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

Rigor

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Google recently announced the launch of their Speed Update. This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. This announcement is part of a Google’s ongoing efforts to incentivize good web performance. Prioritize Performance Improvements.

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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.

Systems 111

Systems Performance Education Technology 111

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

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. An example of such development is the x264 encoder that has been improving years after the H.264

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

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

Nick Desaulniers

JUNE 2, 2018

ccache , the compiler cache, is a fantastic way to speed up build times for C and C++ code that I previously recommended. Recently, I was playing around with trying to get it to speed up my Linux kernel builds, but wasn’t seeing any benefit. Sat Mar 17 03:04:59 UTC 2018. YMMV based on CPU and disk performance.

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Speed Cache C++ Systems 46

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

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The specification of AV1 was published in 2018. With multiple iterations, the team arrived at a recipe that significantly speeds up the encoding with negligible compression efficiency changes. Besides speeding up the encoder, the total CPU hours could also be reduced if we can use compute resources more efficiently.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

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.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

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.

Servers 87

Servers Performance Metrics Database 87

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In a 2018 Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) survey of 5,000 enterprises , 40% of enterprises (5,000+ employees) said they were running Kubernetes in production and 58% of all respondents were using it in production. And that has knock-on effects, hurting everything from performance to user experience to production deployment speed.

DevOps 205

DevOps Innovation Cloud Speed 205

Daniel Lemire

MARCH 18, 2019

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. Streams and iterators are handy abstractions but they often lead you astray with respect to performance.

Java 124

Java C++ Code Speed 124

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?

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

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. Today, their time-to-market is close to zero. ENEL is one of the leading energy operators in the world. million unique visits.

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AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 167

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.

Systems 40

Systems Performance Education Technology 40

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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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

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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Internet Internet Speed Network 48

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

In 2018, this is absolutely essential for a number of reasons: Google favors HTTPS-secured sites HTTPS is required to use HTTP/2 HTTPS is required to use Brotli HTTPS helps improve performance, security, and trust If you’ve never heard of TLS, then maybe you’ve heard of the term SSL. Faster performance TLS 1.3

Transportation 67

Transportation C++ Network Google 67

PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

It ranks the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers based on their performance as measured by the Linpack benchmark. In addition to performance, the Top500 list also summarises the main characteristics of the supercomputers in the list. Performance development. Supercomputer. The Top500 list is all about supercomputers.

Energy 40

Energy Benchmarking Efficiency Website 40

Testsigma

APRIL 22, 2021

While the global revenue in 2018 was 365 billion USD, it’s projected to be at 693 billion USD in 2021, according to Statista. For apps to perform the way they’re designed to perform, mobile app testing is unarguably an imperative process. That’s why automated mobile app testing is performed.

Mobile 55

Mobile Testing Games Scalability 55

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg) December 18, 2018. To learn how to speed up your WordPress installation using Redis Caching, check out our Using Redis Object Cache to Speed Up Your WordPress Installation post. Powered by `php-fpm` (soon as a Lambda layer directly). ? Micro SQL instance hosted on @scalegridio (cheap!)

Serverless 138

Serverless Azure Database Cache 138

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

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 The post The Importance of Monitoring SSL Certificates appeared first on Dotcom-Monitor Web Performance Blog. million certificates.

Monitoring 77

Monitoring Website Internet Internet 77

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google do strongly encourage you to focus on site speed for better performance in Search, but, if you don’t pass all relevant Core Web Vitals (and the applicable factors from the Page Experience report) they will not push you down the rankings. While Core Web Vitals can help with SEO, there’s so much more to site-speed than that.

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Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

MachMetrics

APRIL 12, 2019

It’s no secret that we’re a huge fan of lazy loading your below-the-fold images to improve page speed. While this feature was proposed back in January 2018, it wasn’t until recently that they decided it was happening. Performance Enthusiasts Rejoice! When can we use it? I’m celebrating!

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Google Speed Mobile Website 44

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).

Design 107

Design Development Programming Website 107

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

There are many elements in mobile devices that are subject to constant change including operating systems, regular updates, performance etc. According to the Gemini World Quality Report released in 2018, more than 50% of IT giants reported that their organization lacks suitable automation tools for their testing teams. Book a Demo.

Testing 85

Testing Mobile Network Analytics 85

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.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

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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Website Performance Google Media 126

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.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Tasktop

AUGUST 26, 2020

From our work at Tasktop, we’ve seen first-hand that the healthcare organizations with real-time visibility into the performance and stability of their digital products and services portfolio—and, crucially, visibility into the IT teams that build and support that portfolio—are in a stronger position to shift gears quickly. .

Healthcare 64

Healthcare Automotive Logistics Metrics 64

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

And asserted conditions only evaluated if they’re enabled, so any side effects won’t happen when they’re not enabled; they might sometimes perform local side effects, such as to do logging or allocate memory, but the program should never rely on them happening or not happening. 7] Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) (Microsoft, 2018). [8]

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C++ Programming Code Testing 58

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Serverless, and related announcements, at re:Invent 2018 The fountains at the Bellagio?—?still Firecracker is a great new low level foundation that will allow Lambda and Fargate to grow in functionality and performance, and we’ll almost certainly see features next re:Invent that are enabled by Firecracker. And this is fine!

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Lambda Serverless AWS Blockchain 40

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

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. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Besides organizations wanting to learn how they can replicate the improvement in speed and quality, we keep hearing more questions around how we include security into our processes. They also find ways to bake security into our DNA and culture – just as we always had performance at the core of everything we do and deliver.

Education 36

Education Programming Processing DevOps 36

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

So the PAUSE instruction is an optimization over NOP when a thread is waiting to acquire a lock and is particularly important in spin-locks on x86 CPUs for power and performance. ” and “as the PAUSE latency has been increased significantly, workloads that are sensitive to PAUSE latency will suffer some performance loss.”

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

We’re kicking off 2018 with a bang and a donut. With your metrics changing 20-30% now’s the perfect time to review your performance budgets and alerts. To help, we’ve added performance budgets to all Favorites charts. Go to your Settings to switch to faster test agents. Faster agents. Tweak your perf budgets.

Testing 40

Testing AWS Metrics Mobile 40