High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

A typical example of modern "microservices-inspired" Java application would function along these lines: Netflix : We observed during experimentation that RAM random read latencies were rarely higher than 1 microsecond whereas typical SSD random read speeds are between 100–500 microseconds.

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Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. 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.

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 13, 2020

As mentioned in our earlier blog post , Intel and Netflix have been collaborating on the SVT-AV1 encoder and decoder framework since August 2018. Compression efficiency and performance Encoder performance SVT-AV1 reaches similar compression efficiency as libaom at the slowest speed settings.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Large preview ).

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

## References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. Image CDN Using a content delivery network like KeyCDN, or what we also call an image CDN , can be one of the easiest and fastest ways to speed up the delivery of your images.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

Rigor

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Google recently announced the launch of their Speed Update. This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. This announcement is part of a Google’s ongoing efforts to incentivize good web performance. Get Familiar with your Analytics.

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Speed Social Media Google Mobile 40

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

There are several emerging data trends that will define the future of ETL in 2018. In 2018, we anticipate that ETL will either lose relevance or the ETL process will disintegrate and be consumed by new data architectures. With the arrival of new cloud-native tools and platform, ETL is becoming obsolete. More details on this approach.

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Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. Daniel An, Google, 2017.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

A 2018 study by cable.co.uk found that Zimbabwe was the most expensive country in the world for mobile data, where 1 GB cost an average of $75.20, ranging from $12.50 The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 to $138.46.

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Cache Mobile Google Network 97

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. We’ve had nearly 4 million visits to the blog in 2018: thank you! As 2018 moves into 2019, let’s take a quick look back at some of the most popular posts on the blog this year. How to Speed Up Pattern Matching Queries.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more …. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Performance Speed Google Media 100

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

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. India's speed test medians are moving quickly, but variance is orders-of-magnitude wide, with 5G penetration below 25% in the most populous areas.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

In 2018, this is absolutely essential for a number of reasons: Google favors HTTPS-secured sites HTTPS is required to use HTTP/2 HTTPS is required to use Brotli HTTPS helps improve performance, security, and trust If you’ve never heard of TLS, then maybe you’ve heard of the term SSL. The Benefits of TLS 1.3

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Transportation C++ Network Testing 67

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

## References I've reproduced the talk references below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency? Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While experienced AI developers are starting to leave powerhouses like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, not enough are leaving to meet demand—and most of them will probably gravitate to startups rather than adding to the AI talent within established companies. Microsoft, Google, IBM, and OpenAI have offered more general indemnification.

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Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 111

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] , Jul 2008 [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] , 2010 [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Increase the Google rankings of your web pages. CDNs essentially act as the backbone for high speed internet content delivery and performance. Between June 2017 and 2018, the total number of SSL certificates increased by a record 13.2 Over 90 percent of the time, Chrome users prefer secure websites with SSL certificates.

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Monitoring Website Internet Internet 77

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Sure, developing a codebase multiple time was more expensive than the web's write-once-test-everywhere approach, but at least you got speed for the effort. Today's popular JS-based approaches are simply unsafe at any speed. shows what I warned about, citing Google-private data, in 2019. But that's not what happened on the web.

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Strategy Mobile Google Social Media 76

MachMetrics

APRIL 12, 2019

It’s no secret that we’re a huge fan of lazy loading your below-the-fold images to improve page speed. But now it appears the Google Chrome team has jumped aboard and is planning to implement it natively in an upcoming Chrome release. There’s no official date other than saying ‘about Chrome 75.’

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Google Speed Mobile Website 44

Tasktop

MAY 24, 2021

Business agility guru, Jon Smart , revealed that since 2018 OKRs have overtaken portfolio management and balance sheet in Google search trends. Successfully harnessed by major digital innovators , OKRs translate urgent corporate objectives into meaningful goals for their business and technology teams.

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DevOps Metrics Healthcare Innovation 91

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

2018-08-17T13:50:09+02:00. A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. In Myriam Jessier’s " Things Designers Should Know About SEO In 2018 ", she sums up Google’s four micro-moments: “I want to know.”. “I Designing For Micro-Moments.

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Design Google Website Small Business 63

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

I can count on one hand the number of teams I’ve worked with who have goals that allow them to block launches for latency regressions, including Google products. The landing pages of popular tools talk about “speed” without context. — Alex Russell (@slightlylate) August 27, 2018. Or the wealthy few?

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Development Government Mobile Network 73

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

India became a 4G-centric market sometime in 2018. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. OpenSignal's global report on connection speeds ( pdf ) suggest that WebPageTest's default 4G configuration (9Mbps w/ 170ms RTT) is a reasonable stand-in for the P75 network link. How bad is it?

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Performance Network Metrics Cache 127

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018. I mean, why wouldn't we?

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 60

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

However, it’s worth noting that it has not been updated since November 2018. Speaking of layers — speeding through the spec process is another new feature that was designed specifically to assist in orchestrating the cascade and alleviating clashes. Google also provides a resource describing preloading fonts.

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Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. mvfst (Facebook), MsQuic , (Microsoft), (Google), ngtcp2 , LSQUIC (Litespeed), picoquic , quicly (Fastly). Google Chrome (version 91+) : Enabled by default. Google Lighthouse.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 108

Rigor

JULY 26, 2018

Google announced that starting in July 2018, ‘Page Speed’ would be factored into the determination of mobile search results. Why are paint metrics important to your business? With the recent release of Lighthouse 3.0, these key metrics have become more important and weighed differently to emphasize the User Experience.

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Metrics Website Best Practices Media 40

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Moreover, it endures one of the top JavaScript frameworks because of constantly updated technology and backing from Google and its coding power. Moreover, since Google developers make it, you have surety of its reliability and efficiency of code backed up by the vast community of tech experts. Super high-speed rendering.

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Development Google Servers Open Source 52

Enprowess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It was the peak of its popularity in 2018. Wix – Achieved high speed and lightness within the development of configurable navigations and screen choices. Flutter is a cross-platform, open-source framework that functions with a programming language called Dart, developed by Google in 2011. – An overview. React Native Overview.

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Development Social Media Mobile Code 52

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. Our metrics at Google show a conflicted picture (which I’m working to get to clarity on). Their powers combined are going to fundamentally transform the optimal page-load for 2018 and beyond.

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Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

jedberg : Despite being a strong advocate for AWS, this is where I will say Google completely outshines Amazon. Google's approach to pricing is, "do it as efficiently and quickly as possible, and we'll make sure that's the cheapest option". Google applies bulk discounts after the fact, AWS makes you ask for them ahead of time.

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Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 131

MachMetrics

JUNE 18, 2019

Many people reach out to us asking what is the #1 most important bang-for-your-buck tip on optimizing your website’s speed. The most important thing you can do to speed up your site is: Optimize your images! In addition, nearly 60% of web traffic in 2018 came from mobile devices. Sounds simple, right? It’s a godsend.

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Speed Website Social Media Media 81

Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

Reality: While it’s true that when there’s a web performance budget in place, teams need to keep it in mind when updating code or site design, this doesn’t have to impact the speed at which these updates happen. Compare to the ~13s an average phone (Moto G4) takes or the ~36s taken by a low-end 2018 phone (Alcatel 1X).

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Performance Mobile Metrics Speed 122

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

2018-10-26T13:45:46+02:00. In addition to MVC separation, we can (for security reasons or speed improvements) place the JS App on a separate server like in the schema below: Decoupled WordPress diagram. Headless WordPress: The Ups And Downs Of Creating A Decoupled WordPress. Denis Žoljom. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Large preview ).

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Cache Website Speed Testing 79

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

According to Monetate , the following conversion rate results were gathered for Q3 of 2017 until Q3 of 2018. The global conversion rate for Q3 of 2018 was 2.42% down from 2.78% in Q2. Improve Site Speed In 2019, having fast site speed is imperative. There are many ways to speed up a slow website.

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Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41