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! Or even on a plane.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 SIGCOMM’20.

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

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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High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

What happens when no new open source comes out of the smaller companies, and the big-3 decide they don't really need or want to play nice anymore?

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Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134

DZone

JUNE 16, 2019

It's an inclusive event for speakers, attendees, and vendors alike to network and learn from each other in a safe, comfortable, and accessible environment. Monitorama is the event of the year if you're in the monitoring and observability space! Did you know?

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Network Monitoring Engineering Performance 100

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 Hosting on Azure for Redis™ service. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In contrast to clean labels, which indicate precise start and end times for each speech/music region, noisy labels only provide approximate timing, which may impact SMAD classification performance. Training examples were produced between 2016 and 2019, in 13 countries, with 60% of the titles originating in the USA.

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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!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. 2019-04-17T12:30:16+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Modern web browsers use all sorts of techniques to help improve page load performance by guessing what the user may be likely to do next. Drew McLellan.

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Performance Games Servers Cache 106

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

as it matures 5G is predicted to improve network speeds dramatically. Carriers are predicting download speeds in 2019 for anywhere from 100Mb to 1 Gbit per second on average. Numbers like this make it seem as though the web’s performance problems are merely a matter of infrastructure. This is.bonkers!

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Network Speed Traffic Mobile 84

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Measuring Performance With Server Timing. Measuring Performance With Server Timing. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. 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

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2019

During AWS re:Invent 2019, we announced a number of High Performance Computing (HPC) innovations including the Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances powered by next-generation Arm-based AWS Graviton2 Processors. We also recently announced that new AMD-powered, compute-optimized EC2 instances are in the works.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing.

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Tim Kadlec

MARCH 7, 2019

Occasionally I hear some chatter about performance budgets “not working.” It’s not really about the performance budget, though. It’s not really about the performance budget, though. To be effective, a performance budget has to be concrete, meaningful, integrated, and enforced.

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Design 64

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

” Despite the slow rate of adoption, Java’s six-month release cadence has been trucking along—Java 12 dropped in March 2019, with Java 13 following in September. 2019 brought another surprise when Oracle moved Java SE to a subscription-based model. Or do people just not know about the benefits of 11 in containers?”

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Programming Java Google C++ 130

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

2019 will go down as the year when giants collided over who is streaming the right content to win the growing market demand and dollars. One thing is clear: when planning for the consumer experience to be simple and easy to use, the backend infrastructure and performance becomes much more complicated.

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Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Back in October of 2019, “Perl 6” was renamed to “Raku”. Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. Counting down to Christmas, this calendar is dedicated to sharing a new tip for protecting your devices, networks, and data each day. 24 Accessibility (2019). 24 Ways (2019).

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Design Development Programming Website 107

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 22, 2019

For my AWS re:Invent talk on BPF Performance Analysis at Netflix, I began with a demo of "BPF superpowers" (aka eBPF). Embedded C. # # Tone generation from: [link] # # 29-Apr-2019 Brendan Gregg Created this. My [BPF Performance Tools] book has plenty of examples. usr/bin/python # # iwlstrength.py

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C++ Education Java AWS 102

Sutter's Mill

JULY 25, 2019

The top-voted primary topic categories correlate well with the results we saw in the 2019 global C++ developer survey open-ended write-in questions for ‘if you could change one thing about C++’ and ‘any other feedback.’ Here’s a 35-page PDF of the full results. The following are some highlights.

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C++ Programming Network Efficiency 98

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

At the APAC Partner Summits, there were lots of learning, networking, and celebration. And the 2019 Dynatrace Partner Awards goes to……. The post Recognising our Top Performing APAC Partners appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Growth Partner of the Year. Technical Readiness Partner of the Year. Rising Partner of the Year.

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Performance Technology Technology Network 27

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. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

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Network Speed Website Mobile 143

KeyCDN

JANUARY 31, 2019

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 our network continues to grow, our customers will continue to experience faster load times globally. Our newest point of presence has been launched in Bucharest, Romania!

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Internet Internet Ecommerce Speed 48

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

According to StatCounter , as of September 2019, Google Chrome holds 63.72% browser market share across the globe. You can do everything from testing the viewport on a mobile device to editing a website on the fly, and even measuring the performance of an entire website or individual assets.

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Google Website Network Media 85

Tasktop

MARCH 31, 2022

Everything must be cloud-ready, scalable, networked, connected and secure, such that pure coding is now the smallest part of IT initiatives. Todays’ top performing IT leaders are using VSM to outpace the competition. Download the CIO’s Value Stream Management Playbook for your path to high performance. .

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Automotive Software Software Development 52

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Editor’s note: Sophia was one of the recipients of the Best Paper Award at MICRO 2019. About the Author: Sophia Shao is an Assistant Professor of the EECS department at University of California, Berkeley.

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Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

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. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

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Azure Cloud Open Source Virtualization 37

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2019

2019-08-23T13:30:59+02:00. 2019-08-23T13:06:42+00:00. In the network tab of the developer console you can check that we have not loaded the complete image, but only a small part. Network console when loading the preview image ( Large preview ). Network console when loading the preview image as data URI ( Large preview ).

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Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

Simform (as of 2019) stated that an average user has at least 40 apps installed on their phones while millennials have around 67 apps. To ensure our users get a seamless experience across any device — we perform mobile app testing. . For instance, the app’s UI, network glitches, and anything else which can be fixed on the go.

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Testing Tools Mobile Testing Open Source 86

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

For my AWS re:Invent talk on BPF Performance Analysis at Netflix, I began with a demo of "BPF superpowers" (aka eBPF). Embedded C. # # Tone generation from: [link] # # 29-Apr-2019 Brendan Gregg Created this. My [BPF Performance Tools] book has plenty of examples. strength: -46 strength: -46 strength: -45 strength: -45 [.]

C++ 52

C++ Education Java AWS 52

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

For my AWS re:Invent talk on BPF Performance Analysis at Netflix, I began with a demo of "BPF superpowers" (aka eBPF). Embedded C. # # Tone generation from: [link] # # 29-Apr-2019 Brendan Gregg Created this. My [BPF Performance Tools] book has plenty of examples. usr/bin/python # # iwlstrength.py

C++ 52

C++ Education Java AWS 52

CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 31, 2020

This was was both necessary and overdue, as HTTP/1 rendered web performance as an arcane sort of discipline in the form of strange workarounds of its limitations. If we look at the 90 th percentile of that same dataset — because it’s really the long tail of performance we need to optimize for — we see an increase of 239%.

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Innovation Mobile Best Practices Speed 50

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

The Problem Of Unpredictable Performance. At the same time, we have a widening performance gap. In terms for performance, these phones have plateaued at the performance of a 2012 iPhone. Applications built for the Web are expected to run on devices that fall anywhere on this broad performance spectrum.

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Games Architecture Code C++ 145

High Scalability

JANUARY 4, 2019

copyconstruct : "GPUs will increase 1000× in performance by 2025, whereas Moore’s law for CPUs essentially is dead. By replacing branch-heavy algorithms with neural networks, the DBMS can profit from these hardware trends.". Devs mostly hate 'em too but right now there's not much to be done about it 3.

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Healthcare 29

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

As per April 2019 data of Statistica[1], the global mobile population accounted for 4 billion unique users. Globally, consumers are preferring their mobile phones for performing activities (e.g. Mobile website testing helps in serving your customers with a flawless performance on popular screen resolutions.

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Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

SysML 2019. The bulk of the paper is about the practicalities of running these algorithms at scale across a large fleet of devices: managing device availability, coordinating activity over unreliable networks and devices, building and deploying training workflows, and troubleshooting when things go wrong. Federated Averaging.

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Systems Design Google Servers 71