Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 31, 2018

shocker) Low performers are almost 4x as likely to use functional outsourcing. Read about it and some of the consequences (search for “Misguided performers”) in the 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Report. They'll love you even more. kellabyte : I’m making fun of GraphQL but I like it so far.

Internet 105

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 105

High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC!; They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

Internet 123

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

Without a set plan in place, any new script can damage performance, affecting user experience, and, therefore, business KPIs. We noticed a few common misperceptions about web performance budgets that can impact their adoption and setting that we would like to address. Five Common Myths About Web Performance Budgets.

Performance 122

Performance Mobile Metrics Speed 122

High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

jedberg : Despite being a strong advocate for AWS, this is where I will say Google completely outshines Amazon. Google's approach to pricing is, "do it as efficiently and quickly as possible, and we'll make sure that's the cheapest option". Google applies bulk discounts after the fact, AWS makes you ask for them ahead of time.

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Scalability Internet Internet Wireless 131

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

High Scalability

JULY 6, 2018

tyingq : This is why AWS and Azure continue to gain market share in cloud, while Google remains relativity stagnant, despite (in many cases) superior technology. Source: 10+ meetings, with different clients, I attended where the Google sales pitch was basically "we are smarter than you, and you will succumb". The Borg approach.

Internet 110

Internet Internet Scalability Google 110

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

work at Google or Facebook; 18 : years of NASA satellite data; >1TB : Ethereum blockchain; 200,000 trillion : IBM's super computer calculations per second; Quotable Quotes: Michael Pollan : “I have no doubt that all that Hubbard LSD all of us had taken had a big effect on the birth of Silicon Valley.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Webhosting Compared: Testing The Uptime Of 32 Hosts In 2018. Webhosting Compared: Testing The Uptime Of 32 Hosts In 2018. If you’re into each month overviews with more detailed data, take a look at these pages below: Detailed Google Spredsheet (1st of January to 31st of December 2018). John Stevens. MidPhase.com.

Testing 49

Testing Website Servers Availability 49

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

This is where your performance goes. During our testing using the storage optimized EC2 instances (I3.2xlarge) we noticed that we were able to perform over 200K IOPS of 1K byte items thus meeting our throughput goals with latency rarely exceeding 1 millisecond. That’s mapping applications to the specific architectural choices.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

If we talk about commercial vendors targeting the corporate market, I guess only Neotys remains independent and active (I mean contributing into the performance testing ecosystem – innovation, publishing content, participating in events, etc). Microfocus acquired both LoadRunner from HP and Silk Performer (as a part of Borland).

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Testing Open Source Testing Tools Performance Testing 243

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

The key to accomplishing both these goals is having effective mobile app monitoring that quickly identifies the root cause of performance issues. App developers and digital teams typically rely on separate analytics tools, such as Adobe and Google Analytics, that may aggregate user behavior and try to understand anomalies in traffic.

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Mobile Monitoring Analytics Google 170

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

Each drone is rated with a game mechanic and gets special privileges based on performance (just kidding). Setting aside the network quality & performance, which is objectively superior with Google, outside of GCE almost every other GCP product is offered as a managed service. Do you like this sort of Stuff?

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Its videos and blog articles address issues such as web performance, extensible component development and the intersection of CSS with other technologies, like HTML and JavaScript. Igvita Igvita is the blog of Google’s web performance engineer, Ilya Grigorik. Visit website 3. Visit website 33. Visit website 46.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

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. Jake Archibald.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018? It has 41 mostly 5 star reviews. They'll learn a lot and love you even more.5 5 billion : weekly visits to Apple App store; $500m : new US exascale computer; $1.7

Internet 134

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

There are several emerging data trends that will define the future of ETL in 2018. In 2018, we anticipate that ETL will either lose relevance or the ETL process will disintegrate and be consumed by new data architectures. It generally improves performance by placing frequently accessed data in memory.

Big Data 49

Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

OpenTelemetry (also referred to as OTel) is an open-source observability framework made up of a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs, that enables IT teams to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data for analysis and understand software performance and behavior. Then, Google made the OpenCensus project open source in 2018.

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Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation 224

The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

We’ll get to all of those later on, but first I’m going to start the news this time with a roundup of an interesting day last week… News from the Serverless World Keynote Stage at Velocity 2018 Last week I was at O’Reilly’s Velocity conference in San Jose. Next up Lynn Langit gave a talk on Serverless SQL , updated for 2018.

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Serverless AWS DevOps Open Source 40

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies. In 2018, AOM has published a specification for the AV1 video codec. Added a unit tests framework based on Google Test.

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. The OpenCensus project was made open source by Google back in 2018, based on Google’s Census library that was used internally for gathering traces and metrics from their distributed systems. Dynatrace news.

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Open Source Metrics Google Java 188

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. Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average.

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [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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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

TFLOPS deep learning performance, and is equipped with 32GB of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) capacity. The new DGX-2, which achieves 2 petaFLOPS in the system, combines 16 fully interconnected GPUS with 10x the deep learning performance. More details can be found in their recent talk in Scaled Machine Learning in March 2018.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. The Mozilla Internet Health Report 2018 states that — especially as the Internet expands into new territory — “sustainability should be a bigger priority.” Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

From outright misstatements about a competitor's security, to claims that performance differences in hardware show Safari is faster, to [geographic brinksmanship](/2022/02/minimum-standards/), the confident bluster hasn't gone down particularly well. A key goal of any feature was to gain support on iOS. But needs must.

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Unwelcome Gaze is a triptych visualizing the publicly reachable web server infrastructure of Google, Facebook, Amazon and the routing graph(s) leading to them. yishengdd : However from my own experience, AWS Amplify is 10x better than Google Firebase. It's HighScalability time: Beautiful. Do you like this sort of Stuff?

Internet 28

Internet Internet Scalability Energy 28

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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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

72 : signals sensed from a distant galaxy using AI; 12M : reddit posts per month; 10 trillion : per day Google generated test inputs with 100s of servers for several months using OSS-Fuzz; 200% : growth in Cloud Native technologies used in production; $13 trillion : potential economic impact of AI by 2030; 1.8 They'll love you even more.

Internet 30

Internet Internet Scalability Education 30

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. The OpenCensus project was made open source by Google back in 2018, based on Google’s Census library that was used internally for gathering traces and metrics from their distributed systems. Dynatrace news.

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Open Source Metrics Google Java 130