Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. Here's some experimental approaches I could also explore: Disable tracesys/syscall_trace. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Intel and Netflix announced their collaboration on a software video encoder implementation called SVT-AV1 on April 8, 2019. The encoder can typically be improved years after the standard has been frozen including varying speed and quality trade-offs. The encoder speed helps innovation, as it is faster to run experiments.

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Since becoming General Availability in the fall of 2019 , GitHub Actions has helped teams automate continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows for code builds, tests, and deployments. Keeping business stakeholders in the loop with end-to-end observability with deep insight and continuous feedback loops?. #2

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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]. 2019-01-07T12:00:13+00:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Vitaly Friedman. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We’ve been covering papers from VLDB 2019 for the last three weeks, and next week it will be time to mix things up again. I really do want to cover this one at some point, along with Implementation of cluster-wide logical clock and causal consistency in MongoDB from SIGMOD 2019. What if the network was no longer the bottleneck?

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KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8 For example, while the average mobile download speed on 4G in Switzerland is fast at 35.2 Mbps, countries with a growing Internet users like India is only at an average mobile download speed of 6.8 KB and the average mobile page is 1,683.5

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Description: Infant characters as in my paper “ Letter and symbol misrecognition in highly legible typefaces for general, children, dyslexic, visually impaired and aging readers — 2019 fourth edition.”. Many previous reading studies investigated the effect of typography on reading speed. Robert Hillier’s Sylexiad Serif Medium.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In 2019, Gartner reported that 30% of organizations worldwide were running containerized applications. In fact, in our recent CISO research, 28% of CISOs told us that application teams sometimes bypass these types of tests to speed up delivery. Dynatrace news. Containers have become hugely popular. Run source code tests.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2019

With Dynatrace version 1.172, an updated of our metrics API endpoint (version 2) is now available. The latest version is based on our improved metrics framework, which provides: A logical tree structure for all available metric types. Globally unique metric keys that better integrate over multiple Dynatrace environments.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

This follow-up post revisits the question for SQL Server 2019, using a larger number of rows. This machine has four i7 CPUs (hyperthreaded to 8) with a base speed of 2.4GHz. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance. Test Environment. The cost threshold for parallelism is set to 50.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Without such rules, configuring your environments can result in chaos, with losses in flexibility, speed, and stability. Workflow environment variables section : These variables are both strings, such as project name, and the paths to SLI and SLO file within the repo and are made available to all the steps in the workflow.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Back in October of 2019, “Perl 6” was renamed to “Raku”. The project is available in twenty languages, and encourages all kinds of contributions to open-source projects — including non-pull-request contributions. Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. 24 Ways (2019).

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. How to get these matrics right and not mess up?

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SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Applying page or row compression (both online/offline) to the source before the affinitized copy (offline), to see if compressing the data first could speed up the destination. The downside to the latter is that, in SQL Server 2017, you cannot run this online… but you will be able to in 2019. tblOriginal.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS EU (Paris) Region, our 18th technology infrastructure Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. Now, we're opening an infrastructure Region with three Availability Zones. Today, customers can connect to the AWS EU (Paris) Region via Telehouse Voltaire.

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KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

However, in 2019, the expectation for a good user experience is now higher than ever. The lower conversion rate on mobile could be due to a variety of reasons including the website not being responsive for mobile devices, the speed isn’t up to par, etc. Improve Site Speed In 2019, having fast site speed is imperative.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The Region will be in the heart of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, and we're aiming to have it ready by early 2019. This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

October 2, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Redis on Azure service. The demand for Redis is skyrocketing across dozens of use cases, particularly for cache, queues, geospatial data, and high speed transactions. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

In 2019, we sold 500k tickets a year, so our operations are complex and we need to showcase it with our landing pages in an appealing and fast manner. But first, let’s talk about the importance of speed improvement. Why Is Speed Improvement Necessary To Our SEO Efforts? You may be wondering why we need such a scale.

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

— Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) 3 March, 2019. If there is a newer file available on the server, we definitely want to download it. We’ve talked a lot so far about revalidation: the process of the browser making the trip back to the server to check whether a fresher file might be available. FAQs Page. Decorative Image.

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Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video. However, all the other connections have a downlink speed that’s significantly lower than 20 MBPS. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

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Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

In simple terms, an open source database is this: It’s a database with source code that is free and available to all. Open source standards and community support enable developers and DBAs to focus on accelerating feature creation and on enhancing availability, performance, scalability, and security.

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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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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. With that said, many people assume that there are multiple resources available for compressing photos. Options such as JPEG 2000, WebP, and HEIF are all available and have experienced success in one form or another. AVIF version 1.0.0

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. With this launch, AWS now provides 60 Availability Zones, with another 12 zones and four Regions expected to come online by 2020 in Bahrain, Cape Town, Hong Kong, and Milan.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Quantum computing is useful to speed up a relatively small number of very difficult computational problems that can’t be solved on classical computers. Yes, there have been some small quantum computers available; IBM has quantum computers available in the cloud , including a 5-qubit machine that anyone can try for free.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. km university campus. Throughput and latency.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Microsoft took that idea and built a new compute tier called Azure SQL Database serverless, which became generally available in November 2019. This way they can know that there is always a minimum compute level available, and they can always automatically scale to a designated compute level. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

2019-07-29T14:00:59+02:00. 2019-07-29T13:06:57+00:00. 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. Chris Ashton. per GB respectively.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

2019-10-22T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-10-22T13:06:35+00:00. At the intersection of the two is website speed. It should come as no surprise that images cause a lot of the problems websites have with speed. According to HTTP Archive : The median size of a desktop website in 2019 is 1939.5 Suzanne Scacca.

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Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2022

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. Check out various codeless testing tools available now!

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Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We look forward to providing you with even better articles, news and information in 2019. As 2018 moves into 2019, let’s take a quick look back at some of the most popular posts on the blog this year. How to Restore MySQL Logical Backup at Maximum Speed. How to Speed Up Pattern Matching Queries. Top 10 Most Read.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

These VMs are not available in all regions, so you will want to check the availability in the Azure region that you are interested in using. This processor has a base clock speed of 2.0GHz, with an all-core boost speed of 2.55GHz, and a max boost clock speed of 3.0GHz. The L3 cache size is 64MB. Azure Lsv2 Details.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web development is evolving at a rapid speed with each passing year. 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. Approximately more than 34 million blockchain wallets were used globally in 2019.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

They are run on SQL Server 2019 CU9 , on a laptop with 8 cores, and 16GB of memory allocated to the SQL Server 2019 instance. This uses hardware, typically a crystal oscillator, that produces ticks at a very high constant rate regardless of processor speed, power settings, or anything of that nature. Batch Mode Serial Execution.

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HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

This post is targeted towards the questions most often asked by non-technical management who want to get up to speed on what HammerDB is (what it isn’t) and how it can benefit their organization. What is HammerDB? HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. Adoption by the TPC. Usage and industry adoption.

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