Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You’ve probably heard things like: “HTTP/3 is much faster than HTTP/2 when there is packet loss”, or “HTTP/3 connections have less latency and take less time to set up”, and probably “HTTP/3 can send data more quickly and can send more resources in parallel”. Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! Did You Know?

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

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. Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Congestion Control.

Performance 107

Performance Network Latency Servers 107

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 140

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 140

Alex Russell

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Nothing about this process is technical from the perspective of the user. Not all users are the same, of course. Using HTML that all browsers understand saves on complexity, latency, and confusion — assuming that HTML has something that says what you mean. What’s important in an article. Let that really sink in.

Engineering 40

Engineering Technology Technology Systems 40

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons). Meanwhile, budget segment devices have finally started to see improvement ( as this series predicted ), thanks to hand-me-down architecture and process node improvements.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In both cases, when using virtually-synchronous replication, the process will require certification from each node and local (by node) write; as such, the number of writes is NOT distributed across multiple nodes but duplicated. Of course, we are still talking about a low number of rows and running threads but the gain is there.

Traffic 122

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 122

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Although it can hardly be said that NoSQL movement brought fundamentally new techniques into distributed data processing, it triggered an avalanche of practical studies and real-life trials of different combinations of protocols and algorithms. Read/Write latency. Read/Write requests are processes with a minimal latency.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

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. These high-throughput, low-latency requirements need caching, not as a consideration, but as a best practice. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage.

Speed 117

Speed Cache Latency AWS 117

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. Samsung Internet set as the default browser and loads web pages from links in the app. Fixing mobile won't be sufficient to unwind desktop's increasingly negative dark patterns, of course.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Traffic 121

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. Analysis of such large data sets often requires powerful distributed data stores like Hadoop and heavy data processing with techniques like MapReduce.

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

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). For heavily latency-sensitive use-cases like WebXR, this is a critical component in delivering a good experience. Converging Views.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

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). Here's some output from my zfsdist tool, in bcc/BPF, which measures ZFS latency as a histogram on Linux: # zfsdist. Tracing ZFS operation latency.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

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. Fortunately, there are plenty of free editing tools that streamline the process.

Speed 50

Speed Website Latency Cache 50

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Micro-optimizations are great for keeping performance on track, but it’s critical to have clearly defined targets in mind — measurable goals that would influence any decisions made throughout the process. Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104