Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

He goes into detail covering the steps that need to be taken to ensure that a website or application is prepared for an influx of traffic, from scoping and testing to setting expectations and creating a contingency plan. “There are a lot of different scenarios where you will be expecting more traffic than normal.”

Performance 68

Performance Traffic Website Performance Testing 68

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Understanding the importance of loading scripts asynchronously might help increase adoption of this critical performance improvement, so we're going to walk through the evolution of async script loading starting way back in 2007. This is likely when some dominant third party snippets (Google Analytics, Facebook, etc.)

Internet 53

Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. A real-time user experience analytics engine for live video, that looked at all users rather than a subsample.

Serverless 145

Serverless Lambda Best Practices Traffic 145

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

The evolution of DevOps automation Since the concept of DevOps emerged around 2007 and 2008 in response to pain points with Agile development, DevOps automation has been continuously evolving. They can also see how the change can affect critical objectives like SLOs and golden signals, such as traffic, latency, saturation, and error rate.

DevOps 213

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 213

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. During this time, we completed the migration of all necessary functionalities from Reloaded, began gradually shifting over traffic one use case at a time, and completed the switchover in September of 2023.

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

This data is from the 2007 presentation. It is not surprising that there is a lot of scatter, but the factor of four range in Peak MFLOPS at fixed SPECfp_rate2000/core and the factor of four range in SPECfp_rate2000/core at fixed Peak MFLOPS was higher than I expected… (Also from the 2007 presentation.)

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59