Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

At the moment, around 35% of our mobile traffic is on iOS , so those users wouldn’t be getting the images faster, but encoding a large JPEG image only, or encoding both AVIF and JPEG files would unnecessarily bloat HTML which we wanted to avoid. Are Modern Best Practices Bad For The Web? New Online Workshops on Smashing.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. How does high availability work?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2023

This model is based on deep collaboration with hundreds of customers, all the best practices we could find, and a philosophy of transparency and fairness. Of course, “all access” doesn’t mean that everything is turned on all the time. We believe DPS represents the right way to partner with customers, and we hope you do, too!

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements. there cannot be high availability.

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Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Overall, adopting this practice promotes a structured and efficient storage strategy, fostering better performance, manageability, and, ultimately, a more robust database environment. This ensures that the advantages of DLV extend to enhanced availability and reliability in Multi-AZ configurations.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” The problem started at 1:24PM PDT, with the services starting to become available again about 3 hours later. This number was so low because the automatic traffic redirect was so fast it kept the impact so low.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Large Seasonal Peaks – Our largest community supports TurboTax where the peak traffic during February or April is often 100s of times greater than a quiet day in June. Of course, with as much textual data as we have we are leveraging Lucene/SOLR (a NoSQL solution) for Search and Semantic processing.

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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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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

This, of course, is unless I can organize my products by country as well, which is a bit unusual nowadays but not impossible. As illustrated above, ProxySQL allows us to set up a common entry point for the application and then redirect the traffic on the base of identified sharding keys.

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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. Based on their daily traffic, they estimated that this increase translated to an astonishing 10.28 Of course, performance is not all that matters. (If Performance matters.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. Monitoring Interaction to Next Paint There’s going to be a new way to gain insights into main thread traffic when Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is released as a new core vital metric in March 2024. What’s so important about that?

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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. Does anyone on my team require further training before we start?

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s about ensuring that your front-end is also working perfectly, that your site can deliver a delightful experience to your users or customers, and that it is functional – even when it’s experiencing up to seven or more times the typical traffic load. Traffic patterns outside of normal [RUM or Analytics].

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

That user preference is available in two (hopefully soon to be three!) This is available behind a flag in Chrome, but not yet on by default while it finishes standardization. However, the above table is not actually representative of total traffic, and that’s another point to note about this data. Save Data API. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. In practice, it turns out that an enormous number of active middleboxes make certain assumptions about TCP that no longer hold for the new extensions. We will discuss these features in more depth later in this article.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍This workflow not only streamlines processes but also ensures that any changes are in line with the organization's best practices and compliance standards.‍Advantages With Terraform's scripted infrastructure, businesses can ensure their content is always available, swiftly rerouting traffic when necessary.‍Additionally,

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Of course, the latter. It not only gives them the power to manage infrastructure but also ensures that their CDN configurations are optimal, secure, and scalable.‍‍Common Practices in Terraform‍Picture this: We have two expert teams in a company - the DevOps team and the DevSecOps team.‍1.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Additionally, even if we knew the available physical bandwidth, that wouldn’t mean we could use all of it ourselves. Several users are typically active on a network concurrently, each of whom need a fair share of the available bandwidth. More in-depth information is available. What Does It All Mean? As for TLS 1.3,

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

DRM-free, of course. For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. DRM-free, of course. eBook is available, too as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle. DRM-free, of course. Print + eBook. Print + eBook. $. Get Print + eBook. Quality hardcover. Get the eBook.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

DRM-free, of course. For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. The eBook is available right away (PDF, ePUB, Amazon Kindle). DRM-free, of course. eBook is already available as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle. Get Print + eBook. Quality hardcover.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

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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). Large preview ).

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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. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools.

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