All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. Using streams, you can apply the changes to a full-text search data store such as Elasticsearch, push incremental backups to Amazon S3, or maintain an up-to-date read cache.

Database 158

Database Lambda AWS IoT 158

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

They're concerned about internet security, so they'e also running antivirus software. They think they have high-speed internet because they're paying their service provider for it, but they're using an eight-year-old modem. The number of internet users in your house could increase your download speed needs by 2X or more.

Hardware 52

Hardware Internet Internet Speed 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. Many of us are lucky enough to be on mobile plans which allow several gigabytes of data transfer per month. But there are parts of the world where mobile data is prohibitively expensive, and where there is little or no broadband infrastructure. to $138.46.

Cache 99

Cache Mobile Google Network 99

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

What impact does the increased use of mobile devices have? Mobile is still the top priority. In 2017, mobile internet usage passed desktop as the majority. 3 years later, this is still the case with 53% of website visits coming from mobile devices. seconds on mobile. seconds on mobile.

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

We are increasingly seeing customers wanting to build Internet-scale applications that require diverse data models. Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. Purpose-built databases. Queries that used to take 30 seconds now take one second.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks. Beyond running their web properties and applications, Next Digital also uses Amazon RDS (database), Amazon ElastiCache (caching), and Amazon Redshift (data warehousing).

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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 126

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. Explore how improving performance can help relieve some of these common problems.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

And not only that, the tool also allows you to select from different desktop/mobile browsers, which comes in handy if you know what devices your visitors utilize. Browser Caching: Although it may seem commonplace, caching is sometimes overlooked. Setting them up to load asynchronously can help speed load times.

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

While caching continues to be a dominant use of ElastiCache for Redis, we see customers increasingly use it as an in-memory NoSQL database. There are some great examples and use cases for Redis, which you can see at companies like Hudl, which offers mobile and desktop video analytics solutions to sports teams and athletes.

Scalability 102

Scalability Cache Analytics AWS 102

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The solution used in Scrapbook was to use the SWR library of React hooks to update the cached page from the server with client side data fetching. The client is first served the cached statically generated page (generated with getStaticProps() ), in the background the server also begins the process of revalidating that page (read more here ).

Cache 119

Cache Servers Internet Internet 119

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Ever since Google is switching towards “ mobile fast indexing ” it’s very important for a webmaster to keep the pages very well optimized to maintain visitor’s + search engine’s satisfaction level high. Yet 53% of visits are abandoned if a mobile site takes longer than three seconds to load. seconds on mobile devices.

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop. Study your main competitors, collect metrics on how they perform on mobile and desktop and set thresholds that would help you outpace them. Keep in mind that on a mobile device, you should be expecting a 4×–5× slowdown compared to desktop machines.

Performance 111

Performance Cache Network Metrics 111

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. Mobile image transfer size by year graphic from Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. A visual example of responsive images in 3 different viewports: desktop, tablet, and mobile. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente.

Media 125

Media Cache Website Mobile 125

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. This is a screenshot from our mobile Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console. Internet Explorer 6 was fully supported, Firefox was gaining share, and Chrome was still years from launch. It doesn’t take long for bundle sizes to grow.

Google 111

Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 111

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

When it comes to latency the authors measured RTTs for four 5G base stations spread across the city, and 20 other Internet servers nationwide. Emerging architectures that shorten the path length, e.g. edge caching and computing, may also confine the latency. The authors tested a mobile UHD panoramic video telephony app.

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Study your main competitors, collect metrics on how they perform on mobile and desktop and set thresholds that would help you outpace them. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data.

Performance 112

Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. As another example, most applications on the Internet use TCP internally to ensure that all of their data are transmitted in full. Did You Know?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

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. Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

Technology 129

Technology Technology AWS Storage 129

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? I have an iPhone X as my phone, and my testing device. What happens when a browser tries to load a website?

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

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). Critical in adapting web content to mobile, particularly regarding multi-touch gestures. This adds to the expense of developing for iOS.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

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). I scoured the internet for popular lazy-loading libraries until I found the jQuery Lazy plugin.

Cache 75

Cache Speed Internet Internet 75

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

But many, including Gartner , believe that PWAs are the future of mobile sales that’ll overtake the market in the 2020s: “Progressive web apps are a cost- and a skills-effective way to reach a wide audience with a close-to-native app experience that supports the full customer life cycle. What Does This Mean? Findable Pages.

Code 90

Code Cache Mobile Retail 90

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Opera Mobile. 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?

Website 75

Website Speed Cache Google 75

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

And slow websites are, in a way, discrimination: The majority of the world’s population don’t have access to high-speed Internet or fast CPUs. Continue reading below ↓ Meet “Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces” , our brand-new Smashing Book on designing for mobile with proven, universal, human-centric guidelines.

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Website Google Open Source Mobile 98

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services. The HTTP Archive tracks third-party usage across a large swath of all active websites on the Internet today. of mobile sites and 94.1% of requests on mobile and 45.1% You have control over what these resources are.

Website 138

Website Design Network Testing 138

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7% To analyze the impact of various types of embed, I’ve measured the JS loaded and total blocking time (TBT) on a mobile connection for a simple HTML page with some common embeds.

Social Media 121

Social Media Media Website Airlines 121

Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 14, 2018

The area he was in was served by satellite internet access, and experienced significant latency (a floor of 506 milliseconds) and packet loss (between 50-80% was typical). To counter this, the school he was visiting sets up their own local caching server. I use T-Mobile, which is normally excellent. But it’s all roaming.

Cache 64

Cache Mobile Servers Latency 64

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

<img srcset="" src="" alt="" /> To declare this list of images, it is recommended to follow a mobile-first approach. To respect the mobile-first approach, image-300.png You will also have to keep in mind the landscape orientation of mobiles and tablets when defining the list of images. Large preview ). png 1800w".

Media 120

Media Mobile Website Metrics 120

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Each app was then executed on a physical mobile phone equipped with a custom OS and network monitor. The test mobile phones run an instrumented version of Android Marshmallow, on top of a custom Linux kernel which records all file I/O.

Systems 74

Systems Traffic Network Google 74

MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

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. PSI uses a Moto G4 on a slow 4G mobile network for its testing.

Speed 62

Speed Testing Website Cache 62

Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

Responsiveness Years ago people got the opportunity to access the internet through their PCs which had huge monitors. After that people’s interest peaked in the mobile counterpart of the internet, which was accessible to all. Hence the user pattern for internet changes with changing technology.

Website 52

Website Social Media Internet Internet 52

Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

Responsiveness Years ago people got the opportunity to access the internet through their PCs which had huge monitors. After that people’s interest peaked in the mobile counterpart of the internet, which was accessible to all. Hence the user pattern for internet changes with changing technology.

Website 52

Website Social Media Internet Internet 52

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Internet of Things (IoT). Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. A PWA application works on any device with a regular browser with an almost whole native mobile app experience.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The entire country of China’s internet connectivity is shielded by the Great Firewall (GFW). There are three state-owned ISP providers, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile , that control internet in China. The most recent technology automatically shuts internet off whenever blacklisted URLs are accessed.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Internet Internet 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

That connection could be peer-to-peer across devices, and doesn’t have to be over the Internet. Mobile apps that use local storage combined with a backend service such as Firebase and its Cloud Firestore take us closer to the local-first ideal, depending on the way the local data is treated by the application. What can you do today?

Cloud 83

Cloud Software Software Internet 83

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

I’m almost always on a slow connection and the amount of time it takes images to load on most websites is just horrid… - Sara Soueidan Desktop and Mobile Images Just how much of a website is made up of images? KB and the average mobile page is 1,683.5 KB and on a mobile page take up an average of 865.9

Speed 52

Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

High performance and mobility. In many cases join is performed on a finite time window or other type of buffer e.g. LFU cache that contains most frequent tuples in the stream. For example, consider a system that calculates average purchase value in the internet shop for each hour. Interoperability with Hadoop.

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Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154