Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Efficiently enables new styles of drawing content on the web , removing many hard tradeoffs between visual richness , accessibility, and performance. Improves the smoothness of 3D and media applications by moving rendering work to a separate thread. Helps media apps on the web save battery when doing video processing.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They cache static content and enable lightning-fast delivery around the globe.This symbiosis reduces server load, boosts loading times, and ensures efficient content distribution. This lower server load allows servers to handle more concurrent connections and efficiently serve more users simultaneously.

Cache 40

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 40

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Many have adroitly covered the perspective and ethical distortions within social media firms caused by the relentless pursuit of "north star" metrics. iOS's security track record, patch velocity, and update latency for its required-use engine is not best-in-class. There's little new I can add.

Google 134

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Assuming you want to load a social media layout, you might add a loading spinner or a skeleton loader to ensure that you don’t load an incomplete site. Efficient use of a client’s resources and bandwidth can greatly improve your application’s performance. But isn’t waiting for the data the point? Large preview ). Prefetching.

Cache 141

Cache Performance Servers Architecture 141

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

They understood that most websites lack tight latency budgeting, dedicated performance teams, hawkish management reviews, ship gates to prevent regressions, and end-to-end measurements of critical user journeys. But dreams die hard. This raises a follow-on question: what's an interaction?

Social Media 130

Social Media Website Technology Technology 130

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. In exchange, your team gains maintainability and developer efficiency, of course. A sample output by imaging-heap , a command line tool that measure the efficiency across viewport sizes and device pixel ratios.

Performance 111

Performance Cache Network Metrics 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

Performance 112

Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145