MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

While it’s important to check various speed metrics , the Web Almanac uses data from the Chome UX Report which focuses on how Chrome users actually experience the web. As we mentioned in our article Average Page Load Times for 2020 , mobile page speed is a huge deal going forward. First Contentful Paint. Page Weight.

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DZone

JUNE 26, 2019

Luckily, with a little planning and a solid understanding of the WPF platform, you can have your WPF apps jumping into warp speed and leaping across the universe in milliseconds. The reasons for this poor performance include things such as bad coding practices, broken bindings, complex layouts, the lack of UI virtualization, and much more.

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Performance Virtualization Speed Code 100

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. Here's some experimental approaches I could also explore: Disable tracesys/syscall_trace. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

MachMetrics

APRIL 12, 2019

It’s no secret that we’re a huge fan of lazy loading your below-the-fold images to improve page speed. Given the pace of Google is to release a new stable version every 1-2 months, we can be confident that Chrome 75, with the native lazy-loading, will be released to the public before the end of this year, 2019.

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Google Speed Mobile Website 44

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google do strongly encourage you to focus on site speed for better performance in Search, but, if you don’t pass all relevant Core Web Vitals (and the applicable factors from the Page Experience report) they will not push you down the rankings. While Core Web Vitals can help with SEO, there’s so much more to site-speed than that.

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Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

DZone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Opera may not be your default browser, but it still is a popular web browser in the market and is especially loved in areas that don’t have high-speed Internet. This is because Opera performs quite well even at slow internet speeds.

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Testing Internet Internet Speed 114

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report found that over 60% of system outages resulted in at least $100,000 in total losses, up from 39% in 2019. Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed.

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Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 223

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

## References I've reproduced the talk references below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency? Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

SQL Shack

JULY 10, 2019

By removing disk-based storage and the challenge of copying data in and out of memory, query speeds in SQL Server can be improved by orders of magnitude. Introduction In-memory technologies are one of the greatest ways to improve performance and combat contention in computing today.

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Servers Latency Storage Speed 79

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Try changing the kernel clocksource. I couldn't find such a microbenchmark so I wrote something simple.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2019-01-07T12:00:13+00:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Vitaly Friedman. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? Intended as a RUM metric only.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 105

Percona

JULY 15, 2023

Introduction to MySQL Indexes Indexes in MySQL are database structures used to optimize data retrieval speed and efficiency. They are a roadmap that speeds up the process of finding specific rows in a large table. As such, index design must strike a balance between improved query speed and efficient data modification.

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Virtualization Speed Database Efficiency 75

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Intel and Netflix announced their collaboration on a software video encoder implementation called SVT-AV1 on April 8, 2019. The encoder can typically be improved years after the standard has been frozen including varying speed and quality trade-offs. The encoder speed helps innovation, as it is faster to run experiments.

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Tasktop

MAY 16, 2019

Tasktop at Agile Israel 2019. Tasktop is thrilled to be a sponsor of Agile Israel 2019 , Israel’s main conference for Agile and DevOps, which takes place next week (May 21, 2019) at the Lago Event Hall in Israel. Companies of all sizes invest in DevOps for two major reasons: to save money and to speed the development.

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Software Software DevOps Government 45

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

October 2, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Hosting on Azure for Redis™ service. The demand for Redis™ is skyrocketing across dozens of use cases, particularly for cache, queues, geospatial data, and high speed transactions.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We’ve been covering papers from VLDB 2019 for the last three weeks, and next week it will be time to mix things up again. I really do want to cover this one at some point, along with Implementation of cluster-wide logical clock and causal consistency in MongoDB from SIGMOD 2019. Do we want that? Yes please!

Blockchain 46

Blockchain Hardware Google Analytics 46

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8 For example, while the average mobile download speed on 4G in Switzerland is fast at 35.2 Mbps, countries with a growing Internet users like India is only at an average mobile download speed of 6.8 KB and the average mobile page is 1,683.5

Speed 52

Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

DZone

JULY 25, 2019

Humio received $9M in Series A funding from Accel at the beginning of 2019 and is aiming to do just that. Integrating data sources between Humio and Instana is useful because DevOps, IT Ops and Security professionals need many types of data and information to optimise their applications and speed up software development.

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Programming DevOps Operating System Speed 100

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

as it matures 5G is predicted to improve network speeds dramatically. Carriers are predicting download speeds in 2019 for anywhere from 100Mb to 1 Gbit per second on average. This is because historically, faster network speed has enabled developers to deliver more code to users—in particular, more JavaScript code.

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Network Speed Traffic Mobile 84

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

## References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Since becoming General Availability in the fall of 2019 , GitHub Actions has helped teams automate continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows for code builds, tests, and deployments. Keeping business stakeholders in the loop with end-to-end observability with deep insight and continuous feedback loops?. #2

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Software Software Open Source Azure 246

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Description: Infant characters as in my paper “ Letter and symbol misrecognition in highly legible typefaces for general, children, dyslexic, visually impaired and aging readers — 2019 fourth edition.”. Many previous reading studies investigated the effect of typography on reading speed. Robert Hillier’s Sylexiad Serif Medium.

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Performance Design Testing Speed 98

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

This follow-up post revisits the question for SQL Server 2019, using a larger number of rows. This machine has four i7 CPUs (hyperthreaded to 8) with a base speed of 2.4GHz. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance. Test Environment. The cost threshold for parallelism is set to 50.

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Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

Nick Desaulniers

DECEMBER 31, 0001

2020 Apr 6 Off by Two 2019 May 12 f() vs f(void) in C vs C++ 2019 Jan 18 Finding Compiler Bugs With C-Reduce 2018 Oct 24 Booting a Custom Linux Kernel in QEMU and Debugging It With GDB 2018 Jun 2 Speeding Up Linux Kernel Builds With ccache 2017 Sep 5 GCC vs LLVM Q3 2017 Commit Rates and Active Developer Counts 2017 May 31 Running Clang-Tidy (..)

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C++ Speed Development 40

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

## References I've reproduced the talk references below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency? Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

High Scalability

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Going back we had two dedicated 1,200-baud lines: high-speed lines at the time. billion : robot and drone spending in 2019; Quotable Quotes: @jmarhee : "I went to Kubecon and all I got were these 300 service meshes built by companies that went under by time I got home". Cables of course going down into the room at both ends.

Internet 141

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 141

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Back in October of 2019, “Perl 6” was renamed to “Raku”. Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. 24 Accessibility (2019). The site hasn’t had a new article since 2019, but still offers a good resource of articles on all subjects related to digital accessibility.

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Design Development Programming Website 110

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

And because the product would be both the business, as well as servicing the business, speed and constant innovation was a key goal , and the entire initiative was supported by management from the top down. We completed our initial public offering and listed our shares on the New York Stock Exchange on August 1, 2019.

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Games Cloud Best Practices Innovation 160

Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 9, 2022

So right from the beginning, I’m happy to spend some time getting back up to speed and developing some of my ideas around new hardware capabilities. One is general technology advice on the state of the art in development practices, along the lines of the Cloud for CEOs booklet I published for AWS in 2019.

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IoT Best Practices AWS Media 52

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. How to get these matrics right and not mess up?

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

KeyCDN

JANUARY 31, 2019

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. According to Wikipedia , Romania ranked 5th place worldwide for the average connection speed of 38.60Mb/s. million Romanian eCommerce users who spend an average of $237.38

Internet 48

Internet Internet Ecommerce Speed 48

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2019

Receive a metric for the timespan between two given dates in the past: from=2019-12-21T05:57:01.123+01:00&to=2019-12-22T05:57:01.123+01:00. Receive a metric for a given date and time aligned with a specific URC timezone: from=2019-12-21T05:57:01.123+01:00. Receive the timestamp in UTC millisecond format: from=1558963489634.

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Metrics Efficiency Monitoring Azure 102

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In 2019, Gartner reported that 30% of organizations worldwide were running containerized applications. In fact, in our recent CISO research, 28% of CISOs told us that application teams sometimes bypass these types of tests to speed up delivery. Dynatrace news. Containers have become hugely popular.

Open Source 251

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 251

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] , Jul 2008 [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] , 2010 [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

However, in 2019, the expectation for a good user experience is now higher than ever. The lower conversion rate on mobile could be due to a variety of reasons including the website not being responsive for mobile devices, the speed isn’t up to par, etc. Improve Site Speed In 2019, having fast site speed is imperative.

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Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Applying page or row compression (both online/offline) to the source before the affinitized copy (offline), to see if compressing the data first could speed up the destination. The downside to the latter is that, in SQL Server 2017, you cannot run this online… but you will be able to in 2019. tblOriginal.

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Speed Processing Servers Storage 113

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video. However, all the other connections have a downlink speed that’s significantly lower than 20 MBPS. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

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Network Speed Website Mobile 144