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

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This paper tells the story of Let’s Encrypt, from it’s early beginnings in 2012/13 all the way to becoming the world’s largest HTTPS Certificate Authority (CA) today – accounting for more currently valid certificates than all other browser-trusted CAs combined. The Internet Security Research Group.

Internet 119

Internet Internet Open Source Transportation 119

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2012 07:00 PM. I am in São Paolo, Brazil for the 2012 AWS Latin America Summit and for The Next Web Latin America conference. Matt Welsh s thesis work at Berkeley was on building high-performance internet services. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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Architecture AWS Internet Internet 98

High Scalability

JANUARY 4, 2019

copyconstruct : "GPUs will increase 1000× in performance by 2025, whereas Moore’s law for CPUs essentially is dead. Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (34 almost 5 star reviews). Devs mostly hate 'em too but right now there's not much to be done about it 3. I still hate it but UGH OKAY FINE I guess. So many more quotes.

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Healthcare 29

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Now that we have added support for document object model while delivering consistent fast performance, I think DynamoDB is the logical first choice for any application. In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo. JSON has become the accepted medium for interchange between numerous Internet services.

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Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Investigating weird Chrome performance problems is literally my job so we started chatting. The difference is dramatic: The performance of scanning the memory in the normal mode is quite consistent, taking about 0.2 The answer is later in this post. Then it does the same thing with the process set to background mode. ms per scan.

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Efficiency Processing Programming Systems 98

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers.

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Cloud Development AWS Servers 116

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

DynamoDB has come a long way in the 5 years since we announced its availability in January 2012. Based on this experience and learning, we built DynamoDB to be a fast, highly scalable NoSQL database to meet the needs of Internet-scale applications. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage. Saving crucial milliseconds.

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 123

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.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Comments ().

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Engine diversity is essential, as it is the mechanism that causes competition to deliver better performance, capability, privacy, security, and user controls. Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. More on that when we get to iOS.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

The Problem Of Unpredictable Performance. At the same time, we have a widening performance gap. Low-end phones on the other hand are getting cheaper , making the mobile internet accessible to demographics that previously maybe couldn’t afford it. The performance of the user’s device is completely unpredictable.

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Games Architecture Code C++ 145

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

However, we also knew that building a distributed database that has unlimited scale and maintains predictably high performance while providing rich and flexible query capabilities, is one of the hardest problems in database development, and will take a lot of effort and invention from our team of distributed database engineers to solve.

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Games Scalability Database Retail 130

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2014

Each major expansion in software development - automation (60s), productivity (80s), internet (90s), mobile (00s) - has been additive to the total stock of software in the world. The horrific explosion of the oil tank train that devastated Lac-Mégantic in 2012 was in no small part the result of demand exceeding supply.

Software 73

Software Software Development Government 73

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

With these added libraries and subsequent plugins came added page weight, and before long we were starting to think seriously about front-end performance. Let’s imagine that it’s 2012 and everyone is using the brand new jQuery 1.8. Support in modern browsers is broad, with the main exception being Internet Explorer.

Website 57

Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The most common options are to keep the file private (ACL => “private”) and to make it accessible for reading on the internet (ACL => “public-read”). protected function get_acl() { return 'public-read'; } }.

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AWS Servers Storage Cloud 44

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. It’s safe to say WordPress, the platform now powering 40% of the internet, won that battle, but MovableType paved the way for Jamstack CMSs in the future. But, when it worked, it was magical.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

If you use CodePen, the default reset is Normalize.css , authored by Nicolas Gallagher and initially released in 2012. Note : Another timely note here is that Internet Explorer will reach end of life officially on June 15, 2022 ). A more recent hot topic in site performance and related metrics is Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS).

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Design Availability Mobile Website 145

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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Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98