Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

One question I’ve seen posed a few times in the past several months is whether performance really is a moral or ethical concern, or if that’s all heavy-handed exaggeration. When you stop to consider all the implications of poor performance, it’s hard not to come to the conclusion that poor performance is an ethical issue.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I gave a talk about container performance recently at DockerCon, and included a quick summary of how they work: YouTube , SlideShare : If you search of slideshare and youtube, you'll find many other good talks on containers as well. People rarely create them manually.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Correspondingly, 3GB functions should see a 2x CPU performance improvement over 1.5GB Lambdas, but this is through doubling the number of cores the function has access to, rather than double the virtualized time-slices. API Gateway can now be used to provide an internet-accessible public front to web services enclosed within a VPC.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

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. Rick Byers.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

High Scalability

MAY 10, 2019

1% : performers raked in 60% of all concert-ticket revenue world-wide in 2017—more than double their share in 1982. Not everyone needs high performance but the blatant waste and energy consumption of our industry cannot continue. Number Stuff: 36% : of the world touches a Facebook app every month, 2 years over a life time.

Internet 31

Internet Internet Scalability Energy 31

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The aim is to deliver content on the internet in a faster and smoother way. CDNs essentially act as the backbone for high speed internet content delivery and performance. While CDNs have taken over the world of internet, they face major challenges in integration with SSL certificates. million certificates.

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Monitoring Website Internet Internet 77

CSS - Tricks

MAY 17, 2019

Instilling a performance culture at The Telegraph. We've been working hard at The Telegraph to improve third-party performance. Gareth Clubb : At The Telegraph (a major UK newspaper), we set up a web performance working group to tackle our “organizational” performance challenges and instill a performance culture.

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.” If you’re interested in attending, please check out the links, and I look forward to meeting and re-meeting many of you there.

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Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

KeyCDN

JANUARY 31, 2019

As for Romania, it covers an area of over 238,000 square kilometers and as of 2017 had a population of almost 20 million. Growth Of Internet in Romania Although the Internet penetration rate isn’t as high as other countries, at 58% as of 2016, the Internet speeds in Romania have been known to be one of the fastest in the world.

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Internet Internet Ecommerce Speed 48

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

With another year winding down, it’s time for us to take stock of how our site performance compares to the average page load times for 2020. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. seconds on mobile.

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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. The rise of mobile internet usage is evident across developed economies as well as developing ones (India, Bangladesh, etc.)[3]. Globally, consumers are preferring their mobile phones for performing activities (e.g.

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Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. High-performing fast sites attract and preserve users better than low-performing ones. The screenshot below explains that page load time and lighthouse performance scores are not the same, yet they are really close to each other.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Growth Of Internet in Finland The number of Internet users in Finland correlates very closely with the current number of residents. Back in 1984, FUNET was launched to connect Finnish universities and in 2000 internet in Finland was launched commercially. million Internet users in Finland resulting in a 92.5%

Internet 48

Internet Internet Speed Network 48

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Internet of Things (IoT). Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017. Internet of Things (IoT).

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7% This is clearly not just bad for the environment — it’s bad for performance and hurts our users too. The performance impact is be measured with PageSpeed Insights.

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Social Media Media Website Airlines 101

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. SSRS 2008 brought that component into the reporting service module. General Tuning.

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Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

As mobile phone usage and internet penetration continue to grow at unprecedented rates, competition amongst developers is also at all-time heights. 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. Battery life testing to ensure optimum power consumption.

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Mobile Strategy Testing Efficiency 54

Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

Paul Calvano has an awesome post using HTTP archive data to detail the prevalence of third party content on the internet. 38% of all sites measured in Sept 2017 (~500K) are more than 75% 3rd party content. Without monitoring the end user experience, you cannot quantify the performance impact of your third party resources.

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Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. 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. Steve & Tim's Close-up Magic.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I downloaded TripMode ; an application for Mac which gives you control over which apps on your Mac can access the internet. Any other application’s internet access is automatically blocked. Performance Tip #1: Inline Critical CSS. I enabled Chrome.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Netflix also performs canary tests — software A/B tests between current and newer software versions. The purpose of a canary test is twofold: to act as a quality-control gate that catches bugs prior to full release, and to measure performance of the new software in the wild. Such changes should not be ignored by our testing procedure.

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Testing Software Software Metrics 239

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 13, 2019

On high-end developer devices (like mine with 16GB RAM), few or no performance problems occur. This is the shortest CSS example on the Internet that makes images responsive: /* The parent container */ main { display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(300px, 1fr)); } img { max-width: 100%; }. But on low-end devices?

Media 72

Media Artificial Intelligence Strategy Open Source 72

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Varonis) In 2017 there was a 13 percent overall increase in reported system vulnerabilities. This newly updated version of TLS offers users both faster performance and improved security. Bad Bot Protection There is a multitude of bots who crawl the Internet every day. with 0-RTT support.

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Transportation Website Google Infrastructure 47

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Performant – The service would need to be able to maintain consistent performance in the face of diverse customer workloads.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

The Symphonia

MARCH 14, 2018

at re:Invent 2017. There isn’t too much validation performed by AWS, as far as I can tell, on SAR apps. Lambda functions can make HTTP calls to external services anywhere on the public internet without any extra granted permissions. AWS announced a new service?—?the the Serverless Application Repository (SAR)?—?at

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Serverless AWS Lambda Open Source 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

In conclusion, a schema-based API such as GraphQL and a component-based API such as PoP are similarly good concerning performance, and superior to a resource-based API such as REST. For instance, adding parameters filter=posts&searchfor=internet will filter all posts containing "internet" from a collection of posts.

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Social Media Database Media Website 64

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

O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

While it is still very large, it is significantly smaller than models like GPT-3 while offering similar performance. All of these models are based on a technology called Transformers , which was invented by Google Research and Google Brain in 2017. the internet in general. Chinchilla Also developed by Google. How much less?

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