Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

2023 Content Targets Desktop Devices Networks Mobile Devices Networks Developing Your Own Targets The Performance Inequality Gap is Growing. Last month, I had the honour of joining what seemed like the entire web performance community at performance.now() in Amsterdam. This is an ethical crisis for the frontend. 2023 Content Targets #.

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CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Does shadow DOM improve style performance? HTML-first, JavaScript last: the secret to web speed! Make ’em smaller is the main game, then constantly keep an eye on them. But as ever, it depends, and it turns out that classes and IDs are actually faster outside of it (?!), div ::app-state=".

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It's being reposted here for completeness, but if you care about web performance, make sure to check out the whole series and get subscribed to the RSS feed to avoid missing any of next year's posts. The predominant answer: a unified theory of web performance. What, in particular, is "web performance"? How do we do it?

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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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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Dynatrace

MARCH 10, 2021

The designation reflects AWS’ recognition that Dynatrace has demonstrated deep experience and proven customer success building AI-powered solutions on AWS. This is exciting because we are seeing AI and ML-driven applications maturing rapidly as a way of mastering performance in hybrid, hyper-scale cloud environments.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

What the software has been designed to log is what we get. Next, we filter them by the MOVEit service to improve the query performance. Therefore, looking at observability data jointly with logs can be a game changer. In this query, we first fetch the spans (a span represents a single trace segment).

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

Application security is a software engineering term that refers to several different types of security practices designed to ensure applications do not contain vulnerabilities that could allow illicit access to sensitive data, unauthorized code modification, or resource hijacking. How open-source packages have changed the game.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Netflix has also partnered with YouTube to develop an open-source solution for an AV1 decoder on game consoles that utilizes the additional power of GPUs. With multiple iterations, the team arrived at a recipe that significantly speeds up the encoding with negligible compression efficiency changes.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

Cloud environment toolkits —microservices, Kubernetes, and serverless platforms — deliver business agility, but also create complexity for which many security solutions weren’t designed. See how causation-based AIOps is a game-changer. Especially, how your organization can speed risk analysis, remediation, and collaboration with Davis.

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Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. So, anyway. That said, 5.5

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Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Despite advances in browser tooling , automated evaluation , lab tools , guidance , and runtimes , however, teams struggle to deliver even decent performance with today's popular frameworks. What is Performance? It may seem a silly question, but what is performance, exactly?

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Percona

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Instead, failing over is, in fact, not a single action but a collection of discrete steps that must be performed in an exact and precise manner. The good news is that there are hacks that can speed up the entire recovery process, although they all have their own quirky limitations. Stay tuned folks; the game is afoot.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

The design of the HTML5 Web Worker interface turns out to be a great match for migration – Workers are already designed to work on a separate thread communicating via message passing, and are typically used to offload expensive computation that you don’t want to do in the main thread with the user waiting.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2021

Most banking executives are now planning for hybrid experiences, embracing experience design to match services and channels to customer needs. As consumers migrate online to shop, entertain themselves, and perform banking activities, they are now more at risk from account takeover, identity theft, and privacy abuses.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The second is one where an application is hosted behind an app store, for example mobile phones or even game consoles. The new version may include a user facing feature which is designed to be A/B tested and resides behind a feature flag. An example of this is Netflix’s video player or the TV UI javascript package.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Developers love the performance, simplicity, and in-memory capabilities of Redis, making it among the most popular NoSQL key-value stores. While Redis cluster configuration enabled larger deployments with high performance, resizing the cluster required backup and restore, which meant taking the cluster offline. Under the hood.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

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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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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The focus of most published research in architecture is on applications implemented in high-performance, “ close-to-the-metal” languages essentially developed before computers got fast. To be clear, these languages were not designed to be fast or space-efficient, but for ease of use. As Leiserson et al.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right?

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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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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 7, 2020

Making predictions is a dangerous game, but as we look forward to the next decade a few things seem certain: increasing automation, increasing system complexity, faster processing, more inter-connectivity, and an even greater human and societal dependence on technology. Ironies of automation , Bainbridge, Automatica, Vol. Why do we automate?

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Testsigma

APRIL 22, 2021

The convenience is unsurpassable, and thanks to the user-friendly functionalities, even our grandparents seamlessly book cabs, play games, and video call us. . For apps to perform the way they’re designed to perform, mobile app testing is unarguably an imperative process. Mobile apps are here to stay. It’s that simple.

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MachMetrics

MAY 31, 2019

From speed testing to usability testing, use these ten strategies to ensure your website is always running on all cylinders. Keep a Constant Eye on Speed. As any good web developer will tell you, load speed is a vital metric to consider as part of your front-end load testing efforts, as it directly affects user experience.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Before diving into further details, let’s highlight the two overarching approaches to AIOps: AIOps–one term but two different ball games. Traditional AIOps: Traditional AIOps approaches are designed to reduce alerts and utilize machine-learning models to deliver correlation-based dashboards. Two approaches to AIOps.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

However, we also knew that building a distributed database that has unlimited scale and maintains predictably high performance while providing rich and flexible query capabilities, is one of the hardest problems in database development, and will take a lot of effort and invention from our team of distributed database engineers to solve.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Eye-Tracking Evolution. Source: Oculid) ( Large preview ).

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Apica

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This state of mastery and flow is definitely relevant to how we build and test modern applications, which involve interconnected movements of front-end design processes, distributed services, and back-end data repositories, all orchestrated to meet customer requirements at scale. Putting the user at the center instead of the software.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. Physalia is designed to offer consistency and high-availability, even under network partitions. NSDI’20.

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Typical examples include adding dedicated hardware accelerators to speed up encryption and decryption computations. For example, a formal verification of a boolean circuit may prove that the circuit never performs an undesirable action for any input that can be supplied by the adversary. Approaches Towards Security. .

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That is why, today, Web Performance is as important and trendy as having an online presence. Table of Contents: What Is Web Performance? What Is Web Performance? Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Conclusion.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 11, 2021

But not only this, the negative performance of this team was spreading around the organization and the whole modernization initiative was being questioned. I came to learn that this person wasn’t performing well in their previous team, either. Building teams is not a numbers game. Good luck on your journey.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. The Design Gives Ground For Utmost Usability. Why is that?

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Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

But once established, these game-changing practices and the automation that comes with them can take your software delivery practices to the next level. Once automated, steps like testing and provisioning can be integrated into development and performed as soon as needed instead of waiting for humans to be available to do it.

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