The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University 2015. 1:00pm Eastern Standard Time the Personalisation / Homepage Team for Etsy are in a conference room kicking off a lunch-and-learn session on the personalised feed feature on the Etsy.com homepage.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. But I also love solving issues quickly, and sometimes that means just asking colleagues or searching the Internet. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

My journey into performance started in the late 1990s, while I was working for an elearning provider and discovering the challenges of delivering rich content over the internet. I’ve written a couple of books , spoken at conferences , and become an organiser of London’s Web Performance Meetup. Why SpeedCurve?

Retail 52

Retail Internet Internet Education 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. In case you are interested, at the same conference I also gave a talk on [BPF Internals]. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This included SysAdmin magazine, which contained articles from various experts including Amy Rich, and a couple of advertisements: One was to submit your own articles to the magazine for publication (by writing to the editor, Rikki Endsley) and another was to attend USENIX conferences in the US and learn directly from the experts!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

Eric asked me to give one of the keynotes at the end of the first day, and invited local Denver people to join the conference for an AI focused meetup that included the final three keynotes, the drinks and snacks reception and some additional talks in the evening.

Social Media 95

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 95

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Earlier this month I spent a week at the OpenStack conference. But once you realize that there are, in fact, several OpenStack conferences happening at the same time and place, it makes more sense. Bear in mind that the internet currently takes 4ms from New York to Philadelphia.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

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.

Latency 48

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 48

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

From day-to-day conversations to tech conferences, it’s not a topic that gets much air time. And for many internet-era companies, developing quality products at speed is necessary to gain market share and avoid being disrupted. I’m surprised that we don’t talk about incentives more often.

Technology 59

Technology Technology DevOps Energy 59

Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 14, 2018

The area he was in was served by satellite internet access, and experienced significant latency (a floor of 506 milliseconds) and packet loss (between 50-80% was typical). A local caching server, meant to speed up commonly-requested sites and reduce bandwidth usage, is a “man in the middle”.

Cache 64

Cache Mobile Servers Latency 64

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Earlier this month I spent a week at the OpenStack conference. But once you realize that there are, in fact, several OpenStack conferences happening at the same time and place, it makes more sense. Bear in mind that the internet currently takes 4ms from New York to Philadelphia.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Rigor

JUNE 20, 2019

Brewer co-founded mPulse (now part of Akamai) and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences about web performance. Then, gather and share RUM data alongside business metrics to build support and ask, “Are there ways – without disrupting the overall functionality of the site – that we can speed things up a little bit?”.

Performance 45

Performance Social Media Metrics Monitoring 45

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Most of us work on connections that are typically quite a bit faster than that of the average internet user. In the early days of the web when we were browsing the internet via a dialup connection, improving performance meant removing the images from your site. I think this myth stems more from a lack of awareness. 21% less searches.

Performance 40

Performance Energy Google Internet 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Both Xen and KVM have had many performance and security improvements, and workloads can now be tuned to run at almost bare metal speeds (say, a 3% loss or less). The odd time we hit them, we'll take the "oops message" – a dump of the kernel stack trace and other details from the system log – and search the Internet.

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Then along came the internet, so they set up a completely new department to build and operate online services. Product-aligned Aligning by products confers high levels of autonomy to each department. Innovation Speed Departments can move fast due to their high levels of autonomy. a data warehouse to avoid data silos).

Design 40

Design Innovation Mobile Google 40

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

One of the most significant announcements of the entire conference to me was that of per-function concurrency control. That means that 3GB functions might not see a linear speed bump for primarily single threaded functions. API Gateway can now be used to provide an internet-accessible public front to web services enclosed within a VPC.

Serverless 40

Serverless Lambda AWS Traffic 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”.

Performance 109

Performance Network Latency Servers 109

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others. We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world. Here is our (ever-growing!)

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

(If you're new to performance, Core Web Vitals is a set of three metrics – Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift, and Interaction to Next Paint – that are intended to measure the rendering speed, interactivity, and visual stability of web pages.) WebPerfDays The WebPerfDays un-conference is back with a vengeance.

Retail 52

Retail Mobile Energy Metrics 52