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.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. If you're just getting started with performance budgets – or if you've been using them for a while and want to validate your work – this post is for you.

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Testsigma

JUNE 23, 2021

How Testsigma Helps Speed Up Software Release Cycles? It is built with the intent to help the QA teams reduce their test creation, execution, and maintenance time and speed up their software release cycles. Here’s how Testsigma can help you speed up your software release cycles. No setup time. 24×7 support. Signup Now.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2022

At Dynatrace Perform 2022 , the Advancing DevOps and DevSecOps track will highlight the importance of an automatic and intelligent approach to vulnerability management for modern multicloud environments. How vulnerability management at runtime changes the game. Why vulnerability management is critical for cloud application security.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2021

Working effectively with speed and accuracy. Our update to Dynatrace mobile crash monitoring supports your effectiveness in analyzing mobile crashes with speed and accuracy. The improved response time of the UI has changed the game, because it allows you stay in context. You want to focus on crashes that matter. What’s next.

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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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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Modern web browsers use all sorts of techniques to help improve page load performance by guessing what the user may be likely to do next. Drew McLellan. 2019-04-17T12:30:16+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. When Should I Use dns-prefetch ?

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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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Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Describing performance improvements exists at the intersection of mathematics and linguistics. It is quite common to use incorrect math to describe performance improvements, and it is possible to use incorrect, misleading, or just sub-optimal rhetoric to describe your math. Here are just a few examples: 90% Faster Game Loads?

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Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

With the continued growth of applications being used in and out of an organization, getting a firm grasp on the performance of these devices and its impact on your IT environment is important. With this growth and added complexity, how are your legacy performance testing solutions keeping up? The short answer is that they aren’t.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations Ren et al., For example: “Red Hat and Suse normally required 6-18 months to optimise the performance an an upstream Linux kernel before it can be released as an enterprise distribution”, and. Google’s data center kernel is carefully performance tuned for their workloads.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 10, 2021

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. This keeps your business performing optimally before most users even notice a glitch. A brief examination of two different ball games. Other vendors have AI?

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Apica

OCTOBER 29, 2019

With the continued growth of applications being used in and out of an organization, getting a firm grasp on the performance of these devices and its impact on your environment is important. Legacy performance testing platforms have their place and are still required to ensure past investments can be monitored.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

Accordingly, as organizations undergo DevSecOps transformation to innovate, reduce costs, and enable dispersed teams, they need to safeguard IT systems from performance problems and security breaches. See how causation-based AIOps is a game-changer. At RSA 2022 , the theme is Transform. Automation for application security.

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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

MARCH 17, 2021

Application security used to be a function performed by the security team. The source code isn’t needed to perform DAST, as the application is inspected while it is running. How open-source packages have changed the game. Application security tests and what they do. Results, unfortunately, have been mixed.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

As enterprises look to speed innovation, minimize risk, and modernize the way they work in the cloud, there’s a huge opportunity to redefine how IT is architected, deployed, and operated. Before concluding his session, Rick thanked our virtual audience again as he looked forward to 2023 being a game-changing year.

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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. I wrote a lot of benchmarks.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

To speed up migration and quickly restore wasm functions at the destination, the wasm instantiate function is intially called with a dummy linear memory, and then this is later replaced once the real memory has arrived over the network. For comparison, the server bar also shows performance when the full application runs on the server.

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CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

So, for the last several years, I, along with other performance engineers like me, have been recommending that our clients move over from Gzip and to Brotli instead. not torrenting streaming Game of Thrones). And speaking purely anecdotally, moving a client of mine from Gzip to Brotli led to a median file-size saving of 31%.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Deterministic AI, or causal AI, automatically reveals precise links between cause and effect in real time—and takes action on these root causes before they result in performance or user experience problems downstream. The need for speed has never been more urgent in today’s hyper-digital age. 2021 DevOps Report.

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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. That’s why automated mobile app testing is performed.

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Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

Interestingly, Xcode provides a testing framework called XCTest to write unit tests, performance tests, and UI tests. Unlike unit tests which are tested in isolation, UI testing is performed on the integration of the multiple classes. We can use these documented statistics to improve the testing and application performance.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Variations while performing Mobile Application Testing. Networks: We have accessibility to different speeds of mobile networks on devices. All of these networks have different data speeds and therefore application experience will differ accordingly. Gaming applications. Performance testing. Let’s find out.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2022

Technology that helps teams securely regain control of complex, dynamic, ever-expanding cloud environments can be game-changing. At our virtual conference, Dynatrace Perform 2022 , the theme is “Empowering the game changers.”. Empowering the game changers at Dynatrace Perform 2022.

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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.

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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. However, most times it is adding new obvious improvements, simple bug fixes, performance enhancements, productizing outcomes from previous A/B tests, logging etc that are being shipped in the application.

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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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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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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Speed of development, scalability, and simplicity of management are among the critical needs of mobile developers. So, if I am building a mobile gaming app, I must run a proxy fleet that ensures “johndoe@gmail.com” only retrieves his game state and nothing else.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

And this is what happened to vendors in Dynatrace’s market — application performance management (APM). And because the product would be both the business, as well as servicing the business, speed and constant innovation was a key goal , and the entire initiative was supported by management from the top down. The transformation leap.

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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. Users who opened a PWA from a smartphone’s browser might even not be aware that they’re using a progressive web app, assuming that it’s just a well-performing site. Why is that?

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Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

If you’ve been performing on-premise testing in your organization, you know the rules already. But for the uninitiated, on-premise testing is a form of testing where testers perform tests on local machines, systems, or devices set up at an office. As the name suggests, it happens on-premise. Photo by freestocks on Unsplash.

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Tech News Gather

MARCH 17, 2023

Also, app builders allow businesses to track analytics and performance data, so they can optimize their apps for better results. Finally, using app-building software can also speed up the process of releasing updates and bug fixes. Conclusion The use of app building software is a game-changer for businesses of all sizes.

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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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Speed Curve

MAY 25, 2021

With that, we are excited to bring you some new features and enhancements to help you stay focused and ahead of the game as we move into summer. Between the fast-paced release cycle for Chrome and the rapid evolution of Core Web Vitals, the month of May has been a busy one here at SpeedCurve. Key rendering times.

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