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

Adrian Cockcroft

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 was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

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. It's the same on CentOS, although it doesn't include a vdso frame in the flame graph (I'd guess due to a perf(1) difference alone). ## 4.

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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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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

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. It's the same on CentOS, although it doesn't include a vdso frame in the flame graph (I'd guess due to a perf(1) difference alone). ## 4.

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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. Master the many facets of delivering high performance images on the internet—without adversely affecting site performance. Web Performance Tuning. Designing for Performance.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

He has a keen interest in web technologies, performance tuning, security, and the practical use of technology. Doug is a freelance mobile performance expert, a popular speaker – particularly on the topic of web tuning and image optimization – and the author of High Performance Android Apps. Doug Sillars. Doug Sillars.