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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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. Jack Lenox.

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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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Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

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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. If you like this kind of stuff, you might also like Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook.

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Design Education Google Internet 54

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. trying to reduce the amount of manual work and ensuring all the components (infrastructure/hardware, middleware, software, etc.) Performance. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing. Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities. Google ranks applications based on how user friendly it is. Signup Now.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

” Willing also offered a shout-out to the CircuitPython and Mu projects, asking, “Who doesn’t love hardware, blinking LEDs, sensors, and using Mu, a user-friendly editor that is fantastic for adults and kids?” ” Java. It’s mostly good news on the Java front.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product. that a lot of people used.

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This is a question recently asked and explored by a team of Google researchers led by Jeff Dean with a major focus on database indexes. Jeff is a Google Senior Fellow in the Google Brain team and widely known as a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning community. Learned indexes.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Error tracking is a vital component to any web project because it helps you pinpoint performance problems before they get out of hand. The Google DevTools console can give you real-time feedback to help you trace the source of errors, and you can set handlers to automate exception data collection. What is Error Tracking?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Container technology is very powerful as small teams can develop and package their application on laptops and then deploy it anywhere into staging or production environments without having to worry about dependencies, configurations, OS, hardware, and so on. Here are some of the tasks orchestration platforms are challenged to perform.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

This operational data could be gathered from live running infrastructures using software agents, hypervisors, or network logs, for example. This enables AIOps teams to better predict performance and security issues and improve overall IT operations. Operations analytics ensures IT systems perform as expected. NoSQL database.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Enter Google! Upgrades are performed incrementally, one engine at a time. SOSP’19. It reminds me of ZeroMQ.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. 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.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable. Pipeline reliability and performance go hand in hand. If tuned for performance, there is a good change reliability is compromised - and vice versa. Generally speaking, data pipelines are leaky by nature.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management.

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CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

When even a bit of React can be a problem on devices slow and fast alike, using it is an intentional choice that effectively excludes people with low-end hardware. Server rendering is also cool—even if that’s just how we say “send HTML over the network” these days. It makes organizing code easier. I think JSX is great. The conditions.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

They use the same hardware, APIs, tools, and management controls for both the public and private clouds. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost : This offering provides pre-configured hardware and software for customers to run native AWS computing, networking, and services on-premises in a cloud-native manner.

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Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

or “How will performance be accurate if the machine is not physical?” When we wanted to add a location, we had to ship hardware and get someone to install that hardware in a rack with power and network. Hardware was outdated. Fixed hardware is a single point of failure – even when we had redundant machines.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Robin Marx. 2021-08-23T06:20:00+00:00.

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Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

It’s a device actively being sold by a few prepaid networks. Another interesting note was how significant the impact of hardware has on the timing. This is notable because we’re seeing companies such as Mozilla and Google targeting emerging markets with affordable, low-powered devices that otherwise run modern browsers.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. The components of partitioned applications generally communicate over a network call. Another aspect of microservices is how the service itself relates to the underlying hardware.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. What Exactly is Greenplum? At a glance – TLDR. Open Source.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Digital Performance: 99% reduction in Response Time, from 18.2s Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Dynatrace Real User Monitoring (RUM) captures very detailed user behavior, as well as experience and performance information, about every user on your applications.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Image size is another issue, as excessive image weight hurts your SEO ranking in Google Image Search.

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

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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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Steve & Tim's Close-up Magic.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. Between Google (Vertex AI and Colab) and Amazon (SageMaker), you can now get all of the GPU power your credit card can handle.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. Each operation performed by the client will be taken as a web request and the result will be a full page reload at the client-side. Network or connection error. Network latency.

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Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

HTML – Typically the smallest resource on the page, HTML's performance risk is usually negligible. JavaScript – A page can have a relatively low JS weight but still suffer from JS-inflicted performance problems. Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For some background, Kubernetes was created by Google and is currently maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Kubernetes manages and orchestrates these containers, handling tasks such as deployment, scaling, load balancing, and networking. Just consider the sheer number of people who stream Netflix every night!

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Engine diversity is essential, as it is the mechanism that causes competition to deliver better performance, capability, privacy, security, and user controls. Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Web Serial.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We hear a lot from Google and Microsoft about their cloud platforms, but not quite so much from the other key industry players. ” Crusher is a Google system for automatically discovering email templates (e.g. Could it be Analyzing efficient stream processing on modern hardware ? What’s their secret??? Do we want that?

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