Speed Curve

JANUARY 19, 2025

Annie leads the Chrome Speed Metrics team at Google, which has arguably had the most significant impact on web performance of the past decade. It's really important to acknowledge that none of this would have been possible without the great work from Annie and her small-but-mighty Speed Metrics team at Google. Nice job, everyone!

Performance 98

Performance Google Speed Metrics 98

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors. Teachers can interact with their colleagues in professional learning networks.

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Innovation AWS Education Network 112

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 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

MachMetrics

JANUARY 13, 2021

Webpagetest.org is one of the premier page speed auditing services in the industry. Catchpoint has built a network of more than 800 test locations for their own platform, so it will be great to see that utilized for WPT. In September of 2020, big news was released – Catchpoint would be acquiring WebPageTest.

Open Source 64

Open Source Network Speed Engineering 64

Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

To overcome some of these challenges, we built our own Java-based player, complete with caching, content compression, and even bandwidth detection so it could switch between video, audio, and text versions of a course depending on network speed. Ultimately the business didn’t survive the dotcom bust, but it lit a spark.

Retail 52

Retail Internet Internet Education 52

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

was defined in RFC 5246 10 years ago, back in August 2008. TLS stands for Transport Layer Security which is a cryptographic protocol used to increase security over computer networks. It allows for even faster speeds due to 1 less round trip required. It has been quite some time since TLS underwent a major update.

Transportation 67

Transportation C++ Network Testing 67