Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. However, just as out-of-control spending bodes ill in the long run, so does unbudgeted digital media decimate site performance. Performance Budgets. “A A performance budget is ‘. Business Performance. Akshay Ranganath.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As developers, we rightfully obsess about the customer experience, relentlessly working to squeeze every millisecond out of the critical rendering path, optimize input latency, and eliminate jank. We work with millions of merchants, and as many companies, we obsess about storefront performance. Ilya Grigorik. 2021-11-08T14:30:00+00:00.

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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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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Here are the bombshell paragraphs: Our datacenter applications seek ever more CPU-efficient and lower-latency communication, which Pony Express delivers. Rather than reimplement TCP/IP or refactor an existing transport, we started Pony Express from scratch to innovate on more efficient interfaces, architecture, and protocol.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. Being able to canary a new route let us verify latency and error rates were within acceptable limits. Background The Netflix Android app uses the falcor data model and query protocol.

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High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

µs of replication latency on lossy Ethernet, which is faster than or comparable to specialized replication systems that use programmable switches, FPGAs, or RDMA.". At some point, the e-mail I send over WiFi will hit a wire, of course". We achieve 5.5 matthewstoller : I just looked at Netflix’s 10K.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

Shredder is " a low-latency multi-tenant cloud store that allows small units of computation to be performed directly within storage nodes. " " Running end-user compute inside the datastore is not without its challenges of course. High performance. Introducing Shredder. Shredder in action.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Improving the efficiency with which we can coordinate work across a collection of units (see the Universal Scalability Law ). Options 1 and 2 are of course the ‘scale out’ options, whereas option 3 is ‘scale up’. This makes the whole system latency sensitive. Increasing the amount of work we can do on a single unit.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Given the simplicity and economic appeal of FaaS, it is interesting to explore designs that preserve the autoscaling and operational benefits of current offerings, while adding performant, cost-efficient and consistent shared state and communication. Oh, and there’s a scheduler too of course to keep all the plates spinning.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. The client MWW combines these estimates with an estimate of the input/output transmission time (latency) to find the worker with the minimum overall execution latency. Is the migration worth it though?

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Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

are all prone to performance issues and unexpected outages at some point. We are kidding of course, but you know something is bad if happens that early in the morning. Problem management is the process by which the root causes of incidents are permanently fixed, which improves long-term performance and future service deployments.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

Making queries to an inference engine has many of the same throughput, latency, and cost considerations as making queries to a datastore, and more and more applications are coming to depend on such queries. First off there still is a model of course (but then there are servers hiding behind a serverless abstraction too!). autoscaling).

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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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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [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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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

SLIs are the actual performance metrics of your services. For example, if your SLO states that your uptime must be 99.9%, the actual SLI must meet or exceed that performance metric in order meet that specific SLO. The actual performance, or measurements, of your SLOs that determine the level of compliance. Monitoring.

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. Historically, NoSQL paid a lot of attention to tradeoffs between consistency, fault-tolerance and performance to serve geographically distributed systems, low-latency or highly available applications.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

I say go ahead and use local state as a performance boost, so long as you’re fine to have that state wiped out at any moment. In ProtoCache (a component of a widely used Google application), 27% of its latency when using a traditional S+RInK design came from marshalling/un-marshalling. Fetching too much data in a single query (i.e.,

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Nobody is trying to do a poor job, and yet the results of a “completed” PWA project often require weeks or months of painstaking rework to deliver minimally acceptable performance. Partner meetings are illuminating.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

This level of distribution will seriously affect the efficiency of the operation, which will increase the response time significantly. This, of course, is unless I can organize my products by country as well, which is a bit unusual nowadays but not impossible. This is it.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

For response times (latencies) reporting a simple metric such as ‘average’ is next to useless. Instead we want to understand what’s happening at different latency percentiles (e.g A characteristic of latency distributions is that they have a long tail. Why do we need a new sketch? At the 50th percentile, an accuracy within 0.5%

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Here’s the thing: performance is more than a one-off task. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. Lighthouse.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

Of course analog signalling comes with a whole bunch of challenges of its own, which is one of the reasons we tend to convert to digital. The resulting system can integrate seamlessly into a scikit-learn based development process, and dramatically reduces the total energy usage required for classification with very low latency.

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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. Web Performance APIs.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 12, 2020

Generally we’d like it to be the case that the new version of the system performs better than the old one, and that means we also need to do off-policy evaluation (estimating performance without running it on the real system). Therefore another important quality to be able to evaluate is the warm-start performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

To that end, it’s important that we prevent significant performance regressions from reaching the production app. Any performance regression that makes it into a product release will degrade user experience, so the challenge is to detect and fix such regressions before they ship. What do we mean by Performance?

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Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

Absent compelling content and attentive security and performance focus, it soon retreated to the server. [6]. Meta-platforms enter this calculus with a deficit to maximum capability and performance but (hopefully) gains to reach. The a secondary benefit to adjacency is that it provides time to learn and course-correct.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

That said, GIFs can drag down a web page’s performance, especially if not optimized. Even if you’re happy with how your website is performing, you may not realize how much weight your GIFs are adding to each page. Of course, web optimization is always about weighing costs and benefits. Why Speed Up GIF Animations?

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

[j:9] (COL, ACT) AS SELECT WI.COL, softmax(WI.VAL + B.VEC) FROM WI[i][j] AS WI, B[i][j] AS B WHERE WI.COL = B.COL; The backward pass can be expressed similarly: Execution planning for efficiency. Clearly the chosen decomposition can have a big impact on the resulting query performance. Here I’ll just touch on the highlights.

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Network Database Programming Hardware 44

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. This approach can be very efficient because of the tiny memory footprint of the Loglog counter, even for millions of unique visitors. bits per unique value. Frequency Estimation: Count-Min Sketch.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT).

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Engine diversity is essential, as it is the mechanism that causes competition to deliver better performance, capability, privacy, security, and user controls. 25+ years of integrated browser competition has driven waves of security, capability, and performance improvements. More on that when we get to iOS. Mark(et)d Impacts #.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Here's some output from my zfsdist tool, in bcc/BPF, which measures ZFS latency as a histogram on Linux: # zfsdist. Tracing ZFS operation latency. As a performance engineer who does kernel tracing, I find the lack of an ID I can trace in the kernel to be pretty annoying. Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C People rarely create them manually.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Not only are new services being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, existing experiences are pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. Sandy Foundations # It was, of course, b t. It is not going well. Over the last ten years, they have worked overtime to make frontend an evidence-free zone.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Ben and Mena Trott created MovableType because of a “Dissatisfacion with existing blog CMSes — performance, stability.” In 2006, Denis Defreyne tried to set up a Ruby-based blog platform and ran into performance problems — “Having a VPS with only 96 MB of RAM, any Ruby-based CMS ran extremely slowly.”

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Each invocation of service can be performed independently of any previous invocation. Treating failure as a matter of course. What is the resource and performance cost of maintaining those levels of redundancy? When a message is published, we perform some processing, decide on success or failure, then respond to the call.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You’ve probably heard things like: “HTTP/3 is much faster than HTTP/2 when there is packet loss”, or “HTTP/3 connections have less latency and take less time to set up”, and probably “HTTP/3 can send data more quickly and can send more resources in parallel”. HTTP/3 performance features ( coming up soon! ).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

If after the previous two parts — HTTP/3 history and core concepts and HTTP/3 performance features — you’re convinced that starting to use the new protocols is a good idea (and you should be!), HTTP/3 performance features. For example, you could reduce compression efficiency , because that works better with more data.

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