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. Hey, I just did that myself in the introduction of this article!

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DZone

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In this short article, we’ll explore eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter), an exciting new technology that makes programming the kernel flexible, safe, and accessible to developers. eBPF has been running in production for over half a decade at an internet scale on millions of servers.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of the Internet of Things (IoT), edge computing has emerged as a critical paradigm to process data closer to the source—IoT devices. This proximity to data generation reduces latency, conserves bandwidth and enables real-time decision-making.

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High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

Quirky : Thus there is a tradeoff: separateness enables inventors to create heterodox ideas, but strong cohesive networks are likely to be better for getting them implemented. smidgie82 : This article totally ignores the devops side of Docker. They were implementations of solutions to problems. Don't stop here.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum interconnect is the networking layer of the architecture, and manages communication between the Greenplum segments and master host network infrastructure. If you have mirroring enabled, you must increase your segment hosts in increments of at least two. So, how is this all coordinated? Greenplum Advantages.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Details pertaining to HDR-VMAF exceed the scope of this article and will be covered in a future blog post; for now, suffice it to say that the first version of HDR-VMAF landed internally in 2021 and we have been improving the metric ever since. Yes, we are committed to supporting the open-source community.

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CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This gives fascinating insights into the network topography of our visitors, and how much we might be impacted by high latency regions. 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. What is RTT?

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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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Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

Attack tactics describe why an attacker performs an action, for example, to get that first foothold into your network. Falco is an open-source, cloud-native security tool that utilizes the Linux kernel technology  eBPF , to generate fine-grained networking, security, and observability events. Scanned our internal network with  nmap.

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember reading articles about how 3G connectivity was going to transform performance and, more generally, the way we used the internet altogether. ” The fallacy of networks, or new devices for that matter, fixing our performance woes is old and repetitive. We’re not talking months in most places, but years.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

According to a recent Forbes articles, Internet users are creating 2.5 You must enable business process automation to improve that environment I described earlier of that NOC (Network Operations Center) of manual engagement. At the same time, the scale of the cloud environment that needs to be managed is exploding.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

However, let’s take a step further and learn how to deploy modern qualities to PWAs, such as offline functionality, network-based optimizing, cross-device user experience, SEO capabilities, and non-intrusive notifications and requests. Optimizing Based On Network Usage. Cache first, then network. Service Workers. Did it'); }; }.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

DNS, which stands for domain name system , is an Internet service that translates domains names into IP addresses. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article. What is DNS? So DNS services definitely go down!

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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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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. That was when I first got to witness the power of network headers. This article focuses on various approaches to modify headers in a Selenium automation setup. They carry data about the data being transferred.

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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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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This article is an effort to explore techniques used by developers of in-stream data processing systems, trace the connections of these techniques to massive batch processing and OLTP/OLAP databases, and discuss how one unified query engine can support in-stream, batch, and OLAP processing at the same time. Interoperability with Hadoop.

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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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CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 19, 2019

Each test consisted of nine runs, using Chrome emulating a mobile device, and the Cable network profile. I can't say I notice a huge difference, but I'm almost always on fast internet connections. The post Using rel=”preconnect” to establish network connections early and increase performance appeared first on CSS-Tricks.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 7, 2024

In this article, we will explore what RabbitMQ is, its mechanisms to facilitate message queueing, its role within software architectures, and the tangible benefits it delivers in real-world scenarios. RabbitMQ allows web applications to create and place messages in a message queue for further processing. </p>

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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. Together, these factors influence how strong the network effects and economies of scale and scope are in a market, including the rewards to market dominance.

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Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. I would like to thank Mikhail Khludnev and Kirill Uvaev, who reviewed this article and provided valuable suggestions. This opportunity is leveraged in the following case study.

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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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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. The post SpaceX Spending $10 Billion to Make the Internet 20ms Faster appeared first on MachMetrics Speed Blog.

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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. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7%

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

This article expands on the most commonly used RabbitMQ use cases, from microservices to real-time notifications and IoT. RabbitMQ in IoT Applications The Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem depends greatly on effective inter-device communication. What scalability features does RabbitMQ offer for IoT networks? </p>

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Additionally.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This problem is more apparent on unreliable and slow networks and lower-end devices. In this article, we’re going to cover code-splitting best practices and showcase some examples using React, so we load the minimum JavaScript necessary to render a page and dynamically load sizeable non-critical bundles. Large preview ).

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MachMetrics

AUGUST 7, 2019

Every time your website loads, it’s using computing power at the server to generate your page, network power to transfer your page, and device power to render your page on the browser. That means that’s a huge difference between what different economic classes are using on the internet. Want to bridge that gap?

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All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2014

This is an extended version of an article that appeared in the Guardian today. We are rapidly entering into an era where massive computing power, digital storage and global network connections can be deployed by anyone as quickly and easily as turning on the lights.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. Since that presentation, Pushy has grown in both size and scope, and this article will be discussing the investments we’ve made to evolve Pushy for the next generation of features. This initial functionality was built out for FireTVs and was expanded from there.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

I’ve written a few articles here before on Core Web Vitals, and am always interested to see what’s in their annual Web Performance Checklist. Running a failing article page through WebPageTest highlighted the LCP element: The LCP image of a typical Smashing Magazine article. OK, so the article author photo is the LCP element.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This article is sponsored by Storyblok. Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. But if you’re worried that you’re not getting the performance you expected because of large, poorly optimized images, don’t worry because that’s what you’re reading this article for! Alba Silvente. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. Internet Explorer 6 was fully supported, Firefox was gaining share, and Chrome was still years from launch. This article provides an excellent explanation of how the CLS score is calculated and the reasoning behind it. Large preview ).

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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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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

Layout shifts are very disrupting to the user, especially if you have already started reading the article and suddenly you are thrown off by a jolt of movement, and you have to find your place again. This also puts extra work on the browser to recalculate the page layout as each image arrives across the internet. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

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. Read this “ Optimize Largest Contentful Paint ” article by Philip Walton and Barry Pollard to learn more about the four LCP subparts and their relation to each other.

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