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

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

High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

1.6x : better deep learning cluster scheduling on k8s; 100,000 : Large-scale Diverse Driving Video Database; 3rd : reddit popularity in the US; 50% : increase in Neural Information Processing System papers, AI bubble? Dave Snowden ~ A key principle of complex design is shift a system to an adjacent possible. They'll love you even more.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

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. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Dynatrace

MARCH 2, 2023

Google Cloud Distinguished Engineer Kelsey Hightower hopes to solve the many problems facing IT culture by equipping people with the mental and computational software they need to succeed in the competitive world of technology. He noted that a boundary is beneficial between an internet service provider and its customer. “I

Best Practices 204

Best Practices Internet Internet Cloud 204

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

The third wing of the architecture piece is the “domain specific system-on-chip.” This is where your performance goes. tef : You can use a message broker to glue systems together, but never use one to cut systems apart. That’s mapping applications to the specific architectural choices.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

Software analytics offers the ability to gain and share insights from data emitted by software systems and related operational processes to develop higher-quality software faster while operating it efficiently and securely. It provides valuable insight into complex public, private, and hybrid cloud IT structures, systems, and frameworks.

Software 177

Software Software Analytics Big Data 177

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

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

Public cloud refers to on-demand infrastructure and services provided by a third party over the public internet. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Anthos : Users can run applications on-premises, in GCP, or with other major public cloud providers like AWS and Microsoft Azure. Optimize critical applications’ performance.

Infrastructure 172

Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 172

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

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. Just as people use Xerox as shorthand for paper copies and say “Google” instead of internet search, Docker has become synonymous with containers. What is Docker?

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 290

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. Operating System Updates and Security Patches. Try checking in the internet connection.”

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 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

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. The MPP system leverages a shared-nothing architecture to handle multiple operations in parallel. Open Source.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

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?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time. SLOs improve software quality.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 252

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Speed Google Website Metrics 99

O'Reilly

MARCH 26, 2024

To me, the analogy breaks down before it begins: firstly, LLMs don’t merely blur, but perform highly non-linear transformations, which means you can’t just squint and get a sense of the original; secondly, for the photocopier, the error is a bug, whereas, for LLMs, all errors are features. It’s called Google News Showcase.

Artificial Intelligence 113

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Google Internet 113

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. What is Google Lighthouse? Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt.

Google 82

Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

They need solutions such as cloud observability — the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates—to help them tame cloud complexity and better manage their applications, infrastructure, and data within their IT landscapes. According to a recent Forbes articles, Internet users are creating 2.5

Cloud 211

Cloud Artificial Intelligence Innovation Azure 211

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.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Examples include associations with Google Docs, Facebook chat group interactions, streaming live forex market feeds, and managing trading notices.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Although redesigning applications sounds daunting, understanding how these architectures work will enable your organization to reap the performance and cost benefits of cloud hyperscalers. These loosely coupled, lightweight services typically perform a single function and can be chained together into an application. Microservices.

Cloud 162

Cloud Architecture Serverless Infrastructure 162

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. This electricity needs to be produced somewhere.

Website Performance 74

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

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. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

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. The following qualities are considered great additions to the basic PWA by Google developers. By default, PWAs have greater performance over similar native apps due to their lite nature.

Cache 125

Cache Internet Internet Google 125

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Software testers explore the effectiveness of processes that should lead to quality software products to make sure they perform the purpose for which they have been designed. Results may vary because of factors like resolution, internet speed, and different OS versions. Why Perform Compatibility Testing?

Testing 78

Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

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. The Baseline Scenario #.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

With another year winding down, it’s time for us to take stock of how our site performance compares to the average page load times for 2020. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. seconds on mobile.

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

VoltDB

APRIL 2, 2024

Acid transactions, ACID properties, and the CAP theorem are two important concepts in data management and distributed systems. ACID transactions solve many problems when implemented to the letter but have been engaged in a push-pull with performance trade-offs ever since. CAP is a tool to explain trade-offs in distributed systems.

Education 52

Education C++ Database Design 52

Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

If we talk about commercial vendors targeting the corporate market, I guess only Neotys remains independent and active (I mean contributing into the performance testing ecosystem – innovation, publishing content, participating in events, etc). Microfocus acquired both LoadRunner from HP and Silk Performer (as a part of Borland).

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Testing Open Source Testing Tools Performance Testing 243

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). With Google Search Console you can see exactly where your pages are (or aren’t) ranking for different keywords. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 132

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. Smart cities.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. Loosely defined, Observability boils down to inferring the internal health and state of a system by looking at the external data it produces, which most commonly are logs, metrics, and traces. Dynatrace news.

Open Source 173

Open Source Metrics Google Java 173

MachMetrics

APRIL 24, 2019

Google PageSpeed Insights has a their “Speed Score.” ” Pingdom has a “Performance Grade.” The reality is that these scores are estimates of how well your site implements performance best practices. Who is your website’s users – Google, or your real customers? seconds to.27

Speed 111

Speed Best Practices Google Website 111

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. Load testing is an important part of the performance engineering process. A stereotypical, last-moment performance check is not enough anymore.

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