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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf.

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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USENIX LISA 2018: CFP Now Open

Brendan Gregg

Apart from networking, attending conferences like LISA in person is an effective way to upgrade your skills: you can block out work interruptions and absorb new knowledge that's been neatly summarized into sessions. We first met each other at LISA, in addition to making many other important industry connections over the years.

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USENIX LISA 2018: CFP Now Open

Brendan Gregg

Apart from networking, attending conferences like LISA in person is an effective way to upgrade your skills: you can block out work interruptions and absorb new knowledge that's been neatly summarized into sessions. We first met each other at LISA, in addition to making many other important industry connections over the years.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. An obvious metric here is CPU usage, but memory usage and other forms of data storage also play their part. All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity.

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Faster Image Loading With Embedded Image Previews

Smashing Magazine

In the network tab of the developer console you can check that we have not loaded the complete image, but only a small part. Network console when loading the preview image ( Large preview ). Network console when loading the preview image as data URI ( Large preview ). Network console when loading the entire image (31.7

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