Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

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. These are big numbers!

Metrics 66

Metrics Website Airlines Speed 66

KeyCDN

MAY 14, 2019

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve added the Image Processing feature! How Does Image Processing Work? The Image Processing feature is available on all Pull Zones. Enabling the Origin Shield setting is required because all image processing will occur at our shield locations. For example, the query string ?

Processing 13

Processing Cache Network Latency 13

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

And because the product would be both the business, as well as servicing the business, speed and constant innovation was a key goal , and the entire initiative was supported by management from the top down. Look for opportunities to build “self-healing” processes and take common, time-consuming corrective actions and automate them.

Games 197

Games Cloud Best Practices Innovation 197

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Without such rules, configuring your environments can result in chaos, with losses in flexibility, speed, and stability. Monaco also fits to the GitOps process and mindset – where one describes the desired state of the whole system using a declarative specification for each environment. Example #4 – Automated release validation.

Software 246

Software Software Open Source DevOps 246

High Scalability

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Going back we had two dedicated 1,200-baud lines: high-speed lines at the time. Doug Engelbart : It was the very first time the world had ever seen a mouse, seen outline processing, seen hypertext, seen mixed text and graphics, seen real-time videoconferencing. Cables of course going down into the room at both ends. Homemade modems.

Internet 141

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 141

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2019

While automation use cases often require programmatically processable results in JSON format, there is also often a requirement for the direct import of Dynatrace data into Tableau or Excel. Here’s an example set of results in a CSV export that can easily be processed by Excel: Convenient date and time selector.

Metrics 140

Metrics Efficiency Monitoring Azure 140

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

While it’s important to check various speed metrics , the Web Almanac uses data from the Chome UX Report which focuses on how Chrome users actually experience the web. As we mentioned in our article Average Page Load Times for 2020 , mobile page speed is a huge deal going forward. First Contentful Paint. Page Weight.

Performance 52

Performance Speed Website Mobile 52

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) was the focus of the QZFS paper which used this new hardware device to speed up file system compression.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

RowsAdded int , StartTime datetime2 , EndTime datetime2 ; Next, I need to create a table to provide affinity – we don't ever want more than one process running on any scheduler, even if it means losing some time to retry logic. we want to have multiple processes inserting into separate. ALTER TABLE dbo. BatchQueue ADD.

Speed 113

Speed Processing Servers Storage 113

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video. However, all the other connections have a downlink speed that’s significantly lower than 20 MBPS. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

Network 144

Network Speed Website Mobile 144

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

This follow-up post revisits the question for SQL Server 2019, using a larger number of rows. This machine has four i7 CPUs (hyperthreaded to 8) with a base speed of 2.4GHz. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance. The Sort only has 19 rows to process, so it consumes only 1ms or so.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. km university campus. Throughput and latency.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. In 2019, we sold 500k tickets a year, so our operations are complex and we need to showcase it with our landing pages in an appealing and fast manner. But first, let’s talk about the importance of speed improvement. How about errors?”

Google 113

Google Architecture Servers Speed 113

Percona

JULY 15, 2023

Introduction to MySQL Indexes Indexes in MySQL are database structures used to optimize data retrieval speed and efficiency. They are a roadmap that speeds up the process of finding specific rows in a large table. As such, index design must strike a balance between improved query speed and efficient data modification.

Virtualization 80

Virtualization Speed Database Efficiency 80

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We’ve been covering papers from VLDB 2019 for the last three weeks, and next week it will be time to mix things up again. I really do want to cover this one at some point, along with Implementation of cluster-wide logical clock and causal consistency in MongoDB from SIGMOD 2019. for machine generated emails sent to humans). Yes please!

Blockchain 46

Blockchain Hardware Google Speed 46

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The Region will be in the heart of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, and we're aiming to have it ready by early 2019. EWA expects to bring the 100 MW solar farm online in 2019, making it the country's first utility-scale renewable energy project. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally.

Cloud 119

Cloud Education Energy Government 119

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Advances in browser content processing. India has been the epicentre of smartphone growth in recent years, owing to the sheer size of its market and an accelerating shift away from feature phones which made up the majority of Indian mobile devices until as late as 2019. So what did $150USD fetch in 2019? " package.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

## References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Tasktop

OCTOBER 29, 2019

And with that, DOES 2019 was off to the races as attendees sought to the tools and knowledge to determine how they and their organization can continuously reach thatthat goal. Likening data sharing to a baton in a relay race, Cornago underlined that it’s about the speed with which data flows but how smoothly the handoff is.

DevOps 9

DevOps Healthcare Engineering Speed 9

High Scalability

AUGUST 16, 2023

After investigation, the regulator found that Swedbank had not followed their change management process and issued a SEK850M (~85M USD) fine. These processes don’t work because complying with them is no guarantee that changes are being made safely and securely. This violation is therefore neither minor nor excusable.”

Monitoring 100

Monitoring Processing Systems DevOps 100

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

2019-04-17T12:30:16+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. A DNS lookup is the process of turning a human-friendly domain name like example.com into the machine-friendly IP address like 123.54.92.4 Speed Up Next-Page Navigations With Prefetching ,” Addy Osmani. (il). Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Drew McLellan.

Performance 109

Performance Servers Games Cache 109

Tasktop

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Breaking down silos and seamlessly connecting and streamlining data and process flows are integral to finding new solutions, enhancing security, and creating personalized and engaging citizen experiences.” William Eggers, Mike Turley, Government Trends 2020, Deloitte Insights, 2019. Subscribe now.

Government 105

Government Programming Metrics Software 105

Smashing Magazine

JULY 11, 2019

2019-07-11T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-07-11T11:39:07+00:00. I found the printmaking process incredibly satisfying. It’s an independently published magazine which “hones in on the people, passion and processes behind the art form of printmaking.” Andy Clarke May 2019. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters.

Design 102

Design Media Mobile Energy 102

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

2019-07-29T14:00:59+02:00. 2019-07-29T13:06:57+00:00. 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. Chris Ashton. per GB respectively.

Cache 99

Cache Mobile Google Network 99

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

We're burning our inheritance and polluting the ecosystem on shockingly thin, perniciously marketed claims of "speed" and "agility" and "better UX" that have not panned out at all. Speeds will be much slower than advertised in many areas , particularly for rural users. 4GiB of RAM.

Performance 120

Performance Mobile Network Latency 120

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

They are run on SQL Server 2019 CU9 , on a laptop with 8 cores, and 16GB of memory allocated to the SQL Server 2019 instance. This uses hardware, typically a crystal oscillator, that produces ticks at a very high constant rate regardless of processor speed, power settings, or anything of that nature. Batch Mode Serial Execution.

Servers 95

Servers Tuning Architecture Performance 95

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

Further, open source databases can be modified in infinite ways, enabling institutions to meet their specific needs for data storage, retrieval, and processing. They’re often preferred for storing and processing business intelligence data by organizations that require fast SQL queries.

Open Source 107

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 107

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

As per April 2019 data of Statistica[1], the global mobile population accounted for 4 billion unique users. In this blog, we deep dive into the various aspects of mobile website testing, including the tools that can accelerate the testing process. Speed and Accuracy. Why should you focus on Mobile Website Testing?

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8 Image Compression Just how much of a website is made up of images?

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

I'm only aware of a few such instances: Apple's 2019 response to the U.S. This process can be messy and slow, but it never creates a political blockage for developing new capabilities for the web. The most convincing argument in Apple's 2019 response to the U.S. Apple's Security Argument #.

Engineering 112

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Without being able to measure the speed at which something is working, we can’t tell if the changes being made are improving the performance, having no effect, or even making things worse. Measuring Performance With Server Timing. Drew McLellan. 2018-10-30T03:40:14+02:00.

Servers 89

Servers Performance Metrics Database 89

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The technology is being targeted as a way to detect fraud, improve the efficiency of claims processing, and simplify the flow of data and payments between insurers and reinsurers. It is also involved with a project to speed insurance payments to health providers. Momentum takes shape across the business landscape.

Blockchain 74

Blockchain Retail Innovation Healthcare 74

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

According to StatCounter , as of September 2019, Google Chrome holds 63.72% browser market share across the globe. Network Filmstrip The network filmstrip feature allows you to see how your page renders from start to finish by grabbing screenshots throughout the loading process. and add the profile with your specifications.

Google 85

Google Website Network Media 85

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

Now, I am advising people to strongly consider AMD for SQL Server workloads as the AMD EPYC "Rome" processors are released in Q3 of 2019. One year after a Tock release Intel would take that same microarchitecture (with some minor improvements), and use a shrink of the manufacturing process to create a Tick release.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46