Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

IBM Rational Performance Tester and IBM Rational Performance Tester on Cloud (including no charge Starter Edition) appear to be available. To evaluate such ecosystems, in absence of more sophisticated data, I used the number of documents Google finds and the number of jobs Monster finds mentioning each product.

Testing 243

Testing Open Source Testing Tools Performance Testing 243

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.

C++ 321

C++ Testing Tools Government Testing 321

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

The Google Site Reliability Engineering page is a great read for understanding and embracing the idea of defining SLOs for reliable global IT services. SLO templates for the most popular use cases are available out-of-the-box. Proactive SLO impact analysis is available with the release of Dynatrace version 1.220. Learn more.

Best Practices 237

Best Practices Metrics Mobile Engineering 237

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

App developers and digital teams typically rely on separate analytics tools, such as Adobe and Google Analytics, that may aggregate user behavior and try to understand anomalies in traffic. In this scenario, every team has an answer, but no one has the definitive answer. And those are just the tools for monitoring the tech stack.

Mobile 227

Mobile Monitoring Analytics Google 227

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2021

As a strong supporter of open source and open standards, I’m aware that the wide availability of standards, open-source tools, and some newly coined terms are causing a lot of confusion. In the mid 2000s, Google published their Dapper paper which describes techniques for distributed tracing at Google.

Open Source 278

Open Source Monitoring Google Systems 278

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2020

status, title, description, priority, etc,) and Google Doc and Google Drive for managing data itself. From common terms and their definitions, individuals, teams, and services. Getting Started Dispatch is available now on the Netflix Open Source site. Slack for managing incident metadata (e.g. Interested in Contributing?

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AWS Open Source Google Speed 209

Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Modern enterprises today use a myriad of enterprise Software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and productivity suites to run business operations, such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Slack, Zendesk, Zoom, GitHub, and many more. Note that AWS AppFabric is available in the US East (N.

AWS 264

AWS Analytics Government Monitoring 264

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While DevOps is often referred to as “agile operations,” the widely quoted definition from Jez Humble, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, calls it “a cross-disciplinary community of practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving, and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.” App availability.

DevOps 246

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 246

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

PurePath 4 supports serverless computing out-of-the-box, including Kubernetes services from Amazon Web Services (AWS) , Microsoft Azure , and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). In this example you can see on the left side that the Envoy payment service is running on a Linux host, deployed in the Google cloud. Seeing is believing.

Analytics 235

Analytics Technology Technology Cloud 235

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Meson was based on a single leader architecture with high availability. We want users to rely on shared templates and reuse their workflow definitions across their team, saving time and effort on creating the same functionality. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours.

Java 207

Java Scalability Traffic Engineering 207

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.

Google 143

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 143

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

One of the main roadblocks that arises with a broader definition for DevOps is responsibility. Site reliability engineers focus on automation, application availability, and performance, and help detect issues earlier in the software development lifecycle. Who is responsible for that in a modern development team?

DevOps 239

DevOps Engineering Innovation Best Practices 239

Jos

APRIL 6, 2018

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. Code coverage tab on Google Chrome ( source ) As with everything else, there are trade-offs with lazy-loading. const latlng = new google.

Code 147

Code Performance Media Google 147

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

This is definitely a bug in WebKit/Blink—missing quotes shouldn’t hide the @import ed stylesheet from the Preload Scanner. 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. The same waterfall occurs in Opera and Safari.).

Network 279

Network Performance Media Cache 279

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.

Google 86

Google Latency Website Metrics 86

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.).

Mobile 145

Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

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. Code coverage tab on Google Chrome ( source ). When it comes to SEO, you might have issues indexing lazy-loaded content on Google.

Code 130

Code Performance Google Media 130

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations. " you might ask?

Google 134

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. We could have specified a narrow definition of cloud—inclusive of the SaaS, PaaS, and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud; exclusive of cloud-based email, office productivity, etc.—but

Cloud 144

Cloud Serverless AWS DevOps 144

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The way we train juniors, whether it’s at university or in a boot camp or whether they train themselves from the materials we make available to them (Long Live the Internet), we imply from the very beginning that there’s a correct answer. Maybe, but we’re definitely not there yet. Why did we do it that way?

Development 124

Development Code Google Engineering 124

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 The PHP library for the API is available on GitHub. Search engines, such as Google, sees hyphens as a separator.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. Although we’ve been told for years that visitors are willing to wait three seconds for a web page to load , Google considers 2.9 seconds too long.

Website 111

Website Speed Mobile Design 111

Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

It offers automatic data sharding, master-replica configurations for high availability, and a scalable and flexible architecture to maintain consistent performance. Sharding in Redis involves dividing data across multiple machines to enhance scalability and maintain availability. What is Redis Sharding?

Scalability 130

Scalability Java Efficiency Database 130

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? How will AI adopters react when the cost of renting infrastructure from AWS, Microsoft, or Google rises? Microsoft, Google, IBM, and OpenAI have offered more general indemnification.

Open Source 125

Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 125

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process.

Engineering 270

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 270

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

This makes memory a critical factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of large compute clusters, or as Google like to call them “Warehouse-scale computers (WSCs).” ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Enter zswap!

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

At Neotys PAC 2019 in Chamonix, France, I presented approaches on how to solve this problem by looking at examples from companies such as Intuit, Dynatrace, Google, Netflix, T-Systems and others. On the left you see the Pitometer spec file with the list of indicator definitions as well as the total scoring objective.

Architecture 141

Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 141

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Properly size images: Scaled images will definitely reduce the overall website size. WebP is the way to go WebP was first developed by Google back in 2010 and has now become the successor of JPEG. The available operations are listed in our documentation. Our Image Processing service makes it easy to do that.

Processing 127

Processing Cache Website Servers 127

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Back in May, we shared that SpeedCurve supports Google's Core Web Vitals in both our synthetic monitoring and LUX real user monitoring tools. Two of the Web Vitals – Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and First Input Delay (FID) – were actually available in SpeedCurve for quite a while prior to the announcement.

Retail 88

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 88

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. But does it need to be available immediately ? There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all. Analytics is a good example.

Google 110

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 110

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

While there isn’t an authoritative definition for the term, it shares its ethos with its predecessor, the DevOps movement in software engineering: by adopting well-defined processes, modern tooling, and automated workflows, we can streamline the process of moving from development to robust production deployments. Software Development Layers.

DevOps 144

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 144

The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

The authors of today’s paper should know a thing or two about that: Jeffrey Mogul and John Wilkes at Google 1 ! Or a system availability SLO, for availability seen by the end user, may well depend on the user carefully exploiting the available redundancy.

Metrics 79

Metrics Cloud Google Network 79

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. ” Others — including CockroachDB, TimescaleDB, Redis, and Confluent — followed suit to some extent by changing licenses for key parts of their platforms from open source to source-available. Now, back to MongoDB itself.

Open Source 98

Open Source Programming Database Servers 98

O'Reilly

JUNE 7, 2022

It seems inappropriate to be talking about AGI when we don’t really have a good definition of “intelligence.” We have a lot of vague notions about the Turing test, but in the final analysis, Turing wasn’t offering a definition of machine intelligence; he was probing the question of what human intelligence means. I don’t think so.

Artificial Intelligence 145

Artificial Intelligence Games Energy Open Source 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Definitely trigger warning for explicit mentions of domestic violence, also possibly some elder abuse and child abuse. Definitely anytime you’re allowing users to send any type of text to each other, there’s the possibility for abuse. Definitely not always the case. Eva: Absolutely, yes. Thank you for bringing that up.

Design 115

Design Education Network Processing 115

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

When a project’s source code is available to all, the question of security isn’t far behind. Consider all the projects in Google’s graveyard, like Google Reader, Stadia, G+, and too many messaging apps to even try to recount. We will talk about how to assess that when choosing a project.

Open Source 103

Open Source Software Software Social Media 103

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 10, 2024

That seemed like something worth testing outor at least playing around withso when I heard that it very quickly became available in Ollama and wasnt too large to run on a moderately well-equipped laptop, I downloaded QwQ and tried it out. Perhaps Googles marketing never thought to call this training reasoning.) Can we go further?

C++ 90

C++ Design Google Games 90