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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Speed Up Your Website With WebP

Smashing Magazine

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. 2019-10-29T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-10-29T13:36:09+00:00. Here’s what Google suggests: PageSpeed Insights demonstrates how much storage and bandwidth websites stand to save with WebP. Suzanne Scacca. This is a sponsored post.) As well it should.

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Memory-Optimized TempDB Metadata in SQL Server 2019

SQL Shack

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. Introduction In-memory technologies are one of the greatest ways to improve performance and combat contention in computing today.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

## References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

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An Overview of Indexes in MySQL 8.0: MySQL CREATE INDEX, Functional Indexes, and More

Percona

Introduction to MySQL Indexes Indexes in MySQL are database structures used to optimize data retrieval speed and efficiency. They are a roadmap that speeds up the process of finding specific rows in a large table. As such, index design must strike a balance between improved query speed and efficient data modification.

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Even more amazing papers at VLDB 2019 (that I didn’t have space to cover yet)

The Morning Paper

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. Autoscaling tiered cloud storage in Anna.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

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? Intended as a RUM metric only.