Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. In early January a related paper was published by Satoshi Matsuoka et. petaflops, which is 0.8%

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

” Here are additional metrics used to determine the reliability of a database, make adjustments that minimize downtime, and set benchmarks for meeting business continuity requirements. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), Networking equipment (switches, routers, etc.)

Availability 110

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. Treo provides competitive analysis based on real-world data. 300ms RTT, 1.6

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This removes the burden of purchasing and maintaining your hardware, storage and networking infrastructure, while still giving you a very familiar experience with Windows and SQL Server itself. GHz, 128MB of L3 cache, 128 PCIe 4.0 Another choice that is well-suited for both OLTP and DW workloads is the Esv4-series.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The median user is on a slow network.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. ASPLOS’19. Distributed tracing and instrumentation.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. All modern browsers are fast, Chromium and Safari/WebKit included. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. And if you want to really drive that point home, scroll to the bottom of the Test My Site analysis page and run your numbers through the impact analysis calculator: Test My Site’s revenue impact assessment. Clean coding practices. Minification.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Edge caching. In general, Egnyte connect architecture shards and caches data at different levels based on: Amount of data. Nginx for disk based caching.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52