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Site-Speed Topography

CSS Wizardry

When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. Now, let’s move on to gaps between First Contentful Paint and Speed Index. More interestingly, let’s take a look at Speed Index vs. Largest Contentful Paint.

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Automating DevOps practices fuels speed and quality

Dynatrace

Still, while DevOps practices enable developer agility and speed as well as better code quality, they can also introduce complexity and data silos. Software development is often at the center of this speed-quality tradeoff. Automating DevOps practices boosts development speed and code quality.

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Performance Optimization in ETL Processes

DZone

As we continue to transition into an era where data is not just an asset but the currency of the digital age, the pressures on ETL processes have increased exponentially. It’s a multidimensional answer that goes beyond speed. Speed is certainly a factor, but it's also about resource optimization and cost efficiency.

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Secrets Detection: Optimizing Filter Processes

DZone

While increasing both the precision and the recall of our secrets detection engine, we felt the need to keep a close eye on speed. In a gearbox, if you want to increase torque, you need to decrease speed. So it wasn’t a surprise to find that our engine had the same problem: more power, less speed.

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Site-Speed Topography Remapped

CSS Wizardry

This is an update to my 2020 article Site-Speed Topography. Around two and a half years ago, I debuted my Site-Speed Topography technique for getting broad view of an entire site’s performance from just a handful of key URLs and some readily available metrics. What Is Site-Speed Topography? No more false starts and dead ends.

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Presto® Express: Speeding up Query Processing with Minimal Resources

Uber Engineering

Slow Presto® queries can hinder data-driven operations. At Uber, we designed Presto express to achieve a 50% improvement in the end-to-end SLA for 70% of queries using query analysis, real-time insights, and resource isolation.

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Incremental Processing using Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg

The Netflix TechBlog

by Jun He , Yingyi Zhang , and Pawan Dixit Incremental processing is an approach to process new or changed data in workflows. The key advantage is that it only incrementally processes data that are newly added or updated to a dataset, instead of re-processing the complete dataset.