Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

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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] India's speed test medians are moving quickly, but variance is orders-of-magnitude wide, with 5G penetration below 25% in the most populous areas.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

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 ). 1:06pm reports of the personalised homepage having issues start appearing from multiple sources.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

” Tammy, Steve and Cliff at Velocity Conference circa 2015. Traditionally, we’ve spent a lot of time focusing on entitled groups as it relates to performance – fast connection speeds, devices with high-end CPUs, low-latency geographies. Building a more inclusive web.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

Update: Some modern drives after 2015 are sealed with [helium].) It seemed to have several set speeds, and when pushing hard it would try a faster speed for a couple of seconds, then a faster one, until it found the fastest it could operate (presumably it tries faster speeds until it begins to get sector-ECC errors).

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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. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web.

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Anyway, the following patch seems to make the load average much more consistent WRT the subjective speed of the system. Some people have found values that seem to work for their systems and workloads: they know that when load goes over X, application latency is high and customers start complaining. One system with a ratio of 1.5

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

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