Percona

JANUARY 5, 2023

To speed up the above query we need to create an appropriate index so that the query can be executed in minimal time and have less impact on server performance. ibd Now, you can proceed to drop the swapped table without locking the main table or can use this technique as well to speed up the drop: Speed Up Your Large Table Drops in MySQL.

Traffic 87

Traffic Engineering Speed Storage 87

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 13, 2014

A step up is to measure the Speed Index of a page instead. Speed Index doesn’t really bother with what happens at on load. As UIE pointed out back in 2001 , task completion has a huge impact on perceived performance. Instead, it looks how quickly the majority of the page gets painted to the browser. Don’t stop with launch.

Metrics 49

Metrics Speed Efficiency Performance 49

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

In the 2000s we had a showdown of two popular blog publishing platforms — MovableType in 2001 and WordPress in 2003. In Designing The Perfect Navigation , Vitaly will explore 100s of practical examples of better mega-dropdowns , hamburgers, carousels, modals and filters. Online, and live. Aug 31 & Sep 1, 2021. Large scale blogs.

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

VoltDB

JUNE 21, 2024

In 60’s and 70’s, “AI” as a concept existed only in cinema and TV, with the show Knight Rider featuring a sentient Pontiac Firebird and the deeply unbalanced “HAL 9000” stealing the show in the movie, “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Some companies only discover their speed (or performance) issues after building elaborate data and ML chains.

Speed 52

Speed Engineering Media Java 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Both Xen and KVM have had many performance and security improvements, and workloads can now be tuned to run at almost bare metal speeds (say, a 3% loss or less). When I first joined Sun in 2001, it was believed that Sun was too big to fail, as well. Outside of EC2, many other providers are deploying on KVM.

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 31, 2023

I saw this play out while I was at Sun Microsystems as the dot com bubble burst in 2001–2004. Simplify processes to reduce bureaucracy and management overhead, speed up time-to-value, and take advantage of the gaps in the market that appear as competitors fail.

AWS 98

AWS Energy Innovation Strategy 98