Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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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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Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2020

To deliver outstanding customer experience for your applications and websites, you need reliable benchmarks that measure what good customer experience looks like. Dynatrace Visually complete is a point-in-time web performance metric that measures when the visual area of a page has finished loading. Dynatrace news.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

In the US and the UK, Comscore’s Global State of Mobile 2020 report discovered in August 2020, that mobile usage accounted to 79% and 81% of total digital minutes respectively. Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. ComScore Global State of Mobile 2020 report. Large preview ).

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This post was originally published in June 2020 and was updated in September 2023. While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning?

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

I'm sure this delivered large performance improvements and I wouldn't try arguing against it. While that Java change led to discovering countless performance wins in application code, libc was still breaking some portion of the samples (as pictured in the example at the top of this post) and preventing off-CPU flame graphs.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

The initial reviews and benchmarks for these processors have been very impressive: AMD EPYC 7002 Series Rome Delivers a Knockout. AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked. TPC-H Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. TPC-E Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. In this case, 6,716.88/64

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Technically, Elena joined us at the very end of 2020, but since this marks the end of her first full year at SpeedCurve, I wanted to include her here. Andy joined us in June , and since then he's already helped countless customers in his role as in-house performance consultant. Performance Budgets 101. SEO and Web Performance.

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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. From 2020 to 2021, the team that began measuring value delivery with Flow Metrics drastically reduced its delivery risk.

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Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

As of September 2020, Statista reports that around 30,40,000 apps are available on Google Playstore. Owing to the wide market range of Android apps, an average user has plenty of other alternatives and if we have to retain our existing customer base and attract new users, our apps have to perform without any snag.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Facebook, Inc. ), OSDI’2020. While ultimately this new system should be able to take advantage of the latest advances in consensus for improved performance, that’s not realistic given a 6-9 month in-production target. Virtual consensus in Delos , Balakrishnan et al. What Facebook needed, literally, was a plan to throw one away.

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

For many years, I explicitly advised people not to run their SQL Server workloads on AMD hardware because of the much lower single-threaded CPU performance and consequently higher SQL Server core license costs. This has led to a very noticeable reduction in generational performance increases since Broadwell-EP, as shown in Figure 1.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

However, choice mainly depends on numerous factors like project timeline, framework performance, learning curve, and team size. Performance. React jobs are more popular in the job market of 2020. . Vue vs React: Performance. Two primary metrics verify the speed of an app: start-up time and runtime performance.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In my research, I was looking into sites found in the December 2020 mobile HTTPArchive , and it wasn’t difficult to spot a good number of sites loading huge video files by default, both on mobile and on desktop. We do not deploy images from our camera directly to the web, but we compress and resize them to balance quality and web performance.

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. Right now, widely-used benchmarks for AI code generation (e.g., and chrono-node.

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