Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Surveying the existing landscape of available developer tools and runtimes, we felt that there is a gap. And, of course, the result needs to be seamless and delightful — dare we say, even fun — to develop and maintain. With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away.

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 137

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This separation aims to streamline transaction write logging, improving efficiency and consistency. Implementing dedicated mounts for components such as binlogs and datadir is a recommended standard practice. It becomes more manageable and efficient by isolating logs and data to a dedicated mount. Who can benefit from DLV?

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Apica

JUNE 22, 2022

Three vital factors of any project are of course time, cost, and quality – the goal of any successful project is to reduce the cost and time required to complete it successfully while maintaining quality output. Some of these methods are better suited to manual testing, and some are best performed through automation.

Software 52

Software Software Testing Best Practices 52

O'Reilly

JULY 18, 2023

How should you teach students in your classes knowing that these AI tools are widely available? We wanted to know: How are computing instructors planning to adapt their courses as more and more students start using AI coding assistance tools such as ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot? I’m Sam Lau from UC San Diego, and my Ph.D.

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Programming Education Code Strategy 64

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

And if you absolutely have to have it on a device, most of them are available via Kindle as well. Author Steve Souders writes about the best practices that he gained as the Chief Performance Yahoo! Author Steve Souders writes about the best practices that he gained as the Chief Performance Yahoo!,

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Hot backups vs. cold backups: A hot backup — used to minimize downtime and ensure data availability for critical applications — allows you to create a copy of a database while the system is still actively serving user requests and processing transactions. In a cold backup, the database is taken offline.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

To be effective, all these images need to be carefully orchestrated to appear on the screen fast — but as it turns out, loading images efficiently at scale isn’t a project for a quiet afternoon. DRM-free, of course. Keeping this efficient helps ensure a good user experience. DRM-free, of course. Print + eBook.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 108

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

To be effective, all these images need to be carefully orchestrated to appear on the screen fast — but as it turns out, loading images efficiently at scale isn’t a project for a quiet afternoon. DRM-free, of course. Keeping this efficient helps ensure a good user experience. DRM-free, of course. Get Print + eBook.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 94

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Our goal with this post is to equip you with a comprehensive understanding of the steps, best practices, and pros and cons to ensure a smooth — and successful — transition to an open source database environment. This helps to enhance the efficiency of your database queries, resulting in reduced response times for users.

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Open Source Database Strategy Hardware 90

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

At Dotcom-Monitor, we are all about monitoring solutions for tracking uptime, availability, functionality, and all-around performance of servers, websites, services, and applications. To support these new DevOps environment and practices, various platforms and tools have been developed. Monitoring.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

Maybe the best phrase to describe web standards is a set of standardized "best practices" for building websites. While the following list is not exhaustive, these best practices consist primarily of the following three things: Recommendations published by W3C. Standards published by ECMA International.

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Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? Thomas Bohm.

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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 113

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started  ‍Of course, the latter. But how does this apply to CDNs?

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

This level of distribution will seriously affect the efficiency of the operation, which will increase the response time significantly. This, of course, is unless I can organize my products by country as well, which is a bit unusual nowadays but not impossible. This is it. That part is not automated (yet).

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Traffic Scalability Database Servers 123

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We've reached an age where efficient and swift infrastructure deployment is more crucial than ever. A Content Delivery Network’s job is to distribute content in a fast, efficient, and reliable manner across the globe. Of course, the latter. Your role involves managing the complex infrastructure that powers CDNs.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

But does it need to be available immediately ? There are limitations to them, of course, most notably not having direct access to the DOM and being unable to share variables with other threads. Probably not. Use Web Workers A web worker, at its most basic, allows us to establish separate threads that handle tasks off the main thread.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Description: The most efficient typefaces with the best ratio of x-height and cap-height seem to be Wayfinding Sans Pro and Johnston Underground with an x-height between 67% to 69% of the cap height. The result of the collaboration is a standardized, valid, and reliable reading test system available in numerous languages.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. It’s is a Google service that audit things performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices. We can compress our assets, minify our styles and scripts, and cache things responsibly so we’re serving what the user needs in the most efficient way possible.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

In that context, I’ll focus on C++ and try to: highlight what needs attention (what C++’s problem “is”), and how we can get there by building on solutions already underway; address some common misconceptions (what C++’s problem “isn’t”), including practical considerations of MSLs; and leave a call to action for programmers using all languages.

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C++ Programming Code Java 143

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized , key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Large preview ). Watch out for the Webpack Roadmap 2021.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

I, for one, have typically added Google Analytics to every site I manage as a matter of course. I predominantly use Nginx, and I have a particular fondness for FastCGI cache and have found it to be especially efficient. Note : You also may want to investigate Google’s PageSpeed Module , available for both Apache and Nginx.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Image source: Katie Hempenius ) ( Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Use srcset + efficient modern image formats. You can of course also do this manually just using the <img> element directly. now includes an Image component with several of the above best practices baked in. A component with similar capabilities is available for Nuxt.js. DRM-free, of course.

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Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Event listeners alone, of course, are blazingly fast, leaving plenty of room in the frame budget for other activity. React does alright here, but Preact seems to handle event listeners a bit more efficiently. React performance still isn’t great, but Preact gets us within a typical frame budget for Chrome.

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Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

All of this and you have to help teach people the different ways to use components , proper spacings and design for responsive web, and of course, the component will need to be updated for future use cases. Gone are the days of product designers asking if a component is available to their product developers. Accessibility.

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Design Development Testing Processing 112

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In order to achieve this efficiently, you might be wondering what and how much you need to test. You might find one possible answer in a metaphor: The test automation pyramid , first introduced by Mike Cohn and further specified by Martin Fowler, shows how to make testing efficient. This is a valid question. More after jump!

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Testing Website Code Efficiency 136

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

I’m talking about Chakra UI, of course. There’s accessibility, best practices, performance and one fourth one. You just plug the theme provider in there and Chakra does the rest of the work and it just becomes available everywhere. That you, is available from the makers of Chakra, but as a commercial offering.

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Website Design Open Source Software 63

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Information on the how of performance has been available for awhile, but not until the last couple years have we really seen answers to the question of why. Of course, performance is not all that matters. (If Like sprites, they can be tricky to efficiently maintain, but again, someone has done some of the heavy lifting for us.

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Performance Energy Google Internet 40

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Indeed, the scientific computing community has documented some notebook reproducibility concerns as well as some best practices for reproducible notebooks. Evaluation results are appended to the global state available to the next expression. A deleted cell’s variables are no longer available.

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Open Source Code Website Design 234

Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

It is recommended to follow rules and best practices of building and sending emails. In this article, we’ll explain how a proper email testing workflow can help you improve email sending efficiency. It’s efficient to cover this part of your app functionality with automated tests — perform user acceptance testing.

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Testing Servers Social Media Automotive 110

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to UX Research shares tips and best practices from leading industry experts. Of course, we want to improve the overall user experience and user satisfaction, and we want to establish a lasting, positive relationship with our customers by keeping them happy and productive with our services.

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Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 130

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Indeed, the scientific computing community has documented some notebook reproducibility concerns as well as some best practices for reproducible notebooks. Evaluation results are appended to the global state available to the next expression. A deleted cell’s variables are no longer available.

Open Source 108

Open Source Code Website Design 108

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Thousands of avatars available straight from Figma: UI Faces. All avatars are collected from various sources (they are always provided), and they can be filtered by age, gender and emotion, but of course you need to check the source and the license before actually using it. SVGs and high-resolution images are available on a paid plan.

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Google Design Code Mobile 145

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Indeed, the scientific computing community has documented some notebook reproducibility concerns as well as some best practices for reproducible notebooks. Evaluation results are appended to the global state available to the next expression. A deleted cell’s variables are no longer available.

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Open Source Code Website Design 100

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

We can see what books and courses our customers are using, and for how long. The data available to our retail business is much more limited. We’re talking about applications that integrate all of those sources into a single course of action, and can do so seamlessly. But the gain in efficiency would be relatively small.

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Games Healthcare Processing Retail 118

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

One aspect of performance is about how efficiently a transport protocol can use a network’s full (physical) bandwidth (i.e. Additionally, even if we knew the available physical bandwidth, that wouldn’t mean we could use all of it ourselves. More in-depth information is available. Congestion Control. What Does It All Mean?

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Performance Network Latency Servers 107