Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Degrading quality for higher profit It is instructive to consider how the algorithmic technologies that underpinned the aggregator platforms of old (think Amazon, Google and Facebook among others) initially deployed to benefit users, were eventually reprogrammed to increase profits for the platform. But it is far from alone.

Social Media 88

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 88

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

## References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 3, 2019

After HTTP/2, coming up next is QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections). Google has been working for quite some time to speed up its network protocols in order to minimize website response times. Google is hopeful that QUIC can reduce connection costs towards zero RTTs. Google plans to propose QUIC as an IETF standard.

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Transportation Internet Internet Google 51

KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Then again, a newer but less widely known framework may more effectively suit your needs, so it's worth it to get up to speed about today's most popular options. Responsive Design - Any site that you develop should render properly across all devices, as more and more people access the internet via mobile devices.

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Google Mobile Open Source Website 135

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Steve Souders was one of the first in reverse-engineering how browsers requested and waited for resources. Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The entire country of China’s internet connectivity is shielded by the Great Firewall (GFW). There are three state-owned ISP providers, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile , that control internet in China. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. Keyword Filtering and Blocking.

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Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. For example, if you are using internet banking via a Mobile Web application, it will not allow you to save cards or mark any transaction as favourite. What are Mobile Web Applications?

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory. Don’t have time to read 5,500+ words?

Engineering 246

Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

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. Here is our (ever-growing!) Jake Archibald.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

The rise of mobile internet usage is evident across developed economies as well as developing ones (India, Bangladesh, etc.)[3]. that require internet connectivity. Popular search engines like Google give preference to websites that are mobile-ready[4]. Speed and Accuracy. online shopping, bill payments, etc.)

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] , Jul 2008 [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] , 2010 [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees. The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping from one source to another with just a tap of a finger. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Speed Up Your Site. Web Performance In Action. Designing for Performance.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

A bug had been filed suggesting that Chrome download speeds (such as those measured by speedtest.net ) seemed to be affected by some anti-virus software. I’d been testing on a virtual machine in a data center that I had access to, purely because this machine has an internet connection that runs at over 2 Gbps. But I digress….

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Cache Energy Google Processing 105

Testsigma

JANUARY 18, 2021

The possibility is that the web developer and test automation engineer did not do thorough cross browser testing! Consider a scenario where the end-users are using Internet Explorer browser to reach your website but you have not considered ‘testing on IE’ a part of your testing process! UTC, EST. MST, etc.).

Testing 55

Testing Operating System Website Internet 55

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Steve Souders was one of the first in reverse-engineering how browsers requested and waited for resources. Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). If you had to pick something that you wanted to speed up, choose one that users can perceive.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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. Following from the above, an undeniable strength of PWAs, when compared to native applications, is that their pages are findable via search engines. Why is that? Read point 2.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

Google 82

Google Latency Website Metrics 82

High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

jedberg : Despite being a strong advocate for AWS, this is where I will say Google completely outshines Amazon. Google's approach to pricing is, "do it as efficiently and quickly as possible, and we'll make sure that's the cheapest option". Google applies bulk discounts after the fact, AWS makes you ask for them ahead of time.

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Scalability Internet Internet Wireless 131

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection.

Cache 124

Cache Internet Internet Google 124

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking. These include Python, PHP, Perl, and Ruby.

Java 207

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. Daniel An, Google, 2017.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

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. Google’s results were perhaps even more startling.

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Performance Energy Google Internet 40

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons).

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Google developed WebP back in 2010 after acquiring a company called On2 Technologies.

Website 72

Website Speed Cache Google 72

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While experienced AI developers are starting to leave powerhouses like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, not enough are leaving to meet demand—and most of them will probably gravitate to startups rather than adding to the AI talent within established companies. Microsoft, Google, IBM, and OpenAI have offered more general indemnification.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

This provides Greenplum deployments with a huge performance boost over in-memory systems that need enough memory to store their data, or non-RDBMS based systems that are in-memory processing engines that allocate RAM for each concurrent query.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

These vendors serve data center players and offer advanced options, such as ScaleGrid’s engine, which ensures that different elements work well together automatically, eliminating the need for manual effort in managing heterogeneous environments. This opens up possibilities not only difficult but almost impossible to attain conventionally!

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Perhaps surprisingly, users experience faster speeds over a mobile network than WiFi in at least 30 countries worldwide, including Australia and France. per GB respectively. Mbps upload.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web development is evolving at a rapid speed with each passing year. Internet of Things (IoT). And so, it optimizes the page loading speed and reduces the bounce rate. Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. Let’s dive deep into the top website development trends to expect in 2022.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 31, 2020

WebPageTest is one of the best website speed auditing services for any designer or developer concerned with site speed (which should be all of them). We use it as the engine for our automated testing services at MachMetrics.com. Need to speed test a website that lives behind a login? Capture Lighthouse Report.

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Social Media Website Speed Google 52

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A lot of the time it’s a front-end developer or head of engineering, but more and more I’m finding myself in great conversations with product leaders. The internet. Check out our Industry Page Speed Benchmarks for an idea of how you can use benchmarking part of your toolkit. The audience varies.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

Thus, the entire website development methodology benefits from the boosted speed and saves times by using these top front end frameworks. This can provide near native functionality and user experience while being able to function without an active internet connection. Large and growing community support along with Google’s backing.

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Virtualization Website Speed Mobile 64

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

If you asked the average internet user how slow a website would need to load before they gave up and left, they might say something like 8 or 10 seconds. Looking again at the websites above, you’ll see that Google uses one image (their logo), Craigslist uses 0(!), Unfortunately, visitors actually give up on websites much faster.

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Website Speed Google Cache 57