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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

Apart from library code, maybe your application doesn't have frame pointers either, in which case everything is broken. 2005-2023: The winter of broken profilers However, the change was then applied to x86-64 (64-bit) as well, which had sixteen registers and didn't benefit so much from a seventeenth. Back-end servers.

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Fallacy #8: The network is homogeneous

Particular Software

Around 2005 or 2006, it wasn’t so bad. Most of the code running on the planet, at least the code that mattered, was written in.NET or Java, and interoperability via web services was at least serviceable. Google built BigTable, Amazon built Dynamo, Facebook built Cassandra, LinkedIn came up with Voldemort.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 3?—?eBay?—?2004 to 2007

Adrian Cockcroft

From a career point of view, I was looking for a change and decided to get out of the business of selling computers to big companies and figure out consumer oriented technology at eBay. It was a great opportunity to explore new technologies and broaden my experience. and he thought it was cool.

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How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. It wasn’t long before a sea of red “poor” and yellow “needs improvement” notices in our Google Search Console needed our attention. How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study).

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Browser Networking.

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Making A Strong Case For Accessibility

Smashing Magazine

The British Standards Institution (2005) defines inclusive design as : “The design of mainstream products and/or services that are accessible to, and usable by, as many people as reasonably possible. When maintenance is needed, it won’t take the team as long to maintain the code because of accessibility and clean code.”.

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