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. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

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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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Oracle VM Server is based on Xen. Both Xen and KVM have had many performance and security improvements, and workloads can now be tuned to run at almost bare metal speeds (say, a 3% loss or less). At my employer we sometimes use SR-IOV for direct network interface access, and NVMe for direct disk access.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

That means that 3GB functions might not see a linear speed bump for primarily single threaded functions. without web app servers?—?to to a massively distributed CDN network a possibility. We plan to test this out when we get the chance. We continue to be fascinated to see how people will use Lambda@Edge over the coming years.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 31, 2019

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. With Bucharest being the capital and largest city of Romania, it makes for a great edge server location. As of 2016, Bucharest alone had a population of over 1.83

Internet 48

Internet Internet Ecommerce Speed 48

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

They get even MORE impatient when it comes to website speed. Conversion: 1 second delay means a 7% reduction in conversions Speed Affects Revenue: If your site makes $100,000/month, a one second improvement in page speed brings $7,000 month. “ The results were clear—speed matters! Want proof?

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Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

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 Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Since then, AWS has added another PoP in Palermo in 2017. Some of the largest enterprises and public sector organizations in Italy are using AWS to build innovations and power their businesses, drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, and speed time-to-market. ENEL is one of the leading energy operators in the world.

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AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 167

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. With Helsinki being the capital and most populous municipality of Finland, it makes for a great edge server location. of the population were Internet users.

Internet 48

Internet Internet Speed Network 48

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

These certificates are then activated on the company’s website which ensures that a secure connection is always set up between the web browser and the web server. SSL certificates maintain the security of data between servers. CDNs essentially act as the backbone for high speed internet content delivery and performance.

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Monitoring Website Internet Internet 77

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

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. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 per GB respectively.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Start Render time, Speed Index ). Rendering metrics provide an estimate of how fast content renders (e.g.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web development is evolving at a rapid speed with each passing year. And so, it optimizes the page loading speed and reduces the bounce rate. 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.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

De-duplication can prevent multiple copies on disk, but we're out of luck on reducing network costs. Having worked on browsers for more than a decade, I think it would be shocking if a browser team agreed to more than 10 MiB for a feature like this, especially if it won't dramatically speed up the majority of existing websites.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 82

Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. Instead of asking that question, I asked them this: “Are you a network or hosting provider?

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Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world. Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

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. Late-loading JavaScript can cause “server-side rendered” pages to fail in infuriating ways.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

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.

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C++ Systems Software Software 50

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Thankfully, I found some older linux-devel mailing list archives, rescued from server backups, often stored as tarballs of digests. Anyway, the following patch seems to make the load average much more consistent WRT the subjective speed of the system. 90491 N|rnberg (Germany) Consulting+Networking+Programming+etc'ing 42. . ;-).

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Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 VPC Endpoints give you the ability to control whether network traffic between your application and DynamoDB traverses the public Internet or stays within your virtual private cloud. million requests per second.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128