article thumbnail

How to evaluate modern APM solutions

Dynatrace

The applications being observed may be developed internally, as packaged applications or as software as a service (SaaS).” 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. Application performance insights.

article thumbnail

The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

I ended up developing a fix for the JVM c2 compiler which Oracle reworked and added as the -XX:+PreserveFramePointer option in JDK8u60 (see my Java in Flames post for details [ PDF ]). Although for that microservice, the developers chose to eat the 10% because it was so valuable!) Bear in mind that Netflix doesn't even use Fedora!)

Java 145
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

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. In her book, Lara Hogan helps you approach projects with page speed in mind, showing you how to test and benchmark which design choices are most critical. ” – Andy King, 2003.

article thumbnail

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. Published twice per year (in June and November) since 1993, the Top500 list records the development of supercomputers over the past two to three decades. Performance development.

Energy 40
article thumbnail

Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle. This session looks at what it takes to accept, produce, encode, and stream your favorite content.

AWS 37
article thumbnail

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

Devices and networks have evolved too: Alex Russell @slightlylate An update on mobile CPUs and the Performance Inequality Gap: Mid-tier Android devices (~$300) now get the single-core performance of a 2014 iPhone and the multi-core perf of a 2015 iPhone. The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively.

article thumbnail

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Here are some examples: Neue Haas Grotesk (1956), Helvetica (1957), Arial (1982), Bau (2002), Akkurat (2004), Aktiv Grotesk (2010), Acumin (2015), Real (2015); Frutiger (1976), Myriad (1992), Monotype SST (2017), Squad (2018), Silta (2018); Collis (1993), Novel (2008), Elena (2010), Permian (2011), Lava (2013).