Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

2015-2020: Overhead As part of production rollout I did many performance overhead tests, which I've described publicly before: The overhead of adding frame pointers to everything (libc and Java) was usually less than 1%, with one exception of 10%. Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.)

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Java Cache Google Hardware 137

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.”

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

In the show, Google is portrayed by the fictional company Hooli, which is after Pied Piper’s intellectual property. The funny thing is that, while being far from a startup, Google does indeed have a powerful compression engine in real life called Brotli. This article is about my experience using Brotli at production scale.

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Cache Website Servers Open Source 83

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> Google spent more on the SoC for the Pixel 4a and enjoyed a later launch date, boosting performance relative to the A51.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Released just four years ago in 2015, Scylla has averaged over 220% year-over-year growth in popularity according to DB-Engines. In fact, according to ScyllaDB’s performance benchmark report, their 99.9 Google Cloud. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) was the second most popular cloud provider for ScyllaDB, coming in at 30.4%

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Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Devices and networks have evolved too: Alex Russell @slightlylate An update on mobile CPUs and the Performance Inequality Gap: Mid-tier Android devices (~$300) now get the single-core performance of a 2014 iPhone and the multi-core perf of a 2015 iPhone. The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively.

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