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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

Only in extreme circumstances does the cost (in processor time and I-cache footprint) translate to a tangible benefit - circumstances which usually resort to hand-coded assembly anyway. It shouldn't be 10%, unless it's cache effects. And for leaf routines (which never establish a frame), this is a non-issue.

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Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages (Part II)

The Morning Paper

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University 2015. This is part 2 of our look at Allspaw’s 2015 master thesis (here’s part 1 ). " Five infrastructure engineers and 3 product engineers were involved in the incident.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain. The Moto G4 , for example.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? They will provide a unique point of view when building features with designers and stakeholders.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation. MySQL runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, and other operating systems, letting users choose the platform that works best for their infrastructure.