in PageSpeed Insights and Google Search Console, not to mention DebugBear. DebugBear actually tests with a slower network, resulting in more accurate data.

Traffic 114

Traffic Metrics Google Website 114

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

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

A 2017 study by Akamai says as much when it found that even a 100ms delay in page load can decrease conversions by 7% and lose 1% of their sales for every 100ms it takes for their site to load which, at the time of the study, was equivalent to $1.6 Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Lighthouse.

Cache 94

Cache Social Media Media Website 94

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

The other issue is that the data I’m getting back is based on lab simulations where I can add throttling, determine the device that’s used, and the network connection, among other simulated conditions. On that note, it’s worth calling out that there are multiple flavors of network throttling. Real usage data would be better, of course.

Speed 85

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 85

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. We live in the era of the connected experience, where our daily interactions with the world can be digitized, collected, processed, and analyzed to generate valuable insights.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB. This part of the actual SSPL language speaks volumes: If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version available to third parties as a service, you must make the Service Source Code available via network download to everyone at no charge, under the terms of this License.

Open Source 98

Open Source Programming Database Servers 98

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Increase the Google rankings of your web pages. A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a network of servers that is placed in different locations across the globe. Between June 2017 and 2018, the total number of SSL certificates increased by a record 13.2 What are SSL Certificates Used For? million certificates.

Monitoring 77

Monitoring Website Internet Internet 77

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 1, 2017

At re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon Time Sync Service which provides a highly accurate and reliable global time reference. In many ways, Amazon Time Sync Service is truly inspired by Google' TrueTime. Google's data centers are equipped with a series of GPS receivers and atomic clocks.

AWS 55

AWS Google Database Virtualization 55

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. Popular search engines like Google give preference to websites that are mobile-ready[4]. Mobile-Friendly test from Google is another useful tool that helps in testing the mobile-friendliness of your website. Mobile-first indexing.

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

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

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. — Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. For developers and decision makers with fast phones on fast networks this is a double-whammy of hidden costs.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

The most preferred single-page applications are Gmail, Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Low data usage and Offline accessibility: It works fine in low internet reception and is also possible to access offline like Google Maps. Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

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.

Cache 89

Cache Government Traffic Network 89

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Varonis) In 2017 there was a 13 percent overall increase in reported system vulnerabilities. KeyCDN uses Google Authenticator to provide an authentication code which is used to log in. Install the Google Authenticator app on your device and add the two-factor authentication secret manually or scan the QR code provided on your screen.

Transportation 47

Transportation Website Google Infrastructure 47

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. There’s a good high-level overview of federated learning on Google’s AI blog. . Secure aggregation was introduced in a 2017 paper by Bonawitz et al., ‘ Practical secure aggregation for privacy-preserving machine learning.’ SysML 2019.

Systems 71

Systems Design Google Servers 71

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

After the latest redesign in late 2017, it was Ilya Pukhalski on the JavaScript side of things (part-time), Michael Riethmueller on the CSS side of things (a few hours a week), and yours truly, playing mind games with critical CSS and trying to juggle a few too many things. The performance distribution for Largest Contentful Paint in 2020.

Performance 111

Performance Cache Mobile Network 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

Performance 111

Performance Cache Network Metrics 111

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. To simulate text messages I have used ~3 billion of reddit comments (10 years from 2007 to 2017), downloaded from pushshift.io.

Database 48

Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 48