Alex Podelko

JULY 13, 2018

One software vendor ask me, along with a few other performance professionals, to answer questions related to performance trends. That, of course, should involve more automation to performance checks. Are there any industry trends that you find either overrated or underrated in regards to performance?

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 26, 2019

Conference Australia 2018 tour I had the opportunity to deliver a keynote talk about performance analysis at Netflix. I summarized the Netflix stack and explained how we examine performance problems cloud-wide, and then how we can drill down to instances using flame graphs and other tools. For the YOW!

Cloud 43

Cloud Performance 43

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.

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Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Observability is one of many other use cases, as is [eXpress Data Path], [container security and networking], [iptables], [infrared decoding], [intrusion detection], [hyperupcalls], and [FUSE performance]. Here's key differences as of August 2018: Type DTrace bpftrace. function @ = quantize(value) @ = hist(value).

C++ 110

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 110

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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Performance Speed Google Media 237

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. 2019-02-12T12:00:22+01:00.

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Testing Website Servers Availability 49

VoltDB

JANUARY 12, 2018

So, in the spirit of things, we’ve laid out a few New Year’s resolutions that all database professionals can take into account as they look to turn over a new leaf in 2018 and build on their successes. Resolution: In 2018, make it a top priority to create a better – more real-time – experience for your customers.

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Database Blockchain Healthcare Transportation 40

VoltDB

JANUARY 12, 2018

So, in the spirit of things, we’ve laid out a few New Year’s resolutions that all database professionals can take into account as they look to turn over a new leaf in 2018 and build on their successes. Resolution: In 2018, make it a top priority to create a better – more real-time – experience for your customers.

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Database Blockchain Healthcare Transportation 40

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

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 30, 2018

The CFP for LISA18 is open now, and we’d love for you to submit talks and tutorials ideas by May 24th, 2018. In 2018, for the first time, LISA will be in Nashville, Tennessee, October 29-31, and will be hosted at the Omni Nashville Hotel , next to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

DevOps 43

DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 43

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

DZone

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In August of 2018 Bob Diachenko, Director of Cyber Risk Research at Hacken.io found that over 2 million Mexican citizens had their healthcare data leaked due to a security vulnerability in a system's database. At that same time, he found that the data of 93 thousand users of a popular babysitting app, Sitter, was also exposed.

Healthcare 113

Healthcare Performance Infrastructure Database 113

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 29, 2018

The CFP for LISA18 is open now, and we’d love for you to submit talks and tutorials ideas by May 24th, 2018. In 2018, for the first time, LISA will be in Nashville, Tennessee, October 29-31, and will be hosted at the Omni Nashville Hotel , next to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

DevOps 40

DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 40

High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Gbit/s : t3.2xlarge Network Performance; 60% : chances DNA can be used to find your family; 12 : Happy birthday Hacker News!; 2080 Ti destroys V100 / Titan V on performance per dollar. Only few astute folks take seriously. This was foolish on multiple dimensions. Full blog post here.

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Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface? Reasons To Measure The Performance Of Typefaces? Measuring Typefaces And The Resulting Performance Data. Thomas Bohm.

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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

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. Systems Performance] has sold very well (thanks, everyone!). I've followed this proven approach in my book.

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Systems Performance Education Technology 111

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

” @mjpt777 : "Patterson indicated that rewriting Python into C gets you a 50 times speedup in performance". JoeEmison : The idea that any kind of planning will necessarily lead to overengineering is part of the anti-planning developer culture that misunderstands the agile manifesto.

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Internet Internet Scalability Traffic 126

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 46.

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Development Website Design Code 75

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?

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Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

Apica

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The post APEX Customer Event 2018 – Browser Metrics based on Lighthouse appeared first on Apica. I recently had to the pleasure of spending a few days with our amazing customers at our annual user conference Read More.

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Metrics Monitoring Performance 40

SQL Performance

AUGUST 14, 2019

GetNums ( 1 , @rows_per_partition ) AS RPP ; Our pitfall has both a logical side to it with a potential logical bug as well as a performance side with a performance penalty. The performance penalty is relevant only when the window function is optimized with row-mode processing operators. It took this query about 4.5

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Best Practices Servers Database Azure 108

DZone

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Quality over quantity. Poor-quality software has huge and growing economic consequences for organizations in the United States. But what are the actual monetary costs — and how can your technology company mitigate them?

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Software Software Technology Technology 100

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

n0derunner

DECEMBER 17, 2018

During.Next 2018 in London, Nutanix announced performance improvements in the core-datapath said to give up to 2X performance improvements. bssplit=64k/20:128k/20:256k/20:512k/20:1m/20 Normally storage benchmarks using large IO sizes are performed serially, because it’s easier on the storage back-end.

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Performance Benchmarking Storage Network 64

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. In this blog post, we will delve into the world of PostgreSQL performance tuning and establish some basic guidelines for setting database parameters to enhance the performance of your PostgreSQL database, based on the workload.

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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

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

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

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

AV1 is a high performance, royalty-free video codec that provides 20% improved compression efficiency over our VP9† encodes. For our mobile environment, AV1 follows on our work with VP9, which we released as part of our mobile encodes in 2016 and further optimized with shot-based encodes in 2018.

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Media Open Source Mobile Hardware 160

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

AV1 is a high performance, royalty-free video codec that provides 20% improved compression efficiency over our VP9† encodes. For our mobile environment, AV1 follows on our work with VP9, which we released as part of our mobile encodes in 2016 and further optimized with shot-based encodes in 2018.

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Media Open Source Mobile Hardware 160

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance became generally available in late 2018. Managed Instance provides two tiers for performance. The General Purpose tier is designed for applications with typical performance and I/O latency requirements and provides built-in HA. One size does not always fit all. GB per vCore.

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Azure Performance Storage Latency 63

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

In late 2018, Dynatrace introduced the OneAgent Operator for ease of activation on Kubernetes. As Kubernetes adoption continues to grow it becomes more important than ever to simplify the activation of observability across workloads without sacrificing the deployment automation that Kubernetes provides.

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Cloud Traffic Monitoring Open Source 228

Scalegrid

JUNE 6, 2019

The platform allows MySQL AWS administrators to automate their time-consuming database operations in the cloud and improve their performance with high availability, disaster recovery, polyglot persistence, and advanced monitoring and analytics.

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AWS Cloud Open Source Virtualization 191

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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Servers Performance Metrics Database 87

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Observability is one of many other use cases, as is [eXpress Data Path], [container security and networking], [iptables], [infrared decoding], [intrusion detection], [hyperupcalls], and [FUSE performance]. Here's key differences as of August 2018: Type DTrace bpftrace. function @ = quantize(value) @ = hist(value).

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

As an example with our task, suppose that you don't realize that the grouping element is determined implicitly, and you come up with the following query: SELECT shipperid , [ 2017 ] , [ 2018 ] , [ 2019 ] FROM Sales. So you're expecting to see only three rows in the result. 830 rows affected).

Best Practices 103

Best Practices C++ Code Design 103

Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2023

AIOps, together with an observability platform, can enable organizations to precisely identify the root cause of cloud application performance and security issues. An IT automation strategy should start by breaking down the workflow, the types of operations they will perform, and how teams can best monitor and optimize them in production.

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Artificial Intelligence Innovation Technology Technology 147

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

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Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134