Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In just this past month we've had HSBC , ARM , Missguided , and most recently at re:Invent 2016 , Trainline , talking with us about how they are using AWS to transform and scale their businesses. I have been humbled by just how much our UK customers have been able to achieve using AWS technology so far.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 15, 2019

In 2014, we discussed 4 of the top MongoDB GUIs: MongoVue, MongoHub, RockMongo, and Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo), and again in 2016: MongoDB Compass, Robo 3T, Studio 3T, and MongoBooster. Here are some of the improvements they’ve made since our last update in 2016: Now supports Linux versions. The Best Mongo GUI’s of 2016.

Database 40

Database Servers Availability Monitoring 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In the remainder of 2016 and inq 2017, we will launch another four AWS regions in Canada, China, the United Kingdom, and France, adding another nine AZs to our global infrastructure footprint. It brings the worldwide total of AWS Availability Zones (AZs) to 38, and the number of regions globally to 14.

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

TL;DR : To serve users at the 75 th percentile ( P75 ) of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight improvement on last year's budgets , thanks to device and network improvements. This is an ethical crisis for the frontend. 2023 Content Targets #.

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Performance Mobile Network Latency 120

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

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Performance issues surrounding Availability Groups typically were related to disk I/O or network speeds. While we were confident in the design of SQL Server 2012, several customers reported to us performance problems that did not appear to be with disk subsystems, CPU, or networks. one without a replica).

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Yet this explosion of internet sites and the network protocols and APIs connecting them ended up creating the need for more programmers. Programs were designed and built by humans, not AI, but much of the work itself was done by special-purpose predecessors to todays general purpose AIs. legal and economic systems) or actors (e.g.,

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Programming Google Infrastructure Internet 145

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications. Mobile First.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity. Sustainable Web Design.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

These criteria have been designed to ensure that sites which invoke prompts are reliable, fast, and engaging. In January 2015 I designed the criteria that Chrome uses to trigger “Add to Homescreen” prompts. Instead, this article focuses on the strictest common criteria to ensure broad installability as of late 2016.

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Mobile Network Education Design 54

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools. I like using Fiddler , and when I inspect the network requests I see that there are indeed some old URLs and redirects floating around. This way, we’re limiting the number of network requests necessary.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 94

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The median user is on a slow network.

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Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

At the time of the last Confluence run, the gap had stretched to nearly 1000 APIs, doubling since 2016. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. Delayed five years.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Every technical challenge in this design space is paired with an even more daunting governance problem. De-duplication can prevent multiple copies on disk, but we're out of luck on reducing network costs. These privacy requirements put challenging constraints on the design of a shared cache. Trust Falls #.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 89

VoltDB

AUGUST 27, 2024

Volt Active Data (Volt) is a sophisticated real-time data platform intricately designed with multiple critical components, including high-speed data processing, in-memory storage, and ACID-compliant transactions. Partitioning a network for a Volt node. Why Jepsen Testing? Crashing and recovering an entire cluster. split brain’).

Testing 52

Testing Database Network Systems 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

Today we are introducing the new Basic Installer experience for SQL Server 2016 Express , SQL Server 2016 Developer , and SQL Server 2016 Evaluation Editions. We actually launched this functionality for SQL Server 2016 Express Edition when SQL Server 2016 RTM was announced but didn’t really promote this.

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Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. What is the limited resource that they control and monopolize? It’s not our data. It’s our attention.

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Social Media Google Internet Internet 133

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

With Luminary’s 21 years of experience in the digital space, my experience of 17 years in the CMS space as well as our focus on Headless since 2016, here are my two cents on what you should look out for. Things To Consider When Choosing A Headless CMS. Microservices architecture. Omnichannel. For content authors.

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Cache Website Mobile Google 145

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Design: Performance is the gap between Figma mockups and the user experience of products for many, but not all , users. The extent to which a product performs well, the higher its likelihood of behaving in accordance to the approved design spec. Reduced network and device capacity correlate with other access challenges.

Performance 99

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 99

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

This information can then be used to set up tests within a synthetic monitoring data platform such as Rigor to test how a user experience those flows on every type of device, network, connection, and location. Ultimately, the key to surviving a peak event is to have very good CDN cache designs.

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Website Cache Traffic Ecommerce 74

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

from wpostats, 2016 ). Factors that impact on CLS: loading ads without a designated room. Now imagine if the previous test were conducted with a stable connection and you still have to test it with a 3G connection as many users still having to use a relatively slower network. according to statistics provided by mPulse.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

SQL Server 2016 brought us STRING_SPLIT , a native function that eliminates the need for many of the custom solutions we’ve needed before. STRING_SPLIT() in SQL Server 2016 : Follow-Up #1. STRING_SPLIT() in SQL Server 2016 : Follow-Up #2. UPDATE: September 2nd, 2021 (Originally published July 26th, 2012.).

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C++ Servers Testing Performance 46

John McCalpin

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

In the latest (October 2016) revision of Intel’s Instruction Extensions Programming Reference , Intel has disclosed a fairly dramatic departure from these “traditional” approaches. It is not clear that any compiler will ever use this instruction — it looks like it is designed for Kazushige Goto ‘s personal use.

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. Any asset that carries the no-store directive will always hit the network, no matter what. Jake Archibald , 2016. Patrick McManus , 2016. Yoav Weiss , 2016.

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Cache Latency Strategy Servers 270

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Chaos engineering matured at organizations such as Netflix, and gave rise to technologies such as Gremlin (2016) , becoming more targeted and knowledge-based. Intelligence from chaos testing funnels back to developers who can implement design changes that make software more durable and improve production quality. Blast radius.

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 264

Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

This CSS is usually render-blocking , so the browser won’t even render the website content until it has finished downloading and parsing the CSS file, resulting in a poor UX and performance on slower or unreliable networks. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. More after jump! With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others.

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Best Practices Website Architecture Media 145

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Follow him on Twitter @ RickByers and be sure to watch the video of his conversation at Chrome Dev Summit 2016 , where he discussed the ways Chrome is “improving predictability for developers.” Find his writing on progressive web apps, responsiveness, and mobile-first design across the web , and follow him on Twitter at @ grigs.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

When it comes down to how WordPress is programmed, one thing is certain: it doesn’t follow the M odel- V iew- C ontroller (MVC) design pattern that many developers are familiar with. on December 6th, 2016. Security concerns. So, What Exactly Is A Decoupled WordPress? Working With WordPress REST API. Setting Up A Project.

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Cache Website Speed Testing 88

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The implementation of emerging technologies has helped improve the process of software development, testing, design and deployment. billion in 2016. The growing demand for IoT-testing is the government’s gradual acceptance of smart cities’ concept, which is why businesses are keen to incorporate IoT into their networks.

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Artificial Intelligence Software Software IoT 92

Testsigma

DECEMBER 8, 2019

It has been since 2016 that a major IT firm WIPRO has been pushing for the application of hyper-automation to all their processes in their own firm. According to Gartner , Hyper automation is a technology trend to look out for in 2020. IoT or Internet of Things is an example of that. 75% of all website traffic runs through Google.

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IoT Software Software Testing 78

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

Public API as -a-service has become a good business model: examples include social networks like Facebook/Twitter, messaging as a service like Twilio, and even credit card authorization platforms like Marqeta. At the same time, it was not originally designed that way. So can we use it as our main datastore? voting','maven'] ? ?

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