The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations Ren et al., For example: “Red Hat and Suse normally required 6-18 months to optimise the performance an an upstream Linux kernel before it can be released as an enterprise distribution”, and. Google’s data center kernel is carefully performance tuned for their workloads.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

Software analytics enables software automation Software analytics enables software automation with targeted machine learning and AI algorithms that mimic the way humans think to perform repetitive tasks. These algorithms analyze massive amounts of complex structured and unstructured data to enhance human decision making and performance.

Software 186

Software Software Analytics Big Data 186

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

FinOps helps engineering, development, finance, and business teams meet critical key performance indicators (KPIs) and fulfill service-level agreements. Additionally, include benchmarks for stakeholders and best practices that support the anticipated growth of the organization as a whole. FinOps company culture.

Cloud 194

Cloud Strategy Retail Energy 194

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. Agustinus Theodorus.

Cache 126

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Jake Archibald.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. You can even go one step further and integrate your performance budgets with your CI/CD process, so that you not only get alerts but even break the build if a new deploy would violate any of your budgets.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

With another year winding down, it’s time for us to take stock of how our site performance compares to the average page load times for 2020. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. seconds on mobile.

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC!; They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

Internet 123

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

It focuses on aligning organizational needs with cloud services, balancing performance and cost, and ensuring compliance, security, and effective cost management. Pick combinations that are not just affordable but also high-performing. Find that sweet spot where the costs and performance balance out just right.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Back in May, we shared that SpeedCurve supports Google's Core Web Vitals in both our synthetic monitoring and LUX real user monitoring tools. Six months in, I've had a chance to gather and look at a lot of data, talk with customers, and learn from our friends in the performance community. recommended by Google.

Retail 80

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 80

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Create performance budgets and fight regression. Build a performance culture that embraces collaboration between design and dev. To optimize for performance, you need to understand what happens in the steps between receiving the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript bytes and the processing that's required to turn them into rendered pixels.

Performance 77

Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 77

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

Over the last few years the web performance monitoring toolset has expanded dramatically with the introduction of many new services and products. There are two main types of web performance monitoring, uptime monitoring and real user monitoring. SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. Find Your Performance Baseline. Optimize Your Pages.

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Rigor

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

As web perfectionists, we have heard every excuse in the book for why teams cannot make web performance a priority. Whether it be time, money, or technical know how, every day we talk to eCommerce and Retail teams who explain why they aren’t monitoring their site’s performance. I don’t have time or budget to dedicate to performance”.

Ecommerce 40

Ecommerce Retail Performance Benchmarking 40

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

Last time out we saw how Google have been able to save millions of dollars though memory compression enabled via zswap. Today’s paper introduces Zippads , which compared to a state of the art compressed memory hierarchy is able to achieve a 1.63x higher compression ratio and improve performance by 17%. ” The big idea. Evaluation.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. How would you measure performance? Other times it’s about how fast a task is performed. Other times it’s about how fast a task is performed. Performance vs Perceived Performance.

Benchmarking 117

Benchmarking Metrics Best Practices Monitoring 117

Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

To build fast sites and stay competitive, it is critical for people passionate about performance to stay informed about new metrics and the methodology behind them. The Evolving View of Performance. The next evolution of performance brought in paint metrics. Why Should You Care About the Latest Performance Metrics?

Metrics 71

Metrics Speed Benchmarking Website 71

CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google. It’s vital.

Network 225

Network Mobile Performance Traffic 225

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

As of September 2020, Statista reports that around 30,40,000 apps are available on Google Playstore. Owing to the wide market range of Android apps, an average user has plenty of other alternatives and if we have to retain our existing customer base and attract new users, our apps have to perform without any snag.

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

In the prototype implementation, policies are expressed in a language similar to Google Cloud Firestore security rules. For good query performance we’d like to pre-compute these per-user universes. It therefore requires partially-materialized views that support high-performance updates. Expressing privacy policies.

Database 90

Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

It's an overview of why front-end performance matter, how to monitor it and the challenges faced when building for an increasingly mobile world. An overview of tools for measuring performance, uptime monitoring, real user monitoring and performance benchmarking. Performance Tools. Performance Checklists.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) We are really pleased with our Q1 performance and see it as continued validation of the massive market we are pursuing, our strong product market fit, and our ability to execute.”

Open Source 83

Open Source Programming Database Servers 83

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

I'm sure this delivered large performance improvements and I wouldn't try arguing against it. While that Java change led to discovering countless performance wins in application code, libc was still breaking some portion of the samples (as pictured in the example at the top of this post) and preventing off-CPU flame graphs.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unoptimized content could also be one of the reasons why your WordPress website is not performing as per your expectations. KeyCDN Website Speed Test, GTmetrix, Google PageSpeed Insights, WebPageTest, and Pingdom Tools are some great choices. However, unoptimized WordPress plugins can drastically drag down your website's performance.

Cache 52

Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This is a question recently asked and explored by a team of Google researchers led by Jeff Dean with a major focus on database indexes. Jeff is a Google Senior Fellow in the Google Brain team and widely known as a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning community. Learned indexes.

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

Rigor

JULY 9, 2019

To build fast sites and stay competitive, it is critical for people passionate about performance to stay informed about new metrics and the methodology behind them. The Evolving View of Performance. The next evolution of performance brought in paint metrics. Why Should You Care About the Latest Performance Metrics?

Metrics 40

Metrics Speed Benchmarking Website 40

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

I love conversations about performance, and I'm fortunate enough to have them a lot. I hope this post can serve that purpose and cover a few of the fundamental areas of web performance that I’ve found to be most useful while honing the craft of product management. How is performance measured? The audience varies.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2020

To deliver outstanding customer experience for your applications and websites, you need reliable benchmarks that measure what good customer experience looks like. Dynatrace Visually complete is a point-in-time web performance metric that measures when the visual area of a page has finished loading. Dynatrace news.

Metrics 133

Metrics Performance Benchmarking Monitoring 133

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. Background: How performance budgets work 1. What is a performance budget? What should a performance budget look like? Let's get started!

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright. Google Lighthouse has a lot going for it.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. Recently, I spent some time checking on the Performance (not a very detailed study) of the various programming languages. Ahem, Slow!

Java 207

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"How can I demonstrate the business value of performance to people in my organization?" If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then you could find the answers in identifying and understanding the performance poverty line for your site. What is the "performance poverty line"?

Performance 118

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 118