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.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 18, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. – New Technologies. However “full performance testing automation” doesn’t look like a feasible option in most cases.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance DevOps 100

Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

Every day, healthcare organizations across the globe have embraced innovative technology to streamline the delivery of patient care. Many hospitals adopted telehealth and other virtual technology to deliver care and reduce the spread of disease. Gartner introduced the concept of AIOps in 2016. Overwhelming complexity.

Healthcare 228

Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Innovation Strategy 228

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. – New Technologies. Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences.

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Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we will introduce speech and music detection as an enabling technology for a variety of audio applications in Film & TV, as well as introduce our speech and music activity detection (SMAD) system which we recently published as a journal article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

Architecture 224

Architecture Energy Benchmarking Processing 224

Dynatrace

MARCH 11, 2020

For instance, events appear when the scheduler performs actions to bring workloads back to a desired state. For years, OneAgent technology has provided automated full-stack visibility into Kubernetes nodes and the workloads that run there. I remember seeing these events early in 2016 as I was getting my hands dirty with Kubernetes.

Metrics 228

Metrics Analytics Monitoring Cloud 228

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

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

DZone

AUGUST 23, 2019

It is also arguably the most important element of web performance to monitor. This became alarmingly clear when the massive series of DDoS attacks hit Dyn in 2016, and much of the websites and applications on the Internet became inaccessible to huge swaths of users across North America and Europe.

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Monitoring Internet Internet Website 100

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

On the Netflix Java/Linux/EC2 stack there were no working mixed-mode flame graphs, no production safe dynamic tracer, and no PMCs: All tools I used extensively for advanced performance analysis. Apart from developing tools, much of my time has been spent helping teams with performance issues and evaluations. How would I do my job?

Java 145

Java Cloud Cache AWS 145

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2021

At Perform 2021, Rick Stewart, chief software technologist at DLT Solutions, and Willie Hicks, Federal CTO at Dynatrace, explained how the only way to build this culture is for organizations to adopt proactive DevSecOps practices. Users in both the private and public sectors are accustomed to immediate services. DevSecOps taking hold.

Code 159

Code DevOps Speed Government 159

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 13, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. – New Technologies. Practical agile development is struggling with performance in general. – Cloud. .

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Engineering 100

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. Chaos engineering matured at organizations such as Netflix, and gave rise to technologies such as Gremlin (2016) , becoming more targeted and knowledge-based.

Engineering 225

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 225

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

These are just a few of the open-source technologies you may encounter as you research observability solutions for managing complex multicloud IT environments and the services that run on them. In fact, these technologies have become so prevalent that anybody who may not know the full scope of the topic may be afraid to ask.

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Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation 219

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

by Guillaume du Pontavice, Phill Williams and Kylee Peña (on behalf of our Streaming Algorithms, Audio Algorithms, and Creative Technologies teams) Remember the epic opening sequence of Stranger Things 2 ? Adaptive streaming is a technology designed to deliver media to the user in the most optimal way for their network connection.

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Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. In fact, most (if not all) of those terms are present on any technology website you visit. Dynatrace news. Observability, OpenTracing, and OpenTelemetry. What happened to OpenTracing and OpenCensus?

Open Source 183

Open Source Metrics Google Java 183

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

bpftrace has most of DTrace's capabilities and more. ## bpftrace The prior work that led to [bpftrace] (aka BPFtrace) is discussed my earlier [DTrace for Linux 2016] post, which explains how the Linux kernel gained [eBPF]: the virtual machine that we're using to run tracing programs. bcc is powerful but laborious to program.

C++ 110

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 110

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Canada has set forth a bold innovation agenda grounded in entrepreneurship, scientific research, growing small and medium-sized businesses with a focus on environmentally friendly technologies, and the transition to a digital economy. Performance. Par Werner Vogels, le 8 décembre 2016.

AWS 155

AWS Cloud Lambda Innovation 155

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. H owever, OpenTelemetry is one of the most popular projects in the entire CNCF ecosystem with a lot of support from the entire technology community. . Dynatrace news. Observability, O penTracing , and OpenTelemetry.

Open Source 130

Open Source Metrics Google Java 130

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. In 2016, Dji, a China’s drone company, integrates Myriad2 in its products PHANTOM 4 and Mavic Pro.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. Perhaps the biggest win when it comes to making websites more sustainable is that performance, user experience and sustainability are all neatly intertwined. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

Today we are introducing the new Basic Installer experience for SQL Server 2016 Express , SQL Server 2016 Developer , and SQL Server 2016 Evaluation Editions. We actually launched this functionality for SQL Server 2016 Express Edition when SQL Server 2016 RTM was announced but didn’t really promote this.

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Since then, technology has evolved, and what started with naked-eye observations has become a sophisticated and accurate technology to measure eye movements. Eye-tracking is nothing but new, but recent developments in technology made the methodology accessible to businesses of all sizes. “. Mobile UX Research.

Mobile 112

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 112

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

As you may recall, back in SQL Server 2016 SP1, they opened up all of the programming surface features to all editions, and many (but certainly not all) of the performance and availability features. I wrote about this in a post entitled, " A Big Deal : SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1."

Servers 40

Servers Hardware Database Availability 40

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We pay a lot of attention to latency here, along with any long-running transactions, because of downstream impact to technologies that use the log reader – like Availability Groups and transactional replication. Recently one of our teams was investigating a log reader latency issue. dm_os_performance_counters.

Latency 57

Latency Servers Monitoring Systems 57

CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 31, 2020

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. If we look at the 90 th percentile of that same dataset — because it’s really the long tail of performance we need to optimize for — we see an increase of 239%.

Innovation 50

Innovation Mobile Best Practices Speed 50

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

bpftrace has most of DTrace's capabilities and more. ## bpftrace The prior work that led to [bpftrace] (aka BPFtrace) is discussed my earlier [DTrace for Linux 2016] post, which explains how the Linux kernel gained [eBPF]: the virtual machine that we're using to run tracing programs. bcc is powerful but laborious to program.

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

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. I moved to the US in 2006 as there were many more opportunities there, especially in kernel engineering and performance. Yes, I'm performance analyzing myself.

Google 40

Google Engineering Open Source AWS 40

SQL Performance

APRIL 10, 2019

The ISO/IEC 9075:2016 standard, or SQL:2016 in short, introduces support for a profound concept called Row Pattern Recognition (RPR) in SQL. The SQL:2016 standard provides two main RPR-related features: Feature R010, “Row pattern recognition: FROM clause”.

C++ 73

C++ Servers Virtualization Code 73

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2016

One is technology: materials science has changed what we pack and how we pack as gear is lighter and easier to compact. Clearly, to make a canoe camping trip in 2016, my method needed to change. * * * Method is the codification of experience into rules, guidelines, policy, principles, behaviors, norms and so forth.

Energy 40

Energy Systems Efficiency Development 40

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 3, 2019

The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin 4 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one. Image Performance by Mat Marquis 5 ⁄ 5 Here’s the blurb I wrote for A Book Apart. What I Read in 2016. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid 3 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one. Past years.

Entertainment 40

Entertainment Technology Technology Design 40

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

2023 Content Targets Desktop Devices Networks Mobile Devices Networks Developing Your Own Targets The Performance Inequality Gap is Growing. Last month, I had the honour of joining what seemed like the entire web performance community at performance.now() in Amsterdam. That is, what was the average device in 2016?

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Performance Network Mobile Latency 113

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

SQL Server 2016 ‘It Just Runs Faster’ A bold statement that any SQL Server professional can stand behind with confidence. Try SQL Server 2016 Today. In the Sep 2014 the SQL Server CSS and Development teams performed a deep dive focused on scalability and performance when running on current and new hardware configurations.

Hardware 40

Hardware Software Engineering Transportation Scalability 40

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.

Performance 124

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High Scalability

AUGUST 9, 2018

Uber : Since 2016, Uber has added several new lines of business to its platform, including Uber Eats, Uber Freight, and Jump Bikes. And now we have some idea what's driving unequal growth in productivity of top-performing firms -- it's how they build and use *their own, proprietary software and other IT/technology.

Internet 21

Internet Internet Scalability Open Source 21

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Despite advances in browser tooling , automated evaluation , lab tools , guidance , and runtimes , however, teams struggle to deliver even decent performance with today's popular frameworks. What is Performance? It may seem a silly question, but what is performance, exactly? Value Propositions #.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 5, 2017

It became very exciting to learn about the new technology and how we would expand the product I know and love. By March of 2016 Slava had convinced me to join the team. Find those same concepts for software and you can do the exact same things, no virtualization and no performance or functionality compromises.

Servers 40

Servers Operating System C++ Software Engineering 40