MachMetrics

JANUARY 13, 2021

Webpagetest.org is one of the premier page speed auditing services in the industry. The post Catchpoint Buys WebPageTest – How the Acquisition Affects the Webperf Community appeared first on MachMetrics Speed Blog. In September of 2020, big news was released – Catchpoint would be acquiring WebPageTest. Who is Catchpoint?

Open Source 64

Open Source Network Speed Engineering 64

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

It comes set to SQL Server 2008 compatibility (level 100), but we will start with a more modern setting of SQL Server 2017 (level 140): ALTER DATABASE StackOverflow2013 SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL = 140 ; The tests were performed on my laptop using SQL Server 2019 CU 2. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

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

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

## References I've reproduced the talk references 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? Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

was defined in RFC 5246 10 years ago, back in August 2008. 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. Now, 10 years later a faster, stronger, and more reliable version of TLS has been released. support for all customers.

Transportation 67

Transportation C++ Network Testing 67

PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

However, the speed of a computer in FLOPS can vary depending on the number of bits used in the representation of the floating point numbers in the tests. You might have noticed that there is a turning point in 2008 where the increase in performance of the 500 th machine slowed down slightly. The Top500 list (Nov 2018).

Energy 40

Energy Benchmarking Efficiency Website 40

Tasktop

MAY 16, 2019

Established in 2008, we bring a comprehensive approach that combines extensive proficiency in all aspects of software development, and practical experience in management. Companies of all sizes invest in DevOps for two major reasons: to save money and to speed the development. Tell us about Trinity.

Software 45

Software Software DevOps Government 45

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

I was doing a lot of builds because I was doing build-speed investigations and these crashes were interfering with my ability to do measurements. This bug shows up from Server 2008 R2 (Windows 7) up to the latest stable build of Windows 10 and OS fixes will take a while to propagate so you might as well be careful.

Programming 79

Programming Hardware Cache Code 79

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2021

Shippers, facing excessive capacity after the financial crisis of 2008, either went out of business, merged, or did deals to fill their ships to capacity. Optimization of the oceangoing containership fleet came at the cost of the efficiency of the rest of the supply chain into which it was integrated.

Transportation 52

Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

From 2008 to 2013, the Chrome project was based on WebKit, and a growing team of Chrome engineers began to contribute heavily "upstream." This brings us to the final link in the chain of structural security mitigations: the speed of delivering updates to end-users.

Engineering 112

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Most notably, way back in 2008, Pat built a little open-source tooI called WebPageTest (now owned by Catchpoint) that has served as the biggest arrow in our collective web performance quiver for years. Pat has contributed so much to the web, and to web performance specifically.

Performance 52

Performance Best Practices Open Source Software Engineering 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Here are some examples: Neue Haas Grotesk (1956), Helvetica (1957), Arial (1982), Bau (2002), Akkurat (2004), Aktiv Grotesk (2010), Acumin (2015), Real (2015); Frutiger (1976), Myriad (1992), Monotype SST (2017), Squad (2018), Silta (2018); Collis (1993), Novel (2008), Elena (2010), Permian (2011), Lava (2013).

Performance 123

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 123

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

Higher memory speed and bandwidth. AMD's biggest challenge is going to be convincing customers to actually buy AMD-platform servers, since Intel has been so dominant in the server market since the Nehalem architecture era back in 2008. Single-threaded CPU performance is the one relative weak point of the AMD EPYC 7742 processor.

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

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 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

There is an alternative perspective that is far more optimistic : digital companies drive down costs through hyper-efficiency (speed, automation and machine scale) and price transparency. Ride sharing services have added driver/fleet capacity and accelerated speed-of-access for local transportation service.

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Innovation 52

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In 2008 or so, when data scientist emerged as a job title, it was widely ridiculed as a nonjob: the thought that people who just worked with data could be scientists, or employ the rigors of their time-honored methods, was literally laughable in many circles. Improve time to market/speed of operations. Cross-sell more products.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 40

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

While hardware such as intelligent SANs, Solid State Disk, and other advancements have helped speed things up, wasted space in index can translate to wasted space in the buffer pool as well as wasting more I/O. Fragmentation occurs through regular operations such as inserts, updates and deletes.

Servers 49

Servers Azure Hardware Database 49

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Nowadays, there are three built-in tracers that you should know about: - **ftrace**: since 2008, this serves many tracing needs, and has been enhanced recently with hist triggers for custom histograms. It's fast, but limited in places, and usually only suited as a single-user tool (there are workarounds).

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

Intel server processors have historically delivered significantly better single-threaded CPU performance and lower power consumption than competing AMD processors since the Intel Nehalem microarchitecture in 2008.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46