n0derunner

AUGUST 10, 2020

A series of videos showing how to install, run, modify and analyze HCI clusters with the Nutanix X-ray tool How to Download and Install X-Ray to a Nutanix AHV Cluster How to modify an existing X-Ray workload to create your own HCI benchmark How to use the X-ray built-in comparison function to investigate performance of.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

I love conversations about performance, and I'm fortunate enough to have them a lot. I hope this post can serve that purpose and cover a few of the fundamental areas of web performance that I’ve found to be most useful while honing the craft of product management. How is performance measured? The audience varies.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Instead, they can ensure that services comport with the pre-established benchmarks. When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. This process includes benchmarking realistic SLO targets based on statistical and probabilistic analysis from Dynatrace.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

So I thought it would be fun to spend some time poking around behind the scenes and give the site a holiday performance audit. Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We The performance team is clearly doing a good job of fighting page bloat. Are images optimized?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2020

Synthetic monitors are also the perfect tool to monitor performance baselines. This clean-room, lab-like environment allows you to react to slight changes in performance. It also gives you the first indication of whether a new deployment of your application or API leads to a performance improvement or, perhaps, a regression.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. If you're just getting started with performance budgets – or if you've been using them for a while and want to validate your work – this post is for you.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

An example of using Machine Learning to find shots of Eleven in Stranger Things and surfacing the results in studio application for the consumption of Netflix video editors. We must quickly surface the most stand-out highlights from the titles available on our service in the form of images and videos in the member experience.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. Background: How performance budgets work 1. What is a performance budget? What should a performance budget look like? Let's get started!

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 7, 2020

Systems performance is an effective discipline for performance analysis and tuning, and can help you find performance wins for your applications and the kernel. However, most of us are not performance or kernel engineers, and have limited time to study this topic.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 7, 2020

Systems performance is an effective discipline for performance analysis and tuning, and can help you find performance wins for your applications and the kernel. However, most of us are not performance or kernel engineers, and have limited time to study this topic.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

we also: Launched a series of new and improved dashboards to help you identify and fix your performance issues more quickly and efficiently (More on those below.). Your Home dashboard brings together your Synthetic and RUM data to provide an easy-to-digest – and easy-to-share – snapshot of how your site is performing.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. According to Tim Kadlec (video), that’s an Android device that’s couple of years old, and costs around $200. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. What’s a representative device to test on in 2021? Large preview ). billion by 2026.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. You can even go one step further and integrate your performance budgets with your CI/CD process, so that you not only get alerts but even break the build if a new deploy would violate any of your budgets.

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Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

HTML – Typically the smallest resource on the page, HTML's performance risk is usually negligible. Video – For the first time in the many years that I've been covering the topic of page growth, I'm going to focus on the volume of video that pages contain. More on that later.) More on that below.)

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface? Reasons To Measure The Performance Of Typefaces? Measuring Typefaces And The Resulting Performance Data. Thomas Bohm.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). HTML – Typically the smallest resource on the page, HTML's performance risk is usually negligible. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site.

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SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

GPU – Heavy graphic rendering and video editing. High performance compute – Fastest and most powerful CPU virtual machines. The common trend is to choose a VM based exclusively on vCPU, memory, and storage capacity without benchmarking the current IO and throughput requirements. Benchmark Test. Conclusion.

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n0derunner

MARCH 7, 2019

I use the “built in” benchmark pgbench to run a simple set of queries. Since I am interested in only the gains from hugepages I chose to use the “-S” parameter to pgbench which means perform only the “select” statements. The goal was to see what gains can be made from using hugepages.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. 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. This is as it should be.

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n0derunner

JULY 23, 2019

In this video I migrate a Postgres DB running PGbench benchmark. The variation in the transaction rate is due to the benchmark itself, the transaction rate is not expected to be uniform. Effect of removing CPU constraints and maintaining data locality on a running DB instance.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Andy joined us in June , and since then he's already helped countless customers in his role as in-house performance consultant. Watch a video walkthrough of the Vitals dashboard.). Watch a demo video showing how to create custom charts and performance budgets for Web Vitals.). Performance Budgets 101. Time period.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Gbit/s : t3.2xlarge Network Performance; 60% : chances DNA can be used to find your family; 12 : Happy birthday Hacker News! stephenbalaban : We've benchmarked the 2080 Ti, V100, Titan V, 2080, and 1080 Ti. 2080 Ti destroys V100 / Titan V on performance per dollar. Only few astute folks take seriously. Full blog post here.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 18, 2022

AI audit firms tend to perform a mix of audits and assessments. Many organizations now perform fuzzy keyword matching and resume scanning based on LLMs. Race, gender, and other demographics are not straightforward to guess from videos. Then there’s the new cadre of AI audit firms like ORCAA , Parity , and babl , with BNH.AI

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Performance budgets are an important tool for ensuring your site is delivering a great user experience. Steve first experienced performance budgets while Head Performance Engineer at Google. The practice of using budgets to track performance took off with Tim Kadlec's blog post Setting a Performance Budget.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. Detect a regression in a test case.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Create performance budgets and fight regression. Build a performance culture that embraces collaboration between design and dev. To optimize for performance, you need to understand what happens in the steps between receiving the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript bytes and the processing that's required to turn them into rendered pixels.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. A lenient trace data sampling policy generates a large number of traces in each service container and can lead to degraded performance of streaming services as more CPU, memory, and network resources are consumed by the tracer library.

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Apica

MAY 10, 2019

The spread of where consumers want to consume content, at home, at the office, at the gym, on a plane, at any time where there is connectivity, puts significant pressure on the network and performance monitoring teams for streaming brands. Consumers will leave you for slow or intermittent performance because there are other content options.

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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. Find Your Performance Baseline. Optimize Your Pages.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

One of the best parts of my job is getting to talk to so many people from so many different companies about web performance. But one question that almost every person asks me – regardless of what industry they're in or the size of their organization – is this: How can I create a stronger culture of web performance at my company?

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Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Reading time 8 min There are many different classes of web performance tools, from synthetic monitoring to application performance monitoring ( APM) , to real user monitoring ( RUM ), and more. Measure and Compare Performance Experiments. Excluding specific third parties and seeing the impact on performance.

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Speed Curve

MAY 31, 2020

One of the huge benefits of tracking web performance over time is the ability to see trends and compare metrics. Spot any new or unique requests – such as JavaScript and images – and see their impact on performance. The volume alone is enough to create performance issues. Exciting stuff, right? Let's take a look.

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