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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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Building the future of performance with SpeedCurve

Speed Curve

A long time coming I started working on performance back in 2010 (oh no, I’m old). I remember reading Steve Souders's book and immediately becoming hooked—living in the middle of nowhere with terrible connectivity and devices that tended to lag behind mean the pain of bad performance was something I couldn’t ignore.

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How to Optimize Websites for Ad Publishers

Dotcom-Montior

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. Remember, speed is key to the user experience. Optimize Your Pages.

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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. Speeds incident response. By learning what failure scenarios are possible, these teams can speed troubleshooting, repairs, and incident response.

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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