Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum interconnect is the networking layer of the architecture, and manages communication between the Greenplum segments and master host network infrastructure. As mentioned throughout this post, Greenplum is an open source database so the community version is absolutely free to download and use. Greenplum Advantages.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This gives fascinating insights into the network topography of our visitors, and how much we might be impacted by high latency regions. You can’t change that someone was from Nigeria, you can’t change that someone was on a mobile, and you can’t change their network conditions. Go and give it a quick read—the context will help.

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Latency Cache Transportation Mobile 244

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

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

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

BOSH loves YAML (so it’s in good company with Kubernetes) and follows a declarative approach for defining the desired state of Cloud Foundry’s various components as well as the underlying virtual machines, networks, and storage devices. In the lightweight approach, BOSH downloads the latest OneAgent from the Internet.

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Cloud Virtualization Internet Internet 145

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz). The maximum physical layer bit-rate for the 5G network is 1200.98 The short answer is no.

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

Attack tactics describe why an attacker performs an action, for example, to get that first foothold into your network. Falco is an open-source, cloud-native security tool that utilizes the Linux kernel technology  eBPF , to generate fine-grained networking, security, and observability events. Scanned our internal network with  nmap.

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Analytics AWS Infrastructure Strategy 246

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember reading articles about how 3G connectivity was going to transform performance and, more generally, the way we used the internet altogether. ” The fallacy of networks, or new devices for that matter, fixing our performance woes is old and repetitive. We’re not talking months in most places, but years.

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Network Speed Internet Internet 61

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

How do I account for different network speeds in different environments? This solution is fine when network speeds are fast, but it can be problematic when network speeds are not fast (or fluctuate). And if there is one thing we all know — we cannot control the speed network our customers are using.

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Media Speed Network Analytics 124

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Sites that use an excess of resources, whether on the network or on the device, don’t just cause slow experiences, but can leave entire groups of people out. Similarly, there is a growing gap between what a top of the line network connection can handle and what someone with a poor mobile connection or satellite connection can handle.

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Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Mbps download and 0.7

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Cache Mobile Google Network 99

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services. In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. You have control over what these resources are.

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Website Design Network Testing 138

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. Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle. 100 days money-back-guarantee.

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Mobile Design Internet Internet 122

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

WordPress is the largest website builder platform in the world, supporting over 34% of all websites on the internet today. Find your WordPress servers IP address in your WordPress account under the My Sites tab > Network Admin > WP Engine > General Settings, then add it here to the IP whitelist. Summary & Create.

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Database Cloud Website Azure 166

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

Web performance advocates have often advised to add dimensions to your images for best performance to allow the page to be laid out with the appropriate space for the image, before the image itself has been downloaded. This also puts extra work on the browser to recalculate the page layout as each image arrives across the internet.

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Website Code Mobile Availability 129

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Projects built using JavaScript-based frameworks often ship large bundles of JavaScript that take time to download, parse and execute, blocking page render and user input in the process. This problem is more apparent on unreliable and slow networks and lower-end devices. Estimated load times for a makeshift JavaScript application.

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Code Performance Network Website 104

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. due to total loss of internet connectivity) then the worker needs to be restarted. The Mobile Web Worker (MWW) System. The opencv app has the largest state (4.6

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Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Lots can go wrong: a network request fails, a third-party library breaks, a JavaScript feature is unsupported (assuming JavaScript is even available), a CDN goes down, a user behaves unexpectedly (they double-click a submit button), the list goes on. The more enriched sentence (right) is an enhancement for when the network request succeeds.

Network 145

Network Engineering Availability Code 145

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.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. Internet Explorer 6 was fully supported, Firefox was gaining share, and Chrome was still years from launch. It’s important to simulate a slower CPU and network connection when looking for Web Vitals issues on your site. Large preview ).

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Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 111

Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

A bug had been filed suggesting that Chrome download speeds (such as those measured by speedtest.net ) seemed to be affected by some anti-virus software. Downloads go through the cache, the cache is saved to disk, and saves to disk are slowed by (some) anti-virus software. Okay – time for the details. It looks like this can happen.

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Cache Energy Google Processing 105

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. Once you found the data you needed, you could download it to a floppy disk and then hand the floppy over to a sysop.

Network 40

Network Best Practices Database Internet 40

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.,

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Using a purpose-built Google Play scraper the team downloaded 252,864 versions of 88,113 different Android apps. Each app was then executed on a physical mobile phone equipped with a custom OS and network monitor. The destination endpoint for the network traffic typically identifies the SDK responsible. most apps).

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Systems Traffic Network Google 74

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. These include data transfer (i.e.

Website Performance 78

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

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.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Here's what loading 14 scripts looked like in Internet Explorer 7: I've added a red arrow at the beginning of each script request. What we see is that the HTML parser stops when it encounters a SCRIPT tag until that script is downloaded, parsed, and executed. The second script, jquery.js , takes a long time to download.

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Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

Testsigma

MAY 5, 2021

MultiBrowser supports testing on all versions of Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Internet Explorer 11. Rapise supports multiple versions of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Chrome; plus, the test scripts can be executed across different browsers that you have on your local machine. Picture Credit: MultiBrowser. Highlights.

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Testing Tools Testing Internet Internet 74

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. Â The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content.Â

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Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente. 2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00. 2022-11-17T14:33:01+00:00.

Media 125

Media Cache Website Mobile 125

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.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 143

VoltDB

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

High latency feels like a sluggish internet connection, making online activities feel like a conversation with a delay in responses. Imagine the highway as your internet connection, and the vehicles on it are the data packets. 5G networks, for instance, widen the highway considerably.

Latency 52

Latency Games Traffic Network 52

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

By requiring use of WebKit, Apple can provide security updates to all our users quickly and accurately, no matter which browser they decide to download from the App Store. Anyone who cares to download and fork the code can do so. WebKit is an open-source web engine that allows Apple to enable improvements contributed by third parties.

Engineering 112

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. Applications that do not require to be downloaded and can be accessed via hitting the URL on a mobile browser are known as mobile web applications. What are Mobile Web Applications?

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

This approach allows images with smaller dimensions to be downloaded for users on smaller devices. Note : In your browser development tools, open the Network > Img tabs to see the image chosen by the browser according to each viewport and DPR. This way, the image loads faster, and your website will get a better LCP score.

Media 120

Media Mobile Website Metrics 120

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Resources like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that had previously been the reserve of giant corporations were becoming commonplace for everyday folk building snappy websites. They’d take the hit for the first site to use the file, but then it would sit in their local browser cache and downloads could be skipped for each subsequent site.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 64