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!

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? We broke down the data by open source databases vs. commercial databases: Open Source Databases. Popular examples of open source databases include MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.

Open Source 55

Open Source Database Cloud Infrastructure 55

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 97

Website Internet Internet Performance 97

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of Things , Abadi et al., Note that AnyLog also differs from projects such as DeepDive or Google’s Knowledge Graph. Despite the "Internet of Things" featuring prominently in the title, there’s nothing particular to IoT in the technical solution at all.

Blockchain 94

Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

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. Jake Archibald.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

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!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. The OpenCensus project was made open source by Google back in 2018, based on Google’s Census library that was used internally for gathering traces and metrics from their distributed systems.

Open Source 176

Open Source Metrics Google Java 176

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.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. The JavaScript Tax.

Website 80

Website Google Open Source Mobile 80

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. Steve Souders’ 14 Rules ( source ).

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. The OpenCensus project was made open source by Google back in 2018, based on Google’s Census library that was used internally for gathering traces and metrics from their distributed systems.

Open Source 130

Open Source Metrics Google Java 130

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive is a free, open-source collaborations featuring input from over 80 contributors. We’ll be diving into Chapter 7 – Performance. Obviously this means that there is a ton of work to be done going into 2020 for web performance. Source: Web Almanac – HTTP Archive.

Performance 52

Performance Speed Website Mobile 52

KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Responsive Design - Any site that you develop should render properly across all devices, as more and more people access the internet via mobile devices. React Created as an open source project and still utilized by Facebook, React is a popular JS framework that focuses on user experience.

Google 135

Google Mobile Open Source Website 135

Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

To evaluate such ecosystems, in absence of more sophisticated data, I used the number of documents Google finds and the number of jobs Monster finds mentioning each product. It is also very important for an open source project to attract people who will work to improve it, thus ensuring the future of the product.

DevOps 113

DevOps Testing Testing Tools Performance Testing 113

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. Performance is a core feature of our company, Instant Domain Search —it’s in the name. Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site.

Google 93

Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 93

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

The rise of mobile internet usage is evident across developed economies as well as developing ones (India, Bangladesh, etc.)[3]. Globally, consumers are preferring their mobile phones for performing activities (e.g. that require internet connectivity. online shopping, bill payments, etc.) Mobile-first indexing.

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Internet of Things (IoT). Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. The most preferred single-page applications are Gmail, Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Image Source.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. IoT (Internet of things) devices have been on an increase for a long time now. In 2021, more than 23 billion IoT devices were active and connected to the internet.

Artificial Intelligence 89

Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. Without the ability to differentiate on features, security, performance, and privacy, what's to sell? And that's a choice. "WebKit

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

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] More on that when we get to iOS. PWA Feature Detector.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. Measuring Performance Impact. You cannot always anticipate what you cannot control.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Google Bard vs. MongoDB and MySQL challenge This was my first test of Bard ever, and I had pretty high expectations due to the fact that it can reach the online information, as opposed to ChatGPT, which operates on limited data. Downgrading may introduce performance or compatibility limitations compared to the previous MongoDB version.

Database 88

Database Artificial Intelligence Servers Operating System 88

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! Apple Corporate is at fault, not Open Source engineers or the line managers who support them. Safari has many good features, and in an open marketplace, choosing it (or not) is entirely reasonable. The Performance Argument. This is as it should be.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Tech News Gather

JUNE 8, 2022

It’s some kind of 3D environment that has been obtained from some form of internet iteration. The best thing about blockchain is that it’s open-source and this may mean that developers may suggest changes, which may lead to an alteration in the functions and the implementations of the blockchain. Project Marble.

Mobile 52

Mobile Blockchain Development Games 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Improve Animated GIF Performance With HTML5 Video. Improve Animated GIF Performance With HTML5 Video. It has been brought to our attention that this piece is a reworded version of an article published on the Google Web Fundamentals site, written by our friend Jeremy Wagner. Ayo Isaiah. 2018-11-05T14:30:14+01:00.

Performance 59

Performance Website C++ Open Source 59

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

It is open source and its development can be ported across devices with relative ease. As of September 2020, Statista reports that around 30,40,000 apps are available on Google Playstore. Unlike iOS development, Android development requires proper standards and varying benchmarks for performance and optimization.

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

Testsigma

JUNE 5, 2021

As the number of websites has increased with time, so has the source of traffic leading to that website. In 2015, 35% of the internet traffic came from mobile devices, 6 years later, the number is 54.8%. Source: Business Journals. How to perform automated mobile browser testing? Source: Shopify.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Testing Tools 52

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Performance. Source: reactjs.org. React is an open-source JavaScript library for web development. In addition, React JavaScript framework uses server-side rendering to give a flexible, performance-oriented solution. Source: angular.io. improved user experience and very fast performance. Conclusion.

Development 52

Development Google Open Source Servers 52

Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

These front end frameworks provide various templates to interact with browser components and are compatible with various libraries which boost the performance while reducing the amount of code required. This can provide near native functionality and user experience while being able to function without an active internet connection.

Virtualization 64

Virtualization Website Speed Mobile 64

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. These models will continue to become more powerful.

Social Media 138

Social Media Media Internet Internet 138