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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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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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? What happens when no new open source comes out of the smaller companies, and the big-3 decide they don't really need or want to play nice anymore? Debt skyrocketing.

Internet 134

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In October 2015 KeyCDN released a free WordPress caching plugin called Cache Enabler. Updated WP-CLI clear subcommand messages and handling for multisite networks. Fixed advanced cache recognition for multisite networks. Updated cache size handling for multisite networks. was where a majority of the rewriting took place.

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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. Rick Byers.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2019

If you hadn’t already heard the news, the entire Dynatrace team is immensely proud to once again been positioned as a Leader in the Gartner 2019 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM). Our platform needed a full-stack approach, including virtual network infrastructure, containers, applications, and users.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work.

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University, 2015. The Internet itself, over which these systems operate, is a dynamically distributed network spanning national borders and policies with no central coordinating agent.

Internet 98

Internet Internet Strategy Energy 98

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.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 31, 2020

In 2015, HTTP/2 became a published standard in an effort to update an aging protocol. This was was both necessary and overdue, as HTTP/1 rendered web performance as an arcane sort of discipline in the form of strange workarounds of its limitations. From 2016 (PDF warning) to 2019 , the average mobile download speed in the U.S.

Innovation 50

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Dean Hume

JULY 22, 2015

The presentation itself was based on the importance of mobile web performance and a covered a few guidelines that you can use to improve the speed of your mobile websites. This talk was aimed at all developers that build websites and dives into basic and advanced web performance techniques - there is something for everyone!

Website 40

Website Mobile Speed Network 40

Dean Hume

JULY 22, 2015

The presentation itself was based on the importance of mobile web performance and a covered a few guidelines that you can use to improve the speed of your mobile websites. This talk was aimed at all developers that build websites and dives into basic and advanced web performance techniques - there is something for everyone!

Website 40

Website Mobile Speed Network 40

Dean Hume

JULY 22, 2015

The presentation itself was based on the importance of mobile web performance and a covered a few guidelines that you can use to improve the speed of your mobile websites. This talk was aimed at all developers that build websites and dives into basic and advanced web performance techniques - there is something for everyone!

Website 40

Website Mobile Speed Network 40

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. 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. Brotli Compression.

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Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

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. Enter the Preloader.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. 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.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 14, 2019

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. When Data Saver mode is enabled, Chrome will attempt to make optimizations to the page to reduce data usage and improve overall performance.

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MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The video uses the time it currently takes for information to travel from the New York Stock Exchange to a viewer in London to illustrate the advantages that this network could offer. Fortunately we have a reference point: In 2015, a private company unleashed the Hibernia Express Cable, running from New Jersey to England.

Internet 44

Internet Internet Latency Speed 44

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Live by the link, die by the link.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Titus is a multi-tenant system, allowing multiple teams and users to run workloads on the system, and ensuring they can all co-exist while still providing guarantees about security and performance. In addition to the default Docker namespaces (mount, network, UTS, IPC, and PID), we employ user namespaces for added layers of isolation.

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Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

Development As part of developing this type of UI experience on any platform, we knew we would need to think about creating smooth, performant animations with a balance between quality and download size for the images and video previews, all without degrading the performance of the app.

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Cache Design Testing Development 166

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Since it’s launch in December 2015, Let’s Encrypt has steadily grown to become the largest CA in the Web PKI by certificates issued and the fourth largest known CA by Firefox Beta TLS full handshakes. Operational isolation with no access to data centres and adminstration performed remotely. Boulder. ."

Internet 119

Internet Internet Open Source Transportation 119

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies. year-on-year growth, RPA is always preferred to be the first choice for performing the automation of mundane tasks. Network interceptor is introduced for ChromeDevTools for the responses related to the network requests. billion US dollars by 2027.

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Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

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

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Real-time monitoring and evaluation of events have led to a positive impact on performance or operations. Channel 4 (in the UK) chose AWS to help monetize volumes of platform data.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

In January 2015 I designed the criteria that Chrome uses to trigger “Add to Homescreen” prompts. Apps on the homescreen: Should load instantly, regardless of network state. This isn’t to say that they need to function fully offline, but they must put their own UI on screen without requiring a network round trip.

Mobile 52

Mobile Network Education Design 52

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

Algorithms are cheaper than humans and can be networked to perform complex collections of tasks at a speed, and subsequently a scale, that humans cannot achieve. in 2015 and recovering only to 63.2% The evidence of this is the shift in economic activity steered by emerging technologies in areas such as ecommerce and fintech.

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Energy Government Entertainment Transportation 52

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

His point, very Neil Postman-esque, is particularly true in today’s world of entertainment-driven news and fast-moving social networks that I’m increasingly convinced that, by default, only amplify existing biases. What I Read in 2015. Thankfully it’s not. Mel Blanc was the male June Foray. Past years. What I Read in 2016.

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BioTech Social Media Entertainment Media 45

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Internet of things (IoT) – Number of IoT devices 2015-2025 Statista. Supports multitasking : voice search technology can simultaneously perform multiple tasks from navigation to setting up meetings and reminders. According to a Statista report, it is forecasted that worldwide spending on IoT by 2023 will reach 1.1 Smart cities.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

If they are higher than your CPU count, then you might have a performance problem (it depends). 90491 N|rnberg (Germany) Consulting+Networking+Programming+etc'ing 42. His example of using a slower swap disk makes sense: by degrading the system's performance, the demand on the system (measured as running + queued) should increase.

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Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

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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CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

WebPageTest is an online tool and an Open Source project to help developers audit the performance of their websites. As a Web Performance Evangelist at Theodo , I use it every single day. I am constantly amazed at what it offers to the web development community at large and the web performance folks particularly — for free.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Open Source 51

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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