Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. In this screenshot below, for example, we can see that loading the Smashing Magazine website for the first time incurs just under a megabyte of data transfer. These include data transfer (i.e.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Different browsers running on different platforms and hardware, respecting our user preferences and browsing modes (Safari Reader/ assistive technologies), being served to geo-locations with varying latency and intermittency increase the likeness of something not working as intended.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments. Mobile and touch are the new computing normal , but there is a lot of myth, rumor, error, bias, and out-of-date information on how portable touchscreens are used.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

Both of these problems can be avoided by wrapping your widgets in a SafeArea widget, which is a particular kind of padding widget which makes sure your widgets fall into a place where they can actually be displayed without anything impeding the users’ ability to see them, be it a hardware or software constraint. In React Native.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Similarly, FID is often dependent on processor speed and how the device can handle all this content we’re sending to it — be it images to process, elements to layout on the page and, of course, all that JavaScript we love to send down to the browser to churn through.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Although modern iOS hardware is powerful enough to handle many intensive and complex tasks, the device could still feel unresponsive if you are not careful about how your app performs. iOS Performance Tricks To Make Your App Feel More Performant. iOS Performance Tricks To Make Your App Feel More Performant. 2019-02-05T13:00:00+01:00.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Many network interface controllers (NICs) even have built-in hardware-offload features for TCP. We can also expect QUIC-specific hardware to become available. This is why we should never just test our pages on our own hardware (but also use a service like Webpagetest ) and also why you should definitely deploy QUIC and HTTP/3.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Device Pixel Ratio (DPR) represents how a CSS pixel is translated to physical pixels on a hardware screen. This typically corresponds to the page’s responsive breakpoints. Device Pixel Ratio (DPR) / Pixel Density Capping.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

All of this means that it will be more costly because of the growing hardware requirement and a little bit faster. And even then, you should keep in mind that because of the Node.js nature you will have full-weight Node.js instance spawned in each process fork ( instead of reusing the same one which will lead to growing RAM consumption).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

A big JavaScript bundle might seem out of place on a magazine that merely publishes articles, but actually, there is plenty of scripting happening behind the scenes. The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Gatsby (React), Vuepress (Vue) Preact CLI , and PWA Starter Kit provide reasonable defaults for fast loading out of the box on average mobile hardware. ??Also,

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Gatsby.js (React), Preact CLI , and PWA Starter Kit provide reasonable defaults for fast loading out of the box on average mobile hardware. Image credit: Addy Osmani ) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing and execution times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Gatsby (React), Next.js (React), Vuepress (Vue), Preact CLI , and PWA Starter Kit provide reasonable defaults for fast loading out of the box on average mobile hardware. ??Also,

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Hardware And E-Waste. Consider whether a static site might serve your needs better than a bloated WordPress project in some instances. Eric’s article also includes a bunch of other great tips for building more sustainably.). Do we really need to upgrade our devices as regularly as we do?

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