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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. In fairness, that was in the early 2000s, and site speed was barely on anyone's radar.

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Dynatrace named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for APM and Observability, received highest scores in 4 of 6 use cases in the Critical Capabilities for APM and Observability

Dynatrace

Our focus on delivering precise answers and intelligent automation from the enormous amount of data that emanates from these environments has enabled our customers to do their clouds right, minimizing cloud complexity, accelerating adoption of cloud-native technologies, and speeding digital transformation.”. Everything is automated.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty). Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] - Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

In 2010, Netflix introduced a technology to switch production software instances off at random — like setting a monkey loose in a server room — to test how the cloud handled its services. Intelligence from chaos testing funnels back to developers who can implement design changes that make software more durable and improve production quality.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

## 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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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. Designing for Performance. High Performance Responsive Design.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

As for attending USENIX conferences: I finally started attending and speaking at them in 2010 when a community manager encouraged me to (thanks Deirdre Straughan), and since then I've met many friends and connections, including Amy who is now USENIX President, and Rikki with whom I co-chaired the USENIX LISA18 conference. Ford, et al., “TCP