Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

The video is on [youtube]: The slides are on [slideshare] or as a [PDF]: I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF. This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on [YouTube]: The slides are [online] and as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The internet accounts for an estimated 3–4% of global emissions — equivalent to some countries. The carbon emissions of the internet are roughly equivalent to those generated by the entire aviation industry, or the whole of Africa. Watch the video of Jamie’s talk from Green Tech South West. Regulation. More after jump!

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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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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Next-generation video codecs, supported in many modern chips, but also a licensing minefield. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. While bandwidth does continue to increase each year, so does the quality and size of most Internet media. AV1 is the royalty-free video coding format that has most tech experts believing it is the next step in media compression.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In the late 1990s, marketing and advertising agencies saw the potential of eye-tracking for the Internet and started using the technology to analyze how people consume content online. For instance, Nielsen’s research conducted in 2006 showed that people read content on the Internet in an F-shaped pattern.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on YouTube : The slides are online and as a PDF : first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Here’s what Google suggests: PageSpeed Insights demonstrates how much storage and bandwidth websites stand to save with WebP. Source: Google ) ( Large preview ).

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Website Speed Cache Google 72

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

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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. Browser vendors fund their industrial-scale software engineering projects through integrations. What does this almighty torrent of cash buy Google?

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

I recently shared some of my favourite research at Beyond Tellerrand (video here ) and thought it would be fun to round it up in a post. The internet may change, and web pages may grow and evolve, but user expectations are constant. In 1993 and again in 2010 , usability expert Jakob Nielsen found that: 0.1

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta. Use progressive enhancement as a default.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

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. Source: Google Keep in mind that not all code errors are noticeable to users. Front-end errors include UI glitches, slow performance and broken interfaces.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Also called “static assets,” these files include CSS and JavaScript, both written by the application developer and third-party libraries, as well as PDFs, software installers, images, music, videos, and icons. Static files range from a few kilobytes of CSS to gigabytes of video. These files are only used client-side.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Are videos properly optimized?

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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? JoeEmison : Another thing that serverless architectures change: how do you software development. Hungry for more?

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Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

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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Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

One of the ones that stands out is Nate Koechley’s “Professional Frontend Engineering” presentation ( transcript and video ). In a comment on my last post I referenced the Boston Globe and how it appears on Google Glass. The point is not that we all need to be testing on Google Glass—time will tell how well that device does.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

Maybe it’s surprising that ChatGPT can write software, maybe it isn’t; we’ve had over a year to get used to GitHub Copilot, which was based on an earlier version of GPT. What Software Are We Talking About? LaMDA Developed by Google; few people have access to it, though its capabilities appear to be very similar to ChatGPT.

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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. On the Internet, however, we typically have a long series of connected pipes , some of which can be wider than others (leading to so-called bottlenecks at the narrowest links).

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