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%. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

arXiv 2020. Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

It is a server-side scripting language that is highly secure, open-source, and versatile. The PHP 8 version launched in 2020 is the latest. Mostly, web servers are created with PHP. In PHP, code is directly executed on the server and generates HTML to send to the client. However, PHP can run the command line as well.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

cachestat File system cache statistics line charts. The architecture is: While the bpftrace binary is installed on all the target systems, the bpftrace tools (text files) live on a web server and are pushed out when needed. execsnoop New processes (via exec(2)) table. opensnoop Files opened table. ext4slower Slow filesystem I/O table.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1139684093602349056 455 06:18 AM · Feb 28, 2020. A silver lining on this dark cloud is that mobile JavaScript payload growth paused in 2020. How bad is it?

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

Only in extreme circumstances does the cost (in processor time and I-cache footprint) translate to a tangible benefit - circumstances which usually resort to hand-coded assembly anyway. It shouldn't be 10%, unless it's cache effects. Back-end servers. Don't blame the straw, in this case, don't blame the frame pointers.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00. 2020-06-25T15:34:35+00:00. Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. The two types of Django deployments are: Single-Server. Philip Kiely. Option 1: Default Django.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). This difference by itself doesn’t do all that much (it mainly reduces the overhead on the server-side), but it leads to most of the following points. Server Sharding and Connection Coalescing.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

The factors that impact on LCP: Slow origin server response times Render-blocking JavaScript and CSS on page load Page Resource load times User side page rendering. Thanks to the awesome caching plugins available for WordPress will make your site much faster and make your pages feel lightweight when configured correctly.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Did you know that around 306 billion emails have been sent globally every day in 2020 and about 45 percent of all emails received are spam. Email servers tend to blacklist certain IDs as spam based on their content. The email servers do not even allow other companies to be sending out emails from the same blacklisted server.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. Time To First Byte (TTFB) This is the time it takes for the first piece of information from the server to reach the user’s browser. These edge servers are distributed in data centers across the globe.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This way, log event processing can resume event-by-event afterwards, eventually discovering the watermarks, without ever needing to cache log event entries. We are planning to open source DBLog in 2020 and include additional documentation. References [1] Das, Shirshanka, et al. “ All aboard the Databus!:

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This way, log event processing can resume event-by-event afterwards, eventually discovering the watermarks, without ever needing to cache log event entries. We are planning to open source DBLog in 2020 and include additional documentation. References [1] Das, Shirshanka, et al. “ All aboard the Databus!:

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

But here are some recent PWA-related findings by Maximiliano Firtman regarding Chrome: The number of origins with PWAs grew 170% in 2020. However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% When working on the offline mode, choose the service worker in combo with cache API. What Does This Mean?

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. Despite all of this, Intel is not going to lose their entire server processor business any time soon. So, what has changed my mind?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

2020-06-18T10:30:00+00:00. 2020-06-18T11:06:06+00:00. Those aren’t accessible by JS and are sent only to your server. The issue with that is that they’re always sent to your server, even if one of your users clicks on a GET request URL on someone else’s website and that GET request has side effects you or your user won’t like.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Clone Disk],” [link] , 2020 [Moore 20] Samuel K. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

This blog was originally published in September 2020 and was updated in May 2023. Cons of logical backups As it reads all data, it can be slow and will require disk reads too for databases that are larger than the RAM available for the WT cache—the WT cache pressure increases, which slows down the performance.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Whether it is a production server, a test environment, or a developer’s workstation, this encapsulation makes it easier to deploy MongoDB instances in a variety of scenarios, making it more portable and scalable. about to fork child process, waiting until server is ready for connections. connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/?compressors=disabled&gssapiServiceName=mongodb

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KeyCDN

JUNE 16, 2021

If you'd like to know more about where we plan on adding a POP next, check our current network for a list of both active and planned edge server locations. We're happy to have established a solid presence in a new country and plan on continuing to expand in both the US as well as other regions around the globe.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Obviously this means that there is a ton of work to be done going into 2020 for web performance. As we mentioned in our article Average Page Load Times for 2020 , mobile page speed is a huge deal going forward. It can also be described as server delay. 20% of sites are considered slow. Source: Web Almanac – HTTP Archive.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This post was originally published in June 2020 and was updated in September 2023. Reduced Resource Usage Optimizing resource-intensive queries and configurations can lead to a reduced burden on your server. An improperly configured server may not allocate sufficient resources or be optimized for the specific workload.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Guest profiles also start with empty caches, empty cookie stores, empty browser storage, etc. The examples were captured in Chrome Canary on a 2020 i5 MacBook Pro without CPU throttling enabled. These may get populated during testing, but we can clear them at any time via Application > Storage > Clear Site Data in DevTools.

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Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Server rendering in Angular vs React. In addition, React JavaScript framework uses server-side rendering to give a flexible, performance-oriented solution. In addition, it has a collection of well-integrated libraries and features like client-server communication, routing, and many more. React can support server-side rendering.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. A few years ago, The dark mode was first introduced, but from 2020 through 2021 has gained immense popularity. Offline Support : SPA consumes less bandwidth; meanwhile, it loads pages once only. Dark Mode. Image Source.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

cachestat File system cache statistics line charts 7. The architecture is: While the bpftrace binary is installed on all the target systems, the bpftrace tools (text files) live on a web server and are pushed out when needed. execsnoop New processes (via exec(2)) table 2. opensnoop Files opened table 3.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2020-01-06T10:30:13+00:00. 2020-01-06T12:35:48+00:00. New metrics landing in Lighthouse v6 in early 2020. Vitaly Friedman. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? Large view.

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 19, 2020

It’s widely accepted that self-hosted fonts are the fastest option: same origin means reduced network negotiation, predictable URLs mean we can preload , self-hosted means we can set our own cache-control. pic.twitter.com/k6obyVZGZP — Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) 11 May, 2020. What else could I do to make Google Fonts fast ?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. New metrics landed in Lighthouse v6 in early 2020. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We last talked to him in July 2020 , where we asked if modern best practices about for the web. It’s shifting all that computation onto the server to build time or pre deferred time and not on page request time. So Jamstack is not inherently better than server rendered, but in many cases it can be. Chris: Yeah.

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