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!

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN.

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Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons).

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

2021-10-27T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-27T10:16:44+00:00. When the researcher can see through the user’s eyes, recognizing a usability problem sooner would save the client and developer time and money. For instance, Nielsen’s research conducted in 2006 showed that people read content on the Internet in an F-shaped pattern.

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. The Compatibility Tax.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Web engineers frequently refer to browsers as "User Agents", a nod to their unique role as interpreters of developer intent that give users the final say over how the web is experienced. PWA Feature Detector.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

I tried to search for details related to segmentation fault on the internet and found many articles; however, it failed to quench my thirst as none of them had the answer I was looking for. It is the responsibility of software developers to build debug symbols. At present, this is in the development phase.

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Programming C++ Database Virtualization 86

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

2021-08-03T11:00:00+00:00. 2021-08-03T15:34:18+00:00. Intermittent micro-services, unstable internet connections, or eventual consistency are all reasons to try again. Real-time error monitoring services such as Sentry or Rollbar are invaluable tools for modern-day web development. How To Build Resilient JavaScript UIs.

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Network Engineering Availability Monitoring 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

2021-04-19T08:30:00+00:00. 2021-04-19T08:35:54+00:00. So if you run Lighthouse on your high-powered developer machine and get great scores, that may not be reflective of what the users experience in the real world, and so what Google will use to measure your website user experience. Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

2021-09-03T11:30:00+00:00. 2021-09-03T15:05:53+00:00. As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web. Berwyn Powell.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 135

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

2021-08-23T06:20:00+00:00. 2021-08-23T10:07:21+00:00. This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. The Internet also doesn’t have mechanisms (yet) to signal link capacities back to the endpoints. Robin Marx.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105