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How Does the Internet Speed Test Work?

DZone

Everyone deserves the right internet speed and everyone wants the best bang for a buck. To ensure our internet bandwidth, we all run speed tests from our Internet Speed Provider or public speed test tools like fast.com or speed.cloudflare.com and more. But do we know how the speed got measured under the hood?

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Speeding Up Async Snippets

CSS Wizardry

It is the job of the Preload Scanner to look ahead of the primary parser and asynchronously download any subresources it may find: images, stylesheets, scripts, and more. Interestingly, the script itself took 297ms longer to download with this newer syntax, but still executed 787ms sooner! This is the power of the Preload Scanner.

Speed 306
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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

Given this limitation, it was advantageous to have fewer files: if we needed to download 18 files, that’s three separate chunks of work; if we could somehow bring that number down to six, it’s only one discrete chunk of work. 4,362ms of cumulative latency; 240ms of cumulative download. main.af8a22.css It’s a balancing act for sure. ?

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Detect VMware Aria Operations for Logs exploitation with Dynatrace and DQL

Dynatrace

These extracted fields give you the option to filter out the relevant records: However, there’s another goal to keep in mind: you need all the log records that contain the Downloading statement and URL from where the tarball was loaded and the destination path in /tmp/. download_file '.tar')):url tar')):url ' to /tmp/' (ld:filename '.pak'):saved_file

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Introducing Page Speed Benchmarks – a new resource for the performance community

Speed Curve

Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media. With Page Speed Benchmarks, you can do things like: See what the different metrics actually mean in terms of user-perceived performance.

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What is GitOps?

Dynatrace

The DevOps playbook has proven its value for many organizations by improving software development agility, efficiency, and speed. This method known as GitOps would also boost the speed and efficiency of practicing DevOps organizations. GitOps improves speed and scalability. Dynatrace news. What is GitOps?

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Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps?—?now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform

The Netflix TechBlog

For these reasons, as a small engineering team, we’ve found that optimizing for reliability and speed of product delivery is required for us to serve our evolving customers’ needs successfully. remotely configurable files that get downloaded to the device. Networking Hendrix interprets rule set(s)?—?remotely

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