Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2019

BPF (eBPF) tracing is a superpower that can analyze everything, and I'll show you how in my upcoming book BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability , coming soon from Addison Wesley. I learned firsthand how to bring beginners from different backgrounds up to speed.

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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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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018. I mean, why wouldn't we?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Measuring Performance With Server Timing. Measuring Performance With Server Timing. 2018-10-30T03:40:14+02:00. When undertaking any sort of performance optimisation work, one of the very first things we learn is that before you can improve performance you must first measure it. Drew McLellan.

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Daniel Lemire

MARCH 18, 2019

Data structures like indexes can be saved to disk or transmitted over the network in such a form. However, Java offers a performance-oriented concept called a ByteBuffer to represent and array of bytes. get ( recipient ) ; Here is the time required to convert 1 million 32-bit integers on my 4.2GHz 2018 iMac: DataInputStream.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

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. This helps support over 50 million searches every month on its networks across Italy. Today, their time-to-market is close to zero.

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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. Rachel Andrew.

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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. As of August 2018, Helsinki alone had a population of almost 650,000 people. In terms of Internet speed, Finland ranks as one of the fastest countries in the world.

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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.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

TLS stands for Transport Layer Security which is a cryptographic protocol used to increase security over computer networks. That being said, this year in 2018, a brand new version of TLS has been released in which the entire web will now begin migrating towards. Faster performance TLS 1.3 The Benefits of TLS 1.3 With TLS 1.3,

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Transportation C++ Network Google 67

Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2019

BPF (eBPF) tracing is a superpower that can analyze everything, and I'll show you how in my upcoming book BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability , coming soon from Addison Wesley. I learned firsthand how to bring beginners from different backgrounds up to speed.

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Systems Performance Education Technology 40

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Network Disconnections. Network disconnection is a common automation challenge that a QA team faces wherein they find it hard to access databases, VPN, third party services, APIs, specific testing environments, etc. due to unstable network connections. No setup or ramp-up delays! Book a Demo. Picking the Right Automation Tool.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a network of servers that is placed in different locations 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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Monitoring Website Internet Internet 77

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. Anyone is welcome to contribute to the calendar , so do feel free to reach out with a topic or tool you’re passionate about, or a technique you’d like to teach and tell the web performance community about. Christmas Experiments (2018).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). It was at this point that we realized we needed to make a significant change in our approach towards performance, and that we must embrace performance as part of our culture. Dan Shappir. Large preview ).

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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. The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. They'll love you even more. Cars: $1 trillion.

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Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

Mark Lapedus : Costs of developing a complex chip could run as high as $1.5B, while power/performance benefits are likely to decrease. Quirky : Thus there is a tradeoff: separateness enables inventors to create heterodox ideas, but strong cohesive networks are likely to be better for getting them implemented.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates.

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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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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Live by the link, die by the link.

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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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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.

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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. A 2018 study by cable.co.uk found that Zimbabwe was the most expensive country in the world for mobile data, where 1 GB cost an average of $75.20, ranging from $12.50 to $138.46.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Performance budgets are set early in the life of the project. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

2018-10-26T13:45:46+02:00. In recent years, the industry thankfully started paying more attention to performance. As a result, website performance can suffer. Improving performance with the decoupled JSON approach. Headless WordPress: The Ups And Downs Of Creating A Decoupled WordPress. Denis Žoljom. Security concerns.

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

If performance is a problem, we can do progressive enhancement through Server-Side Rendering. Nearly all developers in the modern frontend shops do not experience performance constraints until it’s too late. The brakes aren’t applied until performance is so poor that it actively hurts the business. That’s OK.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

OPN303 BPF performance analysis (repeats) Learn how Netflix uses eBPF to create powerful performance analysis tools. OPN402 Firecracker open-source innovation Since Firecracker’s release at re:Invent 2018, several open-source teams have built on it, while AWS has continued investing in Firecracker’s speed.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

OPN303 BPF performance analysis (repeats) Learn how Netflix uses eBPF to create powerful performance analysis tools. OPN402 Firecracker open-source innovation Since Firecracker’s release at re:Invent 2018, several open-source teams have built on it, while AWS has continued investing in Firecracker’s speed.

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Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

If after the previous two parts — HTTP/3 history and core concepts and HTTP/3 performance features — you’re convinced that starting to use the new protocols is a good idea (and you should be!), Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

However, it’s worth noting that it has not been updated since November 2018. Speaking of layers — speeding through the spec process is another new feature that was designed specifically to assist in orchestrating the cascade and alleviating clashes. It can be found in many, many projects and is quite an opinionated reset.

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Design Availability Mobile Website 145

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

AI isn’t yet at the point where it can write as well as an experienced human, but if your company needs catalog descriptions for hundreds of items, speed may be more important than brilliant prose. The same thing happened to networking 20 or 25 years ago: wiring an office or a house for ethernet used to be a big deal.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

Development As part of developing this type of UI experience on any platform, we knew we would need to think about creating smooth, performant animations with a balance between quality and download size for the images and video previews, all without degrading the performance of the app. One such area is our graphics memory management.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 21, 2018

Only parts of the processes are being performed by machines, or at least supported by them. These new offerings are organized on platforms or networks, and less so in processes. Modern voice-control systems can understand, interpret and answer conversations in a professional way, which makes a lot of work processes easier to perform.

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Tasktop

MAY 16, 2019

Companies of all sizes invest in DevOps for two major reasons: to save money and to speed the development. Maybe even more importantly, it is a true management platform for performance optimization. An interview with Trinity Software. In our experience, after integration, automation is the biggest challenge for software teams.

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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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