Improving performance by prefetching product pages from Etsy Search
• Rarely are there opportunities for big, bold, game-changing improvements in web performance. • The Speculation Rules API (SRA) is a recent browser development that offers just su
Performance
What's new in two: May 2025
• Redis 8 GA released, delivering 87% faster commands and 2x higher throughput. • 30+ performance boosts: 18% faster replication, 16x query engine power. • Redis Open Source rename
Redis 8 is now GA, loaded with new features and more than 30 performance improvements
• Redis 8 GA released, now the fastest, most scalable version yet. • Performance gains: up to 87% faster commands, 2x throughput, 18% replication speed. • Redis Query Engine delive
Squeezing every millisecond: How we rebuilt the Datadog Lambda Extension in Rust
• Rebuilt Datadog Lambda Extension in Rust, slashing cold start latency by 82%. • Reduced memory footprint by 40%, cutting usage from 55 MB to just 7 MB. • Shifted from heavyweig
Istio: The Highest-Performance Solution for Network Security
• Ambient mode delivers unmatched encrypted throughput in Kubernetes, surpassing competitors. • Zero‑trust security is built on baseline encryption, balancing complexity and perfor
Scaling in the Clouds: Istio Ambient vs. Cilium
• Istio Ambient vs. Cilium performance evaluated at enterprise scale. • Architecture differs: Cilium uses eBPF/WireGuard; Istio relies on ztunnel in user space. • Test involved 500
Arm Introduces The Cortex-X4, Its Newest Flagship Performance Core
• Cortex‑X4 delivers 15% performance boost over Cortex‑X3, marking fourth generation with double‑digit IPC gains. • Achieves gains with under 10% area increase, keeping cache sizes
Arm Introduces A New Big Core, The Cortex-A720
• Cortex‑A720, Arm’s new big core, replaces A715 for next‑gen mobile and edge devices. • Offers up to 20% power efficiency improvement over the previous A715 core. • Supports Armv9