Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Designing Better Links For Websites And Emails: A Guideline. Designing Better Links For Websites And Emails: A Guideline. if the information is read-only or editable); The file size is crucial for people with costly internet, slow connection, or limited local storage. Slava Shestopalov. 2021-12-06T17:30:00+00:00. faded out).

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Greenplum Architectural Design.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). Usually today this means internet connectivity, cameras, GPS, and so on, but they are distinct from smartphones.) Steven Hoober. 2021-12-15T11:30:00+00:00. 2021-12-15T13:06:33+00:00.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

DonHopkins : NeWS differs from the current technology stack in that it was all coherently designed at once by James Gosling and David Rosenthal, by taking several steps back and thinking deeply about all the different problems it was trying to solve together. That’s mapping applications to the specific architectural choices.

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High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

work at Google or Facebook; 18 : years of NASA satellite data; >1TB : Ethereum blockchain; 200,000 trillion : IBM's super computer calculations per second; Quotable Quotes: Michael Pollan : “I have no doubt that all that Hubbard LSD all of us had taken had a big effect on the birth of Silicon Valley. Hungry for more?

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Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The way we train juniors, whether it’s at university or in a boot camp or whether they train themselves from the materials we make available to them (Long Live the Internet), we imply from the very beginning that there’s a correct answer. “This is the solution for printing the Fibonacci sequence using recursion.”

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

SQLMesh, an open-source project born from our collective experience at companies like Airbnb, Apple, Google, and Netflix, is designed to handle the complexities of evolving data pipelines at an internet scale. Until next time!

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High Scalability

AUGUST 17, 2018

Keep on reading for many more quotes hot off the internet. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). They'll love you even more. You'll be a better person.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 31, 2018

Bernard Golden : I see Snowball Edge with EC2 as an AWS initiative designed to reduce the friction of migrating data into AWS with the ultimate goal of enabling applications to migrate to AWS, not a way to run AWS applications on-prem. They'll love you even more. They'll love you even more. I was right in the middle of working on it.

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Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 105

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. With its search engine being easily the most used on the internet, Google has an incredible influence on the web. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move.

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DZone

JUNE 1, 2020

As applications are designed and developed for varied platforms, spanning mobile, desktop, and cloud, testing user interfaces has turned into an increasingly complicated and risk-prone job. 75% of all site traffic at present mainly runs through search engine-Google. billion Smartphone users. 55% of businesses conduct UX testing.

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory. Don’t have time to read 5,500+ words?

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CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

RTT is designed to replace Effective Connection Type (ECT) with higher resolution timing information. What follows is overall best-practice advice for designing with latency in mind. It can also provide genuine seamless connection migration as devices traverse the internet. Where Does CrUX’s RTT Data Come From? The bad news?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Testing on Google Chrome is necessary for any app-designer. Internet usage has constantly exploded in the past decade and continues to grow every single day. Currently, global Internet traffic counts to a whopping 4.3 billion users.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents. It’s not our data.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Open source databases are free community databases with the source code available to the general public to use, and may be modified or used in their original design. Public cloud is a cloud computing model where IT services are delivered across the internet. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) came in 2nd at 26.2% Commercial Databases.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). From UX design to copywriting, quality content takes commitment, passion, and time.

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Engineering Google Website Mobile 135

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. The following qualities are considered great additions to the basic PWA by Google developers. Adaptive loading illustration by Google. Service Workers. Application shell architecture.

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Cache Internet Internet Google 136

KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Responsive Design - Any site that you develop should render properly across all devices, as more and more people access the internet via mobile devices. Therefore, stick with frontend frameworks that support responsive web design so that you have one less thing to worry about.

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Google Mobile Open Source Website 135

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Big data, web services, and cloud computing established a kind of internet operating system. Services like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Stripe made it possible to do formerly difficult, high-stakes enterprise tasks like taking payments with minimal programming expertise.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It’s been well publicized that Google’s Bard made some factual errors when it was demoed, and Google paid for these mistakes with a significant drop in their stock price. Large language models like ChatGPT and Google’s LaMDA aren’t designed to give correct results. What are the next steps?

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Photo by Freepik Part of the answer is this: You have a lot of control over the design and code for the pages on your site, plus a decent amount of control over the first and middle mile of the network your pages travel over. They're concerned about internet security, so they'e also running antivirus software. RAISES HAND* 6.

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Hardware Internet Internet Speed 52

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?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations. PWA Feature Detector.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 18, 2024

Last month, TheNew York Times claimed that tech giants OpenAI and Google have waded into a copyright gray area by transcribing the vast volume of YouTube videos and using that text as additional training data for their AI models despite terms of service that prohibit such efforts and copyright law that the Times argues places them in dispute.

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Social Media Media Open Source Traffic 145

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees. The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Therefore, they are designed to adapt to the browser, screen size, and device specifications of the user. Major cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud all support serverless services. They are especially useful in grid-based design. Except to see such ambient design elements increase in popularity.

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Tim Kadlec

JUNE 24, 2014

At Google I/O 2014 , Lara Swanson and Paul Lewis discussed performance culture. Since it’s one of my favorite topics, I decided to share my notes: 34% of US adults use a smartphone as their primary means of internet access. Performance cops (developers or designers who enforce performance) is not sustainable.

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Google Performance Latency Internet 49

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 97

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Cloud-native architecture is a structural approach to planning and implementing an environment for software development and deployment that uses resources and processes common with public clouds like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. The principles of cloud-native architecture. Trust nothing.

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Cloud Architecture Serverless Infrastructure 162

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

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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. Sustainable Web Design.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. Targeted Manipulation at Scale. Prompt Engineering.

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