Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In the remainder of 2016 and inq 2017, we will launch another four AWS regions in Canada, China, the United Kingdom, and France, adding another nine AZs to our global infrastructure footprint. It brings the worldwide total of AWS Availability Zones (AZs) to 38, and the number of regions globally to 14.

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AWS Cloud Infrastructure Analytics 127

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I'm also excited to announce today that we are launching an AWS Edge Network Location in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first quarter of 2018. 2017 continues a busy year for AWS in the Middle East. flydubai chose to build their online check-in platform on AWS and went from design to production in four months.

Cloud 152

Cloud Education Energy Government 152

Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

Studies show that in 2017, the worldwide failure rate of iOS apps was as high as 54%, with Android apps crashing 10% of the time. Companies must complete this review process before even finishing the new feature’s wireframe design. Even a small bug will make consumers avoid, uninstall and leave bad reviews for your application.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. This essentially means that your website should not only be mobile-friendly but it should also have a Responsive Web Design so that your target customers can access your products (or services) with ultra-ease on their hand-held devices.

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Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

His keynote address from O’Reilly Fluent 2017, Reflecting on 20 years on the web , is a must-see. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine until October 2017 when he passed the baton to the remarkable Rachel Andrew. Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course. Patrick Hamann.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. What is the limited resource that they control and monopolize? It’s not our data. It’s our attention.

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Social Media Google Internet Internet 111

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For years SSRS was bundled with the installation of SQL Server, which helped add to some of the confusion around licensing and support for the product, so beginning with SSRS 2017, the installation package for Reporting Services is a separate download. These files consist of: Rsreportserver.config. Rssvrpolicy.config. Rsmgrpolicy.config.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. Up until 2017, the ML+AI topic had been amongst the fastest growing topics on the platform. R-related usage on O’Reilly online learning fell by 8% between 2017-18 and by 6%, year-over-year, in 2019. Coincidence?

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Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 136

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Certain tools are designed for certain metrics with certain assumptions that produce certain results. The other issue is that the data I’m getting back is based on lab simulations where I can add throttling, determine the device that’s used, and the network connection, among other simulated conditions. Lighthouse results.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 82

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

TL;DR : To serve users at the 75 th percentile ( P75 ) of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight improvement on last year's budgets , thanks to device and network improvements. This is an ethical crisis for the frontend. 2023 Content Targets #.

Performance 113

Performance Network Mobile Latency 113

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In addition to the default Docker namespaces (mount, network, UTS, IPC, and PID), we employ user namespaces for added layers of isolation. Road to Implementation We began work to enable user namespaces in early 2017. Most of these encoding tools are designed to interact with the POSIX filesystem API.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

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.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

The goal of this experience from a UX design perspective was to bring together a tightly-related set of original titles that, though distinct entities on their own, also share a connected universe. We hypothesized this design would net a far greater visual impact than if the titles were distributed individually throughout the page.

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Cache Design Testing Development 166

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. Some of the potential consequences of not considering availability are:Customer SatisfactionThe availability directly influences customer satisfaction.

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. The failure resulted in the cancellation and delay of numerous flights, causing significant disruptions for thousands of passengers.As

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Every technical challenge in this design space is paired with an even more daunting governance problem. De-duplication can prevent multiple copies on disk, but we're out of luck on reducing network costs. These privacy requirements put challenging constraints on the design of a shared cache. Trust Falls #. Back of the Napkin #.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 82

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

A 2017 study by Akamai says as much when it found that even a 100ms delay in page load can decrease conversions by 7% and lose 1% of their sales for every 100ms it takes for their site to load which, at the time of the study, was equivalent to $1.6 In DevTools, the Network inspector helps us see what the first webpage is doing too.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements. The majority of SPOFs are a consequence of scale, where designs that were once adequate (excellent, even) no longer meet evolving, more complex requirements. there cannot be high availability. Can you afford that recovery time?

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 83

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Rather than pushing off INP until after it starts influencing the way we measure site performance, let’s take a few minutes to level up our understanding of what it is and why it’s designed to replace FID. DebugBear actually tests with a slower network, resulting in more accurate data.

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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 97

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

This blog was originally published in February 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Network Connectivity: Establish a reliable network connection between the primary and replica servers. MySQL Version: Make sure that the MySQL versions on the primary and replica servers are compatible for replication.

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

The reduction effort started when we shipped SQL Server 2017 ( [link].) Testing shows that locking mechanisms, such as spin locks, start to become saturated when shared across 8 to 12 CPUs and where the physics become a direct contributor to partitioned design. Networking Pump Threads. SQL Server 2017. Async Pump Threads.

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IoT Servers Development Cache 61

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

We decided to build up a very simple Kanban board, established a project stand-up and a project Slack channel, and kept management and the company up-to-date via our internal social cast network.”. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Harry Roberts has outlined this strategy in 2017. Image by trivago ) ( Large preview ).

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Daniel An, Google, 2017. According to Google SOASTA research, 2017 the probability of page bounce rate increases with increasing page loading time, because it greatly improves the user experience. Factors that impact on CLS: loading ads without a designated room. Gary Illyes, Google, 2017. That’s a big problem.”

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. WebGL 2 launched for other platforms on Chrome and Firefox in 2017. Delayed five years. Gamepad API. fetch() and Streams.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. — Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. For developers and decision makers with fast phones on fast networks this is a double-whammy of hidden costs.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Offers Easy Navigation & Seamless User Experience: Single page app has a simple design, and it delivers an experience like a desktop or mobile app. Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017. Its visual design pattern became a mainstream trend in web app development. AI-powered Chatbots.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. per GB respectively.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 97

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 19, 2020

STELLA: report from the SNAFU-catchers workshop on coping with complexity , Woods 2017, Coping with Complexity workshop. Today’s choice is a report from a 2017 workshop convened with that title, and recommended to me by John Allspaw – thank you John! Take a trivial example with three components A, B, and C.

C++ 50

C++ Systems Software Software 50

O'Reilly

MARCH 2, 2020

This has to do with the concept of bounded context from Domain Driven Design.). Frequent contact with customers, good in-person communications between team members, along with practices like source control and testing, would just be in the air, like our Wi-Fi networks. They’d simply be what we do. Mike Loukides. Coincidence?

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Artificial Intelligence Software Architecture Programming Infrastructure 21

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

I’ve written several articles about this function (and STRING_AGG, which arrived in SQL Server 2017) since this post was written: Performance Surprises and Assumptions : STRING_SPLIT(). For example, it only supports a single-character delimiter, and it doesn’t return anything to indicate the order of the input elements.

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C++ Servers Testing Database 59

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

After the latest redesign in late 2017, it was Ilya Pukhalski on the JavaScript side of things (part-time), Michael Riethmueller on the CSS side of things (a few hours a week), and yours truly, playing mind games with critical CSS and trying to juggle a few too many things. Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Note:​​ My colleague, Pat, enhanced the SQL Server VDI feature allowing VDI backup/restore utility support on Linux for SQL Server 2017 so you always have your choice in backup/restore storage providers on Linux and Windows.

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