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How to evaluate modern APM solutions

Dynatrace

.” In its 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for Application Performance Monitoring, Gartner® defines APM as “Software that enables the observation of application behavior and its infrastructure dependencies, users and business key performance indicators (KPIs) throughout the application’s life cycle. Application performance insights.

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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%. Bear in mind that Netflix doesn't even use Fedora!)

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

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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.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] This isn't charity; it's how teams ensure products stay functional, accessible, and reliable in a market awash in b t. But that's not the whole story!

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

After seeing companies struggle to find and fix frontend performance issues, Billy left HP and founded Zoompf, a web performance optimization company acquired by Rigor in 2015. Barry is a professional software developer who has nearly two decades of industry experience developing and supporting software and infrastructure.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

In real-life world, most products aren’t even close: an median bundle size today is around 417KB , which is up 42% compared to early 2015. Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. Google has then brought many of the learnings to IETF in 2015 which is being standardized now.