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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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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All Things Distributed

MAY 22, 2013

Amazon Redshift and Designing for Security. By Werner Vogels on 22 May 2013 08:30 AM. s message of price , performance and simplicity has resonated with our customers. ve talked about performance and availability in Amazon Redshift before. All Things Distributed. Comments (). s clear that Amazon Redshiftâ??s

Design 112

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Gbit/s : t3.2xlarge Network Performance; 60% : chances DNA can be used to find your family; 12 : Happy birthday Hacker News!; Maybe it's flawed, but the design is absolutely on the right traack. 2080 Ti destroys V100 / Titan V on performance per dollar. ” -Larry Tesler. Only few astute folks take seriously.

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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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Percona

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The auto-increment feature, which generates unique values for primary key columns, is an integral part of the database’s design. sec) service mysql restart mysql> select * from users; ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server during query No connection. Compared to MySQL 5.7, sec) Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. Sustainable Web Design. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick.

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation. MySQL is one of the most popular open source RDBMS used by organizations of all sizes due to its reliability, scalability, and performance.

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Tim Kadlec

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

When I first stumbled on the idea of skeleton screens, thanks to Luke Wroblewski talking about them back in 2013 , I latched onto them pretty quickly. Given the constraints the app faced with the network and web view performance at the time, they were a bit limited on what they could do from a technical perspective.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 29, 2014

“RWD Is Bad for Performance” Is Good for Performance. I’ve found the “responsive design is bad for performance” myth to be really good for performance. Too often we focus merely on size and request count when discussing the use of JavaScript from a performance perspective.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

Studies by Gartner showed that as early as 2013, companies were bringing in $26 billion through app revenues. Companies must complete this review process before even finishing the new feature’s wireframe design. User Interface Testing : Make sure your Product Design, UX and QA teams help in developing your user interface.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 4, 2020

The most important help that Shakespeare gave was to act one of the leading roles in Jonson’s first play, “Every Man in His Humour,” when it was performed in 1598. After 1598, Jonson continued to write poems and plays, and many of his plays were performed by Shakespeare’s company. Jonson was then aged 25, Shakespeare 34.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

People won’t even waste a chance to leave a negative review if they found a little error in the app, whether it’s performance glitches, a weak user interface, or a crash. The testing of mobile apps includes testing their functionality, performance, loading, security, and usability. For cost reduction.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 17, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 17 April 2013 10:30 AM. While DynamoDB already allows you to perform low-latency queries based on your tableâ??s s primary key, even at tremendous scale, LSI will now give you the ability to perform fast queries against other attributes (or columns) in your table. Comments (). Today, Iâ??m

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PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

It ranks the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers based on their performance as measured by the Linpack benchmark. In addition to performance, the Top500 list also summarises the main characteristics of the supercomputers in the list. Performance development. Supercomputer. The Top500 list is all about supercomputers.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 3, 2019

Inclusive Design Patterns by Heydon Pickering 4 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one. Designing Interface Animation by Val Head 5 ⁄ 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 2013.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Andrew Clarke.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 29, 2013

For non-fiction: The Reading Promise , Jim Henson: The Biography and Designing and Engineering Time. For web-specific titles: Content Everywhere , Responsive Design Workflow and The Mobile Book. Work for Money, Design for Love by David Airey 4 ⁄ 5. I’m not one of those people. A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink 4 ⁄ 5.

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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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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Since its inception in 2013, Docker has become the de facto standard for developers due to its ability to make more efficient use of system resources, ship software faster, and minimize security issues. Microservices architecture combines loosely-coupled functions to create high-performing applications. Control plane performance.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

What’s most impressive is that you’re not compromising performance for cost. We ran performance tests for MongoDB on DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure and found that DigitalOcean performance was in line with, if not better, on both high throughput and low latency in the deployment. Monitoring Performance.

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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). Consider this the starting point in your web performance journey. What I Read in 2013. For non-fiction: Chuck Amuck , Stuff Matters and The Noble Approach.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Amazon Redshift and Designing for Resilience. By Werner Vogels on 15 February 2013 12:01 AM. ve written at length about how Amazon Redshift achieves high performance. Amazon Redshift uses local attached storage to deliver high IO performance. Performance is important, but it just doesnâ??t Comments (). Today, Iâ??m

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Though the VPTCS model provided us a point of view on what a website is and what the requirements of the user are, we also wanted to determine the consequences for the stakeholders of the web project i.e. those designing, producing, developing, commercializing, or marketing the website.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

You may have to put off learning web development and design. You can make a great website without coding or advanced web design skills. Anyone can use a good website builder, even if they don’t know web design. It depends on the best practices of web design. Shopify introduced its feature – Shopify Payments in 2013.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Steve & Tim's Close-up Magic.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

The following article was originally published in the 2013 Performance Calendar. There's 31 great articles to explore in the calendar including Steve Souders's browser wishlist and Tim Kadlec's take on what it takes to create a performance culture. -. Establish a performance baseline and then go performance first.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

At its start in 2013, Docker was mainly used by developers as a sandbox for testing purposes. Kubernetes design principles. To understand how Kubernetes works and how to best use it, it’s good to understand the motivations behind its design. It’s in these hard-to-see relationships that performance issues reveal themselves.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Every technical challenge in this design space is paired with an even more daunting governance problem. Removal also creates a performance cliff for content that assumes cache availability. None of this holds.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes. Companies like Datadog and New Relic provide real-time monitoring and analytics for IT infrastructure and application performance, helping companies quickly identify and rectify issues before they can cause significant harm.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes. Companies like Datadog and New Relic provide real-time monitoring and analytics for IT infrastructure and application performance, helping companies quickly identify and rectify issues before they can cause significant harm.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The groups learned of each other’s efforts, and joined forces in May 2013. Boulder is built with six key design principles in mind: Minimal logic , in order to make it easier to verify. Operational isolation with no access to data centres and adminstration performed remotely.

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Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

React library is designed in a way that it can integrate with existing code or other libraries effortlessly. This functionality gives an edge to Reactjs by increasing performance and decreasing programming time compared to another mobile app development platform. The Performance hence depends upon third-party libraries.

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Percona

JULY 30, 2018

In modern data architectures, we’re increasingly moving from single-node design systems to distributed architectures using multiple nodes – often spread across multiple databases and multiple continents. 5000 named Percona to their list in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

As you can see in the DB-Engines Popularity of Open Source DBMS vs. Commercial DBMS report below, open source has been steadily stealing market share from commercial vendors since at least 2013. Performance followed in fourth with 10.9% Community then came in third place with 13.6% of responses, then 3rd party tools at 9.1%

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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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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. React got popular due to the virtual document object model (DOM) which enables it to enhance performance of web apps and PWA significantly.

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