Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember how, later on, a common question I would get in after giving performance-focused presentations was: “Is any of this going to matter when 4G is available?” Once a new network does get rolled out, it takes years for carriers to optimize it to try and close in on the promised bandwidth and latency benchmarks.

Network 61

Network Speed Internet Internet 61

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. They all have to work well together to bring an ideal and effective final presentation. Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Thomas Bohm.

Performance 111

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 111

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. The public cloud provides flexibility and cost efficiency through utilizing a provider’s resources. These include on-premises data centers which offer specific business benefits.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. Use scripts to configure hosts properly based on the CIS benchmarks. Why is container security tricky? Harden the host operating system. Remove privileges.

Open Source 250

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 250

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. Telltale provides Edgar with latency benchmarks that indicate if the individual trace’s latency is abnormal for this given service. What is Edgar?

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Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

The Morning Paper

JULY 2, 2019

One SQL to rule them all: an efficient and syntactically idiomatic approach to management of streams and tables Begoli et al., Many of the ideas presented here are already implemented by Apache Beam, Calcite, and Flink in some form, as one option amongst several. SIGMOD’19.

Efficiency 65

Efficiency Processing Benchmarking Open Source 65

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. CSS Custom Paint.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The tricky part is to solve it using an efficient set-based solution. This month, I'll present the challenge and the classic cursor-based solution. In subsequent articles, I'll present set-based solutions—including the ones Peter and I worked on. It will be used as a benchmark. The Challenge. Cursor-Based Solution.

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C++ Code Benchmarking Performance 133

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. This can mean that instead of failing completely, a system continues to operate, but possibly at a reduced level of efficiency.

Availability 107

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 107

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The rest of the article presents some views on whether additional single thread performance is feasible, and if so, some methods for extracting that performance in light of potential technology changes. The coupling of these two factors have led to the aforementioned stagnation of ST performance. Extracting More ILP.

Architecture 67

Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 67

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Ilya Grigorik’s recent Velocity conference presentation explored the browser's critical rendering path and highlighted exactly what it takes to deliver a mobile page within one second. There are great tools available to monitor the actual in browser speed and benchmark your site against others.

Performance 60

Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Regardless, I present the thinking behind them because it can provide teams with informed points of departure, and also because clarifying the ritual freakout taking place as INP begins to put a price on JavaScript externalities. Please, I beg of you, publish P50, P75, P90, and P95 results for each of your market reports!

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Dr. Damon McDougall gave a short presentation on this study at the IXPUG 2018 Fall Conference ( pdf ) — I originally wrote these notes to help organize my thoughts as we were preparing the IXPUG presentation, and later decided that the extra details contained here are interesting enough for me to post it.

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Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

However, there are a number of other important applications: Manufacturer-sponsored discounts can fall into this category because a retailer is not concerned about the cost of the incentives (covered by the manufacturer), only about efficient targeting. For instance, this vector can contain product gross margins. Sale channels.

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Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. This White Paper is for informational purposes only.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. This White Paper is for informational purposes only.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. In exchange, your team gains maintainability and developer efficiency, of course. A sample output by imaging-heap , a command line tool that measure the efficiency across viewport sizes and device pixel ratios.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. On top of that, with Elena Kirilenko’s research , we can achieve fast and efficient Brotli recompression using previous compression artifacts. compared to early 2015. Normally, compression level 6 over 5 would increase CPU usage by up to 12%.

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