CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory. Don’t have time to read 5,500+ words?

Engineering 246

Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2021

Given our relatively frequent releases, this means that you can benefit from 11 to 12 OneAgent updates a year that are deployed as soon as they are available for your environment. The creation of a OneAgent maintenance window is similar to the creation of an event in Microsoft Outlook or Google Calendar, including the recurrence settings.

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Processing Monitoring Performance Availability 264

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

From the moment a Netflix film or series is pitched and long before it becomes available on Netflix, it goes through many phases. Data connectivity across Netflix Studio and availability of Operational Reporting tools also incentivizes studio users to avoid forming data silos. Data Delivery via Data Mesh What is Data Mesh?

Big Data 257

Big Data Government Processing Analytics 257

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. According to other comparisons [Google for 'Performance of Programming Languages'] spread over the net, they clearly outshine others in all speed benchmarks.

Java 214

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 214

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?

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C++ Design Google Games 102

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

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.

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Mobile Monitoring Analytics Google 236

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.

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C++ Testing Tools Government Testing 312

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

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

There are many definitions of environmental sustainability, most of which converge on a common theme: collectively and individually, we have a responsibility to act to protect global ecosystems and support health and wellbeing, now and in the future. General availability is planned for the second quarter of 2023.

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Energy Airlines Transportation Analytics 260

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.

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Open Source Monitoring Google Systems 279

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?

Open Source 213

Open Source AWS Google Speed 213

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.

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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 236

Analytics Technology Technology Cloud 236

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 211

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 211

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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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 143

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

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.

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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.).

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Network Performance Media Cache 278

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

DECEMBER 19, 2021

LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees. The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 144

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

Speed Curve

APRIL 1, 2025

seconds – which is Google's recommended threshold for LCP – the conversion rate is well under 3 percent. By our definition, a meaningful metric is one that can be demonstrated to affect business or user engagement KPIs.) The cohort of users who experienced Largest Contentful Paint times of 1.1 That's a huge drop!

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Speed Metrics Retail Traffic 52

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

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 30, 2025

For more background on safety and security issues related to C++, including definitions of language safety and software security and similar terms, see my March 2024 essay C++ safety, in context. Google Andromeda published an article ~1 year ago about their successful experience enabling hardening. Most people just didnt notice.

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C++ Programming Code Google 70

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?

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

CSS Wizardry

MAY 21, 2018

In order to do this, you’ll need to download the CSV file that Request Map makes available to you. F',' tells AWK to use a comma as our field separator (CSVs are, by definition, comma separated). $2 Example questions include: Can you talk me through Google Tag Manager? Using the Google Sheet. is: Open it up.

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Google C++ Analytics Website 141

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

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Note: For definitions of language safety and software security and similar terms, see my 2024 essay C++ safety, in context. Google recently published an article where they describe their experience with deploying this very technology to hundreds of millions of lines of code. They reported a performance impact as low as 0.3%

C++ 66

C++ Programming Code Google 66

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.

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Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 137

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.

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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.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 111

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 149

Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 149

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.

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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!

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Software Software Google Hardware 78

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.

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Processing Cache Website Servers 127

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?

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Scalability Java Efficiency Database 130