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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

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How To Add eBPF Observability To Your Product

Brendan Gregg

cachestat File system cache statistics line charts. The architecture is: While the bpftrace binary is installed on all the target systems, the bpftrace tools (text files) live on a web server and are pushed out when needed. execsnoop New processes (via exec(2)) table. opensnoop Files opened table. ext4slower Slow filesystem I/O table.

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

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In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process.

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Gzip vs Brotli – Best Browser Compression

MachMetrics

Simply put, compression allows the web server to send smaller files to your web site viewers. When someone enters your URL and requests your site, their browser will indicate to the web server that it understands compression (and which type it understands). What is HTTP Compression? Gzip Compression. How Do I Enable Gzip?

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Making Sense of Chrome Lite Pages

Tim Kadlec

That’s what it was called back in 2015 when the team working on the service wrote up a detailed paper about the optimizations Flywheel applied , and why. Google’s servers are still involved, by as a proxy service forwarding the initial request along. Google’s servers make the request and apply any optimizations.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? How do you scale it through different servers? In May 2015, Vox Media wrote about the slowness of their site and commitment to make them faster. What happens when a browser tries to load a website? When will that be run?