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! Or even on a plane.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. If you’re using best practices and keeping web performance in mind, you shouldn’t need to worry about being badged. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move.

Google 86

Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Earlier this year, when Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will replace First Input Delay (FID) as the responsiveness metric in Core Web Vitals in *gulp* March of 2024, we had a lot to say about it. The elephant in the room: Why does mobile INP perform so poorly? Our stance hasn't changed much since then.

Mobile 54

Mobile Performance Metrics Google 54

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Jake Archibald.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

Towards federated learning at scale: system design Bonawitz et al., This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. There’s a good high-level overview of federated learning on Google’s AI blog. The devices perform their local computation and send an update back in FL checkpoint form.

Systems 71

Systems Design Google Servers 71

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. Agustinus Theodorus.

Performance 125

Performance Cache Servers Social Media 125

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

design , Sheng, CIDR’20. ’ design. Software 2.0 , in case you missed it, is a term coined by Andrej Karpathy to describe software in which key components are implemented by neural networks. The particular system discussed in this paper is Google’s email information extraction system. But in Software 2.0

Systems 84

Systems Design Software Software 84

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!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

It’s designed in such a way that you won’t even notice if the website has been blocked. Instead, you will encounter forever loading and other messages like timeout, connection error, network problem, etc. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China. Deep Packet Inspection. Resetting Connections.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. Since then the world has chosen to ride along with Google. Hop aboard or be left behind at the station. What's different?

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

By analyzing real-time data, AI-based models can: Adjust the allocation of resources in response to demand Boost business performance Reduce unnecessary expenditures Lead to significant cost savings Improve scalability Operational Efficiency through Automation Automation is a significant way AI enhances cloud operations.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 24, 2014

At Google I/O 2014 , Lara Swanson and Paul Lewis discussed performance culture. Mobile networks add a tremendous amount of latency. The new devices and fast networks we use are not necessarily what our users are using. The new devices and fast networks we use are not necessarily what our users are using.

Google 49

Google Performance Latency Internet 49

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

It focuses on aligning organizational needs with cloud services, balancing performance and cost, and ensuring compliance, security, and effective cost management. Pick combinations that are not just affordable but also high-performing. Find that sweet spot where the costs and performance balance out just right.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC!; They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

Internet 123

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

It’s designed in such a way that you won’t even notice if the website has been blocked. Instead, you will encounter forever loading and other messages like timeout, connection error, network problem, etc. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China. Deep Packet Inspection. Resetting Connections.

Website 97

Website Internet Internet Performance 97

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. Barry Pollard. 2022-05-09T10:30:00+00:00. 2022-05-09T17:34:14+00:00. Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway?

Cache 91

Cache Games Performance Website 91

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Sometimes it’s easy enough to find the answer to that question and the site just needs to invest in performance. Sometimes though, it’s a little trickier and, despite thinking your site was great on the performance for some reason it still fails. Many developers have been asking themselves that question lately.

Google 143

Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Speed Curve

APRIL 28, 2015

Responsive design is the preferred technique for making web content adapt to the device on which it's viewed. A corollary to responsive design is the need for performance. SpeedCurve's Responsive Design Dashboard answers both questions in one view. Soon we'll adapt the network settings, as well.).

Design 40

Design Website Mobile Google 40

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. With its modular architecture, DLA is scalable, highly configurable, and designed to simplify integration and portability. TFLOPS deep learning performance, and is equipped with 32GB of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) capacity. The new GV100 packs 7.4

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Similarly, we welcome participants from diverse professional roles: QA testers, performance engineers, security teams, OS engineers, DBAs, network administrators, compliance experts, UX designers, government employees, and data scientists. More details are or the [CFP page].

Government 113

Government Programming Engineering Google 113

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

It’s designed in such a way that you won’t even notice if the website has been blocked. Instead, you will encounter forever loading and other messages like timeout, connection error, network problem, etc. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China. Deep Packet Inspection. Resetting Connections.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Kubernetes Dashboard as a part of a comprehensive monitoring solution This article introduces the key building blocks to consider when designing your Kubernetes monitoring solution. This enables you to take actions (automatically or manually) when anomalies and performance problems occur that have an impact on end-user experience.

Virtualization 161

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 161

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

It’s designed in such a way that you won’t even notice if the website has been blocked. Instead, you will encounter forever loading and other messages like timeout, connection error, network problem, etc. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China. Deep Packet Inspection. Resetting Connections.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 1, 2021

Critical CSS is one of those things I see in my performance reports but always seem to ignore. It means to put only the CSS required to render things immediately visible in a <style> tag in the <head> so it comes across in the first network request, then load the rest asynchronously , which will help the page load faster.

Google 95

Google Network Performance Processing 95

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. What does this finding mean in web performance terms?

Speed 134

Speed Website Mobile Cloud 134

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Software testers explore the effectiveness of processes that should lead to quality software products to make sure they perform the purpose for which they have been designed. Compatibility testing should be performed under all possible scenarios to prevent bug spillover in the production environment. Conclusion.

Testing 78

Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Google Chrome is currently one of the most popular web browsers used by developers today. According to StatCounter , as of September 2019, Google Chrome holds 63.72% browser market share across the globe. What Are the Google Chrome DevTools? They provide developers deeper access into their web applications and the browser.

Google 85

Google Website Network Media 85

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. Since that time, the SRE role has evolved as the industry has changed and shifted from the traditional monolithic structures to large, widely distributed networks and microservices.

Monitoring 91

Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Let’s start with the four most common metrics Google’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team established known as “ The Four Keys.” Let’s dive into how these metrics and DevOps KPIs can help your team perform better and deliver better code. The big four: DORA’s Four Keys. Deployment frequency.

DevOps 200

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 200

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Let me address that by combining my two favourite topics: CSS and performance. In this post I want to look at how CSS can prove to be a substantial bottleneck on the network (both in itself and for other resources) and how we can mitigate it, thus shortening the Critical Path and reducing our time to Start Render. Employ Critical CSS.

Network 278

Network Performance Media Cache 278

Alex Russell

MAY 4, 2016

The issue is that the AppCache design only allows you to do “routing” using the FALLBACK section , and to trigger the FALLBACK URL (which can boot up, inspect it’s environment, and do something custom) the request needs to have actually failed. It’s hard to stress enough how much better reliable performance is.

Performance 43

Performance Cache Google Network 43

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Performance is one of the core aspects to ensure our users are having a delightful user experience irrespective of their devices or network connection. We found out user-centric performance metrics to be the perfect fit for this purpose. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. How We Discovered CLS Issue In Our Product Page.

Website 105

Website Google Metrics Testing Tools 105

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Similarly, we welcome participants from diverse professional roles: QA testers, performance engineers, security teams, OS engineers, DBAs, network administrators, compliance experts, UX designers, government employees, and data scientists. We're especially looking to highlight local content from the Asia/Pacific region.

Government 52

Government Programming Engineering Google 52