https://goo.gl/GnHJxJ
A short script describing how a system's performance is not sufficient to define its overall effectiveness, and a brief explanation on how to estimate such performance. The examples provided consider military systems, but the principles can be applied to a wide range of systems, virtually from a simple nail to a complex mainframe or a satellite.
Tags: #performance
A short script describing how a system's performance is not sufficient to define its overall effectiveness, and a brief explanation on how to estimate such performance. The examples provided consider military systems, but the principles can be applied to a wide range of systems, virtually from a simple nail to a complex mainframe or a satellite.
Tags: #performance
www.academia.edu
Effectiveness: basic considerations and estimate
A "food for thoughts" paper on basic principles relating performance to effectiveness
https://hackernoon.com/practical-scaling-techniques-for-web-sites-554a38dbd492#.nur4kcgh8
Tags: #performance #scalability #webdev #database
Tags: #performance #scalability #webdev #database
Hacker Noon
Practical scaling techniques for web sites
After 8 years of working on high-volume web sites, I’ve seen a lot of interesting scaling techniques. While it’s true that very specific…
https://tech.lendinghome.com/practical-guide-to-postgresql-optimizations-d7b9c2ad6a22#.hozmkzq5e
Tags: #database #postgreSQL #performance
Tags: #database #postgreSQL #performance
Medium
Practical Guide to PostgreSQL Optimizations
Basic proficiency with PostgreSQL is one of the highest-leverage skills an engineer can have. Even a cursory understanding of its internals…
https://research.googleblog.com/2017/03/announcing-guetzli-new-open-source-jpeg.html
A "cookie" which "creates high quality JPEG images with file sizes 35% smaller than currently available methods"... well, delicious!
Tags: #Google #performance #algorithms
Sent us by @jakub96
A "cookie" which "creates high quality JPEG images with file sizes 35% smaller than currently available methods"... well, delicious!
Tags: #Google #performance #algorithms
Sent us by @jakub96
Googleblog
Announcing Guetzli: A New Open Source JPEG Encoder
https://www.linux.com/news/event/nodejs/2017/3/slaying-monoliths-netflix-nodejs
Tags: #NodeJS #performance #scalability
Tags: #NodeJS #performance #scalability
Linux.com | The source for Linux information
Slaying Monoliths at Netflix with Node.js
The growing number of Netflix subscribers -- nearing 85 million at the time of this Node.js Interactive talk -- has generated a number of scaling challenges for the company. In his talk, Yunong Xiao, Principal Software Engineer at Netflix, describes these…
http://www.zdnet.com/article/think-firefox-quantum-is-fast-try-firefox-58-out-next-week-says-mozilla/
Tags: #performance #mozilla #internet
Tags: #performance #mozilla #internet
ZDNet
Think Firefox Quantum is fast? Try Firefox 58, out this week, says Mozilla | ZDNet
The incoming Firefox 58 brings faster page loads thanks to a new compiler and streaming compilation, reports Mozilla.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120504043127/http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2006/11/the_c_is_efficient_language_fa.php
Tags: #programming #c #performance
Tags: #programming #c #performance
web.archive.org
The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy : Good Math, Bad Math
I came across an article yesterday about programming languages, which hit on one of my major peeves, so I can't resist responding. The article is at greythumb.org, and it's called Programmer's rant: what should and should not be added to...
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/19/how-facebook-configures-its-millions-of-servers-every-day
Tags: #technology #performance #facebook
Tags: #technology #performance #facebook
TechCrunch
How Facebook configures its millions of servers every day
When you’re a company the size of Facebook with more than two billion users on millions of servers, running thousands of configuration changes every day involving trillions of configuration checks, as you can imagine, configuration is kind of a big deal.…