2016 Availability Benchmarking Design 
SQL Server According to Bob
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). Our design needed to scale and be adaptable to the modern hardware on the market.
Percona
JANUARY 24, 2023
Some of the built-in features ( wal_compression ) have been there since 2016, and almost all backup tools do the WAL compression before taking it to the backup repository. They do a much better job than what was available in PostgreSQL (pglz). But this comes with a considerable performance implication.
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Alex Russell
APRIL 29, 2021
This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Higher is better.
Smashing Magazine
JUNE 26, 2019
What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. However, their focus has always been on making a great-looking and effective design. Suzanne Scacca.
John McCalpin
APRIL 2, 2020
This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). Over time, the mechanisms introduced for reducing energy consumption (first in laptops) became available more broadly.
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. Modern network performance and availability. The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively.
CSS - Tricks
APRIL 1, 2021
Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. KB for desktops and 902 KB for mobile devices from 2016 to 2021. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. Text-based assets.
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