Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum has a uniquely designed data pipeline that can efficiently stream data from the disk to the CPU, without relying on the data fitting into RAM memory, as explained in their Greenplum Next Generation Big Data Platform: Top 5 reasons article.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

There are dozens of quality articles on ScyllaDB vs. Cassandra, so we’ll stop short here so we can get to the real purpose of this article, breaking down the ScyllaDB user data. Google Cloud. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) was the second most popular cloud provider for ScyllaDB, coming in at 30.4% of all cloud deployments.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Historically, I’d maybe look at Google Analytics—or a RUM solution if the client had one already—but this is only useful for showing me particular outliers, and not necessarily any patterns across the whole project. In a separate sheet—available at the same link as before —I’ve simply graphed the data by page type. See entry 6.

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Dean Hume

MAY 16, 2018

Have you ever been on a website and noticed a popup notification that suggests that there is a new version of the site available? I recently visited Google’s Inbox and noticed a notification a little like the image below. This article is a bit of a lengthy beast, so strap in tight and get comfy!

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

For more information about defining critical paths, see the article Understanding your application’s critical path. According to Google’s SRE handbook , best practices, there are “ Four Golden Signals ” we can convert into four SLOs for services: reliability, latency, availability, and saturation. Availability.

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CSS Wizardry

JANUARY 10, 2023

This audit and, accordingly, this article, only deals with script injection using document.write() —not its usage in general. As well as exhibiting unpredictable and buggy behaviour as keenly stressed in the MDN and Google articles , document.write() is slow. The MDN entry for document.write(). What Makes Scripts Slow?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In this article, we’ll answer some of the most frequently asked questions about the Log4Shell vulnerability, and continue to add on as new questions come up. In the consumer sector, Log4j 2 can also be found in network-enabled storage and smart home equipment, which users should disconnect from the Internet until updates are available.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 14, 2024

WebKit have recently announced their intent to implement the blocking=render attribute for and elements, bringing them in line with support already available in Blink and generally positive sentiment in Firefox. This is the anti-flicker snippet from the now defunct Google Optimize.async-hide { opacity : 0 !important className = s.

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CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

These intermediates fall outside of the scope of this article, but if you’ve ever run a traceroute , you’re on the right lines. That’s exactly what this article is about. However, there are a handful of ways available to us—some are, admittedly, more easy and free than others. Where Does CrUX’s RTT Data Come From?

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Latency Cache Transportation Mobile 222

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

It has one of the best editors – multiple data views are available to support a variety of user needs. One of the special features of Navicat is its collaboration with cloud databases like Amazon Redshift, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and Huawei Cloud.

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Open Source Database Azure Servers 262

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

This article explores SLOs for service performance. If you’re new to SLOs and want to learn more about them, how they’re used, and best practices, see the additional resources listed at the end of this article. SLOs, as a measure of service quality, can track the related availability, reliability, and performance.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Percona

MARCH 1, 2023

Quarter-over-quarter growth is no longer hitting 30% gains for AWS, Google, and Microsoft. We will not consider data transfer or backup costs in this article. They come with no availability guarantee but are available at a much lower price – up to an 80% discount. Discount is great, but what about availability?

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Jos

APRIL 6, 2018

The article will be using Preact/React, yet the ideas can be applied to any other component library. Or loading a 3rd party component like a Google Map, with all its additional assets needed to render the thing? A code coverage report, like the one Google Chrome provides won’t help us much. const latlng = new google.

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Code Performance Media Google 147

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2019

A quick google search reveals several articles on Prometheus performance optimizations we should look into. I did some further digging – such as looking at all the other processes and containers as all this data is available in Dynatrace. Seems there is some massive WAL (Write Ahead Log) activity going on.

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Open Source Metrics Monitoring Cloud 43

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

In fact, Google Analytics even tell us what to do, and they’re right: Copy and paste this code as the first item into the of every webpage you want to track. This article is getting way, way more forensic than I intended. For further detail on this method of linking CSS, I would recommend reading Jake’s article on the subject.

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Network Performance Media Cache 278

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Then the KV DAL handles writing to the appropriate underlying storage engines depending on latency, availability, cost, and durability requirements. Personalized articles in Netflix Help Center powered by Bulldozer. How Bulldozer leverages Spark, Protobuf and KV DAL for moving the data.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Due to their popularity, a wide array of frontend frameworks are available, and new ones emerge on a regular basis. Due to its popularity, there's a huge amount of free help from peer developers available online. Originally created as an early fork of Angular by engineers at Google, Vue.js

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Kubernetes Dashboard as a part of a comprehensive monitoring solution This article introduces the key building blocks to consider when designing your Kubernetes monitoring solution. A wide range of monitoring products with distinct functions, alerting methods, and integrations are available. The Kubernetes experience.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 7, 2019

of PostgreSQL cloud deployments were hosted through Google Cloud Platform (GCP), growing 11% from April where they only averaged 17.5% AWS was not the only cloud provider to grow – we found that 19.4% of PostgreSQL hosting. This leaves our last cloud provider – Microsoft Azure, who represented 3.2% While highly recommended, 33.3%

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Strategy Cloud Java Open Source 182

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Work out what your priorities are, how you can measure progress, and the limitations of the available data. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.

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Engineering Google Website Mobile 132

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. Thousands of avatars available straight from Figma: UI Faces. The plugin has a large library of (literally) millions of logos available at your fingertips. The plugin supports copy and paste from Excel, Google sheet, Numbers and it also can sync with Google Sheets and remote JSON.

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Google Design Code Mobile 145

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2024

Our customers often tell us how much they appreciate the user-friendliness of the articles we create for them, so we recently decided to make them available to everyone (not just SpeedCurve users). You'll find the articles grouped into these topics. Introducing the Web Performance Guide !

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Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

The article will be using Preact/React, yet the ideas can be applied to any other component library. Or loading a 3rd party component like a Google Map, with all its additional assets needed to render the thing? A code coverage report, like the one Google Chrome provides won’t help us much. Map ( this.

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Code Performance Google Media 130

Scalegrid

AUGUST 15, 2019

In this article, we are going to compare 6 of the top MongoDB Graphical User Interfaces that help developers increase their productivity and manage their database. Over 100,000 users are leveraging the Studio 3T MongoDB GUI, including leading organizations such as AT&T, Nike, Microsoft, Google, Intel and Tesla. MongoDB Compass.

Database 40

Database Servers Availability Monitoring 40

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Between vacation, end-of-year projects, the coming holidays, and other hysteria, I haven’t come up with an article this month. Here’s a description of some of the techniques Google puts to use to make it happen.) No, but honestly, if a human summarized my articles, I’d probably find a few things to complain about.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 18, 2024

Last month, TheNew York Times claimed that tech giants OpenAI and Google have waded into a copyright gray area by transcribing the vast volume of YouTube videos and using that text as additional training data for their AI models despite terms of service that prohibit such efforts and copyright law that the Times argues places them in dispute.

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Social Media Media Open Source Traffic 141

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Here’s another article about reducing JavaScript dependencies and the bundle size sent to the client. This article is about a couple of things that Bookaway faced and we (as a company in the traveling industry) managed to optimize our pages, so that the HTML we send is smaller. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

A number of sites moved to font-display: swap when this first came out, and Google Fonts even made it the default in 2019. If the web font isn’t available then, we fall back to the fallback font, but the next page navigation (or a reload of this page) will use the font — as it should have finished downloading now.

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O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. Figure 1: Click-bait article titles generated by GPT-3.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 2, 2025

This article is the second in a multi-part series sharing a breadth of Analytics Engineering work at Netflix, recently presented as part of our annual internal Analytics Engineering conference. In this article, we highlight a few exciting analytic business applications, and in our final article well go into aspects of the technical craft.

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Percona

MAY 29, 2023

With the Percona Operators, businesses can manage multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud PostgreSQL deployments with ease, ensuring that critical data is always available and secure, no matter what happens. In this article, you will learn how to set up disaster recovery with Percona Operator for PostgreSQL version 2.

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Storage Cloud Network Traffic 125

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? A Google machine-learning study I participated in a few years ago found that the total number of page elements was the single greatest predictor of conversions. You can dive deeper into image optimization and SEO tips in this article in Google Search Central.).

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Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Why Optimizing Your Lighthouse Score Is Not Enough For A Fast Website Why Optimizing Your Lighthouse Score Is Not Enough For A Fast Website Geoff Graham 2024-11-05T10:00:00+00:00 2024-11-05T15:07:01+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear We’ve all had that moment. Google Lighthouse is merely one tool in a complete performance toolkit.

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Website Speed Google Metrics 88

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.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JANUARY 19, 2013

Way before Google-scale or Facebook-scale existed, there was Visa-scale. This COMPUTERWORLD article from 2001 provides some insights about early Visa payment processing infrastructure.

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