Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

My journey into performance started in the late 1990s, while I was working for an elearning provider and discovering the challenges of delivering rich content over the internet. For about half that time I worked freelance, and the other half for Site Confidence / NCC Group in the UK. After all, performance is about people.).

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2021

In 2014, Andy Kessler wrote an intriguing op-ed in the WSJ, positing that beginning in the last half of the 20th century, the tech cycle had replaced the Fed cycle as the engine responsible for economic growth. But Mr. Kessler got it right in 2014: it won’t be the Fed that determines how the economy performs in this cycle, it will be tech.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 16, 2020

Google made SSL use a ranking factor way back in 2014, and since Chrome 68, a “Not Secure” warning appears next to the URL of sites that aren’t using HTTPS. These types of intrusions can be very difficult to find and remove once in place. To be completely honest, you almost have to use it. Source: Google Blog.

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Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

With over 140 professionals in 30 plus countries, Peter’s venture now serves over 3000 customers – including the “who’s who” of internet giants, large enterprises and many exciting startups. 5000 named Percona to their list in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

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Open Source Internet Internet Strategy 42

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. In 2014, Apple would have enjoyed a profit margin of 50% if it had spent half a billion on browser engineering. Despite being largely open source, browsers and their engines are not loss leaders.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 31, 2014

For Q2 2014 we're switching to IE11 which is now the most popular version of IE according to Akamai and StatsCounter and the average connection speed has been updated to 9.8Mbps download, 2.5Mbps upload with a 10ms latency. The 9.8Mbps download speed is based on the latest State of the Internet report from Akamai.

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The Polyglot Developer

JANUARY 29, 2015

Since starting this blog in July of 2014, I have had an unexpected amount of growth. This is not good when you’re trying to be a reliable source of information on the internet. So much, that a lot of strain has been placed on my virtual private server (VPS).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In the late 1990s, marketing and advertising agencies saw the potential of eye-tracking for the Internet and started using the technology to analyze how people consume content online. For instance, Nielsen’s research conducted in 2006 showed that people read content on the Internet in an F-shaped pattern.

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Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Macbook Air (2014). Macbook Air (2014). Macbook Air (2014). Macbook Air (2014). On powerful devices, like my Macbook Air (2014), parse and execution time was negligible. Firefox 31. iPad (4th Gen). Powerful mobile devices like the iPhone 5s also fared very well.

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ACM Sigarch

MARCH 18, 2019

Computer systems, from the Internet-of-Things devices to datacenters, are complex and optimizing them can enhance capability and save money. He is a fellow of IEEE and the ACM, serves as Chair of the Computer Community Consortium (2018-20) and served as Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department Chair 2014-17.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. How long does it take to read the time? How would you _time_ time?

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University 2015. Today we’ll be digging into the analysis of an incident that took place at Etsy on December 4th, 2014.

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Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

That month, they formed the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), a nonprofit corporation, to be the legal entity operating Let’s Encrypt. Let’s Encrypt was publically announced on November 18th 2014, and began providing service to the public on Decemmber 3rd 2015. The Internet Security Research Group.

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Internet Internet Open Source Transportation 119

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The godfather of the web performance movement, educator, speaker, the author of the most essential books in the industry, High Performance Websites (which was #1 in Amazon’s Computer and Internet bestsellers in 2007) and Even Faster Websites , and the co-author of Web Performance Daybook Volume 2. Luke Wroblewski. Luke Wroblewski.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

2014 saw the trend of mobile app testing as they were becoming a multi-billion dollar business all over the world. IoT (Internet of things) devices have been on an increase for a long time now. In 2021, more than 23 billion IoT devices were active and connected to the internet. Signup now. IoT automation testing.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. Colleagues/Internet I love using Linux performance tools. How long does it take to read the time? How would you time time?

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. How long does it take to read the time? How would you _time_ time?

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

In 2014 and 2015 respectively, AWS opened offices in Stockholm and Espoo, Finland. Icelandic low-cost airline carrier WOW air is using AWS for its Internet-facing IT infrastructure, including its booking engine, development platforms, and web servers.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Doubleslash : Back in 2014 OpenStack may have been a thing but nowadays, 4 years later, people learned a lesson. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading).

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Internet Internet Scalability Energy 28

Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

In 2014, I was preparing a presentation about load testing tools and criteria for their selection. While, as it was already mentioned, there is an enormous number of posts on the Internet discussing some aspects of JMeter, the problem is that most of them are for beginners.

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Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

Do configure your servers correctly, especially public Internet-facing ones. If we can get a 98% improvement and still have fully compatible interop with existing C++, that would be a holy grail worth serious investment. Do track a software bill of materials for your projects. Don’t store secrets in code. (Or, Turn authentication on!

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To quote from the project page , “ PlanOut … was created to make it easy to run and iterate on sophisticated experiments in a statistically sound manner while satisfying the constraints of deployed Internet services. PlanOut itself has been ported many programming languages at this point.

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Programming Internet Internet Design 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Delayed three years ( Chrome 40, November 2014 vs. Safari 11.1, This adds to the expense of developing for iOS. Converging Views.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Percona

JULY 30, 2018

With over 140 professionals in 30 plus countries, Peter’s venture now serves over 3000 customers – including the “who’s who” of internet giants, large enterprises and many exciting startups. 5000 named Percona to their list in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

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Architecture Database Open Source Internet 41

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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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Although a beta version was released in 2014, the first stable release of Kubernetes was just made available in September 2018. The Need for Containerization Today’s internet users don’t tolerate downtime, so developers have had to find ways to perform maintenance and updates without interrupting their services.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

This can provide near native functionality and user experience while being able to function without an active internet connection. Material UI was introduced in 2014 with a goal to bring Android’s material UI to the web with React. Due to its mobile first approach, several hours of development time can be saved. Material-UI.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I spoke about the performance differences in my 2014 SCALE keynote "What Linux can learn from Solaris performance and vice-versa" ([slides]) where the conclusion was that Linux may run faster out of the box, but I could typically make Solaris run much faster thanks to optimizations found using DTrace.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Particularly of interest was how initially radio was deemed too important a medium to allow something as unseemly as advertising to mess it all up, for many of the same reasons we think the internet is too important to allow it to be filled up with advertising. What I Read in 2014. Past years. What I Read in 2015. What I Read in 2013.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things by David Rose 4 ⁄ 5 Rose’s book is a very clearly organized look at how widespread and cheap computing could impact objects from our everyday lives. What I Read in 2014. That, and the many interesting anecdotes along the way, make it an enjoyable book.

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