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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

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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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. 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.

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Netflix End of Series 1

Brendan Gregg

PMC analysis (2017). 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.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Pallavi Phadnis

The Netflix TechBlog

During earlier years of my career, I primarily worked as a backend software engineer, designing and building the backend systems that enable big data analytics. These cultural points resonated with me most: freedom and responsibility, high bar for performance, and no hiring of brilliant jerks.

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Experience SQL Server 2017: Start your journey here

SQL Server According to Bob

Please check out these new resources for SQL Server 2017 and SQL Server on Linux and Docker: Brk2045 upgrade sql server 2017 (on prem, iaa-s and paas) from Bob Ward. To find out what’s different and new about SQL Server 2017, go to this documentation page: What’s new in SQL Server 2017. SQL Server on Docker.

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How We Improved SmashingMag Performance

Smashing Magazine

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

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Autonomous Cloud Enablement aka Scaling NoOps via Self-Service

Dynatrace

We first brought our DevOps story to life at Perform 2017 when our CTO & Founder Bernd Greifeneder, DevOps Lead Anita Engleder and I went on stage. DevOps Transformation at Dynatrace enacted live on stage at Perform 2017!

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