The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 13, 2020

Compared to the most recent master version of libaom (AV1 reference software), SVT-AV1 is similar in compression efficiency and at the same time achieves significantly lower encoding latency on multi-core platforms when using its inherent parallelization capabilities. The unit tests are built on the Google Test framework.

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Open Source Efficiency C++ Speed 154

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. 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. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search. The reportWebVitals function.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

While managing cloud workloads offers numerous benefits, it also presents several challenges such as security risks, compliance issues, and resource optimization, which can be addressed effectively with tools like ScaleGrid, offering features like encryption, disaster recovery, and real-time resource optimization for diverse databases.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. Latency – How much time does it take to deliver a packet from A to B. I mean, why wouldn't we?

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Here's the slides from my presentation at the Auckland Web Dev Nights meetup. Why speed matters, examples of the impact saving a few seconds of load time has had on revenue and engagement. Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web. The network constraints and what makes the web slow?

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Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

The next day Jack presented his Turing Award Lecture as the keynote for the event ( HPCwire has a good summary of the whole talk), and later in the the week he was on a panel discussion on “Reinventing HPC” where he repeated the point. I presented a keynote for Sun at Supercomputing 2003 in Phoenix Arizona and included the slide shown below.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. India's speed test medians are moving quickly, but variance is orders-of-magnitude wide, with 5G penetration below 25% in the most populous areas.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. Image CDN Using a content delivery network like KeyCDN, or what we also call an image CDN , can be one of the easiest and fastest ways to speed up the delivery of your images.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Assuming encode/decode speeds meet your needs. Encode/Decode Speed. Degree of compression, image quality, and decoding speed are key factors to be considered when comparing image performance for the web. The biggest drawback for AVIF at present is that it lacks uniform support across browsers. AVIF Gotchas.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Network latency. Network Latency. With the evolution of cloud technologies, such as Single Page Applications (SPAs), Web APIs, and Model View Controller (MVC), network latency has become a crucial factor to be monitored.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Congestion Control.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

This 2GiB RAM, Android 9 stalwart features the all-too classic lines of a Quad-core A53 (1.4GHz, small mercies) CPU, tastefully presented in a charming 5.5" Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. So what did $150USD fetch in 2019? Say hello to the Moto E6 ! " package. How bad is it?

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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 ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

However, then the style will not be present when referencing the image directly (such as the image shared in social media via the <meta property="og:image" content="{image-url}"> tag), making the image devoid of personality. Applying style to the images can be achieved with CSS.

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Website Social Media Media Design 104

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

The paper presents results on TCP-H (which looks a bit like a toy compared to the real production queries, but is useful for comparison), as well as from some production-like queries. Five queries improve substantially on both latency and total compute hours. ICDE’16 (PowerDrill is a Google internal system).

Big Data 57

Big Data Analytics Latency Azure 57

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

When it comes to innovation, most of CMS solutions are constrained by their legacy architecture (read strong coupling between content management and content presentation) which makes it difficult to serve content to new types of emerging channels such as apps and devices. Without knowing we created a JAMstack for our client.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

I can count on one hand the number of teams I’ve worked with who have goals that allow them to block launches for latency regressions, including Google products. The landing pages of popular tools talk about “speed” without context. Relatively few folks bring WPT traces to arguments. Or the wealthy few?

Development 65

Development Government Mobile Network 65

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

is an open collaboration between Google, Microsoft , Intel , Samsung , and others to safely bring capabilities to the web which native developers have come to expect. Each of these moments is experienced stochastically in our model, with the final moment presenting a previously un-hedged risk. Chromium's Project Fugu ??

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Hardware Games Java Media 55