Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

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!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface? In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. Reasons To Measure The Performance Of Typefaces?

Performance 110

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google do strongly encourage you to focus on site speed for better performance in Search, but, if you don’t pass all relevant Core Web Vitals (and the applicable factors from the Page Experience report) they will not push you down the rankings. All Core Web Vitals data used to rank you is taken from actual Chrome-based traffic to your site.

Engineering 246

Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 25, 2022

NoOps, or “no operations,” emerged as a concept alongside DevOps and the push to automate the CI/CD pipelines as early as 2010. This meant there were still operations, only they were performed by someone else! This means organizations can’t be restricted to a single cloud technology.

DevOps 222

DevOps Big Data Cloud Innovation 222

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

One question I’ve seen posed a few times in the past several months is whether performance really is a moral or ethical concern, or if that’s all heavy-handed exaggeration. Advocates of any technique or technology can be a bit heavy-handed when it suits them if they’re not being careful–myself included.

Performance 111

Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

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.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. Chaos engineering matured at organizations such as Netflix, and gave rise to technologies such as Gremlin (2016) , becoming more targeted and knowledge-based.

Engineering 230

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 230

Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

Performance has always mattered. With sniffers, network performance engineers were ultimately able to relate wire data performance to what business owners expected from the networks they financed. The network performance engineer who managed the sniffer was the guru. Technology developments come in waves.

Network 166

Network Traffic Monitoring Java 166

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?

Speed 134

Speed Website Mobile Cloud 134

Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 1, 2022

photo by Adrian I gave a talk at Monitorama in Portland Oregon in June, which set out the idea that carbon is just another metric to monitor, and that in a few years most of the monitoring and performance tuning tools are going to be reporting and optimizing for carbon alongside latency, throughput, availability and cost.

AWS 52

AWS Virtualization DevOps Latency 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

by Guillaume du Pontavice, Phill Williams and Kylee Peña (on behalf of our Streaming Algorithms, Audio Algorithms, and Creative Technologies teams) Remember the epic opening sequence of Stranger Things 2 ? Adaptive streaming is a technology designed to deliver media to the user in the most optimal way for their network connection.

Engineering 274

Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

Tasktop

JANUARY 18, 2022

Beyonce’s “Irreplaceable” was the best-performing single of the calendar year. I have had the privilege of seeing the company in its formative years as a customer and advisor while at SpringSource before finally joining full-time in 2010. . The first Transformers movie came out.

Open Source 98

Open Source Speed Games Software 98

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. Plus, there’s a global community of dedicated volunteers driving the development of open source database technology.

Open Source 73

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 73

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.

Cloud 119

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 119

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. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

Cloud 117

Cloud Cache AWS Storage 117

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2016

"This technology revolution was not invented by robo-advisers. Gapper points out, revolutions aren't led by technology. The landscape is littered with shuttered technology companies that showed that a thing was possible, but failed to foment a "revolution". People born in 1945 reached age 65 in 2010.

Technology 53

Technology Technology Systems Design 53

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. The Domain Name System is a wonderful practical piece of technology; it is a fundamental building block of our modern internet. Comments ().

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

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 ().

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

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. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Several prominent South American customers have been using AWS since the early days.

AWS 115

AWS Latency Storage Big Data 115

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. Of all the available technologies, JavaScript popularity has shot up exponentially. Let’s get to the pros and cons.

Virtualization 64

Virtualization Website Speed Mobile 64

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. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. AWS is committed to making its services available at low cost. APAC Summer Tour.

AWS 60

AWS Cloud Latency Storage 60

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.

Mobile 74

Mobile Testing Energy Operating System 74

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Performance. Finding the simplest react alternatives isn’t as straightforward as many assume because it’s exhausting to search out an ideal match whilst considering the stability and ecosystem support together with API performance delivered by ReactJS. Let us see some hard-line advantages of React JS in web app development.

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Entertainment Virtualization 52

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. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. APAC Summer Tour.

AWS 106

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 106

All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 18 May 2010 04:00 PM. Four years later it stores over 100 billion objects and routinely performs well over 120,000 storage operations per second. All the complexities of scalability, reliability, durability, performance and cost-effectiveness are hidden behind a very simple programming interface. Comments ().

Storage 72

Storage Cloud AWS Scalability 72

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.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 3, 2019

The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin 4 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one. Image Performance by Mat Marquis 5 ⁄ 5 Here’s the blurb I wrote for A Book Apart. What I Read in 2010. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid 3 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one. Past years.

Entertainment 40

Entertainment Technology Technology Design 40

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. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. APAC Summer Tour.

Big Data 112

Big Data Analytics AWS Scalability 112

All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

Amazon S3 is used by enterprises of all sizes and is designed to handle scaling extremely well; it stores hundreds of billions of objects and easily performs several hundreds of thousands of storage transaction a second. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. More details at [link]. Contact Info.

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AWS Cloud Storage Internet 138

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

The ecosystem strategy takes this even further, combining unrelated capabilities under one roof (eBay buying Skype in 2005, SAP developing HANA in 2010, Facebook buying Oculus in 2014), often justifiable if only because digital commerce is still in its infancy and nobody is really sure what's going to work and what's not.

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 40

All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 28 April 2010 11:00 AM. There are four main reasons to do so: Performance - For many applications and services, data access latency to end users is important. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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AWS Cloud Latency Storage 61

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Around 2010, when US companies could count on a recovering domestic economy, a weak US dollar, and growing emerging market economies, CFOs didn't need to work that hard to flatter the income statement. in the rent payment), so technology costs represent a larger - and discreetly measurable - operating expense.

Cloud 40

Cloud Retail Hardware Software 40

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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AWS Latency Database Scalability 70

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. As well it should. What is WebP?

Website 72

Website Speed Cache Google 72

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2016

Being out of practice, I bought books from as far back as the 1950s to as recent as 2010 on canoe camping, studying everything from gear and technique to meal planning and water purification. One is technology: materials science has changed what we pack and how we pack as gear is lighter and easier to compact.

Energy 40

Energy Systems Efficiency Development 40