All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017. Cette nouvelle région sera disponible pour les clients dès 2017. Based in the Paris area, the region will provide even lower latency and will allow users who want to store their content in datacenters in France to easily do so.

AWS 158

AWS IoT Internet Internet 158

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Because of nobody like a slow website. Getting your websites, images, and videos to load quickly is an absolute necessity for inbound marketing success. Getting your websites, images, and videos to load quickly is an absolute necessity for inbound marketing success. Slow website and your business bottom line. Want proof?

Speed 93

Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. The risks embedded in these deep-wetware effects, and their cross-origin implications, mean that your website's success is partially a function of the health of the commons. The Moto G4 , for example.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Around 600,000 websites have installed SSL certificates for security. These certificates are then activated on the company’s website which ensures that a secure connection is always set up between the web browser and the web server. Over 90 percent of the time, Chrome users prefer secure websites with SSL certificates.

Monitoring 77

Monitoring Website Internet Internet 77

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

2017 continues a busy year for AWS in the Middle East. They are also migrating 700 government websites, with more than 50 TB of data, onto AWS, helping them to meet their goal of decommissioning their hosting platform by the end of 2017. Back in January we opened offices in the region to serve our rapidly growing customer base.

Cloud 117

Cloud Education Energy Government 117

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Third-party Javascript accounts for a lot of bloat on websites, with analytics, chatbots, and embedded widgets being common contributors. I also became interested in this analysis of the COP26 website by Fershad Irani, which shows many things that could be improved to reduce the site’s (relatively large) carbon footprint.

Social Media 121

Social Media Media Website Airlines 121

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. 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. Daniel An, Google, 2017. That’s a big problem.”

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

They understood that most websites lack tight latency budgeting, dedicated performance teams, hawkish management reviews, ship gates to prevent regressions, and end-to-end measurements of critical user journeys. And when websites stop being where most of the information and services are, who will hire web developers?

Social Media 130

Social Media Website Technology Technology 130

Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2019

Although I'll submit a short version for USENIX LISA/SREcon.) ## bpftrace for the Win We (the BPF community) began planning this book in 2017, and posted an [announcement] about it so that anyone looking could find it. For URLs where to find the book and updates, please see my website BPF Performance Tools (book).

Systems 111

Systems Performance Education Technology 111

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

I recently profiled a page on a Pixel 2 (released in 2017), and an Alcatel 1x (released in 2018). Cennydd also makes the case that performance also has an impact on energy consumption: In 2016, video, tracking scripts and sharing buttons caused the average website to swell to the same size as the original version of Doom.

Performance 111

Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This way, you’ll not only have the information you need to read your performance reports come March 2024 but can proactively prepare your website for the change. Ultimately, what matters is how real users experience your website, and you need to look at the CrUX data to see that. What page elements do users interact with most often?

Traffic 114

Traffic Metrics Google Website 114

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Created by Jon Yablonski, this lovely website explains 21 psychological principles that designers can consider to create more human-centered products and experiences. Accessibility goes far beyond the code, so when it comes to delivering accessible websites, each person in a team has their specific responsibilities.

Mobile 136

Mobile Airlines Design Strategy 136

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 Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile.

Cache 94

Cache Social Media Media Website 94

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. PostgreSQL is a lot more than an elephant in the room Let’s expand on the answer to the first question: What is PostgreSQL? PostgreSQL hasn’t just been a concern to its competitors; it’s swooped past most of them.

Open Source 98

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 98

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

I joined the team in early 2017, and I'm blown away at how quickly the years have flown by. Fight regressions and stay fast It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. Imagine that your website is a vault containing billions of dollars in jewels. We're officially in our tweens!

Benchmarking 72

Benchmarking Metrics Website Testing 72

The Morning Paper

APRIL 7, 2019

In one case, we found what we believe to be AWS credentials for a major website relied upon by millions of college applications in the United States, possibly leaked by a contractor. We also found AWS credentials for the website of a major government agency in a Western European country… How to detect secrets in GitHub.

Google 76

Google AWS Website Government 76

Website Optimization

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Digital ad spending passed TV for the first time in 2017 (Kafka & Molla 2017). In fact, digital ads will make up 50% of all ad spending by the end of 2018, faster than expected (Berwitz 2018). With the growing penetration of digital advertising, it's important to use the most effective online advertising channels.

Engineering 45

Engineering 45

SQL Server According to Bob

APRIL 24, 2018

Last October we released SQL Server 2017 including support for Linux and Docker Containers. First, you need to download Docker for Mac as seen on this screenshot of the website to download ( [link] ). docker pull microsoft/mssql-server-linux:2017-latest. I’m happy to tell you it took only 4 minutes on my MacBook Pro.

Servers 40

Servers Internet Internet Open Source 40

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I wanted to simulate a slow connection like those experienced by users in Uzbekistan, to see what kind of experience websites would give me. I installed ModHeader and set the ‘Save-Data’ header to let websites know I want to minimise my data usage. A great example would be a website that shows the weather forecast for the week.

Cache 99

Cache Mobile Google Network 99

Smashing Magazine

JULY 11, 2019

The same layout principles which make Pressing Matters so appealing can also be applied to products and websites, despite them being very different media. A generation of product and website designers have grown up with grids from Bootstrap, the 960 Grid System before it, and even the Blueprint framework before that. Large preview ).

Design 102

Design Media Mobile Energy 102

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Without websites, there would be no need for Google search or raw material for its results; without merchants, no Amazon. Both Google and Amazon are gatekeepers controlling the visibility of a vast ecosystem of suppliers. Those suppliers aren’t just a commodity to be exploited by the platform. The same is true of other internet gatekeepers.

Social Media 135

Social Media Google Internet Internet 135

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A 2017 attempt to revive it was shot down in 2018 by Apple engineers without evidence or data. The conclusion was overwhelming: not only was Declarative Shadow DOM now in heavy demand by the community, but it would also make websites much faster. The proposal looked shockingly like those sketched in years past.

Energy 90

Energy Games Engineering Design 90

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

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Quick Summary:- Upgrading your website as per the current trend in the web development industry is crucial to get an edge over your competitors in the digital world. Let’s dive deep into the top website development trends to expect in 2022. Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

This is high-quality data from actual website visitors, for example based on Google’s Chrome User Experience (CrUX) Report. The report, released in 2017, provides network data from sessions collected from real Chrome users. Simulated data, on the other hand, might be convenient and fast, but also can be innacurate.

Speed 85

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 85

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

Bill Kaiser of NewRelic published this blog in 2017 which goes some way towards what I’m talking about, but since then I have figured out a new way to interpret the data. What Is the Expected Distribution of Website Response Times?

Lambda 98

Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

CSS - Tricks

MAY 17, 2019

Since 2017, Safari prevents cross-site tracking by default, through a feature called Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP). Users are prompted to allow tracking when they try to interact with third-party widgets on websites.

Performance 43

Performance Internet Internet Metrics 43

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] So what did $650, give or take, buy in late 2017 or early 2018? but which blessedly sports 8GB of RAM.

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Varonis) In 2017 there was a 13 percent overall increase in reported system vulnerabilities. Automatic DDoS Protection DDoS attacks can be one of the biggest disruptors to a website’s infrastructure. In 2018, DDoS attacks upwards of 1.7Tbps were launched thus bringing certain websites to a crawl for hours.

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. using “22” for the year 2022).

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. Capable of handling a large volume of data, it Is the most commonly used system of storing, retrieving, and displaying data, and it’s used for millions of websites worldwide.

Open Source 107

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 107

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Having worked on browsers for more than a decade, I think it would be shocking if a browser team agreed to more than 10 MiB for a feature like this, especially if it won't dramatically speed up the majority of existing websites. These considerations put tremendous downward pressure on the prospective size budget for a cache.

Cache 89

Cache Government Traffic Network 89

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Removed from the need to police security (browsers have that covered) and handle distribution (websites update themselves), PWA app stores like store.app can become honest-to-goodness app management surfaces that can safely facilitate discovery and sync.

Google 104

Google Mobile Games Strategy 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

Using a component-based API makes most sense when the website is itself built using components, i.e. when the webpage is iteratively composed of components wrapping other components until, at the very top, we obtain a single component that represents the page. I have deployed the PoP API under [link] for demonstration purposes.

Social Media 73

Social Media Database Media Website 73