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].

Government 113

Government Programming Engineering Google 113

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!

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Google has an ebook on their security approach; Microsoft has some web pages. This is the trojan horse the FloC (Federated Logic Conference) community has been waiting for. With the enormous attack surface of cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP, why aren't there more security problems? Data breaches and cyber attacks occur daily.

Cloud 235

Cloud AWS Azure Google 235

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]. Nowadays I always include names when known.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And it is making it more and more difficult for all of us to manage that wealth of data,” said Rick McConnell, CEO of Dynatrace, at the annual Perform conference in Las Vegas. “… We need automation and observability to drive and address that issue.”

Artificial Intelligence 199

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Cloud Innovation 199

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2022

While many companies now enlist public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services, Google Public Cloud, or Microsoft Azure to achieve their business goals, a majority also use hybrid cloud infrastructure to accommodate traditional applications that can’t be easily migrated to public clouds. Dynatrace news.

Infrastructure 232

Infrastructure Cloud Java Azure 232

Dynatrace

MARCH 2, 2023

Google Cloud Distinguished Engineer Kelsey Hightower hopes to solve the many problems facing IT culture by equipping people with the mental and computational software they need to succeed in the competitive world of technology.

Best Practices 221

Best Practices Internet Internet Cloud 221

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

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.

Government 52

Government Programming Engineering Google 52

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!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

MAY 28, 2021

Sydney has AWS and Google offices and even a small Netflix office, just to name a few. Engineers are remote, and may only meet once or twice a year at a Linux kernel conference. The entire project was run via emails, a Google drive, and Google docs, and was delivered to the publisher on time.

Google 144

Google Engineering Open Source AWS 144

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

In the podcast, Grabner recalled his interview with Kelsey Hightower at the Perform 2023 conference. Find the PurePerformance podcast on the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Spotify Spreaker iHeart Radio Google Podcasts GoodPods Castbox The post Is DevOps dead?

DevOps 165

DevOps Engineering Innovation Best Practices 165

Speed Curve

AUGUST 18, 2020

Adding to a string of recent announcements including Lighthouse v6 and Core Web Vitals, Google has introduced Fast page labelling in Chrome 85 for Android. We heard more about this idea at the Performance.now() conference last November. Early this year, Google introduced the Core Web Vitals initiative. What is it? THIS IS HUGE.

Google 98

Google Strategy Metrics Speed 98

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

We found the answers at the Postgres Conference in March where we surveyed PostgreSQL users, contributors, and SQL and NoSQL database administrators alike. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

This is a mouthful of buzzwords” is how I started my recent presentations at the Online Kubernetes Meetup as well as the DevOps Fusion 2020 Online Conference when explaining the three big challenges we are trying to solve with Keptn – our CNCF Open Source project: Automate build validation through SLI/SLO-based Quality Gates. Dynatrace news.

DevOps 248

DevOps Metrics Innovation Azure 248

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2019

We recently learned about a major breakthrough: Google says it has achieved “quantum supremacy” with a 53-qubit computer. Google performed a computation in a few minutes (3 minutes, 20 seconds to be precise ) that would have taken more than 10,000 years on the most powerful computers we currently have. That is very big news.

Artificial Intelligence 53

Artificial Intelligence Google Software Architecture Cloud 53

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].

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

While it’s sadly premature to say that the survey took place at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic (though we can all hope), it took place at a time when restrictions were loosening: we were starting to go out in public, have parties, and in some cases even attend in-person conferences. Google Cloud is an obvious omission from this story.

Azure 145

Azure Social Media Programming AWS 145

Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2022

At our virtual conference, Dynatrace Perform 2022 , the theme is “Empowering the game changers.”. Meet Simone Biles, the world’s most decorated gymnast, Kelsey Hightower, principal engineer at Google, and AI and physics professor Max Tegmark from MIT. Empowering the game changers at Dynatrace Perform 2022.

Artificial Intelligence 184

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Performance Games 184

Dynatrace

JANUARY 3, 2020

Recently, I attended a conference at Washington University in St. Google and Apple are great examples of companies trying to adopt more human readable privacy policies, as a way of being transparent about: what they collect, how they use it, and what control the user has over it. Guard rails.

Best Practices 132

Best Practices Analytics Education Google 132

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 31, 2023

My own theory for why companies kept buying Skype every few years was to to prevent Google from buying it… it was sold again and ended up at Microsoft. I wrote it up as an academic paper, presented it at an IEEE conference , and along with a few patents , that’s all that came out of the work. and he thought it was cool.

Google 52

Google Transportation Programming Innovation 52

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I don’t need more bandwidth for video conferences or movies, but I would like to be able to download operating system updates and other large items in seconds rather than minutes. We’ve seen the reaction to news that Amazon’s Echo and Google Home send recordings of conversations back to the server. I have 30 or 40 GB of photos.

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Last week I had the opportunity to present at a technical SEO conference about performance. I couldn’t let this injustice continue, so I told them to “Google for quokka selfies” Christi , who works on Bing, commented with a smile: “Or you could look it up on Bing.” But it kind of stuck in my head.

Google 70

Google Engineering Internet Internet 70

Jos

APRIL 6, 2018

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 ) As with everything else, there are trade-offs with lazy-loading. const latlng = new google.

Code 147

Code Performance Media Google 147

Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

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 ). When it comes to SEO, you might have issues indexing lazy-loaded content on Google.

Code 130

Code Performance Google Media 130

O'Reilly

JANUARY 6, 2020

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. O’Reilly conferences combine expert insights from industry leaders with hands-on guidance about today’s most important technology topics.

Programming 98

Programming Artificial Intelligence Education Games 98

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.

Programming 130

Programming Java Google C++ 130

Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2019

Bob Young and Marc Ewing met at a tech conference. Companies like Microsoft, Google, and IBM realized that the complexities of today’s world are too big for just one company. The name he chose for his product was – unsurprisingly – “Red Hat Linux”, and soon became famous as a stable and easy-to-use operating system.

Open Source 113

Open Source DevOps Innovation Infrastructure 113

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. Interest in the platform is growing.

Development 73

Development Media Google Network 73

Brendan Gregg

MAY 28, 2021

Sydney has AWS and Google offices and even a small Netflix office, just to name a few. Engineers are remote, and may only meet once or twice a year at Linux kernel conferences. The entire project was run via emails, a Google drive, and Google docs, and was delivered to the publisher on time.

Google 40

Google Engineering Open Source AWS 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

For the last three years, the SustainableUX conference has seen experts in web sustainability sharing their knowledge across an array of web-based disciplines. You can read about more advanced dead code elimination (aka tree shaking) in this post for Google by Jeremy Wagner. Could we achieve the same ends with pure JavaScript ?

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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. Within the software community, it often feels as though we’re inundated with articles, papers, and conferences on AI ethics.

Social Media 111

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Media Government 111

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

Serverless 40

Serverless AWS DevOps Open Source 40

Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 4, 2018

We are also happy to partner with SDForum’s Cloud Computing and Beyond conference which takes place tomorrow in Santa Clara. link] Google App Engine?—? We have an excellent lineup of attendees and we expect the unconference to be quite informative. See below for the schedule. We hope you will view their offerings. Sponsors : Sun?—?

Cloud 40

Cloud Network Google Engineering 40

Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 4, 2018

We are also happy to partner with SDForum’s Cloud Computing and Beyond conference which takes place tomorrow in Santa Clara. link] Google App Engine?—? We have an excellent lineup of attendees and we expect the unconference to be quite informative. See below for the schedule. We hope you will view their offerings. Sponsors : Sun?—?

Cloud 40

Cloud Network Google Engineering 40

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. I visit some of the prospects that are based closer by and attend demos, conferences and meet-ups to exchange experiences and information with a number of very interesting people. Actually, don’t.

Games 40

Games Software Engineering DevOps Google 40

Rigor

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Palm Springs, CA is the place to be next week for eCommerce professionals with the annual eTail West Conference taking place Feb. Google’s SpeedUpdate has you nervous about your mobile page speed. This is one reason why Google will begin ranking websites based on their mobile page speed. 26 – Mar.

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Retail Ecommerce Website Performance Mobile 40