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CSS and Network Performance

CSS Wizardry

Despite having been called CSS Wizardry for over a decade now, there hasn’t been a great deal of CSS-related content on this site for a while. Let me address that by combining my two favourite topics: CSS and performance. CSS is critical to rendering a page—a browser will not begin rendering until all CSS has been found, downloaded, and parsed—so it is imperative that we get it onto a user’s device as fast as we possibly can.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 9th, 2018

High Scalability

Wake up! It's HighScalability time: @b0rk. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed (30 reviews on Amazon and 72 on Goodreads!) book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. $3 billion : Tesla's yearly spend on gigafactories; 18,000 : GDPR data breach notifications since May; 30 : happy birthday Morris Worm!

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Kubernetes' scheduling magic revealed

O'Reilly Software

Understanding how the Kubernetes scheduler makes scheduling decisions is critical to ensure consistent performance and optimal resource utilization. Kubernetes is an industry-changing technology that allows massive scale and simplicity for the orchestration of containers. Most of us happily push thousands of deployments and pods to Kubernetes every day.

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FlameScope Pattern Recognition

Brendan Gregg

Flamescope is a new open source performance visualization tool that uses [subsecond offset heat maps] and [flame graphs] to analyze **periodic** activity, **variance**, and **perturbations**. We posted this on the Netflix TechBlog, [Netflix FlameScope], and the tool is on [github]. While flame graphs are well understood, subsecond offset heat maps are not (they are another visualization I invented a while ago).

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Scalability: strong and weak scaling

PDC

High performance computing (HPC) clusters are able to solve big problems using a large number of processors. This is also known as parallel computing , where many processors work simultaneously to produce exceptional computational power and to significantly reduce the total computational time. In such scenarios, scalability or scaling is widely used to indicate the ability of hardware and software to deliver greater computational power when the amount of resources is increased.

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Fighting the Ecosystem Wars in the Proactive Cloud

High Scalability

This article is a chapter from my book Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. It has 30 reviews on Amazon! If you like this chapter then you'll love the book. The cloud is always busy proactively working for you in the background. That’s how cloud services compete with each other to keep you in their ecosystem. Most of the cloud services we’ve talked about so far have been request driven.

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How To Build Reusable Angular Components And Share Them With The World

The Polyglot Developer

As you probably know, Angular is all about building UI components. There are several excellent component libraries out there that you can use to build your own application, such as Angular Material , Clarity or Kendo UI to name a few. Such libraries provide common reusable components such as tabs, date pickers, collapsible menus, and much more. Still, there’s always a time where we need something more customized and more adapted to the specific needs of our project.

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Buckle up: Connected Cars are Coming

Apica

From Total Recall, to Knight Rider, to Batman, it’s fair to say that the public imagination loves a good autonomous Read More. The post Buckle up: Connected Cars are Coming appeared first on Apica.

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Using a Secure CDN to Accelerate Your Content

KeyCDN

Security is very important to us here at KeyCDN which is why we have various security features to help not only protect your content but also prevent unauthorized access to your CDN account. In this post we’ll go over what makes KeyCDN a secure CDN and which features we provide to increase the security of your content and account. The Importance of Security According to a survey conducted by TeleSign , 40% of users said they had a security incident in the last year , meaning they had an ac

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The Wonder of Human Intelligence

Professor Beekums

There’s a lot of fear about AI replacing us humans, much of it around jobs specifically. History is filled with examples of jobs being lost to automation in general. While there was some suffering, society overall improved. Would you prefer to live in a world where a human has to operate an elevator for you? How many of you remember the long lines in the cash lane at toll booths?

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Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3

Smashing Magazine

Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Leonardo Losoviz. 2018-11-08T12:30:30+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. When providing some functionality for processing a file uploaded by the user, the file must be available to the process throughout the execution. A simple upload and save operation presents no issues.

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No fear: How to test software in production

TechBeacon Testing

When I started as a software tester, testing in production was what happened when teams didn't take QA seriously. But your application is being tested in production every single day by the people who use it. You just need to find a way to use all the data users are already generating.

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You are here. The art of HCI performance testing

n0derunner

At some point potential Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) users want to know – “How fast does this thing go?” The real question is “how do we measure that?” The simplest test is to run a single VM, with a single disk and issue a single IO at a time. We see often see this sort of test in bake-offs, and such a test does answer an important question – “what’s the lowest possible response time I can expect from the storage” However, this test

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The Wonder of Human Intelligence

Professor Beekums

There’s a lot of fear about AI replacing us humans, much of it around jobs specifically. History is filled with examples of jobs being lost to automation in general. While there was some suffering, society overall improved. Would you prefer to live in a world where a human has to operate an elevator for you? How many of you remember the long lines in the cash lane at toll booths?

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Third-order effects and software systems

Particular Software

At the height of the Cold War, the United States passed the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, giving birth to the Interstate Highway System. Fueled by the fear of foreign attack and the need to quickly transport troops and equipment across the continent, the network of protected access highways ended up transforming the nation’s economy and culture forever.

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FlameScope Pattern Recognition

Brendan Gregg

Flamescope is a new open source performance visualization tool that uses [subsecond offset heat maps] and [flame graphs] to analyze **periodic** activity, **variance**, and **perturbations**. We posted this on the Netflix TechBlog, [Netflix FlameScope], and the tool is on [github]. While flame graphs are well understood, subsecond offset heat maps are not (they are another visualization I invented a while ago).

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Using An Exit Intent Listener To Manage Popups On A Page

The Polyglot Developer

Not too long ago I wrote a tutorial titled, Create an Email Subscription Popup with jQuery , that demonstrated how to create popup modals within your web application. In this example the modals were presented on a timer. If you hadn’t noticed, and I think most people did, The Polyglot Developer was using those modals for newsletter subscriptions exactly as demonstrated in the tutorial.

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How to improve Redo, Transaction Log and WAL throughput for HammerDB benchmarks

HammerDB

If you are new to running Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL TPC-C workloads with HammerDB and have needed to investigate I/O performance the chances are that you have experienced waits on writing to the Redo, Transaction Log or WAL depending on the database you are testing. This post at an entry-level discusses the options you have to improve log throughput in your benchmark environment. .

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Improve Animated GIF Performance With HTML5 Video

Smashing Magazine

Improve Animated GIF Performance With HTML5 Video. Improve Animated GIF Performance With HTML5 Video. Ayo Isaiah. 2018-11-05T14:30:14+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. It has been brought to our attention that this piece is a reworded version of an article published on the Google Web Fundamentals site, written by our friend Jeremy Wagner. The original piece can be found here , and we would recommend it to you.