Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. Next-generation video codecs, supported in many modern chips, but also a licensing minefield. Necessary for building competitive video experiences, including messaging and videoconferencing. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps. getUserMedia().

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004. Webp is based on intra-frame coding from the VP8 video coding format. High-Efficiency Video Coding ( HEVC ) is the successor of H.264, Advanced Video Coding ( AVC ) format. 264, a.k.a.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Almost from day one, we knew that the software we were building would not be the software that would be running a year later. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. Build evolvable systems. Primitives not frameworks. Automation is key.

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Tech News Gather

JULY 19, 2023

Otherwise, you may not be able to locate enough appropriate hardware and end up having to often switch between different programs. Considerations for App Security while Programming a Smart Home Smart home software can’t be developed without first addressing security problems during flutter app development.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Hardware resources. Software that’s running. It’s crucial for a page to load at considerable speed with all the images, videos, content, and all other elements of the page. Hardware Resources.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Hardware gets better, sure. Software teams can reduce the environmental impact of device manufacturing, even if they don’t make devices themselves. Durable software not only saves the expense of frequent product overhauls; it also reduces the temptation of unnecessary device upgrades. It makes sense.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Since MongoDB usually works with a replica set, it is possible to increase this parameter to get better performance: # edit /etc/mongod.conf storage: journal: enabled: true commitIntervalMs: 300 WiredTiger cache For dedicated servers, it is possible to increase the WiredTiger(WT) cache. By default, it uses 50% of the memory + 1 GB.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

. ## Observability Here's the big picture of performance observability tools on Linux, from my [Linux performance] page, where I also have diagrams for other tool types, as well as videos and slides of prior Linux performance talks: I also have a USE Method: Linux Performance Checklist , as a different way to navigate and apply the tools.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing).

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice.

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