Speed Curve

MARCH 17, 2025

Downtime makes headlines: 2015 – 12-hour Apple outage cost the company $25 million 2016 – 5-hour outage caused an estimated loss of $150 million for Delta Airlines 2019 – 14-hour outage cost Facebook an estimated $90 million It's easy to see why these stories capture our attention.

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Metrics Website Airlines Speed 66

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Since it’s launch in December 2015, Let’s Encrypt has steadily grown to become the largest CA in the Web PKI by certificates issued and the fourth largest known CA by Firefox Beta TLS full handshakes. Eventually, we may marvel that there was ever a time when Web traffic traveled over the Internet as plaintext.

Internet 119

Internet Internet Open Source Transportation 119

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

In 2014 and 2015 respectively, AWS opened offices in Stockholm and Espoo, Finland. The airline has also been able to scale quickly to cope with spikes in seasonal traffic, cutting application latency and improving the overall customer experience. AWS was crucial to the successful launch of WOW air’s U.S.

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AWS Airlines Latency Games 107

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Adoption is now really starting to explode in 2015 as more and more businesses understand the power analytics has to empower their organizations. The City of Chicago is one of the first to bring sensors throughout the city that will permanently measure air quality, light intensity, sound volume, heat, precipitation, wind and traffic.

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Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 107

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. In May 2015, Vox Media wrote about the slowness of their site and commitment to make them faster.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. I also shared setting the clocksource in my talks and in my 2015 [Linux tunables] post. The CentOS flame graph: The Ubuntu flame graph: Darn, they didn't work.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Tasktop

DECEMBER 27, 2019

I start my day by making sure my teenagers have had breakfast, have all their electronics (preferably fully charged), have their backpacks, and make it out the door on time with my husband to head into Nashville, Tennessee traffic! When I started at Tasktop in 2015, I was a Senior Pre-Sales Engineer.

Software Engineering 75

Software Engineering Traffic Virtualization Engineering 75

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. youtube]: [link] [slideshare]: [link] [interesting talks]: [link] [Linux Profiling at Netflix]: /blog/2015-02-27/linux-profiling-at-netflix.html [2014]: /blog/2015-03-03/performance-tuning-linux-instances-on-ec2.html html [Introducing Nitro]: [link]

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 53

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

One question I’ve often encountered is, “Why do we need HTTP/3 so soon after HTTP/2, which was only standardized in 2015?” For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. In the early days of the Internet, encrypting traffic was quite costly in terms of processing.

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. youtube]: [link] [slideshare]: [link] [interesting talks]: [link] [Linux Profiling at Netflix]: /blog/2015-02-27/linux-profiling-at-netflix.html [2014]: /blog/2015-03-03/performance-tuning-linux-instances-on-ec2.html html [Introducing Nitro]: [link]

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

The move to the cloud is projected by 2015 see a reduction of 30% in IT infrastructure costs, which amounts to $7.2 ITAR is the International Traffic in Arms Regulatory framework which stipulates for example that data must be stored in an environment where physical and logical access is restricted to US Persons.

AWS 88

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 88

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies. In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. Again, this was shaped by the market trends and the increasing importance of both of this software.

Artificial Intelligence 89

Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 14, 2019

That’s what it was called back in 2015 when the team working on the service wrote up a detailed paper about the optimizations Flywheel applied , and why. Perhaps the most significant difference between the Lite pages announcement and Data Saver as we knew it is that Lite pages work over HTTPS traffic. Data Saver !==

Google 63

Google Traffic Cache Servers 63

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

It was developed by Facebook in 2012 and released open-sourced in 2015. GraphCMS has a generous free tier of 1 million API operations requests per month and 500 GB assets traffic. In this article, we’ll be using the free tier of 1 million API operations per month and 500 GB asset traffic.

Open Source 112

Open Source Website Mobile Code 112

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Fortunately we have a reference point: In 2015, a private company unleashed the Hibernia Express Cable, running from New Jersey to England. – Yahoo saw a 9% increase in traffic to every 400 milliseconds of webpage speed improvement. Speed is worth the investment.

Internet 44

Internet Internet Latency Speed 44

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Because the HTML parser stopped, all network traffic also stopped (because no other HTML tags were parsed to initiate HTTP requests). In late 2015, the median was 10 synchronous scripts and 2 asynchronous scripts. It wasn't just IE7 that did this - all browsers behaved this way back then. Enter the Preloader.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

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.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Testsigma

JUNE 5, 2021

As the number of websites has increased with time, so has the source of traffic leading to that website. In 2015, 35% of the internet traffic came from mobile devices, 6 years later, the number is 54.8%. These are showcased to prove a single point — how important a mobile phone is!

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Testing Tools 52

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 Internet of things (IoT) – Number of IoT devices 2015-2025 Statista. In addition to that, some libraries and tools like Webpack, Iconic, and lighthouse are also utilized to make specific functionalities to the apps. Smart cities.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. In May 2015, Vox Media wrote about the slowness of their site and commitment to make them faster.

Performance 100

Performance Speed Google Media 100

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. I also shared setting the clocksource in my talks and in my 2015 [Linux tunables] post. The CentOS flame graph: The Ubuntu flame graph: Darn, they didn't work.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. I also shared setting the clocksource in my talks and in my 2015 Linux tunables post. The CentOS flame graph: The Ubuntu flame graph: Darn, they didn't work.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

Reactjs has the capability of server-side rendering, which offers a power boost to the SEO of a web page or an application and helps in fetching more organic traffic. React Native was used for the very first time in the year 2015 by Facebook for developing mobile applications. Power boost to Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Mobile 52

Mobile Open Source Virtualization Speed 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. In real-life world, most products aren’t even close: an median bundle size today is around 417KB , which is up 42% compared to early 2015. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools.

Performance 112

Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. compared to early 2015. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Metrics Media 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. In real-life world, most products aren’t even close: an average bundle size today is around 400KB , which is up 35% compared to late 2015. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools.

Performance 111

Performance Cache Network Metrics 111