Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. WebGL 2 launched for other platforms on Chrome and Firefox in 2017.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Tools and CI systems help them monitor progress & prevent regressions. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Some systems show median RTTs near ~100ms for 3G users.

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB. They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

These compiled systems for letters and symbols, which are representations of sounds and information, get a lot of use and are a large part of graphic communication. Fast forward to the early 1960s, phototypesetting systems appeared. Instead, we need to address multiple factors within the design system. Large preview ).

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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. I wrote about using CPU-Z to benchmark the Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 processor in an Azure VM in this article. Figure 1: CPU-Z Benchmark Results for LS16v2.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Running this on the two systems saw similar results. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. Try changing the kernel clocksource. include <sys/time.h>

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Test Device Recommendations # Per our methodology from last year which uses the 5-8 year replacement cycle for a PC, we update our target date to late 2017 or early 2018, but leave the average-selling-price fixed between $600-700. So what did $650, give or take, buy in late 2017 or early 2018? was a system properly localised?

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Randon ASCII

APRIL 17, 2018

When you own all of the code then this may involve some back of the envelope estimates, competitive benchmarking, or intuition tuned by experience. When dealing with a closed box like Microsoft’s NTFS file system it’s trickier to know if things could be running faster than they are. I then worked with the tool’s author to get a fix.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. To update our global baseline from 2017, we want to update our priors on a few dimensions: The evolved device landscape. The Moto G4 , for example. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. Right now, widely-used benchmarks for AI code generation (e.g.,

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Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). His keynote address from O’Reilly Fluent 2017, Reflecting on 20 years on the web , is a must-see. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine until October 2017 when he passed the baton to the remarkable Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

We won't know the actual single-threaded performance of these processors until they have been released and benchmarked by neutral third-party testers. These include your overall server CPU capacity, your single-threaded CPU performance, your memory density and capacity, your total I/O capacity, and your SQL Server 2017/2019 license costs.

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John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

A peculiar throughput limitation on Intel’s Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) Introduction: In December 2017, my colleague Damon McDougall (now at AMD) asked for help in porting the fused multiply-add example code from a Colfax report ( [link] ) to the Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) processors here at TACC. FMAs/cycle.

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John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Introduction: In December 2017, my colleague Damon McDougall (now at AMD) asked for help in porting the fused multiply-add example code from a Colfax report ( [link] ) to the Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) processors here at TACC. A peculiar throughput limitation on Intel’s Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing). FMAs/cycle. .

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This file was introduced in this commit in 2017, with the purpose of improving the performance of user programs that determine aggregate memory statistics. Following through the single_open function , we will find that it uses the function show_smaps_rollup for the show operation, which can translate to the read system call on the file.

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