The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

A micro-benchmark suite, LEBench was then built around tee system calls responsible for most of the time spent in the kernel. On the exact same hardware, the benchmark suite is then used to test 36 Linux release versions from 3.0 and is a key building block of containerization technologies. Headline results.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Tasktop

DECEMBER 12, 2022

To start, the leaders decided to use Flow Time to benchmark the team’s performance. Once the team’s baseline Flow Metrics had been established, they began to experiment with structural changes, all the while measuring flow to see how their efficiency and speed were impacted. The best ROI comes from providing teams with coaching. .

Metrics 52

Metrics Benchmarking Efficiency Speed 52

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. Many factors affect the speed of your WordPress website; some of them are: Your web host Server-side optimizations (PHP version, compression, caching, etc.) Several website speed testing tools available could be used for this purpose. Why is WordPress slow?

Cache 52

Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

Even if it is 4G (5G, or whatever else) that doesn’t exactly guarantee you’ll be getting the amazing, theoretical speeds promised. While they technically do state in the description of the technology that it’s not 5G, they still call it 5G E and display it as such on your phone if you connect to it.

Network 61

Network Speed Internet Internet 61

Brendan Gregg

MAY 22, 2021

how a technology is operating. For example, benchmarks. As an analogy, a car's dashboard is a collection of observability tools that let you understand how the car is operating (speed, rpm, temperature). Observability: The ability to observe. Observe-ability. Observability. Wait, aren't all performance tools observability tools?

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Metrics Speed Database 40

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Speed Up Your Site. Still good.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies. How to Restore MySQL Logical Backup at Maximum Speed. How to Speed Up Pattern Matching Queries.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

SpeedCurve's Industry Benchmarks dashboard – which tracks the performance of top sites in retail, media, travel, and other industries – is a good place to start. Here are the current US media benchmarks on a fast desktop connection , ranked by CLS score. However, measurement of the life cycle may differ across technologies.

Retail 81

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 81

PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

It ranks the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers based on their performance as measured by the Linpack benchmark. However, the speed of a computer in FLOPS can vary depending on the number of bits used in the representation of the floating point numbers in the tests. You may have heard of the Top500 list. Performance development.

Energy 40

Energy Benchmarking Efficiency Website 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. Because technology has made it possible to design typefaces easier than ever before, we seem to be reinventing “different types of wheels” that already get the job done. They were all designed for slightly different contexts and technological times. Large preview ).

Performance 110

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Benchmarking Cache Speed Memcached is optimized for high read and write loads, making it highly efficient for rapid data access in a basic key-value store. Data transfer technology.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. RUM generates a lot of data.

Best Practices 179

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 179

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

Especially if your technology stack has just been hacked and set up for ransom. Worse yet, once the work is batched they insert user research that should have been done to inform the original work effort to what the real benchmark (MVP) should be. You’ll need to pull over, stop the car, and get it fixed.

Design 92

Design Logistics Strategy Benchmarking 92

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

For your purposes, you might be interested in how your technology partners (which you pay good money for) impact your performance. Synthetic is great for trending over time, especially when looking at the number and size of requests (images, JavaScript, CSS), which collectively have a big impact on speed. Benchmark yourself.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But as more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies and distribute workloads among multicloud environments, that goal seems harder to attain. Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. But is five nines availability attainable? Each decimal point closer to 100 equals higher uptime.

Infrastructure 188

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 188

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

These include popular technologies such as web servers and web applications, along with advanced solutions like distributed data stores and containerized microservices. Memory Allocation: Allocating sufficient memory linked directly to the assigned CPU ensures effective utilization resulting in better system speed.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Sometimes developers only care about speed. In place of RPC, 1 they may substitute a different term or technology like REST, microservices, gRPC, WCF, Java RMI, etc. If you did such a benchmark, here’s an incomplete picture you might end up with: Graph of microbenchmark showing RPC is faster than messaging.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Latency Servers Systems 97

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

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. " This doesn't mean that 4G is one thing, or that it's deployed evenly, or even that the available spectrum will remain stable within a single generation of radio technology.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This difference has substantial technological implications, from the classification of what’s interesting to transport to cost-effective storage (keep an eye out for later Netflix Tech Blog posts addressing these topics). Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic.

Latency 296

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. Why Care About Page Speed? There are a multitude of reasons why you should care about page speed. A site which loads in 2.6

Google 103

Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

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. When CMOS first entered the mainstream in the early 1980s, it was touted as a solution to the power problem of bipolar technology.

Architecture 67

Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 67

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. Today, either method returns a similar answer. Tap for a larger version. How bad is it?

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Panglossian nonsense. --> Organisations that serve their tools tread water no matter how advanced their technology, while groups that intentionally manage systems can succeed on any stack. [1]. Teams that achieve Level 4 maturity are cautious acquirers of technology. Value Propositions #. What's the problem? Management Attributes #.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Most partners we work with are not aware of the real-world operating environment and make inappropriate technology choices as a result. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Performance issues surrounding Availability Groups typically were related to disk I/O or network speeds. The rapid acceleration in technology brought on a new discovery and paradigm. We needed to start thinking about how fast can we replicate to a synchronous secondary replica in terms of % of the speed of a standalone workload.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Two primary metrics verify the speed of an app: start-up time and runtime performance. Even if it expanded grip only a couple of years ago, Vue came fourth within the list of learning technologies which developers would love to learn in 2020. Its documentation has set a benchmark that beats anything from react camp.

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Scalability Google 52

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business. We won't know the actual single-threaded performance of these processors until they have been released and benchmarked by neutral third-party testers.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 18, 2022

As AI technologies are adopted more broadly in security and other high-risk applications, we’ll all need to know more about AI audit and risk management. When that data is used to train an AI system, that system can replicate our bad behavior with speed and scale. By definition, new AI technology is less mature.

Artificial Intelligence 116

Artificial Intelligence Government Healthcare Metrics 116

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. With the proper battery backup and algorithms, the hardware write cache can secure the data safely (on stable media) as well as increase the speed of an application like SQL Server by hiding much of the true physical I/O time.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ The larger sector sizes involve newer technology and require API changes at the operating system level. ​​ This ​​ section provides more detailed information about ​​ this technology in ​​ SQL Server.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Do you use any particularly cool technologies or algorithms? The dedicated Security team runs automated security benchmark tests before every release.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52