The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. Throughput and latency. The short answer is no.

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. This was a weird problem to think about: Time itself had now become a resource and target of performance analysis. I'm including this step as a reminder for anyone following this kind of analysis. But I'm not completely sure.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution. That said, CPU or memory usage is not only limited to these two variable configurations, and further analysis is required to track what’s causing the usage spikes.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

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 [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Query plan analysis can also provide valuable insights.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Speed Index.

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

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. 2] Data on mobile network evolution is sketchy, [3] and the largest error bars in this series' analysis continue to reside in this section.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

This boils down to a single digit µs latency toleration in the tail for far memory, and in addition to security and privacy concerns, rules out remote memory solutions. Thus we’re fundamentally trading (de)-compression latency at access time for the ability to pack more data in memory. ML-based auto-tuning.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

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. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. Mind The Gap. Tap for a larger version.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

When the word “performance” is heard, most people immediately think of speed. Wait time: Sometimes called average latency, wait time refers the amount of time a request spends in a queue before it gets processed. Peak response time: The longest response time.

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Anyway, the following patch seems to make the load average much more consistent WRT the subjective speed of the system. They are demand on the system, albeit for software resources rather than hardware resources. ## Decomposing Linux load averages Can the Linux load average value be fully decomposed into components? Yes, I'd say so.

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. As OS and hardware deployed base integrate these components, the set of what most computers can do is expanded. This is often determined by hardware integration and device replacement rates. It takes a lot to push a vibrant ecosystem to collapse.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. It simulates a link with a 400ms RTT and 400-600Kbps of throughput (plus latency variability and simulated packet loss). Global Ground-Truth. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

John McCalpin

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

These cores have 2 functional units supporting Vector Fused Multiply-Add instructions, with 5-cycle latency on Haswell/Broadwell and 4-cycle latency on Skylake processors (ref: [link] ). With 2 FMA units that have 5-cycle latency, the code must implement at least 2*5=10 independent accumulators in order to avoid stalls.

Cache 40

Cache C++ Latency Hardware 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

It covers these key areas: Technology & Dependency Analysis. Resource consumption & traffic analysis. While most of our cloud & platform partners have their own dependency analysis tooling, most of them focus on basic dependency detection based on network connection analysis between hosts.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data. Start Render time, Speed Index ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Here's some output from my zfsdist tool, in bcc/BPF, which measures ZFS latency as a histogram on Linux: # zfsdist. Tracing ZFS operation latency. Both Xen and KVM have had many performance and security improvements, and workloads can now be tuned to run at almost bare metal speeds (say, a 3% loss or less). Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76