High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

This issue—the deep nature of centralization—came up as a comment on my article What Do You Believe Now That You Didn't Five Years Ago? Facebook, Netflix, and Google are all distributed across much of the world, but they are still centralized services because control is centralized. Centralized Wins. Decentralized Loses.

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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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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

According to a recent Forbes articles, Internet users are creating 2.5 According to data cited by McConnell, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform grew in the last quarter, ending in June [2023] and jointly delivered almost $50 billion. quintilion bytes of data each day. McConnell said.

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Cloud Artificial Intelligence Innovation Azure 246

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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Social Media Google Internet Internet 125

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 ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. The following qualities are considered great additions to the basic PWA by Google developers. Service Workers. Application shell architecture. Let’s look at each one. created: new Date().getTime()

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Cache Internet Internet Google 136

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. 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?

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

These statements and articles typically skip over some crucial technical details , are lacking in nuance, and usually are only partially correct. In this article series, I will discuss the new protocol, especially its performance features , with more nuance. Did You Know?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

O'Reilly

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s ironic that, in this article, we didn’t reproduce the images from Marcus’ article because we didn’t want to risk violating copyright—a risk that Midjourney apparently ignores and perhaps a risk that even IEEE and the authors took on!) Google has an alternative solution that supports journalism.

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Artificial Intelligence Social Media Google Internet 123

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). With Google Search Console you can see exactly where your pages are (or aren’t) ranking for different keywords. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.

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Engineering Google Website Mobile 135

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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Social Media Media Internet Internet 144

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In this article, I’ll explain popular wording and formatting mistakes and will show more accessible and informative alternatives. What is hidden behind it: a page or file, an article or web form? However, you won’t need to take care of article links with aria-label if each title is a link itself. <h4>News</h4>

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Website Design Internet Internet 143

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 86

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. That’s what this article is about.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Responsive Design - Any site that you develop should render properly across all devices, as more and more people access the internet via mobile devices. Originally created as an early fork of Angular by engineers at Google, Vue.js Angular Google's flagship JS framework, Angular , has been in development for quite some time.

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Google Mobile Open Source Website 135

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It’s been well publicized that Google’s Bard made some factual errors when it was demoed, and Google paid for these mistakes with a significant drop in their stock price. Large language models like ChatGPT and Google’s LaMDA aren’t designed to give correct results. That’s what beta tests are for.

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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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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 97

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

This article is part of a series in which I attempt to use the web under various constraints, representing a given demographic of user. Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I downloaded TripMode ; an application for Mac which gives you control over which apps on your Mac can access the internet.

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Cache Mobile Google Network 99

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf. I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty). Or even on a plane.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It was very important to load the page in iframe , I was wandering around the internet to find a way to load it. This article focuses on various approaches to modify headers in a Selenium automation setup. There’s a lot more to it than what can be covered in this article. Approach 1: Selenium Wire (Python). Conclusion.

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Testing Network Website Google 117

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Sia Karamalegos is a web performance diva we've come to know through her many articles, workshops, conference talks, and her stint as an MC at performance.now() last year – not to mention her role in speeding up a pretty big slice of the internet! Sia currently works as a freelance web performance engineer.

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Performance Tuning Internet Internet 78

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A lot of coverage on this project is centered (rightfully) around the potential of this project to deliver fast internet to underdeveloped nations at a minimal cost. Starlink’s Goal: Reduce Internet Latency. – Google loses 20% of their traffic for every additional 100 milliseconds it takes a page to load.

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Internet Internet Latency Speed 44

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. Do we have a carousel of images?

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

By Rufus Rock , UCL ; Tim O’Reilly , UCL ; Ilan Strauss , UCL ; and Mariana Mazzucato , UCL This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed. But it is far from alone.

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Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

This article is sponsored by imgix. That ensures that the video will start playback quickly and is much less likely to stall during playback — no matter the speed of your user’s internet connection. Better Video Streaming With imgix. Better Video Streaming With imgix. Doug Sillars. 2022-08-25T08:00:00+00:00.

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Media Speed Network Analytics 124

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This article is not “never use pseudo-elements” but rather “we no longer have to use pseudo-elements as much”. A turning point for many front-end developers came when some major players announced they would cease Internet Explorer (IE11) support: All Microsoft 365 web apps stopped supporting IE11 on August 21, 2021. hover , :focus ).

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Internet Internet Google Design 141

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services.

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Website Design Network Testing 138

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Yes, that's right: I read the comments on a MacRumors article. Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. What does this almighty torrent of cash buy Google? At my age, one knows better.

Engineering 124

Engineering Traffic Government Google 124

O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2021

This first article discusses what communal devices are, and how problems that appear result from our assumptions about how they’re used. In this series of articles we will tell you how we got here, why it is problematic, and where to go to enable communal computing. It isn’t just adding the ability for people to switch accounts.

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IoT Transportation Entertainment Infrastructure 98

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. The images used in the article’s Codepen demonstrations will be integrated with TwicPics to save time in their creation and speed up the optimization of the LCP metric. Eloïse Martin. 2023-01-16T18:00:00+00:00. 2023-01-16T22:03:27+00:00. Use Priority Hints.

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Media Mobile Website Metrics 120

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Note : Another timely note here is that Internet Explorer will reach end of life officially on June 15, 2022 ). Reviewing how to handle a lack of support for a feature is a bit beyond the scope of this article. Note : Please make sure to check the resources at the end of this article for a few links related to checking CSS specificity.

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Design Availability Mobile Website 145

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. 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.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

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 ). Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. It ticked all the 6 ideas that I have talked about in the article.

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Performance Speed Google Media 100

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Internet of Things (IoT). Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. The most preferred single-page applications are Gmail, Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Smart cities.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Its videos and blog articles address issues such as web performance, extensible component development and the intersection of CSS with other technologies, like HTML and JavaScript. features collected articles that concentrate on what makes JavaScript work and what doesn’t. Visit website 3. Visit website 6. Visit website 10.

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