The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

I was drawn in by the headline results here: This paper presents an analysis of how Linux’s performance has evolved over the past seven years… To our surprise, the study shows that the performance of many core operations has worsened or fluctuated significantly over the years. SOSP’19. Measuring the kernel. Headline results.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Speed Index.

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Nowadays, hardware and software are designed to conduct eye-tracking studies for marketing , UX , psychological and medical research , gaming , and several other use cases. billion by 2025 , being present in different segments and industries. This heatmap is a visual representation of the F-shaped pattern. More after jump!

Mobile 111

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

What I learned at GlueCon 2023 — Tipping Points and Generative AI The final slide of my GlueCon keynote featuring a sunset over a pool in Maui — picture by Adrian I’ve presented at GlueCon many times over the last decade or so.

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

I will be looking for distinct values in the BountyAmount column of the dbo.Votes table, presented in bounty amount order ascending. This machine has four i7 CPUs (hyperthreaded to 8) with a base speed of 2.4GHz. The Sort only has 19 rows to process, so it consumes only 1ms or so. The cost threshold for parallelism is set to 50.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] , Jul 2008 [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] , 2010 [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

From retail recommendations to genomics based product development, from financial risk management to start-ups measuring the effect of their new products, from digital marketing to fast processing of clinical trial data, all are taken to the next level by cloud based analytics. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

There were no pictures and even the formatting of the text could make it difficult to process. This language would have to exist regardless of hardware, location, culture, political beliefs, etc. While it was good for exchanging information, it was neither visually stimulating nor interesting to the common person.

Internet 56

Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. Honestly, this is not time-effective at all if you’re aiming for efficiency and speed. With this, you can match the DevOps speed seamlessly. Photo by freestocks on Unsplash.

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

Database 90

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 90

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Extending relational query processing with ML inference , Karanasos, CIDR’10. The vision is that data scientists use their favourite ML framework to construct a model, which together with any data pre-processing steps and library dependencies forms a model pipeline. " Query execution.

Processing 72

Processing Hardware Database Azure 72

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Such as INFO which gives statistics about the server, LATENCY LATEST which provides latency measurements in real time and MONITOR which allows observation of the client’s transmitted command at live speed. Setting Up RedisInsight Getting RedisInsight up and running is a simple process.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Or think of requesting a new drivers license which requires your implementation to reach out to many dependent systems, e.g. DMV, police records that are needed to kick off the process of renewing or issuing a new license.

Cache 195

Cache Architecture Database Government 195

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. With Azure Functions, engineers don’t have to worry about provisioning and maintaining underlying hardware; they simply upload their code, and it’s up and running seconds later. Dynatrace news.

Serverless 234

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 234

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

Thinking back on how SDLC started and what it is today, the only reasons for its success can be accounted to efficiency, speed and most importantly automation – DevOps and cloud-based solutions can be considered major contributors here (after all DevOps is 41% less time-consuming than traditional ops ). . Centralizes the Processes.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. With Azure Functions, engineers don’t have to worry about provisioning and maintaining underlying hardware; they simply upload their code, and it’s up and running seconds later. Dynatrace news.

Serverless 140

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 140

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. A request will be sent from the client-side and an HTTP check waits on the server port to get the message, process it, and then send back the response. Hardware resources. Processing and generating the response.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” This contains updated and new material that reflects the latest C++ standards and compilers, with a focus to using modern C++11/14/17 effectively on modern hardware and memory architectures. On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.”

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

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. Meanwhile, budget segment devices have finally started to see improvement ( as this series predicted ), thanks to hand-me-down architecture and process node improvements.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

When even a bit of React can be a problem on devices slow and fast alike, using it is an intentional choice that effectively excludes people with low-end hardware. I believe this range of mobile hardware will be illustrative of performance across a broad spectrum of device capabilities, even if it’s slightly heavy on the Apple side.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. The world didn't yet have pervasive multi-process browser sandboxing, JS JITs , or metal-speed binary isolation. Don't like the consequences?

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

This speeds up accesses and updates while offloading back-end database servers. Applications simply present a key to the distributed cache, and the cache’s client library finds the object, regardless of which server holds it. Moving code to where the data lives accelerates processing while minimizing network usage.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 52

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

This speeds up accesses and updates while offloading back-end database servers. Applications simply present a key to the distributed cache, and the cache’s client library finds the object, regardless of which server holds it. Moving code to where the data lives accelerates processing while minimizing network usage.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 52

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Advances in browser content processing. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. 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.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

cpupower frequency-info analyzing CPU 0: driver: intel_pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0 maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00 hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. This White Paper is for informational purposes only.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

It also allows the project to be loaded faster, which is pretty important in regards to the growing mobile share and new markets with slow connection speeds and fragmented internet coverage. Use Of Multiple Processes. instance spawned in each process fork ( instead of reusing the same one which will lead to growing RAM consumption).

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 98

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”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. For this reason sysbench presents a vastly more simplified workload than HammerDB. . driver: intel_pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 . hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 3.80

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Content Loaded, Start Render, Speed Index) — but from the experience of the user. This second metric measures the time between when the user interacts with a page, clicking on a link or a button for example, and when the browser processes that click. First Input Delay (FID).

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

After all, those are properties that browsers compete on, benefiting users in the process. In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. As OS and hardware deployed base integrate these components, the set of what most computers can do is expanded.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In parallel, the slowing of Moore’s Law means that moving to a new process node does not translate into significant boost in frequency and/or device density. Over the last two decades, processor designers have extracted significant performance by leveraging architectural solutions and process innovations. Extracting More ILP.

Architecture 67

Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 67