MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2020

Using Google Fonts is often one of the first steps people take to give their website a unique look. But if you’ve ever brought over that amazing font and ran a speed test, you might be asking – “Does Google Fonts slow down my site?” Use that awesome font from Google and live with the performance hit.

Google 57

Google Speed Cache Website 57

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 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

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

Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Web Performance is important for user experience and business metrics. This post explains several ways of assessing the potential performance gains with little effort and, more importantly, without actually implementing fixes. What is the business opportunity for web performance improvements? I would repeat over and over.

Performance 130

Performance Google Mobile Analytics 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

AWS 246

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 246

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. If you’re using best practices and keeping web performance in mind, you shouldn’t need to worry about being badged. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move.

Google 86

Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

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

APRIL 25, 2023

Observability is essential to ensure the reliability, security and quality of any software system. It helps developers and operators identify and troubleshoot issues, optimize performance and improve user experience. Observability is typically achieved by collecting three types of data from a system, metrics, logs and traces.

Serverless 206

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 206

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Benchmarking spreadsheet systems Rahman et al., construct a set of benchmarks to try and understand what might be going on under the covers in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice Calc. They often freeze during computation, and are unable to import datasets well below the size limits posed by current spreadsheet systems.

Benchmarking 56

Benchmarking Systems Google Scalability 56

Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

Although the APIs were all managed by the Google API manager Apigee, the bank group was not getting consistent data types from the output. Additionally, due to performance impact, Apigee’s distributed tracing only configures a probabilistic sampling rate, with a maximum rate of 50%.

Open Source 193

Open Source Google Serverless Azure 193

DZone

MARCH 13, 2023

SRE, which was popularized by the 2016 publication of Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems, often means proactively writing code and developing internal applications to combat reliability and performance concerns.

Software Engineering 130

Software Engineering DevOps Google Engineering 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.” ” In recent years, cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM, and Google began offering Kubernetes as part of their managed services. What is OpenShift? Ease of use.

Open Source 205

Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 205

Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

In a Dynatrace Perform 2024 session, Kristof Renders, director of innovation services, discussed how a stronger FinOps strategy coupled with observability can make a significant difference in helping teams to keep spiraling infrastructure costs under control and manage cloud spending. Wrong-sized resources. Unnecessary data transfer.

Best Practices 231

Best Practices Strategy Cloud AWS 231

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Migrating a privacy-safe information extraction system to a software 2.0 This is a comparatively short (7 pages) but very interesting paper detailing the migration of a software system to a ‘Software 2.0’ we spend the majority of our effort on writing code, expressing how the system achieves its goals.

Systems 84

Systems Design Software Software 84

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

Engineering 254

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 254

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Like PageSpeed, Lighthouse also has a performance score. What is Google Lighthouse? Recommended!

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

Towards federated learning at scale: system design Bonawitz et al., This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. The FL system contains a number of privacy-enhancing building blocks, but the privacy guarantees of any end-to-end system will always depend on how they are used.

Systems 71

Systems Design Google Servers 71

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 186

Software Software Analytics Big Data 186

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

MARCH 24, 2023

Containers enable developers to package microservices or applications with the libraries, configuration files, and dependencies needed to run on any infrastructure, regardless of the target system environment. Originally created by Google, Kubernetes was donated to the CNCF as an open source project.

Infrastructure 185

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 185

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

This blog post explores how AI observability enables organizations to predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability. GenAI is prone to erratic behavior due to unforeseen data scenarios or underlying system issues. It also shows how data observability relates to business outcomes as organizations embrace generative AI.

Cache 204

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 204

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report found that over 60% of system outages resulted in at least $100,000 in total losses, up from 39% in 2019.

Best Practices 222

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 222

Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

If you’re in IT, you know how important it is to keep an eye on your systems and infrastructure in real-time. In the past, ITOps teams communicated by phone, email, and other tools, interacting manually with ticketing systems for technical support and incident management.

Google 200

Google DevOps Efficiency Monitoring 200

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

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2023

Almost two decades ago, a Google experiment showed that fast-loading transactions are more important to customers than content quality—even small increases in transaction delay result in substantially more abandoned sessions. Most retailers work with multiple carriers to handle deliveries, resulting in disparate tracking systems.

Retail 201

Retail Logistics Innovation Analytics 201

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

Open Source 342

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 342

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

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations Ren et al., For example: “Red Hat and Suse normally required 6-18 months to optimise the performance an an upstream Linux kernel before it can be released as an enterprise distribution”, and. Google’s data center kernel is carefully performance tuned for their workloads.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

Engineering 175

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 175

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

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

However, with these benefits come complexities in terms of cloud management, Kubernetes observability, and automation, making it imperative for enterprises to address these intricacies to enhance reliability, performance, and resource usage. Watch the “ Dynatrace and Google Cloud: Intelligent Kubernetes Observability and Automation ” webinar.

Google 224

Google Cloud Infrastructure Metrics 224

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. Agustinus Theodorus.

Cache 126

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

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. To see more of the exciting things that went on at Dynatrace Perform 2023, check out the Perform guide.

Best Practices 215

Best Practices Internet Internet Cloud 215

Dynatrace

APRIL 1, 2022

For more information, see Host performance monitoring with Dynatrace. Operating systems. Future Dynatrace OneAgent operating systems support changes. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 June 2022. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 July 2022.

Operating System 130

Operating System Java Google Servers 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

According to Forrester Research, the COVID-19 pandemic fueled investment in “hyperscaler public clouds”—Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. According to a data from Dimensional Research, 95% of respondents say visibility problems have prompted an application or network performance issue.

AWS 212

AWS Cloud Lambda Azure 212

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

By analyzing real-time data, AI-based models can: Adjust the allocation of resources in response to demand Boost business performance Reduce unnecessary expenditures Lead to significant cost savings Improve scalability Operational Efficiency through Automation Automation is a significant way AI enhances cloud operations.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

It focuses on aligning organizational needs with cloud services, balancing performance and cost, and ensuring compliance, security, and effective cost management. Pick combinations that are not just affordable but also high-performing. Find that sweet spot where the costs and performance balance out just right.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130