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How to evaluate modern APM solutions

Dynatrace

” APM vendors originally designed their solutions to quickly identify application performance issues in monolithic on-premises apps. Your APM tool should help you establish performance benchmarks, so you can understand what good performance looks like. Before 2015, Dynatrace was listed as Compuware.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

For UX designers, product managers, developers - essential concepts, methods, and techniques for digital design that have withstood the test of time. Designing for Performance. High Performance Responsive Design. Responsive Web Design. You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How good is a new typeface, and how good is it compared to a similar typeface designed in previous years? How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface?

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

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Top500 list: a brief introduction

PDC

It ranks the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers based on their performance as measured by the Linpack benchmark. This is vividly reflected in the design on the Titan supercomputer , which is still among the world’s top 10 most powerful supercomputers (as of the November 2018 Top500 list). You may have heard of the Top500 list.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Vitaly specializes in front-end development, performance optimization, and responsive design, and he has made an epic contribution to the performance industry in addition to many other technology and design-related spaces. He was also the founder and president of Mobile Portland, where he started the first community device lab.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

2015-2020: Overhead As part of production rollout I did many performance overhead tests, which I've described publicly before: The overhead of adding frame pointers to everything (libc and Java) was usually less than 1%, with one exception of 10%. The overhead to walk DWARF is also too high, as it was designed for non-realtime use.

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