Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are on [slideshare] or as a [PDF]: I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

Examples include Internet Explorer 3-6 as well as Safari on Mac OS X and the first iPhone. Examples include IE 7+ and Safari from 2010-onward. If the web is just another fungible application running atop the internet (which the manifesto does center), then it's fine for the web to be frozen in time, or even shrink.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty). I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

My home internet connection gives me somewhere around 3 Mbps down. Hardware gets better, sure. In a 2012 paper, The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy estimated the internet uses 5 kWh on average to support every GB of data. It seems blazingly fast compared to the 0.42 It makes sense.

Performance 111

Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons).

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90