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Introduction to KVM, SR-IOV, and Exploring the Advantages of SR-IOV in KVM Environments

DZone

This deep integration into the Linux kernel brings KVM's performance, security, and stability advantages, making it a dependable option for virtualization requirements. KVM functions as a type 1 hypervisor, delivering performance similar to hardware—an edge over type 2 hypervisors.

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The Performance Golden Rule Revisited

Tim Kadlec

There was a comment on Twitter today from Rafael Gonzaga expressing disappointment in what he sees as a tendency to focus on the frontend solely in performance discussions, while neglecting the server-side aspect. Revisiting the golden rule Way back in 2006, Tenni Theurer first wrote about the 80 / 20 rule as it applied web performance.

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Diving Deep on S3 Consistency

All Things Distributed

I recently posted about Amazon S3 and how it’s evolved over the last 15 years since we launched the service in 2006 as “storage for the internet.” ” We built S3 because we knew customers wanted to store backups, videos, and images for applications like e-commerce web sites.

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Digital first, and always: Five critical metrics for measuring customer experience at federal agencies

Dynatrace

The current administration’s increased commitment to improving the digital CX is heartening, but agencies will never know how they are doing if they can’t measure system performance. This memo arrives at a time when citizen satisfaction with U.S. government services has reached a general decline in recent years. down from a high of 72.3

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Moving my US tech job to Australia

Brendan Gregg

I've moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Sydney, Australia, where I will continue the best job so far of my career: Performance engineering at Netflix. I moved to the US in 2006 as there were many more opportunities there, especially in kernel engineering and performance. Yes, I'm performance analyzing myself.

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Auto-Increment Counter Persistence in MySQL 8: Comparing the Evolution From MySQL 5.7

Percona

sec) Now, let’s delete the last record (ID 4) from the “users” table, perform a restart, and inspect the table’s contents: mysql> delete from users where id=4; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec) service mysql restart mysql> select * from users; ERROR 2006 (HY000): MySQL server has gone away No connection.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. What does this finding mean in web performance terms?

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