Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Jake Archibald.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

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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.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

TFLOPS deep learning performance, and is equipped with 32GB of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) capacity. The new DGX-2, which achieves 2 petaFLOPS in the system, combines 16 fully interconnected GPUS with 10x the deep learning performance. TPU: Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is Google’s specialized hardware for neural network.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 28, 2021

I've moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Sydney, Australia, where I will continue the best job so far of my career: Performance engineering at Netflix. Back in 2015 we'd have BPF (iovisor) meetups in Santa Clara and most contributors would be there in person, with some having travelled. Yes, I'm performance analyzing myself.

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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

As we discussed in our article on how to test your page weight , compression is pretty much standard practice in web performance now, so you absolutely want to make sure you’re taking advantage of it. Created by Google in 2013, Brotli is a compression algorithm created by Google for the compression of web fonts.

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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. Understandably so. Sometimes that’s fine. What We Know.

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Critical features of MariaDB include robust security features like encryption at rest and in transit, user authentication, and role-based access control (RBAC), as well as high-performance query execution, advanced indexing techniques, and replication, clustering, and sharding, ensuring scalability and high availability. What is MySQL?

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Understanding the importance of loading scripts asynchronously might help increase adoption of this critical performance improvement, so we're going to walk through the evolution of async script loading starting way back in 2007. The preloader is the most important performance improvement browsers ever made. Finally: Async.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 9, 2019

The result is bloat, or messy code that wastes resources and drags down your application’s performance. The concept was popularized by the bundler Rollup in 2015, but most other bundlers now support tree shaking. Why Perform Tree Shaking? The resulting JavaScript bundle will be smaller and optimized for faster performance.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

I'm sure this delivered large performance improvements and I wouldn't try arguing against it. While that Java change led to discovering countless performance wins in application code, libc was still breaking some portion of the samples (as pictured in the example at the top of this post) and preventing off-CPU flame graphs.

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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.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Released just four years ago in 2015, Scylla has averaged over 220% year-over-year growth in popularity according to DB-Engines. In fact, according to ScyllaDB’s performance benchmark report, their 99.9 So this type of performance has to come at a cost, right? Google Cloud. of all cloud deployments.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In leaner years (2012-2015), a single Fall release was all we'd get. From outright misstatements about a competitor's security, to claims that performance differences in hardware show Safari is faster, to [geographic brinksmanship](/2022/02/minimum-standards/), the confident bluster hasn't gone down particularly well.

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Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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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.

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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. How to perform automated mobile browser testing? Source: Business Journals.

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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. At that time, I was working as a freelance website performance consultant.

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Cache Website Servers Open Source 79

Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

This functionality gives an edge to Reactjs by increasing performance and decreasing programming time compared to another mobile app development platform. It can reduce the page time if Google directly indexes the content from the server-side. The Performance hence depends upon third-party libraries. Lack of native libraries.

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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 has all the essential elements needed to achieve a super-fast test development using simple English language.

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Testing Tools Mobile Testing Java 57

Enprowess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Know the difference between Flutter vs React Native in terms of architecture, performance, community support, learning curve, use cases and many other aspects. Performance comparison. Flutter is a cross-platform, open-source framework that functions with a programming language called Dart, developed by Google in 2011.

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Development Social Media Mobile Code 52

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.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Often they make it seem as if HTTP/3 is a revolution in performance, while it is really a more modest (yet still useful!) It was heralded as an amazing performance revolution, with exciting new features such as server push, parallel streams, and prioritization. HTTP/3 performance features ( coming up soon! ).

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Randon ASCII

AUGUST 16, 2018

I have trouble resisting a good performance mystery but in this case the draw was particularly strong. I work at Google, making Chrome, for Windows, focused on performance. I loaded it into Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA), but I couldn’t definitively find the hang. Well that’s funny …. And a vmmap bug was reported.

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Programming Virtualization Code Processing 75

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

With the latest ClickHouse version, all of these features are available, but some of them may not perform fast enough. Updating a single message in the past (e.g. in the case of messages, we may need to update the final price; in the case of comments, we may need to upvote or downvote a comment). Deleting messages. Text search.

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