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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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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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Similarly, we welcome participants from diverse professional roles: QA testers, performance engineers, security teams, OS engineers, DBAs, network administrators, compliance experts, UX designers, government employees, and data scientists. More details are or the [CFP page]. but I think every company has interesting stories to share.

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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.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC!; They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

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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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Speed Curve

JUNE 30, 2020

Keep reading to find out what this means and how it may affect your performance metrics. Google has been on a roll in 2020 with the introduction of Core Web Vitals and this latest update , and we are thrilled to offer support for both. Lighthouse performance scores for desktop tests should be much higher.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The top three results in Google SERPs get 54.4% Google is the most prominent global search market player with a market share of 83%. Be Prepared to Add a New E in EAT We all know about the common Google EAT acronym, which is defined as Expertise, Authority, and Trust. Of all traffic, 53.3% comes from organic searches.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Performance is one of the core aspects to ensure our users are having a delightful user experience irrespective of their devices or network connection. We found out user-centric performance metrics to be the perfect fit for this purpose. How We Discovered CLS Issue In Our Product Page. More after jump! Root Cause.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

TFLOPS deep learning performance, and is equipped with 32GB of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) capacity. The new DGX-2, which achieves 2 petaFLOPS in the system, combines 16 fully interconnected GPUS with 10x the deep learning performance. TPU: Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is Google’s specialized hardware for neural network.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. What does this finding mean in web performance terms?

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Testsigma

AUGUST 12, 2021

Owing to how we consume content and perform our day-to-day functions now, businesses are optimizing web apps and how! As per StatCounter , there are more than ten browsers in use with Google Chrome leading the way. To ensure our web app performs as intended across various devices and browsers — we have to test our web app.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Similarly, we welcome participants from diverse professional roles: QA testers, performance engineers, security teams, OS engineers, DBAs, network administrators, compliance experts, UX designers, government employees, and data scientists. We're especially looking to highlight local content from the Asia/Pacific region.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

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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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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Getting your websites, images, and videos to load quickly is an absolute necessity for inbound marketing success. ” Look put these stats on some numbers: Effect on Sale: 79% of customers who report dissatisfaction with website performance are less likely to buy from that same site again. Because of nobody like a slow website.

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Testsigma

MAY 5, 2021

To ensure the features run uniformly across various browsers and OS versions that our users have, we should perform multi-browser testing. You can also check out our post on the most common issues one can face while performing browser compatibility tests. Let us understand the importance of multi-browser testing before we proceed.

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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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Dean Hume

MARCH 19, 2019

For example, if you think of a large video file and imagine how long it might take to download the whole file. Using a stream allows you to download only the small amount of data that you need to view the video instead of the whole file - this means that you can view the video as quickly as the network takes to get you just those bytes.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). It was at this point that we realized we needed to make a significant change in our approach towards performance, and that we must embrace performance as part of our culture. Dan Shappir. Large preview ).

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Google Docs, Trello, …). It should work without a network. Used in conjunction with the dat:// networking stack the result is Hypermerge. If you have 2 minutes and 10 seconds available, it’s well worth watching this short video showing Trellis in action. I’m all in :). The rock or the hard place? In section 4.2.4

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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. Without the ability to differentiate on features, security, performance, and privacy, what's to sell? What does this almighty torrent of cash buy Google?

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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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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

It's an overview of why front-end performance matter, how to monitor it and the challenges faced when building for an increasingly mobile world. The network constraints and what makes the web slow? An overview of tools for measuring performance, uptime monitoring, real user monitoring and performance benchmarking.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The primary task machines can perform are learning, reasoning and perception. Also known as Weak AI, the machines are designed to perform a specific set of tasks. At this stage, the machine does not possess any thinking ability, they just perform a set of pre-defined functions. Artificial Narrow Intelligence.

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MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Real Engineering has created a fascinating video that explains the impact the project may have on internet speed as well as financial and economic implications. The video uses the time it currently takes for information to travel from the New York Stock Exchange to a viewer in London to illustrate the advantages that this network could offer.

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Dean Hume

AUGUST 8, 2017

If you haven’t had the chance to watch it yet, Paul Lewis put together an awesome video series that demonstrates how to build a media player alongside some of the great features of Progressive Web Apps. There are a series of videos on YouTube that take place over a couple of days as he builds each new part of the site.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 13, 2013

For example, baseball fans want to know as soon as their favorite team player hits a home run, so they can watch a video replay and catch the rest of the game. Amazon, Apple, and Google each maintains a free relay service that delivers notifications via persistent connections to devices running the platforms they own.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. SLOs are a valuable tool for organizations to ensure the health and performance of their applications. But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Teams can build on these SLO examples to improve application performance and reliability. In this post, I’ll lay out five SLO examples that every DevOps and SRE team should consider.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Dean Hume

AUGUST 8, 2017

If you haven’t had the chance to watch it yet, Paul Lewis put together an awesome video series that demonstrates how to build a media player alongside some of the great features of Progressive Web Apps. There are a series of videos on YouTube that take place over a couple of days as he builds each new part of the site.

Code 40

Code Website Media Efficiency 40

Dean Hume

AUGUST 8, 2017

If you haven’t had the chance to watch it yet, Paul Lewis put together an awesome video series that demonstrates how to build a media player alongside some of the great features of Progressive Web Apps. There are a series of videos on YouTube that take place over a couple of days as he builds each new part of the site.

Code 40

Code Website Media Efficiency 40

Dean Hume

MARCH 19, 2019

For example, if you think of a large video file and imagine how long it might take to download the whole file. Using a stream allows you to download only the small amount of data that you need to view the video instead of the whole file - this means that you can view the video as quickly as the network takes to get you just those bytes.

Transportation 40

Transportation Processing Servers Code 40

Dean Hume

MARCH 19, 2019

For example, if you think of a large video file and imagine how long it might take to download the whole file. Using a stream allows you to download only the small amount of data that you need to view the video instead of the whole file - this means that you can view the video as quickly as the network takes to get you just those bytes.

Transportation 40

Transportation Processing Servers Code 40

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright. Google Lighthouse has a lot going for it.

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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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