Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. We already have 44 Availability Zones across 16 geographic Regions that customers can use today. 2017 continues a busy year for AWS in the Middle East.

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The talks are up on YouTube , including my own (behind a paywall, but the slides are freely available [1] ): The talk, like this post, is an update on network and CPU realities this series has documented since 2017. Speeds will be much slower than advertised in many areas , particularly for rural users. 2023 Content Targets #.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds. This was initially used via the ixgbe driver for speeds up to 10 Gbps, then the ena driver for speeds up to 25 Gbps.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 million requests per second.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. Daniel An, Google, 2017.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

That means that 3GB functions might not see a linear speed bump for primarily single threaded functions. Traffic shaping / canary deployment was pre-announced at Serverless Conf NYC in October, and this is now available. there’s no inline debugging available in the Lambda Console.) Also allows for creating new files in line.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Going forward, I'll produce both as top-line guidance. In the U.S., This nets out to 2.32

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. To address these challenges, architects must design robust and scalable MongoDB databases and adopt appropriate sharding strategies that can efficiently handle increasing workloads while ensuring continuous availability. What is sharding in MongoDB?

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SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Applying page or row compression (both online/offline) to the source before the affinitized copy (offline), to see if compressing the data first could speed up the destination. The downside to the latter is that, in SQL Server 2017, you cannot run this online… but you will be able to in 2019.

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Percona

AUGUST 4, 2023

For MySQL, both releases are made by the same company (Oracle), follow the same version numbering, and the Enterprise version is a superset of what is available in Community. in 2017; after that, major releases came every one to two years, with MariaDB 10.6 It is worth noting that MariaDB 5.2 and MariaDB 5.3 MariaDB 10.1

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? html [60s checklist]: /Articles/Netflix_Linux_Perf_Analysis_60s.pdf [re:Invent talk]: [link] [recommendation]: [link] [Nitro]: /blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtualization-2017.html Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

You can skip the WHERE clauses if you are running SQL Server 2017. OPTION ( MAXDOP 1 ) ; This time, only the COUNT_BIG aggregate achieves aggregate pushdown (SQL Server 2017 only). This is an optimization added at some point in SQL Server 2017 (my tests were run on CU16). Batch mode execution is all about speed.

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Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

In simple terms, an open source database is this: It’s a database with source code that is free and available to all. Open source standards and community support enable developers and DBAs to focus on accelerating feature creation and on enhancing availability, performance, scalability, and security.

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Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In the case of a query having an ORDER BY or GROUP BY and a LIMIT clause, the optimizer tries to choose an ordered index by default when it appears doing so would speed up the query execution. Currently, the optimizer hint for the flag ‘ prefer_ordering_index’ is not yet available till version 8.2.0.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

A 2017 study by Akamai says as much when it found that even a 100ms delay in page load can decrease conversions by 7% and lose 1% of their sales for every 100ms it takes for their site to load which, at the time of the study, was equivalent to $1.6 Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Perhaps surprisingly, users experience faster speeds over a mobile network than WiFi in at least 30 countries worldwide, including Australia and France. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 per GB respectively. Mbps upload.

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

TPC-H Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. HPE has already submitted a new official TPC-H result on SQL Server 2017 for a single-socket, HPE Proliant DL325 Gen10 1U server that was 743,750 QphH@1000GB. TPC-E Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. Higher memory speed and bandwidth. Higher memory density/capacity.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

It comes set to SQL Server 2008 compatibility (level 100), but we will start with a more modern setting of SQL Server 2017 (level 140): ALTER DATABASE StackOverflow2013 SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL = 140 ; The tests were performed on my laptop using SQL Server 2019 CU 2. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. Speed and Accuracy. Giving priority to mobile website testing does not mean that you have to perform testing on all ‘categories’ of mobile phones available in the market. Mobile Device Compatibility.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Removal also creates a performance cliff for content that assumes cache availability. One available proxy is the distribution of use from Google's hosted JS libraries. None of this holds. Thar be dragons.

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Today, this makes concurrency more important than ever, because it delivers two things: It hides latencies we have to deal with and cannot remove, from disk I/O latency to speed-of-light network latency; and it makes our code responsive by not introducing needless latencies of our own even when we’re not hiding someone else’s latency.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The fact that INP is already available in performance reports means we have an opportunity to familiarize ourselves with it today, in advance of its release. This is readily available in PageSpeed Insights and Google Search Console, not to mention DebugBear. That’s what this article is all about.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

There are many typefaces, and many of them are very similar or are nearly identical to previous or contemporary versions available. We want to allow accessibility via OpenType or stylistic options with the typeface, so they are available to use if needed. These points could be extended to language support as well.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. These VMs are not available in all regions, so you will want to check the availability in the Azure region that you are interested in using. The L3 cache size is 64MB. Memory (GiB).

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

I joined the team in early 2017, and I'm blown away at how quickly the years have flown by. Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. But Vitals have some limitations, such as: They're only available in Chromium-based browsers. We're officially in our tweens!

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Benchmarking Metrics Website Testing 72

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. If our example document wasn’t reliant on JavaScript to construct the <my-app> custom element, the contents of the document would likely be interactive as soon as enough CSS and content was available to render meaningfully. Maybe "ambush by JS"? First Load.

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KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

According to Monetate , the following conversion rate results were gathered for Q3 of 2017 until Q3 of 2018. The lower conversion rate on mobile could be due to a variety of reasons including the website not being responsive for mobile devices, the speed isn’t up to par, etc. There are many ways to speed up a slow website.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web development is evolving at a rapid speed with each passing year. And so, it optimizes the page loading speed and reduces the bounce rate. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017.

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Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2022

That number dropped to 46% in the 2017 version of the report but hit a plateau in 2019, where it remained at 46%. Ideally, traditional automation and no-code/low-code testing tools should maximize the speed and quality of software delivered to end-users. Check out various codeless testing tools available now!

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Testsigma

APRIL 27, 2020

According to the 2017 State of DevOps Report , those organizations that have employed DevOps practices spend 21 percent less time on unplanned work and rework, and 44 percent more time on new work which leads to higher efficiency. One of the things that are always overlooked in DevOps practices is continuous testing or automated testing.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

Studies show that in 2017, the worldwide failure rate of iOS apps was as high as 54%, with Android apps crashing 10% of the time. Not only will this help speed track the testing process, it will also help make the objectives clearer. Even a small bug will make consumers avoid, uninstall and leave bad reviews for your application.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 19, 2020

STELLA: report from the SNAFU-catchers workshop on coping with complexity , Woods 2017, Coping with Complexity workshop. Today’s choice is a report from a 2017 workshop convened with that title, and recommended to me by John Allspaw – thank you John! This search activity was “effortful and iterative.”

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Enprowess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Wix – Achieved high speed and lightness within the development of configurable navigations and screen choices. Its first release was in May 2017 and was rarely used by developers, but it continues its speedy growth and becomes more and more popular in the developer community. What is Flutter? – An overview. Flutter Overview.

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Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Each partition holds data that falls within a specific range, optimizing data handling and query speed. It’s a pretty common question around here, so let’s see what we can do about that. So, What is MySQL Partitioning? Additionally, MySQL 8.0

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Randon ASCII

APRIL 17, 2018

This weeks’ blog post covers a technique you can use to make all file operations on Windows run at one tenth their normal speed (or slower), in a way that will be untraceable for most users! Another instance of this problem was hit in November 2017 and is described here. Have you ever wanted to make these operations even slower?

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