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? Did You Know?

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of Things , Abadi et al., Despite the "Internet of Things" featuring prominently in the title, there’s nothing particular to IoT in the technical solution at all. Publishers are the producers of the actual data to be served by the network. CIDR’20. web pages).

Blockchain 94

Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

It is well known and fairly obvious that in geographically distributed systems or other environments with probable network partitions or delays it is not generally possible to maintain high availability without sacrificing consistency because isolated parts of the database have to operate independently in case of network partition.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2020

Are the systems we rely on every day as reliable via the home internet connection? Both types of users mentioned access the same system, the only difference is that employees access it via the internal network and externals through a public exposed URL. Are people changing their working patterns?

DevOps 183

DevOps Traffic Monitoring Engineering 183

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Network effects are not the same as monopoly control. Cloud providers incur huge fixed costs for creating and maintaining a network of datacenters spread throughout the word. And even that list is not invulnerable. With solar power, the centralization of power generation is giving way to a more decentralized model. Neither are clouds.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Since we’re talking about mobile applications, we have to assume a changing environment over time, including the possibility of losing internet connectivity altogether. This could of course be a local worker on the mobile device. due to total loss of internet connectivity) then the worker needs to be restarted.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Usually today this means internet connectivity, cameras, GPS, and so on, but they are distinct from smartphones.) With the majority of Internet access via mobiles, in just another decade almost everyone will use touch as their primary interaction method, worldwide. DRM-free, of course. Get Print + eBook. Quality hardcover.

Mobile 106

Mobile Design Internet Internet 106

O'Reilly

JUNE 18, 2024

According to US copyright law, everything published in any form, including on the internet, is automatically copyrighted by the author for the life of its creator, plus 70 years. Even on today’s internet these mechanisms are fragile, complex, change frequently, and are often not well understood by sites whose content is being scraped.

Social Media 141

Social Media Media Open Source Traffic 141

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

Particular Software

AUGUST 19, 2019

In one such organization I've heard of, there existed two separate networks. To get data from a different network, you needed to browse in a separate room, as workstations did not have access to the Internet. Design secure systems: See what Udi has to say in Day 1 of his Advanced Distributed Systems Design video course.

Network 40

Network Best Practices Database Internet 40

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Amazon S3 is much more than just storage; the network and distributed systems infrastructure to ensure that content can be served fast and at high rates without customers impacting each other, is amazing. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. at 30,000 feet). Recent Entries.

Servers 112

Servers Social Media AWS Website 112

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 132

Technology Technology AWS Storage 132

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.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

The internet may change, and web pages may grow and evolve, but user expectations are constant. Some sensory memory does stick, of course. In a 1999 study of workplace interruptions , groups of workers were subjected to various disruptions in the course of their day-to-day responsibilities. Do delays really hurt productivity?

Speed 136

Speed Website Mobile Cloud 136

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

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. A well-behaved CCT-invoking-app (e.g.,

Google 134

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

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. There are of course some places where you won’t want to use SWR or to use SWR without ISR.

Cache 106

Cache Servers Internet Internet 106

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.

Testing Tools 100

Testing Tools Testing Website Open Source 100

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

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. A group of several such sketches can be used to process range query. Case Study.

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

This also puts extra work on the browser to recalculate the page layout as each image arrives across the internet. As you can see, the impact is considerable — especially on lower-end devices and slow network speed, where images are coming in separately. Performance calculations with and without dimensions. Large preview ).

Website 126

Website Code Mobile Availability 126

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.

Testing 67

Testing Open Source Hardware Internet 67

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. "We are using DAX to scale our reads across our network of services. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage.

Speed 98

Speed Cache Latency AWS 98

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Of course, we’ll discuss possible resolutions to these bugs as well. Note : Another timely note here is that Internet Explorer will reach end of life officially on June 15, 2022 ). CSS has been improving rapidly in the last couple of years, and of course, browsers are continually modernizing. General Debugging Tips.

Design 145

Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

These tools run page loads on simulated networks and devices and then tell you what the metrics were for that test run. LCP is going to be very dependent on network conditions and the processing power of devices being used (and a lot of your users are likely using a lot of lower-powered devices than you realize! ). CrUX is Chrome only.

Google 141

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 141

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. We may ask our users to use the app for searching a course of their choice and take a few classes on it after making the payment. Example: A mobile app is working fine on Wi-Fi and other network types.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

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. We were already using both synthetic and network-based real user monitoring (RUM) tools to measure how fast our site was, so we knew we had room to improve.

Retail 52

Retail Internet Internet Education 52

Edge Perspectives

DECEMBER 31, 2019

T hese small groups will be the key units to help us all begin the journey, but networks will help us to scale impact and inspire even more passion as we see the progress we’re making go exponential. That’s where networks become key. And, guess what?

Network 68

Network Government Internet Internet 68

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

But there’s that inner personal actual relationship required in the terms of safety that I’m talking about, as opposed to, yeah, someone anonymous on the internet or some anonymous entity trying to get your data, things like that. They’re actually mostly … Some of them I can answer. Eva: Yeah, absolutely.

Design 101

Design Education Processing Network 101

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Watch the “Using Open Source Software to Optimize and Troubleshoot Your MySQL Environment” video sessions Open source software powers the Internet. WordPress has been chugging along for years and years and powers a huge chunk of the Internet, and it’ll still be used for blogs well into the future. Problem solved!

Open Source 89

Open Source Software Software Social Media 89

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). Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Converging Views. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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

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 114

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 114

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 124

Engineering Traffic Government Google 124

Tech News Gather

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This is a convenient option for students who do not have access to the internet or encounter network problems. Course Management. If you are looking for a top-notch education app development team, make sure it has a course management feature. Social Media. if you’re willing to take your app on the success path.

Education 52

Education Social Media Development Media 52

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. Never change, Internet Explorer. The best course of action is to pre compress your files and serve them alongside your regular files. How Do I Implement Brotli? This can be pretty CPU intensive.

Speed 67

Speed Servers Google Cache 67

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The Need for Containerization Today’s internet users don’t tolerate downtime, so developers have had to find ways to perform maintenance and updates without interrupting their services. Of course, managing such apps across more than one machine can get complicated very quickly.

Virtualization 47

Virtualization Open Source Network Architecture 47