Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

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%. Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.)

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

High Scalability

AUGUST 13, 2018

Typically, applications today—Facebook, Salesforce, Google, Spotify, etc.—are We do have new decentalized services : Bitcoin(2009), Minecraft(2009), Ethereum(2104), IPFS(2015), Mastadon(2016), and PeerTube(2018). —are all centralized. That wasn't always the case.

Internet 116

Internet Internet Google Scalability 116

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018? It has 41 mostly 5 star reviews. They'll learn a lot and love you even more.5 5 billion : weekly visits to Apple App store; $500m : new US exascale computer; $1.7 Debt skyrocketing.

Internet 134

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] Oct 2022 - [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In leaner years (2012-2015), a single Fall release was all we'd get. The idea behind this API was not new , and the intensity of developer sentiment had only increased since Dimitri's 2015 sketch. Two releases per year meant that, for a decade, progress on WebKit bugs was a roulette that developers lost by default.

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It by Ian Leslie 4 ⁄ 5 Leslie breaks curiosity down into two forms: diversive (shallow; Googling the capital of Australia) and epistemic (deeper; reading books about Australia’s history and economy). Well worth a read.

Social Media 40

Social Media Education Design Technology 40

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

Image Processing Unit (IPU) is the Pixel Visual Core designed by Google and integrated in Google Pixel 2 released in 2017. With 8 Google-designed custom IPU cores, each with 512 arithmetic logic units (ALUs), the Pixel Visual Core delivers raw performance of more than 3TOPS on a mobile power budget.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] , Oct 2022 [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] , accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Baron Schwartz

MARCH 2, 2019

It’s the latest in a series of email clients I’m evaluating to replace Inbox, which Google is discontinuing. This isn’t the first time I’ve used Outlook on the iPhone; I used it in 2015 until I learned to love Inbox. Built-in calendar; it can replace both Inbox and Google Calendar.

Google 40

Google Design Availability 40

J. Paul Reed

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

That’s why I was fascinated with the #TalkPay movement launched in 2015 by Lauren Voswinkel : people posted their job titles and salaries on Twitter, shattering notions of what was “proper” and “private” information. I’ve always believed that on-the-whole, more information is generally better.

DevOps 74

DevOps C++ Google Engineering 74

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.”

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Performance Website 75

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. In May 2015, Vox Media wrote about the slowness of their site and commitment to make them faster.

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The Polyglot Developer

JANUARY 3, 2015

I’m starting 2015 off with a bang by releasing my first ever Google Chrome extension. This was a hybrid application created with Ionic Framework , that manages time-based one-time passwords (TOTP) commonly used for two-factor authentication (2FA).

Google 52

Google Design Development 52

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

Created by Google in 2013, Brotli is a compression algorithm created by Google for the compression of web fonts. In 2015, they released a version to be used for HTTP compression. However, recently a new contender has gained the widespread browser support needed to be considered a great alternative – Brotli.

Speed 67

Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

The most preferred single-page applications are Gmail, Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Low data usage and Offline accessibility: It works fine in low internet reception and is also possible to access offline like Google Maps. Internet of things (IoT) – Number of IoT devices 2015-2025 Statista. Smart cities.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Brendan Gregg

MAY 28, 2021

Back in 2015 we'd have BPF (iovisor) meetups in Santa Clara and most contributors would be there in person, with some having travelled. Sydney has AWS and Google offices and even a small Netflix office, just to name a few. It's been a privilege and an adventure to work in Silicon Valley with so many amazing people.

Google 40

Google Engineering Open Source AWS 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Testsigma

JUNE 5, 2021

In 2015, 35% of the internet traffic came from mobile devices, 6 years later, the number is 54.8%. Whether there are any third-party links, need to open a website, or search on Google, mobile devices are the fastest and quickest way to reach the aim. These are showcased to prove a single point — how important a mobile phone is!

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Testing Tools 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2019

We built this hack using Java (Springboot framework), the Google OAuth and Calendar APIs (for finding rooms) and Twilio API (for calling into the meeting), and deployed it on AWS.

Energy 37

Energy Java AWS Google 37

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies. In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. Again, this was shaped by the market trends and the increasing importance of both of this software.

Artificial Intelligence 89

Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

In the show, Google is portrayed by the fictional company Hooli, which is after Pied Piper’s intellectual property. The funny thing is that, while being far from a startup, Google does indeed have a powerful compression engine in real life called Brotli. This article is about my experience using Brotli at production scale.

Cache 79

Cache Website Servers Open Source 79

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The good thing with UI Automator is that in case anything breaks, it is fixed almost immediately as it is maintained by Google. XCUITest is a UI testing framework for iOS apps that was launched by Apple in 2015. It works for all mobile devices that support Android version 4.1 UI Automator only supports the Java and Kotlin languages.

Testing Tools 57

Testing Tools Mobile Testing Java 57

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 14, 2019

at Google in 2015, which achieved a 99.63% accuracy on the LFW face data set. Face embedding enables face authentication, face searching and face clustering, through thresholding the distance between photos, calculating a given photo’s nearest neighbors and clustering a set of photos, based upon their vectors.

Tuning 85

Tuning Systems Google Testing 85

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 14, 2019

Google formally announced Lite Pages the other day and the response has been… let’s say mixed. But in this case, the announcement has to deal with Google making changes to HTTPS content which, as you would expect, makes folks a little more nervous. Google’s servers make the request and apply any optimizations.

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Google Traffic Cache Servers 63

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). This is difficult to prove because developers will say that “the experience” is what they are seeing on their computers using, for example, Google Chrome. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In late 2015, the median was 10 synchronous scripts and 2 asynchronous scripts. This is likely when some dominant third party snippets (Google Analytics, Facebook, etc.) These are median stats from the world's top ~500K websites based on an analysis from the HTTP Archive. The number of sync dropped and async rose in June 2016.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

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] decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> Google spent more on the SoC for the Pixel 4a and enjoyed a later launch date, boosting performance relative to the A51.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Fortunately we have a reference point: In 2015, a private company unleashed the Hibernia Express Cable, running from New Jersey to England. – Google loses 20% of their traffic for every additional 100 milliseconds it takes a page to load.

Internet 44

Internet Internet Latency Speed 44

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In 2013, PostCSS was released but it wasn’t until mid-2015 when a lot of buzz really started to take place in the development community around PostCSS. And if we take a look at Google Trends for “ PostCSS ” it appears there is definitely an upwards curve.

Google 72

Google Processing Code Development 72

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

GA 17 October 2015 10.1.8 GA 21 October 2015 5.7.9 When it comes to encryption, MariaDB Server implements Google patches to provide complete data at rest encryption. MySQL Percona Server for MySQL MariaDB Server 3 December 2010 5.5.8 GA 28 April 2011 5.5.11-20.2 GA 11 April 2012 5.5.23 GA 5 February 2013 5.6.10

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Enprowess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Flutter is a cross-platform, open-source framework that functions with a programming language called Dart, developed by Google in 2011. Google Ads – Leveraged base AdMob plugins, Dart packages, and static utility categories of Flutter to form moveable user experience in android and iOS applications. What is Flutter? – An overview.

Development 52

Development Social Media Mobile Code 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For each of them, Google recommends a range of acceptable speed goals.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

It can reduce the page time if Google directly indexes the content from the server-side. React Native was used for the very first time in the year 2015 by Facebook for developing mobile applications. It gives a massive boost to the overall SEO strategy. This fast visibility of web pages gives a better user experience. React Native.

Mobile 52

Mobile Open Source Virtualization Speed 52

KeyCDN

JANUARY 9, 2019

The concept was popularized by the bundler Rollup in 2015, but most other bundlers now support tree shaking. Source: Google Overall, tree shaking is more effective at improving performance than code splitting, which involves partitioning JavaScript into chunks and serving them strategically.

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Code Google Processing Strategy 47

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Note : as TCP generally under-utilizes network connection by a significant amount, Google has developed TCP Bottleneck Bandwidth and RRT ( BBR ), a relatively new TCP delay-controlled TCP flow control algorithm.

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