Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. So is speedy resolution and agreement.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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. 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

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

link] 2021 - [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] Apr 2021 - [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al., "BMC: I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The 85% global-share OS (Android) has historically facilitated browser choice and diversity in browser engines. Engine diversity is essential, as it is the mechanism that causes competition to deliver better performance, capability, privacy, security, and user controls. If so, it's a browser regardless of the underlying engine.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL backups play a pivotal role in safeguarding the integrity of your data, providing defense against various unforeseen calamities, hardware malfunctions, data loss, corruption, and inadvertent deletions. DataCenter Failure : power outage or internet provider issues. Why Do MySQL Backups Matter?

Best Practices 77

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 77

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

link] , 2021 [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] , Apr 2021 [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al., I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. Many of the new open source models are much smaller and not as resource intensive but still deliver good results (especially when trained for a specific application). Open source models are a large and diverse group.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. Deviation metrics As noted by Wikipedia engineers , data of how much variance exists in your results could inform you how reliable your instruments are, and how much attention you should pay to deviations and outlers.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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. This part is a bit more technical than the first, though it offloads most of the really deep stuff to outside sources, focusing on explaining why these things matter to the average web developer.

Performance 107

Performance Network Latency Servers 107