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. Audio Worklets are a fundamental enabler for rich media and games on the web.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Briefly, WAL requires that all the transaction log records associated with a ​​ particular ​​ data page be flushed to stable media before the data page itself can be flushed to stable media. Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. media="(min-width: 990px)"> <source srcset="img@tablet.png, img@tablet-2x.png 2x". media="(min-width: 750px)"> <img srcset="img@mobile.png, img@mobile-2x.png 2x". Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Global Ground-Truth.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Read Retry When a read from stable media returns an error, ​​ the read operation is ​​ tried ​​ again. ​​ Under certain conditions, ​​ issuing the same read returns the correct data.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

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