MachMetrics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Did you order a 5 course meal, but then only eat 2 of them? Of course not, that would be a waste. Now let’s upload our lazy-loading updates and try again: (Note that you’ll have to do hard-reload, clear cache, or use a new private browser to ensure we’re not taking advantage of the browser cache in our testing).

Cache 75

Cache Speed Internet Internet 75

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Of course the easiest would have been to just install Wordpress on a Amazon EC2 micro instance and use a plugin to convert wordpress php to static pages and then sync that to S3. My templates and blog posts are now located in DropBox and thus locally cached at each machine I use. at 30,000 feet). Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

Servers 111

Servers Social Media AWS Website 111

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques. To paraphrase Arthur C. Recent Entries.

Technology 129

Technology Technology AWS Storage 129

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. It’s safe to say WordPress, the platform now powering 40% of the internet, won that battle, but MovableType paved the way for Jamstack CMSs in the future. But, when it worked, it was magical.

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Samsung Internet. The platforms that continue to hold back support are: Internet Explorer. That’s why it’s no surprise that it’s developed a built-in WebP caching and image processing solution that helps developers more easily deliver the right file formats to visitors. What Is WebP Caching? Opera Mini. Android Browser.

Website 75

Website Speed Cache Google 75

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. Cache Your Images. A website’s performance can suffer if frequently accessed images are not cached, as many requests will be made to images that have already been loaded in the user’s system. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente.

Media 125

Media Cache Website Mobile 125

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. One example could be using an RDBMS for most of the Online transaction processing ( OLTP) data shared by country and having the products as distributed memory cache with a different technology.

Traffic 144

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 144

MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

Of course, you still won’t see the same loading time every test , so let’s look at some of the reasons why. Some visitors will be coming to your site via a blazing fast internet on an overpowered, flagship mobile device. Others will be coming to you from a slow, rural internet connection on a budget laptop.

Speed 62

Speed Testing Website Cache 62

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This, of course, positions privacy as a luxury good… Finding apps that leak data. Other apps access the router mac address either by reading the ARP cache (opening the file /proc/net/arp and reading its content) or by simply requesting the igd.xml (Internet gateway device configuration file) directly from the router itself.

Systems 74

Systems Traffic Network Google 74

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). An extension to Service Workers that enables browsers to present users with cached content when offline. Converging Views. Content Indexing.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

A survey of 90,240 companies using MongoDB listed the leading uses as Technology and Services (23%), Computer Software (16%), and Internet (6%). Alternatives to MongoDB Enterprise There are plenty of alternatives, but we’re not going to cover them all here, of course. And MongoDB is popular across industries.

Open Source 98

Open Source Database Scalability Software 98

Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

My journey into performance started in the late 1990s, while I was working for an elearning provider and discovering the challenges of delivering rich content over the internet. And, of course, what can actually be done to make a site faster? Ultimately the business didn’t survive the dotcom bust, but it lit a spark.

Retail 52

Retail Internet Internet Education 52

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

This intensive three day course will provide developers with the knowledge and skills required to write high-performance and low-latency code on today’s modern systems using modern C++11/14/17. I look forward to seeing many of you in Europe this spring.

Latency 48

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 48

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

Many caching plugins like WPRocket also offer Gzip compression right out of the box. Never change, Internet Explorer. The best course of action is to pre compress your files and serve them alongside your regular files. For our WordPress readers out there, the above methods will still work for you as well!

Speed 67

Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

If you asked the average internet user how slow a website would need to load before they gave up and left, they might say something like 8 or 10 seconds. “Well of course these sites load quickly, there’s nothing there!” Unfortunately, visitors actually give up on websites much faster. Source: ThinkWithGoogle.

Website 57

Website Speed Google Cache 57

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Low-end phones on the other hand are getting cheaper , making the mobile internet accessible to demographics that previously maybe couldn’t afford it. Of course, this model doesn’t come without its problems. At the same time, we have a widening performance gap. The DOM actor now updates the DOM according to the new state object.

Games 145

Games Architecture Code C++ 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

They’d take the hit for the first site to use the file, but then it would sit in their local browser cache and downloads could be skipped for each subsequent site. Another interesting thing you can do is use a Content Security Policy to specify that any script (or styles) on your page must use SRI, and of course that SRI must validate.

Website 64

Website Servers Code Best Practices 64

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet. Consider costs : Multiple factors will, of course, affect how much you should budget. Each node has its own cache buffer.) In general terms, again, when it comes to database reliability, the stakes are high.

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 19, 2019

Browsers do caching, silly. Which, of course, I ignored. On the internet. Well, there are several excellent and in no-way-contrived reasons and here are three of them since things that come in threes are more satisfying. That means that you only have to download the site once. Stop complaining. First world problems.

Cache 65

Cache Internet Internet Code 65

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

A GIF that lasts only a few seconds can be several megabytes in size , which means that visitors with slower internet connections could be looking at a blank page for a few seconds before it loads. A CDN will pull the GIF files from your origin server and cache them.

Speed 50

Speed Website Servers Latency 50

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Most of us work on connections that are typically quite a bit faster than that of the average internet user. In the early days of the web when we were browsing the internet via a dialup connection, improving performance meant removing the images from your site. Of course, performance is not all that matters. (If

Performance 40

Performance Energy Google Internet 40

The Morning Paper

APRIL 11, 2019

In addition, service workers have the ability to intercept and handle network requests (for e.g., caching and pre-loading purposes). MarioNet can conduct a subset of DDoS attacks by instructing Servants to connect to a specific Internet host. No user permission is required to register and maintain a service worker. MarioNet use cases.

Website 44

Website Network Traffic Cache 44

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

That means multiple data indirections mean multiple cache misses. Mark LaPedus : MRAM, a next-generation memory type, is being touted as a replacement for embedded flash and cache applications. Cliff Click : The JVM is very good at eliminating the cost of code abstraction, but not the cost of data abstraction. Not so many this week.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Network partitions of course can lead to violation of this guarantee. (G, Permanent redirection means that the client is able to cache the mapping between the shard and the node. This redirect is a one-time and should not be cached. In this article, we, of course, consider only a couple of applied techniques.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. On the Internet, however, we typically have a long series of connected pipes , some of which can be wider than others (leading to so-called bottlenecks at the narrowest links).

Performance 109

Performance Network Latency Servers 109

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. We should use HTTP2 over HTTPS.

Website Performance 78

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. This improves page load time and caching during navigations.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. Sean Larkin has a free course on Webpack: The Core Concepts and Jeffrey Way has released a fantastic free course on Webpack for everyone. Use progressive enhancement as a default.

Performance 112

Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Of course, your data might show that your customers are not on these devices, but perhaps they simply don’t show up in your analytics because your service is inaccessible to them due to slow performance. Sean Learkin has a free course on Webpack: The Core Concepts and Jeffrey Way has released a fantastic free course on Webpack for everyone.

Performance 111

Performance Cache Network Metrics 111