> The initial HTML request is very fast and only takes about 150ms.
Umm, Houston, we have a problem. That's way way way too long for a first page load of HTML only. It should be 30 ms.
Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
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Re: Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
#122Maybe its time to move from webapps back to desktop apps? Angular, React etc. all this JavaScript seems to slow everything down.
Everything in tech is so cyclical.
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#123I'm surprised no one has mentioned the new AdWords UI yet, the load times are agonizingly painful.
Re: Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
#124My pet peeve is that a lot of the GCP console doesn't even seem to work in Firefox. For example: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/61522
yes - it has bad UX and it's broken in Firefox
I don't if this true but I have realized whenever I try to access google apps in firefox they are slow and sometimes breakdown but when I try to do it in chrome they just work fine.
Like I was trying to submit some work using google classroom on firefox it wasn't letting me upload the work but when I did it in chrome it just worked well
Re: Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
#125I think the answer is: This is the best the richest and best companies in the world, with their best paid 100x rockstar developers can do. Google is literally both the creator of the browser (Chrome), the framework (Angular) and the web-app (GCP) we use and still, this mess is the best they can give us. They have direct access to the creators of Chrome and Angular, in some sense they are the owners of the internet an…
It's not the best they can do. It's the best they will do.
There are companies with higher (arguably actually acceptable) quality standards, but they're few and far between.
Re: Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Atlassian is one of those places that I just can't believe has gotten so widely used. Every single thing I've used that is an Atlassian product drives me nuts. I really don't understand how anyone at any point looked at Jira or Confluence or anything Atlassian puts out and said "yep, this is the best version of this thing I've seen, sign me up". I've been using JIRA for years now, and it never gets any easier or bett…
As far as I understand it, it's because Jira is not made for developers. It's made for SCRUM and Project Managers that need fancy graphs and lots and lots of fields and processes. It's their reason for existence, so they have every incentive to make it so that developers do not understand.
That'd make complete sense. None of their products support Markdown really well. Each has its own weird way of handling code snippets. So many other tools support three backticks and boom, you're in a code-block.
Re: Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
#127User to Dev: the memory usage is excessive. Dev with 256 GB RAM to User: WFM I would not be surprised if a lot of these problems could be traced back to developers having above-average network connections and super beefy computers. Combine that with fresh or minimal installs while testing the software, without lots of data that accumulated over month or years of use and in consequence they experience their products a…
> I would not be surprised if a lot of these problems could be traced back to developers having above-average network connections and super beefy computers
More realistically, they're serving up the assets from a web server on their machine. Which means that network I/O time is effectively nil.
Re: Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
#128I think the answer is: This is the best the richest and best companies in the world, with their best paid 100x rockstar developers can do. Google is literally both the creator of the browser (Chrome), the framework (Angular) and the web-app (GCP) we use and still, this mess is the best they can give us. They have direct access to the creators of Chrome and Angular, in some sense they are the owners of the internet an…
I think 'building cloud solutions' is higher on their priority list than 'making the UI fast'. Whether they have access to the Chrome and Angular teams is irrelevant.
Re: Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
#129I think the answer is: This is the best the richest and best companies in the world, with their best paid 100x rockstar developers can do. Google is literally both the creator of the browser (Chrome), the framework (Angular) and the web-app (GCP) we use and still, this mess is the best they can give us. They have direct access to the creators of Chrome and Angular, in some sense they are the owners of the internet an…
Probably the best they want to do because they do not want to allocate more resources to it.
Re: Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try not using an esoteric desktop environment and web browser.
A similarly-sized window works fine for me in Safari and Chrome on macOS.
Weirdly I'm observing the same behaviour as parent in Safari in macOS, and it really is baffling as the basic google.com website used to be pretty well & sensibly optimised.