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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

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 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.

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Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters

CSS Wizardry

Strap yourself in; here is a non-exhaustive list presented in no particular order: Latency: As above, we’re counting a trip out to and a return trip from the server. This is why serving your content from a CDN is so important: even in the internet age, being geographically closer to your customers is advantageous.

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Web Standards

KeyCDN

These standards allow the web to be free and accessible to anyone that has an internet connection, essentially evening the playing field for those surfing the web. The Internet before standards Before the World Wide Web, the internet existed almost exclusively to provide pages of full text information. Basically, it was boring.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

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.

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Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research

Smashing Magazine

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. More after jump!

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Towards a Reliable Device Management Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it. In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware.

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