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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Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2019

It was around 2011 that PaaS software projects started as open instead of closed – think of OpenShift (2011), Cloud Foundry (2011), or Kubernetes (2014). Today, these are super-relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT. Come on, meet us!

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Open Source DevOps Innovation Infrastructure 113

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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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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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. Jake Archibald.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We’re currently in a technological era where we have a large variety of computing endpoints at our disposal like containers, Platform as a Service (PaaS), serverless, virtual machines, APIs, etc. We went from managing five EC2 instances in 2011 to around 1,000 in 2017. with more being added continually. Interested in next steps?

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Code Infrastructure DevOps Serverless 110

Tasktop

JANUARY 18, 2022

Beyonce’s “Irreplaceable” was the best-performing single of the calendar year. As is often the case at Tasktop, we took those lessons from Tasktop Sync and innovated with model based integration to create what is widely known as the best integration technology for the software lifecycle with Tasktop Hub.

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Open Source Speed Games Software 98

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2019

But what made organizations adopt these techniques and technologies? 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. The Dynatrace journey.

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Tasktop

MARCH 31, 2022

The company’s shift in terms of mindset and technology was captured in Tasktop CEO Dr. Mik Kersten’s book, Project to Product. Tasktop has been partnering with BMW since 2011. Todays’ top performing IT leaders are using VSM to outpace the competition. It also ensures the data consistency in BMW’s agile toolchains. . “If

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Automotive Software Software Development 52

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. Best practice tip : It is always advisable to use secondary servers for backups to avoid unnecessary performance degradation on the PRIMARY node. mongodump --host=mongodb1.example.net

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Regardless of what underlying technologies you're using, you'll be able to take advantage of React. Developers taking advantage of Angular have the unparalleled ability to make apps look like Google's apps that use the same technology. The technology stack and way its written play into how well Ember will work.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 22 August 2011 07:40 PM. 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. All Things Distributed.

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Cloud Cache AWS Storage 117

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 14 December 2011 07:00 PM. 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. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments ().

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Tasktop

AUGUST 29, 2019

The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations. Published back in 2011, this has become an industry classic and is definitely required reading. Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try improve performance. Author: Eric Ries.

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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. Flutter is a cross-platform, open-source framework that functions with a programming language called Dart, developed by Google in 2011.

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Development Social Media Mobile Code 52

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

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 29 June 2011 09:55 AM. 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. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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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 2011. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid 3 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one. Past years.

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Entertainment Technology Technology Design 40

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 18 August 2011 04:00 PM. 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. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 28 March 2011 02:50 PM. 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.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2013

Managers coped with smaller staffs by asking employees to perform multiple jobs and to work longer hours. Companies invested in technology 2 to lock in those post-layoff productivity gains, and to improve customer self-service offerings since they had fewer employees to service customers. Revenues plummeted at the end of 2008.

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Small Business Efficiency Innovation Systems 40

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Traditional CMS is a dead end In the last 5 years, traditional CMS landscape is not evolved much - both CMS technologies as well market maturity remains unchanged. Although some vendors have added support for APIs and cloud services most have not even bothered to adapt with changing technology landscape.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 30, 2014

Which of course causes me to wonder—if suggesting we “might” not need a technology can cause such a heated discussion, perhaps we “might” be just a little too attached to it. Performance is not the only concern. But the reaction was more divided than I expected with many getting a little worked up about the site.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 31, 2014

For web-specific titles: Responsible Responsive Design , Designing for Performance and The Manual (I’m just going to cheat and say read all the issues). Crux by Ramez Naam 4 ⁄ 5 Crux picked up where Nexus left off, letting us see the impact of a post-human technology being used by the masses. What I Read in 2011.

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Design Tuning Mobile Technology 40

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

It’s fascinating to read about the different ways our technology-reliant world is vulnerable to attacks. Goodman doesn’t pull any punches, and he spends maybe 80% of the book outlining all the various technologies and how they leave us vulnerable. Despite this, I have to admit I tore right through the book. Thankfully it’s not.

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BioTech Social Media Entertainment Media 45

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 26, 2011

As technology continues to evolve, the number of those opportunities will only increase. We can take a closer look at those ideas that look a little more promising by putting them through an initial inception: make a broad survey of the opportunity, perform some due diligence, and produce a business case and an initial estimation of cost.

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