DZone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Opera may not be your default browser, but it still is a popular web browser in the market and is especially loved in areas that don’t have high-speed Internet. This is because Opera performs quite well even at slow internet speeds.

Testing 109

Testing Internet Internet Speed 109

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

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. Given the pace of Google is to release a new stable version every 1-2 months, we can be confident that Chrome 75, with the native lazy-loading, will be released to the public before the end of this year, 2019.

Google 44

Google Speed Mobile Website 44

SQL Shack

JULY 10, 2019

Introduction In-memory technologies are one of the greatest ways to improve performance and combat contention in computing today. By removing disk-based storage and the challenge of copying data in and out of memory, query speeds in SQL Server can be improved by orders of magnitude.

Servers 79

Servers Latency Storage Speed 79

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. Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies. What is SVT-AV1?

Open Source 166

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

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.

Performance 106

Performance Games Servers Cache 106

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. The demand for Redis™ is skyrocketing across dozens of use cases, particularly for cache, queues, geospatial data, and high speed transactions.

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Azure Availability Open Source Virtualization 100

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 For UDP , the authors achieved 880 Mbps dowload and 130 Mbps upload speeds.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

DZone

JULY 25, 2019

Humio received $9M in Series A funding from Accel at the beginning of 2019 and is aiming to do just that. Integrating data sources between Humio and Instana is useful because DevOps, IT Ops and Security professionals need many types of data and information to optimise their applications and speed up software development.

Programming 100

Programming DevOps Operating System Speed 100

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!

Network 84

Network Speed Traffic Mobile 84

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. 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.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

CSS - Tricks

JULY 18, 2019

The irony of web performance is that the average page weight of a site continues to go up year after year, despite us being more aware of the problem and having more tools at our disposal to fight it than ever. They made it so that performance is integrated right into managing content on a WordPress site. Get Jetpack.

Performance 41

Performance Storage Speed Servers 41

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

Software 246

Software Software Open Source Azure 246

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.

Servers 87

Servers Performance Metrics Database 87

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.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Without such rules, configuring your environments can result in chaos, with losses in flexibility, speed, and stability. In this example, the step performs the SLO evaluation. The “Keptn Automation” reads in the specification files, performs the evaluation, and outputs the result in a log with a URL to the SLO Evaluation web page.

Software 200

Software Software Open Source DevOps 200

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. 24 Accessibility (2019). The site hasn’t had a new article since 2019, but still offers a good resource of articles on all subjects related to digital accessibility.

Design 107

Design Development Programming Website 107

Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 9, 2022

The group has deep roots in High Performance Computing (that’s what Shahin, Steve, and I did at Sun). So right from the beginning, I’m happy to spend some time getting back up to speed and developing some of my ideas around new hardware capabilities.

IoT 52

IoT Best Practices AWS Media 52

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. According to Wikipedia , Romania ranked 5th place worldwide for the average connection speed of 38.60Mb/s. million Romanian eCommerce users who spend an average of $237.38

Internet 48

Internet Internet Ecommerce Speed 48

Tasktop

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Morale and performance were at an all-time low, and the team’s backlog was almost entirely filled with defect work. . To start, the leaders decided to use Flow Time to benchmark the team’s performance. million in 2019 to $4 million in 2022. First, the team shifted from project-based pods to feature-based pods.

Metrics 52

Metrics Benchmarking Efficiency Speed 52

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 ).

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Quantum supremacy itself is a simple concept: it means performing a computation that could not be performed on a classical computer. Google performed a computation in a few minutes (3 minutes, 20 seconds to be precise ) that would have taken more than 10,000 years on the most powerful computers we currently have. Mike Loukides.

Artificial Intelligence 53

Artificial Intelligence Google Software Architecture Cloud 53

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.,

Azure 37

Azure Cloud Open Source Virtualization 37

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

Because the average page is now 3MB in size, and this seems like a good time to pause, check our assumptions, and ask ourselves: Is there any reason to care about page size as a performance metric? Also, you can also see how easy it is to be misled by onload as a performance metric, because it correlates so strongly with page size.

Metrics 80

Metrics Website Speed Benchmarking 80

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%.

Innovation 50

Innovation Mobile Best Practices Speed 50

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.

Google 85

Google Website Network Media 85

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. Speed and Accuracy.

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

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

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 24, 2019

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2019. After completing their questions, participants were then asked a set of ranking questions to determine their preferred visualisation type(s) for performing the task. This holds even though performance when using table is relatively slow and less accurate.

Speed 53

Speed Metrics Performance Design 53

CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

People say JAMstack sites are fast — let’s find out why by looking at real performance metrics! The FCP distribution for the 10th, 50th and 90th percentile values as reported on August 1, 2019. TTI distribution for the 10th, 50th and 90th percentile values as reported on August 1, 2019. First Contentful Paint ( FCP ).

Speed 46

Speed Mobile Metrics Scalability 46

High Scalability

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The demand for Redis is skyrocketing across dozens of use cases, particularly for cache, queues, geospatial data, and high speed transactions.

Azure 23

Azure Cloud Open Source Cache 23

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you time time?

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

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.

Engineering 246

Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

Either way, redirection increases the amount of time it takes for your site to render, and you should minimize its use to optimize page performance. Redirection increases the amount of time it takes for your site to render, and you should minimize its use to optimize page performance. webperf #perfmatters Click To Tweet.

Mobile 60

Mobile Traffic Google Latency 60

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Past swings away from OS default browsers have hinged on the superior features , better performance , improved security , and adequate site compatibility that come from switching. Without the ability to differentiate on features, security, performance, and privacy, what's to sell? What are those mechanisms? A slightly different UI ?

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110