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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 6. include <sys/time.h>

Speed 126
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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%. Don't blame the straw, in this case, don't blame the frame pointers.

Java 145
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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

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. Javascript: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Learn JavaScript Programming Step by Step. You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen. The Art of SEO.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 7. include <sys/time.h>

Speed 40
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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.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. If you know they did, please drop a comment.

Speed 52
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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. Philip Walton is a senior developer programs engineer at Google working on Chrome and the Web Platform. Rick Viscomi. Rick Viscomi. Phil Walton. Philip Walton.