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Reinventing Performance Testing: New Technologies

Alex Podelko

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. With quick internet growth and the popularity of browser-based clients, most products support only HTTP or a few select web-related protocols.

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Why OpenStack is like a Crowdfunded Viking Movie

VoltDB

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Earlier this month I spent a week at the OpenStack conference. But once you realize that there are, in fact, several OpenStack conferences happening at the same time and place, it makes more sense. Vikings fight zombies.

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Why OpenStack is like a Crowdfunded Viking Movie

VoltDB

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Earlier this month I spent a week at the OpenStack conference. But once you realize that there are, in fact, several OpenStack conferences happening at the same time and place, it makes more sense. Vikings fight zombies.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. Auto Scaling is on by default for all new tables and indexes.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. CPU profile Understanding a CPU time should be easy by comparing [CPU flame graphs].

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Core Web Vitals for Search Engine Optimisation: What Do We Need to Know?

CSS Wizardry

All Core Web Vitals data used to rank you is taken from actual Chrome-based traffic to your site. If you have a substantial amount of traffic from a country with, say, slow internet connections, then your performance in general will go down. Sources For this post, I have only taken official Google publications into account.

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Performance Mythbusters

Tim Kadlec

Most of us work on connections that are typically quite a bit faster than that of the average internet user. In the early days of the web when we were browsing the internet via a dialup connection, improving performance meant removing the images from your site. I think this myth stems more from a lack of awareness.