Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

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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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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

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. I wrote a lot of benchmarks.

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Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

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.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

ITOps refers to the process of acquiring, designing, deploying, configuring, and maintaining equipment and services that support an organization’s desired business outcomes. The primary goal of ITOps is to provide a high-performing, consistent IT environment. Performance. What does IT operations do?

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Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 202

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

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. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Agustinus Theodorus. 2022-09-27T14:00:00+00:00. 2022-09-27T16:33:12+00:00.

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Performance Cache Servers Social Media 125

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Looking at data from the HTTP Archive , which tracks performance metrics for the top million sites on the web, the percentage of sites that have good INP is 96.8% The elephant in the room: Why does mobile INP perform so poorly? However, the performance gap is widening when it comes to processing power on Android devices.

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Mobile Performance Metrics Google 54

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This demand creates an increasing need for DevOps teams to maintain the performance and reliability of critical business applications. service availability with <50ms latency for an application with no revenue impact. To avoid this, start the SLO discussion early in the design process. But there are SLO pitfalls.

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DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency 196

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. The opencv app has the largest state (4.6

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Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

SLOs, together with service-level indicators (SLIs), deliver the performance promised in service-level agreements (SLAs) and other business level objectives (BLOs) while staying within error budgets. In layman’s terms, SLOs represent the performance or health of a service. But what are SLOs? Watch webinar now! Promote automation.

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Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 191

Percona Community

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Tech that makes our databases perform better. In this blog post we’re going to see those technologies at work to give us awesome block storage performance with flexibility and simple operations. It’s a new generation in storage software, designed for super high speed low latency NVMe devices. Why is SPDK exciting?

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Storage Latency Speed Database 52

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 16, 2019

This week I’ve been brooding about web performance and accessibility. Ethan continues to argue that these issues are so common in AMP that accessibility must not be a priority at all: Since the beginning, Google has insisted AMP is the best solution for the web’s performance problem. The status quo. And that’s what makes me mad.

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Performance Website Speed Latency 50

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

It's an overview of why front-end performance matter, how to monitor it and the challenges faced when building for an increasingly mobile world. Why speed matters, examples of the impact saving a few seconds of load time has had on revenue and engagement. Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web.

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Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When serving and storing files on the web, there are a number of different things we need to take into consideration in order to balance ergonomics, performance, and effectiveness. Plotted on the same horizontal axis of 1.6s, the waterfalls speak for themselves: 201ms of cumulative latency; 109ms of cumulative download. It gets worse.

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Cache Latency Strategy Speed 291

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To do that, you develop a personalized design style, including a certain combination of colors, typography, spacing, animations, and others, and apply the style consistently throughout your site. They can also take part in the unique design so that visitors browsing your site will immediately recognize it simply by looking at the content.

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Website Social Media Media Design 103

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. That’s practically an eternity when talking about page speed performance. Homepage of a default Drupal site using the Umami theme.

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Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing. The applications are designed using the same code base as Desktop like HTML, Javascript, and CSS. Unlike Native Applications, Mobile web applications do not have to be designed separately for IOS and Android.

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. Not the best way to get a high-level view of performance.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2020

If products are not designed, keeping testability in mind, achieving continuous testing may become a distant dream. Maintaining test data in a central repository and then accessing it from different test environments may ease this problem but may introduce other issues like network latency in tests. Not always!

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Testing Open Source Scalability Latency 69

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

As a veteran in the performance industry, I’ve spent a large part of my career helping to build performance culture. Traditionally, we’ve spent a lot of time focusing on entitled groups as it relates to performance – fast connection speeds, devices with high-end CPUs, low-latency geographies.

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Education Latency Strategy Speed 47

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis and Memcached both provide high performance with sub-millisecond response times. Choosing between Redis and Memcached hinges on specific application requirements.

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. There are further requirements for high performance in the following: Telecom: vEPC or 5G Core. In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget.

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Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. There are further requirements for high performance in the following: Telecom: vEPC or 5G Core. In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget.

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Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance.

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Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 14, 2018

The area he was in was served by satellite internet access, and experienced significant latency (a floor of 506 milliseconds) and packet loss (between 50-80% was typical). A local caching server, meant to speed up commonly-requested sites and reduce bandwidth usage, is a “man in the middle”. These tools, therefore, are essential.

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Cache Mobile Servers Latency 64

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

However, getting reliable answers from observability data so teams can automate more processes to ensure speed, quality, and reliability can be challenging. This drive for speed has a cost: 22% of leaders admit they’re under so much pressure to innovate faster that they must sacrifice code quality.

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DevOps Best Practices Innovation Strategy 198

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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Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

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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Performance Network Mobile Latency 113

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. HLS ensures users get the optimal video quality based on their internet performance.

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Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. HLS ensures users get the optimal video quality based on their internet performance.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The ProRes codec family provides great editing performance and image quality. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency. Doing so has the added advantage of being able to design and tune the enhancement to suit the requirements of packager and our other encoding applications.

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Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about a user’s interaction with an application. For example, data collected on load actions can include navigation start, request start, and speed index metrics. Synthetic monitoring is also useful for developing baselines of performance.

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Monitoring Latency Mobile Best Practices 179