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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Theory (A) is most likely based on the frame widths in the flame graph. But I'm not completely sure.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

Here begins our 2021 adventure. If there's a bright spot in our construction of a 2021 baseline for performance, this is it. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version.

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Protecting critical infrastructure and services: Ensure efficient, accurate information delivery this election year

Dynatrace

To address this, state and local governments are adopting multicloud environments to achieve the necessary speed, scale, and agility to keep up with faster digital transformation. When Log4Shell emerged in Dec 2021, security teams faced tremendous pressure to identify if they were affected and remediate.

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The top eight DevSecOps trends in 2022

Dynatrace

In order for software development teams to balance speed with quality during the software development cycle (SDLC), development, security, and operations teams (or DevSecOps teams) need to ensure that their practices align with modern cloud environments. That can be difficult when the business climate can prioritize speed. and 2.14.1.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are on [slideshare] or as a [PDF]: I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. 2021-01-11T15:30:13+00:00. 2021-01-11T16:06:07+00:00. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!), Vitaly Friedman. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard. Large preview ).

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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?