Brendan Gregg

JULY 21, 2024

Windows computers around the world encountered blue-screens-of-death and boot loops, causing outages for hospitals, airlines, banks, grocery stores, media broadcasters, and more. Meta, Isovalent, Google) and academia (e.g., Beyond security, eBPF is also used for networking and observability.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). But unfortunately, when dealing with static assets and media files, there are a lot of caveats to deal with. Media Files. Media Files. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00.

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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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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

webcam access via getUserMedia() or the Media Session API ) may attend deceptively small expansions in exposed API surface. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Audio Worklets are a fundamental enabler for rich media and games on the web. Media Recorder.

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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.

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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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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better. How to optimize images for social media for better engagement and CTR. WebP WebP is an image format developed by Google to ensure superior compression of photos.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

The upcoming prefers-reduced-data media query, which allows CSS to set different options depending on this setting. This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. The CSS media query version of Save Data mentioned above. Network Signals.

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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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O'Reilly

JANUARY 10, 2023

A quick Google search will show that anxiety about an end to AI funding has continued through the year. Funding comes and goes, of course, and with the possibility of a media-driven recession, there’s always the possibility of a funding collapse. We started the year with many people talking about an “AI winter.”

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

Networking. Networking is an excellent way of doing this and is a reliable way of finding new work opportunities. The downside of networking is that it is time-consuming and doesn’t scale. The downside of networking is that it is time-consuming and doesn’t scale. That is why many turn to content marketing.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Google Chrome is currently one of the most popular web browsers used by developers today. According to StatCounter , as of September 2019, Google Chrome holds 63.72% browser market share across the globe. What Are the Google Chrome DevTools? They provide developers deeper access into their web applications and the browser.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Degrading quality for higher profit It is instructive to consider how the algorithmic technologies that underpinned the aggregator platforms of old (think Amazon, Google and Facebook among others) initially deployed to benefit users, were eventually reprogrammed to increase profits for the platform. But it is far from alone.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Theres a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. 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. I dont buy it. It is not the end of programming. That is not new.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. It can be combined with CSS media queries to select the appropriate image for the width of the screen. Consequently, your CSS styles and media queries have no impact on its choice. Eloïse Martin. 2023-01-16T18:00:00+00:00. 2023-01-16T22:03:27+00:00.

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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.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

— Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. Mobile image transfer size by year graphic from Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. If we think about social networks, we can see two clear trends, those focusing on text and those focusing on multimedia content. According to the Web Almanac in late 2021, 95.9

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Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

New classes of metrics that measure different aspects of performance have been developed, such as: Network metrics , like Time to First Byte, which measure how quickly a site responds to the initial request. If this is a media site that wants to quickly load content so the user can start reading, you could reasonably say Page A is the best.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Whether answering questions on social media, helping someone with a proposal for a conference talk, or simply being welcoming and kind to newcomers, webperf folks are some of the most generous people you could ever hope to find. Learn what makes things slow and how browsers and networks work and how they talk to the servers.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Back in May, we shared that SpeedCurve supports Google's Core Web Vitals in both our synthetic monitoring and LUX real user monitoring tools. According to Google, pages should maintain a CLS score of less than 0.1 Here are the current US media benchmarks on a fast desktop connection , ranked by CLS score. recommended by Google.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. For example: Think with Google suggests the typical page speed optimizations.

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O'Reilly Software

MAY 15, 2018

O’Reilly Media Podcast: JP Phillips, platform engineer at IBM Cloud, on problem solving with containers and Kubernetes, and how developers can get started. In this episode of the O’Reilly Media Podcast, I talk with JP Phillips, platform engineer at IBM Cloud. And then there's Jaeger , which is distributed tracing.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The gotcha here is that, if your mobile experience isn’t optimized for various devices and network conditions, these customers will never appear in your analytics — just because your website or app will be barely usable on their devices, and so they are unlikely to return. It provides a comprehensive support of media queries (e.g.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

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. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources. Sometimes, the visitor’s browser itself can be the origin of network activity.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

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. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7% Google Homepage — DOM. per GB respectively.

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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 ). This is difficult to prove because developers will say that “the experience” is what they are seeing on their computers using, for example, Google Chrome. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Network Compatibility Testing: Application connected with different available networks such as 3G, 4G, LTE, Wi-Fi, need to be tested too. Media may not play on some environments. The aim is to ensure that a particular application works across all tested browsers, operating systems, mobile devices, hardware, and networks.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

If you see authors turning to other authoring tools such as Google Docs for its commenting or suggestions capabilities, it may be a red flag as to what features you are missing. Microsoft word documents, spreadsheets, Google docs always rear their heads up when working with content authors. A Picture’s Worth: How To Handle Media.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Apple continues to self-preference through exclusive API access for Safari; e.g., the ability to install PWA s to the home screen, implement media codecs, and much else. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. Instead, Fruit Co.

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Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

Whether it’s social media, shopping, productivity or fitness, there’s a visible surge in the number of mobile apps and their users. Espresso: Designed by Google for Android, Espresso lets you write solid and reliable Android UI tests. Google has expanded it and it can interact with various Android apps.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Knowing how that control happens, and how it fails, will help us to understand the breakdown of social media. Network propaganda works in much the same way as microphones and music. While many of our systems are vulnerable to attack, social networks have proven the most vulnerable. Propaganda isn’t a new phenomenon.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Google has been working for quite some time to speed up its network protocols in order to minimize website response times. Google is hopeful that QUIC can reduce connection costs towards zero RTTs. From Google’s QUIC FAQ : Why can’t you just evolve and improve TCP under SPDY? That is our goal.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

MARCH 13, 2024

The use of CSS media queries, along with a mix of flexible layouts and grids, enables this process. For instance, some websites can automatically detect the presence of a Virtual Private Network (VPN) on a device. A website with a single link makes it easier for the Google algorithm to understand what the content is about.

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MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2019

Web analytics such as click-through rates, bounce rates, website business transactions and sales, response times, web server usage, social media interaction, and many other key performance indicators will help ensure your site is optimal. Using a CDN (or Content Delivery Network) can help lower these load times.

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