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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

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. This was followed by a greatly expanded second edition with some additional chapters by Rich Pettit.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. But I also love solving issues quickly, and sometimes that means just asking colleagues or searching the Internet. 30.14% in the middle of the flame graph. include <sys/time.h>

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CDN Web Application Firewall (WAF): Your Shield Against Online Threats

IO River

Each is crucial, and they all feed into each other to create a robust, responsive, and resilient security mechanism.Research‍In the dynamic world of the Internet, new threats are as constant as the rising sun. Two of them are particularly gnarly: fine-tuning rules to perfection and managing a WAF over a multi-CDN architecture.

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CDN Web Application Firewall (WAF): Your Shield Against Online Threats

IO River

Each is crucial, and they all feed into each other to create a robust, responsive, and resilient security mechanism.Research‍In the dynamic world of the Internet, new threats are as constant as the rising sun. Two of them are particularly gnarly: fine-tuning rules to perfection and managing a WAF over a multi-CDN architecture.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

In her book, Lara Hogan helps you approach projects with page speed in mind, showing you how to test and benchmark which design choices are most critical. Podjarny presents a series of increasingly larger-scope solutions to each issue, including client-side techniques and RESS (Responsive + Server Side). Web Performance Tuning.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. But I also love solving issues quickly, and sometimes that means just asking colleagues or searching the Internet. 30.14% in the middle of the flame graph. include <sys/time.h>

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Patrick is a London-based software developer who specializes in web performance and who describes himself as enjoying “working the entire stack, back-end to front-end, CDN to server.” The future of HTTP/2 server push. You can find him on Twitter @ patrickhamann or catch him on the speaker circuit. Billy Hoffman.