Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. Find Your Performance Baseline. Optimize Your Pages.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Growth Of Internet in Finland The number of Internet users in Finland correlates very closely with the current number of residents. Back in 1984, FUNET was launched to connect Finnish universities and in 2000 internet in Finland was launched commercially. million Internet users in Finland resulting in a 92.5%

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM. I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already.

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Edge Perspectives

DECEMBER 31, 2019

This last decade, the 2010’s, has been a challenging one. The emotion of fear is completely understandable given the paradox of the Big Shift , creating exponentially expanding opportunity while at the same time creating mounting performance pressure in the form of intensifying competition and the accelerating pace of change.

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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. The preloader is the most important performance improvement browsers ever made. Finally: Async.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

The number was just 296 million units ten years back in 2010 ( [link] ). While performing the mobile app testing, we need to take care of specific challenges for each of them. For native applications, you can skip installing emulators as they do not give you the precise performance of the application.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

There are many success stories about the effectiveness of caching in many different scenarios; next to helping applications achieving fast and predictable performance, it often protects databases from requests bursts and brownouts under overload conditions. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The new Sao Paulo Region provides better latency to South America, which enables AWS customers to deliver higher performance services to their South American end-users. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. Almost immediately after the launch of Amazon EC2, our customers started to use it for High Performance Computing. Comments (). HPC and Amazon EC2.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

In addition, the EU (Ireland) Region is available to customers who want local access to services from Europe to address their performance or jurisdiction requirements. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

In Amazon Web Services there are similar dimensions that are forever important to our customers; scale, reliability, security, performance, ease of use, and of course pricing. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

Our smart phones and tablets are obvious examples, but many other devices are quickly gaining these capabilities; TV Sets and Hifi systems are internet enabled, and soon our treadmills and automobiles will be equally plugged into the digital world. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. Known for performance and scalability, it’s often used for high volumes of data and for real-time web applications.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 18 May 2010 04:00 PM. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in 2006 as "Storage for the Internet" with the promise to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Four years later it stores over 100 billion objects and routinely performs well over 120,000 storage operations per second.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

For example, for data-critical workloads you might decide to run only the Task Group on Spot Instances, with the Core Group on On-Demand, while if you are performing application testing you may decide to run all Instance Groups using Spot Instances. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

These front end frameworks provide various templates to interact with browser components and are compatible with various libraries which boost the performance while reducing the amount of code required. This can provide near native functionality and user experience while being able to function without an active internet connection.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 28 April 2010 11:00 AM. Quite often "The Cloud" is portrayed as something magically transparent that lives somewhere in the internet. There are four main reasons to do so: Performance - For many applications and services, data access latency to end users is important. Comments (). and European Regions.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. This incredible power is available for anyone to use in the usual pay-as-you-go model, removing the investment barrier that has kept many organizations from adopting GPUs for their workloads even though they knew there would be significant performance benefit. Comments ().

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

The thing about any crisis is that there's an expectation that there will eventually be a recovery, no matter long it takes to reach bottom and regardless the shape the recovery takes: V-shaped rebound as happened in in 1953, W-shaped as in 1981-82, U-shaped as in 1973-75 and again in 2000-03, or L-shaped as in 2008-2010.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Even if you resize your images to the exact specifications of your website and run them through a compressor, they can still put a strain on performance and run up bandwidth usage. Google developed WebP back in 2010 after acquiring a company called On2 Technologies. Samsung Internet. As well it should. What is WebP? Opera Mini.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 24 February 2010 07:00 AM. There are many factors that come into play when you need to meet stringent availability and performance requirements under ultra-scalable conditions. If you need to achieve high-availability and scalable performance, you will need to resort to data replication techniques.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 1, 2017

When we started the “Parkour” project in 2010, members of the team had built something like a dozen JavaScript frameworks or component systems between them and those systems were powering the front-ends of billion-dollar businesses and used by thousands of engineers every day. When Different Isn’t Better. Conference calls?

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.

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