Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This included SysAdmin magazine, which contained articles from various experts including Amy Rich, and a couple of advertisements: One was to submit your own articles to the magazine for publication (by writing to the editor, Rikki Endsley) and another was to attend USENIX conferences in the US and learn directly from the experts!

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

USENIX's SREcon conference is the best venue for learning the latest in systems engineering (not just site reliability engineering) and if you have useful production stories and takeaways to share -- especially if you are in the Asia/Pacific region -- please consider submitting a talk proposal to SREcon APAC 2023.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. In case you are interested, at the same conference I also gave a talk on [BPF Internals].

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2022

At our virtual conference, Dynatrace Perform 2022 , the theme is “Empowering the game changers.”. As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, their burgeoning multicloud environments offer many benefits, such as modular app design, dynamic app scalability, and faster time to market. AIOps solution.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 6, 2020

There are jobs for people who design plumbing fixtures, but you wouldn’t want them working in your bathroom. In “ Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems ,” the authors—a group of researchers and engineers from Google—argue that machine learning is a relatively small part of any application. A good analogy is plumbing.

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Jos

APRIL 6, 2018

You can check Website Sameness or Web Design Trends: Why Do All Websites Look The Same? Or loading a 3rd party component like a Google Map, with all its additional assets needed to render the thing? A code coverage report, like the one Google Chrome provides won’t help us much. const latlng = new google. super ( ) ; this.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. For the last three years, the SustainableUX conference has seen experts in web sustainability sharing their knowledge across an array of web-based disciplines. Sustainable Web Design. There are some existing works we can draw on to help us here.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

Binder, she notes, “was widely used last year for teaching workshops and tutorials at many Python conferences.” Google announced in May 2019 that Kotlin is now its preferred language for Android app developers , boosting the language’s already strong adoption.

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Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

You can check Website Sameness or Web Design Trends: Why Do All Websites Look The Same? Or loading a 3rd party component like a Google Map, with all its additional assets needed to render the thing? A code coverage report, like the one Google Chrome provides won’t help us much. Code coverage tab on Google Chrome ( source ).

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

New technologies, libraries, and techniques are continuously emerging and if you want to stay on top of all these changes you will need to immerse yourself in communities, groups, and conferences all revolving around web development. A List Apart A List Apart focuses on UX and branding from business and design-oriented perspectives.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

You should not face discrimination by algorithms and systems should be used and designed in an equitable way. Blaise Aguera y Arcas , a vice president and fellow at Google Research, has written a long, eloquent and well-documented article about the possibilities for teaching AIs to genuinely understand human values.

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O'Reilly Software

MAY 15, 2018

Istio, a joint collaboration between IBM, Google, and Lyft, (in conjunction with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation), is platform agnostic and runs on Kubernetes platforms, such as IBM’s Cloud Container Service. The way they’ve designed Kubernetes and its use of containers to actually run apps has become very powerful.

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The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

We’ll get to all of those later on, but first I’m going to start the news this time with a roundup of an interesting day last week… News from the Serverless World Keynote Stage at Velocity 2018 Last week I was at O’Reilly’s Velocity conference in San Jose. Great stuff! I wholeheartedly agree. makers of Fission ?—?the

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O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. These projects have created language models that are based on focused datasets (for example, models designed to be more accurate for academic papers, developer forum discussions, etc.). Prompt Engineering.

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Tasktop

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Nothing quite like playing a bit of Metallica to my children in revenge for Parry Gripp, or worse, the DUCK SONG (Google it. Having a designated place to work, where I see other human beings, works much better for me, so I rent an office in the local town. Actually, don’t. You’ll never get it out of your head again). .

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Diagnotic Tools WebPagetest and how to read a browser waterfall Google Pagespeed Insights YSlow. Real User Monitoring (RUM) Pingdom New Relic (also backend, database and server health monitoring) Google Analytics mPulse. Performance Tools. Uptime Monitoring Pingdom. Competitive Benchmarking SpeedCurve. Performance Checklists.

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Dean Hume

JUNE 28, 2016

I recently gave a tutorial at Velocity Conference in Santa Clara about some of the amazing features that lie within the browsers we use everyday. If you aren't familiar with Canary, it has the newest of the new Chrome features and is designed for developers and early adopters. I like to think of it as Chrome from the future.

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Dean Hume

JUNE 28, 2016

I recently gave a tutorial at Velocity Conference in Santa Clara about some of the amazing features that lie within the browsers we use everyday. If you aren't familiar with Canary, it has the newest of the new Chrome features and is designed for developers and early adopters. I like to think of it as Chrome from the future.

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Development Google Website Network 40

Dean Hume

JUNE 28, 2016

I recently gave a tutorial at Velocity Conference in Santa Clara about some of the amazing features that lie within the browsers we use everyday. If you aren't familiar with Canary, it has the newest of the new Chrome features and is designed for developers and early adopters. I like to think of it as Chrome from the future.

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Development Google Website Network 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy. But for me, I don’t have design sense. A little bit, but I’m not a designer by any means. Drew: It’s an off the shelf design system that you can drop in to build the UI for your project. aj Dobrucki.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 23, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. I replaced them with books on art direction, editorial, and graphic design. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”.

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory. Don’t have time to read 5,500+ words?

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

In the early 2000s, Sun was designing it’s next generation high end server, and to avoid reliability issues that had caused problems in previous systems, adopted Six Sigma to create quality best practices. I also applied Six Sigma to capacity planning and presented this at a conference in 2003.

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O'Reilly Software

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

From chaos architecture to event streaming to leading teams, the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference offers a unique depth and breadth of content. We received more than 200 abstracts for talks for the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London—on both expected and surprising topics. How will you handle it?"

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Large preview ).

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2019

Flow Designer for more consistency in the delivery cycle. At this year’s Google Cloud Next conference, xMatters introduced Flow Designer , a visual designer that enables users to resolve issues without writing a single line of code. Flow Designer then connects the tools for you. How is this done?

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

In my conversations with designers and developers who don’t optimize, a few of the same myths are constantly brought up. High performance and beautiful design are mutually exclusive. Google and Bing teamed up to present results from their respective experiments with page load time. drop in revenue per user, as well as a 1.8%

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Created by Jon Yablonski, this lovely website explains 21 psychological principles that designers can consider to create more human-centered products and experiences. The right tools at the right time, help streamline the design process. User experience research is a crucial component of the human-centered design process.

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 14, 2018

There are broadly two dominant approaches used to organise teams in modern organisations that have moved beyond traditional activity-oriented organisation design (organising people by their specific skill). Google might have a Google Drive department, a Google Maps department, an AdWords department and so on.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 7, 2022

At some point, the project of training an artificial general intelligence sounds like something from Douglas Adams’ novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , in which the Earth is a computer designed by an AI called Deep Thought to answer the question “What is the question to which 42 is the answer?”.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

Previously on The Morning Paper we’ve looked at the spread of machine learning through Facebook and Google and some of the lessons learned together with processes and tools to address the challenges arising. Today it’s the turn of Microsoft.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

It is not that most web design agencies are ignorant of other marketing approaches or that any of them are inherently bad. On the contrary, in the second part of his two-part series on getting web design clients , Stephen Roe breaks down the opportunities of these approaches. The Problem With Traditional Approaches. More after jump!

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Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

We found the answers at the Postgres Conference in March where we surveyed PostgreSQL users, contributors, and SQL and NoSQL database administrators alike. Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform tied neck and neck at 17.5% So what makes PostgreSQL so special, and how is it being used today? Ease of use came in at sixth with 7.3%

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. R was designed for use in academic, scientific, and, more recently, commercial use cases. Cloud native design is a new way of thinking about software and architecture. Coincidence? Cloud continuing to climb.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In 2021, Google relaunched CLS with a session window. By introducing a session window, Google reduced the impact of the SPA problem. Mark pulled the idea of a "page" apart and explored a design and development pipeline that focuses instead on islands of content. We care about making the web faster and we want to help you.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

There were so many interesting papers at the conference this year though that I haven’t been able to cover nearly as many as I would like. We hear a lot from Google and Microsoft about their cloud platforms, but not quite so much from the other key industry players. So it’s great to see some papers from Alibaba and Tencent here.

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