The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

I was drawn in by the headline results here: This paper presents an analysis of how Linux’s performance has evolved over the past seven years… To our surprise, the study shows that the performance of many core operations has worsened or fluctuated significantly over the years. SOSP’19. Measuring the kernel. Headline results.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I also learned how marketing worked, and began to build my presentation and training skills as I was sent around the world by Sun to teach workshops and speak at events.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 25% to 50% off response time when users request a page. Even Faster Websites.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) So if they can’t beat ‘em in the DBaaS space, they often feel like they have to join ‘em — to the tune of total stack sharing or some proprietary arrangement. Is MongoDB free to use?

Open Source 81

Open Source Programming Database Servers 81

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Presented here alphabetically by last name: Rachel Andrew. Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Here is our (ever-growing!) Plus, at the end, a few bonus Twitter handles to round things out.).

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

Lastly, I tried not to search for help on Google, Stack Overflow, or other websites, which is what I would normally be doing while programming. For a few years now Google has been transitioning developers to v3 , which I didn’t know about since I had no prior experience with Chrome extensions. And ChatGPT didn’t warn me about this.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Source: Guy Podjarny However, we do now have a full set of techniques to effectively deliver highly performative sites that not only visually scale across devices but also deliver code and assets tuned to the width of a device. It’s a new image format developed by Google that’s 30-40% smaller than a jpeg.

Performance 60

Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60