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

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Since then, technology has evolved, and what started with naked-eye observations has become a sophisticated and accurate technology to measure eye movements. Eye-tracking is nothing but new, but recent developments in technology made the methodology accessible to businesses of all sizes. “. Mobile UX Research.

Mobile 112

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 112

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Generative AI has been the biggest technology story of 2023. Executive Summary We’ve never seen a technology adopted as fast as generative AI—it’s hard to believe that ChatGPT is barely a year old. When 26% of a survey’s respondents have been working with a technology for under a year, that’s an important sign of momentum.

Open Source 106

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 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. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1% small (thanks @cperciva ). ## 3.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

” That came to mind when a friend raised a point about emerging technology’s fractal nature. Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards.

Hardware 97

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. In 2010, Netflix introduced a technology to switch production software instances off at random — like setting a monkey loose in a server room — to test how the cloud handled its services.

Engineering 234

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 234

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. Text, we are repeatedly told, is going out of fashion; all people are interested in now are videos and interactive experiences. MB uncompressed. KG per hour.

Website 135

Website Energy Internet Internet 135

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on [YouTube]: The slides are [online] and as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 9, 2022

Together, we can also develop and share ideas around technology trends. OrionX has an ambitious agenda, to identify the biggest technology trends and track how those trends influence each other, and to translate that to business strategy and market execution in a very broad set of markets.

IoT 52

IoT Best Practices AWS Media 52

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

The traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead. no support for USB, video, and audio devices). Approaches to isolation. Wherever possible Firecracker makes use of components already built into Linux (e.g.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

There are no videos of the talks, so I tend to be a bit more experimental and try out new content at GlueCon. The maturing of various AI technologies has also hit some tipping points and is evolving extremely quickly week by week. If you haven’t seen it in action, you should watch the latest video by @AIDRIVR.

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

Thanks to Session Replay you can even see the full user journey in a 4k video like replay. The latter is done through Dynatrace’s SaaS Vendor RUM capability. For all scenarios Dynatrace not only captures page loads, clicks, swipes and form submissions. Dynatrace Real User Monitoring can also capture information for real user session replay.

Lambda 175

Lambda Monitoring Cloud DevOps 175

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. (The What about UHD video? SIGCOMM’20.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens. SPU: Stream Processing Unit (SPU) is related to the specialized hardware to process the data streams of video. TPU: Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is Google’s specialized hardware for neural network.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware. This technology is already being used in places like Prague and in suburbs of London. Cloud enables video analytics. Video is analyzed to help stores understand traffic patterns.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and web application technologies have grown tremendously over the years. Hardware resources. With the evolution of cloud technologies, such as Single Page Applications (SPAs), Web APIs, and Model View Controller (MVC), network latency has become a crucial factor to be monitored. Hardware Resources.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

There may be multiple people in the room during a video call, not just the person you are calling. But when a new baby comes home, being able to do video calling with close relatives may become a higher priority. This is why people have made a business out of setting up home stereo and video systems. People can walk in and out.

Google 121

Google Games Technology Technology 121

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

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Also, the redo log capacity is not the same as the redo log buffer, so it mixes different technologies and concepts. However, it’s important to note that the optimal value may vary depending on your specific workload and hardware configuration. 16) and monitoring the server’s performance.

Social Media 120

Social Media Database Servers Cache 120

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on YouTube : The slides are online and as a PDF : first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video). It was a great privilege.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

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. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1% small (thanks @cperciva ). ## 3.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Advocates of any technique or technology can be a bit heavy-handed when it suits them if they’re not being careful–myself included. Hardware gets better, sure. It’s a fair question, I suppose. But I’m not sure if that’s the case here. It seems blazingly fast compared to the 0.42 This isn’t just hyperbole.

Performance 111

Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 6, 2018

The initial details were a bit scant, but Erik Runyon took the time to jot down some information he found in a video from WWDC. Some features are turned off (video, service workers, fonts, etc) and text-heavy pages automatically activate Reader Mode. This enables lower-powered hardware to serve web content without overtaxing itself.

Hardware 60

Hardware Media Tuning Servers 60

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

everything from the frontend API for netflix.com, to machine learning training workloads, to video encoders. The building blocks of multi-tenancy are Linux namespaces , the very technology that makes LXC, Docker, and other kinds of containers possible. It runs a wide variety of workloads from various parts of the company?—?everything

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

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.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Resources can be any element i.e., hardware, software, or infrastructure which are necessary to carry out tests. To help you debug the test cases easily, Testsigma provides logs, screenshots and videos of failures. Blog image credit: Technology vector created by starline – www.freepik.com. Debug test cases on cloud.

Cloud 59

Cloud Testing Mobile Scalability 59

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2020

On the other hand, although big tech went from villain to hero in a short period of time because of the crisis, increased dependency on technology will bring renewed scrutiny to big tech. On the one hand, many regulations have been lightened to make it easier for companies to conduct business during the crisis. Corporate IT costs will rise.

Airlines 52

Airlines Government Hardware Technology 52

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In the context of IT (Information Technology), an incident is simply an event or issue that disrupts normal operation or quality of service. ITSM is one of the practices of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, or ITIL. Software services still require physical devices and hardware for them to function.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Most jobs I was offered were related to older technologies like Prolog/Cobol. You do not need to trouble yourself with datasets, hardware, reporting or any of the usual pain points of JMeter, we’ll do it for you. How did you get into performance engineering? As most things in life, by chance. But there was one that piqued my interest.

Open Source 223

Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

rich multimedia (animations, video, audio). Huge reach, plus the licensing of On2's video codecs , made Flash the default video delivery mechanism for many years. a lab's worth of sensors , including: cameras (both still and video). In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

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. Arranging for Third-Party Compatibility and Integrations The integration of external services, such as security alarms and video monitoring, into your app requires careful planning.

Wireless 52

Wireless IoT Development Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world. Especially with plenty of code or video embeds, the performance was dropping quite significantly. That’s the one with plenty of video embeds. Unfortunately, many of our articles have them.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

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.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Different browsers running on different platforms and hardware, respecting our user preferences and browsing modes (Safari Reader/ assistive technologies), being served to geo-locations with varying latency and intermittency increase the likeness of something not working as intended. More after jump! On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

Network 145

Network Engineering Monitoring Availability 145

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).

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52