Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video.

Network 144

Network Speed Website Mobile 144

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. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

as it matures 5G is predicted to improve network speeds dramatically. Carriers are predicting download speeds in 2019 for anywhere from 100Mb to 1 Gbit per second on average. This is because historically, faster network speed has enabled developers to deliver more code to users—in particular, more JavaScript code.

Network 84

Network Speed Traffic Mobile 84

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) was the focus of the QZFS paper which used this new hardware device to speed up file system compression.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

TL;DR : To serve users at the 75 th percentile ( P75 ) of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight improvement on last year's budgets , thanks to device and network improvements. This is an ethical crisis for the frontend. 2023 Content Targets #.

Performance 120

Performance Mobile Network Latency 120

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.

Performance 127

Performance Network Metrics Cache 127

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The Region will be in the heart of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, and we're aiming to have it ready by early 2019. I'm also excited to announce today that we are launching an AWS Edge Network Location in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first quarter of 2018.

Cloud 122

Cloud Education Energy Government 122

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

In 2019, we sold 500k tickets a year, so our operations are complex and we need to showcase it with our landing pages in an appealing and fast manner. But first, let’s talk about the importance of speed improvement. Why Is Speed Improvement Necessary To Our SEO Efforts? You may be wondering why we need such a scale. Conclusions.

Google 111

Google Architecture Servers Speed 111

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. For VR, this is a journey that is already one-third complete and expected to be finished by the end of 2019. Over the last five years, we have expanded our physical presence in the Nordics, opening offices in Copenhagen, Espoo, Helsinki, Oslo, and Stockholm.

AWS 120

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 120

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

2019-07-29T14:00:59+02:00. 2019-07-29T13:06:57+00:00. 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. Chris Ashton. per GB respectively.

Cache 97

Cache Mobile Google Network 97

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We’ve been covering papers from VLDB 2019 for the last three weeks, and next week it will be time to mix things up again. I really do want to cover this one at some point, along with Implementation of cluster-wide logical clock and causal consistency in MongoDB from SIGMOD 2019. What if the network was no longer the bottleneck?

Blockchain 46

Blockchain Hardware Google Speed 46

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2019

Receive a metric for the timespan between two given dates in the past: from=2019-12-21T05:57:01.123+01:00&to=2019-12-22T05:57:01.123+01:00. Receive a metric for a given date and time aligned with a specific URC timezone: from=2019-12-21T05:57:01.123+01:00. Receive the timestamp in UTC millisecond format: from=1558963489634.

Metrics 103

Metrics Efficiency Monitoring Azure 103

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Back in October of 2019, “Perl 6” was renamed to “Raku”. Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. Counting down to Christmas, this calendar is dedicated to sharing a new tip for protecting your devices, networks, and data each day. 24 Accessibility (2019). 24 Ways (2019).

Design 110

Design Development Programming Website 110

KeyCDN

MAY 14, 2019

This new feature is available to all customers, is fully integrated into our existing network, and allows comprehensive on the fly image transformation and optimization. If this setting is enabled our network will completely ignore the query string. We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve added the Image Processing feature!

Processing 13

Processing Cache Network Latency 13

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?

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Tasktop

MAY 16, 2019

Tasktop at Agile Israel 2019. Tasktop is thrilled to be a sponsor of Agile Israel 2019 , Israel’s main conference for Agile and DevOps, which takes place next week (May 21, 2019) at the Lago Event Hall in Israel. Companies of all sizes invest in DevOps for two major reasons: to save money and to speed the development.

Software 45

Software Software DevOps Government 45

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2017

With this launch, AWS now provides 49 Availability Zones, with another 12 Availability Zones and four Regions in Bahrain, Hong Kong, Sweden, and a second AWS GovCloud (US) Region expected to come online by early 2019. The opening of the AWS EU (Paris) Region adds to our continued investment in France.

AWS 87

AWS Artificial Intelligence Education Energy 87

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

According to StatCounter , as of September 2019, Google Chrome holds 63.72% browser market share across the globe. You can then choose what device and resolution to emulate, add a network throttle, and even define the device orientation. Network Throttling Profiles You can now also add custom networking throttling profiles.

Google 85

Google Website Network Media 85

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

2019-04-17T12:30:16+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. This typically happens once per server and takes up valuable time — especially if the server is very distant from the browser and network latency is high. Speed Up Next-Page Navigations With Prefetching ,” Addy Osmani. (il). Drew McLellan.

Performance 107

Performance Servers Games Cache 107

KeyCDN

JANUARY 31, 2019

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. According to Wikipedia , Romania ranked 5th place worldwide for the average connection speed of 38.60Mb/s. USD each online annually. USD each online annually.

Internet 48

Internet Internet Ecommerce Speed 48

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. How to get these matrics right and not mess up?

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

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. Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8 Image Compression Just how much of a website is made up of images?

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

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. It's not going well This is what I started warning about in 2019 , and more recently on this blog.

Strategy 76

Strategy Mobile Google Social Media 76

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Without being able to measure the speed at which something is working, we can’t tell if the changes being made are improving the performance, having no effect, or even making things worse. Studying your network waterfall chart in developer tools will show this delay up under the category of “Waiting (TTFB)”.

Servers 88

Servers Performance Metrics Database 88

Tasktop

OCTOBER 20, 2020

William Eggers, Mike Turley, Government Trends 2020, Deloitte Insights, 2019. When we’re talking about flow in IT, we’re talking about understanding the rate of delivery of complete units of value, through the network of contributing teams and the tools that support them to improve it. Subscribe now.

Government 105

Government Programming Metrics Software 105

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. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

In 2019, the worldwide sales of mobile devices were 1524 million units. Mobile Network Issues. Mobile network bandwidth testing is something without which the mobile app testing cannot be considered complete. Apart from this, another problem with the mobile network is data communication. Volatile User Requirements.

Mobile 74

Mobile Testing Energy Operating System 74

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This problem is more apparent on unreliable and slow networks and lower-end devices. How quickly the file is downloaded depends on the connection speed and the size of the file itself. Notice the difference in loading times between mobile and cable networks. Estimated load times for a makeshift JavaScript application.

Code 91

Code Performance Network Website 91

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

As per April 2019 data of Statistica[1], the global mobile population accounted for 4 billion unique users. Speed and Accuracy. It also lets you perform mobile website testing on throttling network conditions – a scenario that is so real in today’s world where the usage of mobile internet is rising at an alarming rate!

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. Let’s get back to home networking.

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 16, 2019

More than 100 companies are involved with IBM’s Food Trust network, including many consumer packaged goods companies and grocery retailers. It is also involved with a project to speed insurance payments to health providers. but, ‘how can we make blockchain work for us?”.

Blockchain 63

Blockchain Retail Innovation Healthcare 63

CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 31, 2020

From 2016 (PDF warning) to 2019 , the average mobile download speed in the U.S. In Brazil and India, average mobile download speeds increased by 75% and 28%, respectively, in that same period of time. has increased by 73%.

Innovation 50

Innovation Mobile Best Practices Speed 50

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

I'm only aware of a few such instances: Apple's 2019 response to the U.S. For example, OWNERs and experts in video and audio codecs can agree to extensive changes in their domain but cannot green-light changes in areas such as layout, networking, storage, or JavaScript engines. Apple's Security Argument #.

Engineering 112

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web development is evolving at a rapid speed with each passing year. And so, it optimizes the page loading speed and reduces the bounce rate. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Approximately more than 34 million blockchain wallets were used globally in 2019.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Hyperscale achieves high performance from each compute node having SSD-based caches which helps minimize the network round trips to fetch data. Microsoft took that idea and built a new compute tier called Azure SQL Database serverless, which became generally available in November 2019.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The high tech lab is remotely operational and specifically targets device behaviour in terms of speed, memory usage, and battery consumption. Speaking of Android OS, in 2019, there were around 2.5 These devices ran on a diverse range of OS versions, screen resolutions, and network types. Key Considerations. Compatibility.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Hardware DevOps 52