Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

To secure consumer data, organizations need to make sure that their networks are updated and protected against any malicious activity. The complexity of the software being built and that billions of devices are connected with them through the internet, makes them vulnerable to security threats. They must be kept well protected.

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Testing Hardware Open Source Internet 67

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. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Website Performance 74

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

SWR does not just revalidate the data once, however, you can configure SWR to revalidate the data on an interval, when the tab regains focus, when a client reconnects to the Internet or programmatically. With detailed code walkthroughs , hands-on examples and common gotchas — all broken down into short, manageable lessons.

Cache 105

Cache Internet Internet Servers 105

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Unit Testing – Developers execute unit tests for the smallest unit of code, whenever they commit new code in the code repository. Can we have a single day in our life without a mobile phone today?

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Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This, of course, positions privacy as a luxury good… Finding apps that leak data. Each app was then executed on a physical mobile phone equipped with a custom OS and network monitor. Network traffic is also monitored, included all TLS-secured traffic where the developers hadn’t used certificate pinning (i.e., most apps).

Systems 74

Systems Traffic Network Google 74

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Have we optimized enough with tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, progressive hydration, clients hints, HTTP/3, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). PWA Feature Detector.

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Google Mobile Engineering Traffic 121

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

With the above code, this would cause the main content to jump down after the image is downloaded and the space needed to display it can be calculated: Layout shift after image loads. This also puts extra work on the browser to recalculate the page layout as each image arrives across the internet. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Website Code Mobile Availability 126

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It’s much easier to reach performance goals when the code base is fresh or is just being refactored. 300ms RTT, 1.6

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Recommendations can come out of audits from consultants or from automated tools like Lighthouse (or SpeedCurve, of course). The internet. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) like Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, Cloudfront can sometimes have a big impact on performance. It's consistently inconsistent.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. Gzip works by greatly reducing the amount of duplicate code and white space in a website’s files. If you’re using an Apache server, the below code can be added to your.htaccess file. Never change, Internet Explorer.

Speed 67

Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Today, this makes concurrency more important than ever, because it delivers two things: It hides latencies we have to deal with and cannot remove, from disk I/O latency to speed-of-light network latency; and it makes our code responsive by not introducing needless latencies of our own even when we’re not hiding someone else’s latency.

Latency 48

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 48

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. How long your piece of JavaScript takes to finish depends on how fast the device is that your code is running on.

Games 145

Games Architecture Code C++ 145

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), Connection management : This is the software management related specifically to the networking and connectivity aspect of the database.

Availability 105

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

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). modify their code, monitor their outgoing traffic etc.). MarioNet can conduct a subset of DDoS attacks by instructing Servants to connect to a specific Internet host. MarioNet use cases.

Website 44

Website Network Traffic Cache 44

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

This attribute contains seemingly endless alphanumeric junk that you may be tempted to strip out in the quest for cleaner code. Resources like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that had previously been the reserve of giant corporations were becoming commonplace for everyday folk building snappy websites. Large preview ).

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 59

Alex Podelko

AUGUST 15, 2017

One could do the recording to analyze the queries to replicate in load yes, but in practice there are better and alternate ways to do that like with a network proxy, Wireshark, or the network analyzer tab/tool in browser’s debug toolset. From experience, record & playback is brittle, same as for functional test automation.

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Testing Tools Testing Website Open Source 100

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. If we think about social networks, we can see two clear trends, those focusing on text and those focusing on multimedia content. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente. 2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00. 2022-11-17T14:33:01+00:00. Large preview ).

Media 108

Media Cache Website Mobile 108

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Anyone who cares to download and fork the code can do so. " The eventual Blink fork was precipitated by an insurmountable difficulty in doing precisely what Apple suggested to Congress: contributing code upstream to WebKit to enable new features. It's worth assessing these claims from most easily falsified to most contested.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Source: Google Keep in mind that not all code errors are noticeable to users. Back-end error tracking is relatively straightforward since all server-side code runs in the same place. Of course, there are also times when the problem lies not with your application but with the user’s connection or network configuration.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. 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).

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course. One of the top players in web performance, Ilya is a web performance engineer at Google, co-chair of the W3C Web Performance Working Group , and author of High Performance Browser Networking. You can follow Max on Twitter @ firt. Vitaly Friedman. Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 18, 2016

Over the course of a single load test you can generate millions of site visits, simulating peak load times on your website. The “hug of death” as some internet users call an accidental stress test can theoretically hit a website at any time due to a number of causes such as content going viral.

Software 40

Software Software Testing Website 40

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A good browser, good apps, a good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone are just expected today. Browsers – Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Edge, UC Browser, Opera, etc. However, when cross-browser testing will be performed there will be defects and code changes. No coding required, just pay and use.

Testing 52

Testing Website Mobile Testing Tools 52

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required. Vendors like Apple. ??.

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

API Gateway can now be used to provide an internet-accessible public front to web services enclosed within a VPC. Specific improvements include A new code editor for those who write their Lambda functions in Javascript and Python, far superior to the old inline code-editor. to a massively distributed CDN network a possibility.

Serverless 40

Serverless Lambda AWS Traffic 40

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Circa '07, those web apps were notably slower than native code could be. Sandboxing is now universal (tho quality may differ) and we collectively got savvy about running code quickly while retaining memory safety. The world didn't yet have pervasive multi-process browser sandboxing, JS JITs , or metal-speed binary isolation.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

It uses a Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) to provide a Solaris-kernel interface on Linux, so that unmodified ZFS code can execute. There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). LTS (April 2016). x series.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. There is a system that receives events on user visits from different internet sites. This technique is shown in the code snippet below. Case Study.

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Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

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?

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

Performance 107

Performance Network Latency Servers 107

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And of course, companies that don’t use AI don’t need an AI use policy. The higher percentage of users that are experimenting may reflect OpenAI’s addition of Advanced Data Analysis (formerly Code Interpreter) to ChatGPT’s repertoire of beta features. Corporate policies on AI use will be appearing and evolving over the next year. (At

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 111

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Based on this experience and learning, we built DynamoDB to be a fast, highly scalable NoSQL database to meet the needs of Internet-scale applications. With cache eviction handled by time-to-live (TTL) and write-through evictions, you no longer need the code to perform this task. What's not to like?

Speed 117

Speed Cache Latency AWS 117

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

To our shareowners: Random forests, naïve Bayesian estimators, RESTful services, gossip protocols, eventual consistency, data sharding, anti-entropy, Byzantine quorum, erasure coding, vector clocks. As a Kindle customer, of course, we hide all this technology from you. So when you open your Kindle, its in sync and on the right page.

Technology 151

Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Web has over 4 billion internet users and is nearing 2 billion websites. Finally, you of course want to be thinking about your users, but you should also be thinking about yourself! At the ripe old age of 25, nytimes.com is now older than some of the people who work building it.

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Social Media Technology Technology Website 136