The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., A typical architecture diagram for one of these services looks like this: Suitably armed with a set of benchmark microservices applications, the investigation can begin! ASPLOS’19.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

While managing cloud workloads offers numerous benefits, it also presents several challenges such as security risks, compliance issues, and resource optimization, which can be addressed effectively with tools like ScaleGrid, offering features like encryption, disaster recovery, and real-time resource optimization for diverse databases.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

InfoQ

JANUARY 12, 2021

In this article, we’ll briefly outline the use-case for a library like Donkey and present our benchmarks. Donkey is the product of the quest for a highly performant Clojure HTTP stack aimed to scale at the rapid pace of growth we have been experiencing at AppsFlyer, and save us computing costs. By Yaron Elyashiv.

Benchmarking 119

Benchmarking Performance Design Network 119

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

A zero-day vulnerability can become endemic when it’s present in a system for an extended amount of time and is more complex to protect against. half of all corporate networks. A zero-day attack occurs when an attacker exploits these software vulnerabilities and causes significant damage before an update or patch has been implemented.

Java 182

Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 182

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. It graphs server, network, CSS, Javascript, critical content, and image optimizations to show the potential savings you could gain by incorporating fixes into your site. Network and CPU are throttled for lab data tests for more realistic conditions.

Performance 131

Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 131

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Content Delivery Networks (CDN) like Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, Cloudfront can sometimes have a big impact on performance. Leave out terms like percentile and avoid presenting two sets of numbers. Benchmark yourself. Another great tool to have in your bag is benchmarking. The internet. It's consistently inconsistent.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle. This session looks at what it takes to accept, produce, encode, and stream your favorite content.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle. This session looks at what it takes to accept, produce, encode, and stream your favorite content.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. In early January a related paper was published by Satoshi Matsuoka et. petaflops, which is 0.8%

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. A span: Represents a unit of work, such as a network call from one service to another (a client/server relationship) or a purely internal action (e.g., What is Edgar?

Latency 296

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications. Time is Money.

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.) That early decision was notable because whereas the GPL is applied if derivative work is distributed, the AGPL license applies both for distributed work and whenever end users interact with a program over a network.

Open Source 81

Open Source Programming Database Servers 81

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

” Here are additional metrics used to determine the reliability of a database, make adjustments that minimize downtime, and set benchmarks for meeting business continuity requirements. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), Please note that these are presented as general best practices.

Availability 105

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

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. All modern browsers are fast, Chromium and Safari/WebKit included. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Here's the slides from my presentation at the Auckland Web Dev Nights meetup. The network constraints and what makes the web slow? An overview of tools for measuring performance, uptime monitoring, real user monitoring and performance benchmarking. Competitive Benchmarking SpeedCurve. How to make your website faster.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle. This session looks at what it takes to accept, produce, encode, and stream your favorite content.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The rest of the article presents some views on whether additional single thread performance is feasible, and if so, some methods for extracting that performance in light of potential technology changes. The coupling of these two factors have led to the aforementioned stagnation of ST performance. Extracting More ILP.

Architecture 67

Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 67

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 7, 2019

” Or: “When tested over a 3G network on a mid-tier Android device, our Time to Interactive should be no larger than 4 seconds.” Then you can do a little benchmarking of your organization and some competitors to find a target that puts you at the top of the list and gives you a competitive advantage.

Performance 64

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Design 64

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Presented here alphabetically by last name: Rachel Andrew. One of the top players in web performance, Ilya is a web performance engineer at Google, co-chair of the W3C Web Performance Working Group , and author of High Performance Browser Networking. MDN (Mozilla Developers Network) @MozDevNet. Here is our (ever-growing!)

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Moto G4) on a slow 3G network, emulated at 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. You can even see this from the screenshot presented by Think with Google. Because service workers exist outside of the web browser and are not contingent on the speed of the user’s network, they load cached content for visitors more quickly. seconds too long.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Reduced network and device capacity correlate with other access challenges. Folks with powerful laptops, new iPhones, and low-latency networks are noticing, which is a very bad sign. Do they have a device-class or network condition target ? Accessibility: Performance is the foundation of access. sales, marketing, etc.)?

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

There’s all of this relevant knowledge hiding inside its neural network mastermind of billions and billions of LLM parameters, but it’s up to you to coax it into revealing what it knows by taking the lead in conversations and crafting the right prompts to direct it toward useful responses.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. This White Paper is for informational purposes only.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. This White Paper is for informational purposes only.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40