Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 6. If you know they did, please drop a comment.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

USENIX is a nonprofit organisation committed to making content and research freely available – both conference proceedings and the recorded presentations of their events. Back in 2017 the engineering team at Facebook had a problem. Without in-person conferences this year, income is down and events are under threat.

Virtualization 126

Virtualization Latency Storage Systems 126

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. To update our global baseline from 2017, we want to update our priors on a few dimensions: The evolved device landscape. Modern network performance and availability. The Moto G4 , for example. Hard Reset.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. the term "smartphone dependence" has been coined to describe folks without other ways to access the increasing fraction of essential services only available through the internet. Going forward, I'll produce both as top-line guidance. In the U.S.,

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. These VMs are not available in all regions, so you will want to check the availability in the Azure region that you are interested in using. Figure 2: Microsoft Project Olympus.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 7. If you know they did, please drop a comment.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

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.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145