Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The talks are up on YouTube , including my own (behind a paywall, but the slides are freely available [1] ): The talk, like this post, is an update on network and CPU realities this series has documented since 2017. Speeds will be much slower than advertised in many areas , particularly for rural users. 2023 Content Targets #.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). And namespaces, used for Linux containers, are also a relevant technology.

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Tasktop

JANUARY 18, 2022

Offload your brain to code at the speed of thought” . As is often the case at Tasktop, we took those lessons from Tasktop Sync and innovated with model based integration to create what is widely known as the best integration technology for the software lifecycle with Tasktop Hub. And what a book Mik authored.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. " This doesn't mean that 4G is one thing, or that it's deployed evenly, or even that the available spectrum will remain stable within a single generation of radio technology.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

by Guillaume du Pontavice, Phill Williams and Kylee Peña (on behalf of our Streaming Algorithms, Audio Algorithms, and Creative Technologies teams) Remember the epic opening sequence of Stranger Things 2 ? the brilliant synth-pop score or the perfectly mixed soundscape of a high speed chase?—?is

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

2017 continues a busy year for AWS in the Middle East. We have supported the development of technology skills across the region with Training and Certification programs to help customers develop skills to design, deploy, and operate their infrastructure and applications on the AWS Cloud.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Currently we have 57 Availability Zones across 19 technology infrastructure Regions. We needed to serve our growing base of startup, government, and enterprise customers across many vertical industries, including automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, high technology, education, and energy.

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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. The Moto G4 , for example. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017. To support our customers’ growth, their digital transformation, and to speed up their innovation and lower the cost of running their IT, we continue to build out additional European infrastructure. Cette nouvelle région sera disponible pour les clients dès 2017.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web development is evolving at a rapid speed with each passing year. Voice Search Technology. Blockchain Technology. 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. AI-powered Chatbots.

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Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2022

The world is entering a new age of technology. That number dropped to 46% in the 2017 version of the report but hit a plateau in 2019, where it remained at 46%. Ideally, traditional automation and no-code/low-code testing tools should maximize the speed and quality of software delivered to end-users. credits: me.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2019

BPF is a new in-demand technology, and I expect that, over time, a dozen or more books about it may be published – as happens for other hot new technologies. I learned firsthand how to bring beginners from different backgrounds up to speed. You may find it helps you, too, which is why it is on the cover. ## Why Your Book?

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Advocates of any technique or technology can be a bit heavy-handed when it suits them if they’re not being careful–myself included. I recently profiled a page on a Pixel 2 (released in 2017), and an Alcatel 1x (released in 2018). Mbps download speed Jake Archibald mentioned his relative getting or the 0.8

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world.

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Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

But vendor lock-in can occur, making a company susceptible to price hikes, paying for unnecessary technology, and being blocked from new technology that could be advantageous. Plus, there’s a global community of dedicated volunteers driving the development of open source database technology.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL, is a global security standard technology that is being adopted by a number of different organizations across the globe. CDNs essentially act as the backbone for high speed internet content delivery and performance. Between June 2017 and 2018, the total number of SSL certificates increased by a record 13.2

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Enprowess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Wix – Achieved high speed and lightness within the development of configurable navigations and screen choices. Its first release was in May 2017 and was rarely used by developers, but it continues its speedy growth and becomes more and more popular in the developer community. What is Flutter? – An overview. Flutter Overview.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

Mobile phones have taken over the world in a way few technologies and inventions have been able to in the past. 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. What business processes help with testing mobile apps ?

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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. Moving From Automated Critical CSS Back To Manual Critical CSS.

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Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2020

When I joined Tasktop back in October of 2017, Tasktop was doing really well. We, at Tasktop, had the knowledge, experience and technology to help them learn to do that. . While our technology is great, we never intended to license our products and walk away. I’m proud our technology makes the hardest things feel simple.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. Because technology has made it possible to design typefaces easier than ever before, we seem to be reinventing “different types of wheels” that already get the job done. They were all designed for slightly different contexts and technological times. Large preview ).

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business. We won't know the actual single-threaded performance of these processors until they have been released and benchmarked by neutral third-party testers.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2019

Since BPF does so many things, it is becoming a technology name and no longer an acronym. BPF is a new in-demand technology, and I expect that, over time, a dozen or more books about it may be published – as happens for other hot new technologies. I learned firsthand how to bring beginners from different backgrounds up to speed.

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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! One way of mitigating coordination costs is to prepare plans up front.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Perhaps surprisingly, users experience faster speeds over a mobile network than WiFi in at least 30 countries worldwide, including Australia and France. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 per GB respectively. Mbps upload.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Most partners we work with are not aware of the real-world operating environment and make inappropriate technology choices as a result. — Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. First Load.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For many years, this effect has dominated the frontend technology market. 1] These technologies were initially pitched on the back of "better user experiences" , but have utterly failed to deliver on that promise outside of the high-management-maturity organisations in which they were born. And why not?

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. They can run applications in Sweden, serve end users across the Nordics with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and more.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

Let’s analyze how these three methods compare to each other, in terms of speed and the amount of data retrieved. Hence, the jump from REST to GraphQL represents a great deal for speed, because we are able to render a component with only one request. Versatility Through Alternative Models.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The Dynamo paper was well-received and served as a catalyst to create the category of distributed database technologies commonly known today as "NoSQL." " Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing. million requests per second.

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