Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

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. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Delayed three years ( Chrome 40, November 2014 vs. Safari 11.1, Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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. Right now, widely-used benchmarks for AI code generation (e.g.,

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Performance issues surrounding Availability Groups typically were related to disk I/O or network speeds. As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated. Our design for SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014 is still proven and meets the demands for many of our customers.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40