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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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

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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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Nick Desaulniers

JUNE 2, 2018

ccache , the compiler cache, is a fantastic way to speed up build times for C and C++ code that I previously recommended. Recently, I was playing around with trying to get it to speed up my Linux kernel builds, but wasn’t seeing any benefit. That, and this LKML post from the KBUILD maintainer in 2011 about determinism.

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Speed Cache C++ Systems 46

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

as it matures 5G is predicted to improve network speeds dramatically. Carriers are predicting download speeds in 2019 for anywhere from 100Mb to 1 Gbit per second on average. Numbers like this make it seem as though the web’s performance problems are merely a matter of infrastructure. This is.bonkers!

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Network Speed Traffic Mobile 84

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? Reasons To Measure The Performance Of Typefaces? Measuring Typefaces And The Resulting Performance Data. Thomas Bohm.

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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

People often tell me they don't understand performance tool output because they can't tell what's "good" or "bad." It can be hard as performance is subjective. Something like: It's called "[flying height]" or "fly height," and (from that reference) was about 5 nanometers for 2011 drives. Particles of dust can be 1000x bigger.

Performance 40

Performance Latency Speed Systems 40

Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

People often tell me they don't understand performance tool output because they can't tell what's "good" or "bad." It can be hard as performance is subjective. Something like: It's called "[flying height]" or "fly height," and (from that reference) was about 5 nanometers for 2011 drives. Particles of dust can be 1000x bigger.

Performance 40

Performance Latency Speed Systems 40

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 10, 2018

In the chart below, based on an analysis from the HTTP Archive , we see the number of requests has increased for both first and third party JavaScript since 2011. The following chart shows the growth in the total size of JavaScript from 2011. Certainly the amount of JavaScript has increased.

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Website Network Code Availability 111

Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

I’m delighted to be joining some of my favourite web performance people at SpeedCurve! I’ve been a full-time web performance consultant for around nine years. I’ve written a couple of books , spoken at conferences , and become an organiser of London’s Web Performance Meetup.

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Retail Internet Internet Education 52

KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Then again, a newer but less widely known framework may more effectively suit your needs, so it's worth it to get up to speed about today's most popular options. Prototypes - The ideal frontend framework allows you to quickly produce wireframes and prototypes to speed up the overall design and development process.

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Google Mobile Open Source Website 135

Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

Because the average page is now 3MB in size, and this seems like a good time to pause, check our assumptions, and ask ourselves: Is there any reason to care about page size as a performance metric? Also, you can also see how easy it is to be misled by onload as a performance metric, because it correlates so strongly with page size.

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Metrics Website Speed Benchmarking 80

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

The daily media consumption on mobile devices has grown by 504 percent since 2011[2]. Globally, consumers are preferring their mobile phones for performing activities (e.g. Mobile website testing helps in serving your customers with a flawless performance on popular screen resolutions. Speed and Accuracy.

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Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. Anyone is welcome to contribute to the calendar , so do feel free to reach out with a topic or tool you’re passionate about, or a technique you’d like to teach and tell the web performance community about. Stoyan Stefanov on Twitter.

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Design Development Programming Website 107

Tasktop

AUGUST 29, 2019

“In this leader’s guide to digital transformation, you’ll get practical, actionable information on building an employee and customer-obsessed culture that drives speed and efficiency while leveraging technology to sell better products and services.”. For more information, visit: [link]. Author: Eric Ries. So is his marriage.

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DevOps Entertainment Innovation Strategy 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

In 2011 Dynatrace saw the digital shift early on and transitioned from delivering software through a traditional on-premise model to the successful hybrid-SaaS innovator we are today. And this is what happened to vendors in Dynatrace’s market — application performance management (APM).

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Games Cloud Best Practices Innovation 160

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

PBM is a fully-supported community backup tool capable of performing cluster-side consistent backups in MongoDB for replica sets and sharded clusters. The speed of backup also depends on allocated IOPS and type of storage since lots of read/writes would be happening during this process. mongodump --host=mongodb1.example.net

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 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.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2019

At Dynatrace, we went through such a transformation ourselves, back in 2011 when we saw the need to create a new platform that was purpose-built for these dynamic, cloud-native IT environments. On-demand performance feedback builds on that by allowing you to make performance part of your delivery pipeline. The Dynatrace journey.

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Cloud DevOps Strategy Monitoring 140

Tasktop

JANUARY 18, 2022

Beyonce’s “Irreplaceable” was the best-performing single of the calendar year. Offload your brain to code at the speed of thought” . Here is the announcement about the founding of the company a couple months after the incorporation [link]. . The first Transformers movie came out. Happy 15th birthday, Tasktop!

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Open Source Speed Games Software 98

Enprowess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Know the difference between Flutter vs React Native in terms of architecture, performance, community support, learning curve, use cases and many other aspects. Performance comparison. Wix – Achieved high speed and lightness within the development of configurable navigations and screen choices. Table of Contents. An overview.

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Development Social Media Mobile Code 52

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

If performance is a problem, we can do progressive enhancement through Server-Side Rendering. Nearly all developers in the modern frontend shops do not experience performance constraints until it’s too late. The brakes aren’t applied until performance is so poor that it actively hurts the business.

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Development Government Mobile Network 65

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

This brings us to the final link in the chain of structural security mitigations: the speed of delivering updates to end-users. Safari on iOS has been endowed with JIT for many years, whereas competing browsers were prevented from approaching similar levels of performance. decoding="async" loading="lazy" />. " pantomime.

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Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

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. Yehuda Katz introduced Ember JS in 2011 for making web applications.

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Entertainment Virtualization 52

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

In 2011, the Obama campaign started using Jekyll extensively to power their fundraising platform. I am yet to find a traditional CMS vendor who can deliver this level of performance on the scale (millions of page views per day). SSG became mainstream and got some real traction during the second Obama campaign.

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Systems Cache Website Network 63

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This is why a lot of our guidance on performance talks about image optimization. Assuming encode/decode speeds meet your needs. Encode/Decode Speed. Degree of compression, image quality, and decoding speed are key factors to be considered when comparing image performance for the web. Large preview ).

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144