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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. In fairness, that was in the early 2000s, and site speed was barely on anyone's radar.

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Autonomous Cloud Enablement aka Scaling NoOps via Self-Service

Dynatrace

Over the years we have seen three major waves of evolution for us: Speed, Stability and Scale. In order to better explain why we are talking about Autonomous Cloud, what it means and how you can apply our lessons learned, let me explain the three waves of transformation in more detail: Wave one: DevOps to increase speed.

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Real-World Effectiveness of Brotli

CSS Wizardry

21 years later, in 2013, Google launched Brotli, a new algorithm that claims even greater improvement than Gzip! Put another way, file-size savings help you to cram data into lower bandwidth, but if you’re latency-bound, the speed at which those admittedly fewer chunks of data arrive will not change. decrease in file-size.

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Downtime vs slowtime: Which costs you more?

Speed Curve

Some of you may remember the Amazon outage of 2013, when the retail behemoth went down for 40 minutes. Some participants experienced normal speeds, while others experienced load times that were artificially throttled with a 500-millisecond network delay. Either way, you end up stranded on the side of the road.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

## 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

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

Some of the largest enterprises and public sector organizations in Italy are using AWS to build innovations and power their businesses, drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, and speed time-to-market. In 2013, we launched a dedicated program called AWS Activate. We are also focused on supporting start-up companies across Italy.

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

Brendan Gregg

## 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?