igrigorik

POSTS

• AgentBoard: A Switchboard for AI in the Browser

  by igrigorik on 10/15/2025, 3:11 PM with 0 comments

• Using page speed in mobile search ranking

  by igrigorik on 1/17/2018, 5:13 PM with 37 comments

• Introducing the Chrome User Experience Report

  by igrigorik on 10/23/2017, 6:08 PM with 0 comments

• Stop Cross-Site Timing Attacks with SameSite Cookies

  by igrigorik on 8/26/2016, 4:26 PM with 0 comments

• Building Fast and Resilient Web Applications

  by igrigorik on 5/20/2016, 7:48 PM with 0 comments

• Google/proto-quic is a standalone library for QUIC

  by igrigorik on 4/4/2016, 6:16 PM with 8 comments

• Control Groups (cgroups) for the Web?

  by igrigorik on 3/1/2016, 6:57 PM with 0 comments

• Preload API: What Is It Good For?

  by igrigorik on 2/26/2016, 4:23 PM with 0 comments

• Don't lose user and app state, use Page Visibility

  by igrigorik on 11/20/2015, 8:53 PM with 0 comments

• Automating resource selection with Client Hints

  by igrigorik on 9/1/2015, 5:33 PM with 0 comments

• Eliminating Roundtrips with Preconnect

  by igrigorik on 8/17/2015, 6:37 PM with 0 comments

• Browser Progress Bar Is an Anti-Pattern

  by igrigorik on 6/25/2015, 5:13 PM with 0 comments

• HTTP/2: A New Excerpt from High Performance Browser Networking

  by igrigorik on 5/19/2015, 6:25 AM with 0 comments

• HTTP/2 (High Performance Browser Networking)

  by igrigorik on 4/27/2015, 4:59 PM with 0 comments

• Fixing the 'Blank Text' Problem

  by igrigorik on 4/10/2015, 5:02 PM with 0 comments

• Resilient Networking: Planning for Failure

  by igrigorik on 1/27/2015, 12:47 AM with 0 comments

• Capability Reporting with Service Worker

  by igrigorik on 12/15/2014, 6:33 PM with 0 comments

• No need to wait for ServiceWorker – speed up your site today

  by igrigorik on 12/11/2014, 6:11 PM with 7 comments

• Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup

  by igrigorik on 12/9/2014, 6:09 PM with 90 comments

• Extensible Web Resource Loading Manifesto

  by igrigorik on 10/2/2014, 6:01 PM with 0 comments

• Optimizing Webfont Selection and Synthesis

  by igrigorik on 9/16/2014, 5:00 PM with 0 comments

• Learning from Apple’s livestream perf fiasco

  by igrigorik on 9/10/2014, 4:05 PM with 0 comments

• Resource Hints: preconnect, preload, prefetch, prerender

  by igrigorik on 7/8/2014, 6:01 PM with 0 comments

• Script-injected "async scripts" considered harmful

  by igrigorik on 5/20/2014, 5:23 PM with 56 comments

• Uplink Latency of WiFi and 4G Networks

  by igrigorik on 4/21/2014, 5:04 PM with 0 comments

• Why is my CDN 'slow' for mobile clients?

  by igrigorik on 3/26/2014, 6:51 PM with 0 comments

• Is TLS Fast Yet?

  by igrigorik on 2/20/2014, 9:48 PM with 0 comments

• Optimizing Web Font Rendering Performance

  by igrigorik on 1/31/2014, 7:24 PM with 0 comments

• Optimizing Nginx TLS Time To First Byte

  by igrigorik on 12/16/2013, 7:17 PM with 12 comments

• Making the Web Faster with HTTP 2.0

  by igrigorik on 12/4/2013, 6:46 PM with 0 comments

• Configuring and Optimizing WebSocket Compression

  by igrigorik on 11/27/2013, 7:50 PM with 2 comments

• Please update old and buggy F5/BIG-IP firmware

  by igrigorik on 10/8/2013, 3:31 AM with 0 comments

• The Performance of Open Source Applications

  by igrigorik on 10/8/2013, 3:19 AM with 0 comments

• Retrospective: High Performance Browser Networking

  by igrigorik on 9/29/2013, 10:37 PM with 0 comments

• Pure ruby implementation of HTTP 2.0 protocol

  by igrigorik on 9/25/2013, 7:35 PM with 0 comments

• Automating DPR switching with Client-Hints

  by igrigorik on 8/29/2013, 6:49 PM with 0 comments

• Experimenting with QUIC

  by igrigorik on 6/27/2013, 6:03 PM with 13 comments

• Innovating with HTTP 2.0 Server Push

  by igrigorik on 6/12/2013, 6:01 PM with 0 comments

• Deploying WebP via Accept Content Negotiation

  by igrigorik on 5/1/2013, 8:38 PM with 0 comments

• Chrome DevTools can do THAT? Part II

  by igrigorik on 4/19/2013, 3:10 PM with 1 comments

• Say no to reimplementing the browser's parser in JavaScript

  by igrigorik on 4/6/2013, 6:08 PM with 0 comments

• HTTP 2.0 - draft 2

  by igrigorik on 4/4/2013, 12:48 AM with 0 comments

• Faster, smaller and more beautiful web with WebP

  by igrigorik on 3/7/2013, 8:42 PM with 0 comments

• Data compression proxy for Chrome for Android (beta)

  by igrigorik on 3/5/2013, 10:13 PM with 45 comments

• High Performance Networking in Google Chrome

  by igrigorik on 1/30/2013, 9:09 PM with 42 comments

• ngx_pagespeed - PageSpeed module for Nginx (*alpha*)

  by igrigorik on 1/23/2013, 9:38 PM with 0 comments

• Faster Websites: Crash Course on Web Performance

  by igrigorik on 1/15/2013, 6:19 PM with 0 comments

• Deploying New Image Formats on the Web

  by igrigorik on 12/18/2012, 6:14 PM with 5 comments

• Web Performance Anomaly Detection with Google Analytics

  by igrigorik on 11/30/2012, 8:32 PM with 0 comments

• by igrigorik on 11/19/2012, 8:25 PM with comments

• Wait, Chrome DevTools could do THAT? (video)

  by igrigorik on 11/14/2012, 10:25 PM with 0 comments

• Simple SPDY and NPN Negotiation with HAProxy

  by igrigorik on 10/31/2012, 6:17 PM with 1 comments

• Automating Web Performance with mod_pagespeed

  by igrigorik on 10/10/2012, 6:18 PM with 0 comments

• Make the web faster with mod_pagespeed, now out of Beta

  by igrigorik on 10/10/2012, 5:21 PM with 0 comments

• Apple's HTTP POST caching is a bug

  by igrigorik on 9/23/2012, 6:13 PM with 26 comments

• Ruby Security Reviewer's Guide

  by igrigorik on 9/20/2012, 5:54 PM with 0 comments

• Node-mruby embeds mRuby into node.js

  by igrigorik on 9/18/2012, 7:17 AM with 0 comments

• Web Fonts Performance: Making Pretty, Fast

  by igrigorik on 9/12/2012, 9:31 PM with 51 comments

• Daily, top new & top watched GitHub repos report, in your inbox

  by igrigorik on 9/4/2012, 3:02 AM with 3 comments

• Web Performance Power Tool: HTTP Archive (HAR)

  by igrigorik on 8/28/2012, 9:33 PM with 0 comments

• Latency: The New Web Performance Bottleneck

  by igrigorik on 7/19/2012, 5:54 PM with 1 comments

• Facebook announces SPDY support

  by igrigorik on 7/15/2012, 6:28 AM with 44 comments

• Map of Public (internet peering) Exchange Points

  by igrigorik on 7/7/2012, 9:43 PM with 0 comments

• SPDY & Secure Proxy Support in Google Chrome

  by igrigorik on 6/25/2012, 6:30 PM with 0 comments

• Debunking Responsive CSS Performance Myths - igvita.com

  by igrigorik on 6/14/2012, 4:55 PM with 0 comments

• Zipkin - distributed tracing by Twitter (aka Google Dapper)

  by igrigorik on 6/7/2012, 4:40 AM with 9 comments

• Chrome Networking: DNS Prefetch & TCP Preconnect

  by igrigorik on 6/4/2012, 7:26 PM with 27 comments

• Ruby 1.9 lands NaCl support, can run in Chrome

  by igrigorik on 5/17/2012, 10:34 PM with 72 comments

• All Presentation Software Is Broken - igvita.com

  by igrigorik on 5/14/2012, 7:24 PM with 5 comments

• F5 networks announced SPDY gateway

  by igrigorik on 5/8/2012, 4:21 PM with 5 comments

• SPDY Performance on Mobile Networks (23% improvement over HTTP)

  by igrigorik on 5/1/2012, 1:58 AM with 0 comments

• Making the Web Fast(er) one page at a time / RailsConf

  by igrigorik on 4/24/2012, 7:35 PM with 0 comments

• Global Site Speed Overview: How Fast Are Websites Around The World?

  by igrigorik on 4/19/2012, 4:40 PM with 1 comments

• Async, embeddable HN share button

  by igrigorik on 4/15/2012, 6:11 PM with 22 comments

• Driving Google Chrome via WebSocket API

  by igrigorik on 4/9/2012, 5:33 PM with 0 comments

• Measuring Site Speed with W3C Navigation Timing

  by igrigorik on 4/4/2012, 5:07 PM with 0 comments

• Google Hones M&A Strategy, Takes Dealmaking To New Levels

  by igrigorik on 3/23/2012, 2:33 AM with 0 comments

• GitHub Timeline Archive

  by igrigorik on 3/12/2012, 5:52 PM with 0 comments

• Twitter web + API is running on SPDY

  by igrigorik on 3/8/2012, 6:08 AM with 0 comments

• Google’s Rules of Acquisition: How to Be an Android, Not an Aardvark

  by igrigorik on 3/5/2012, 7:52 PM with 0 comments

• WebKit branch to support multiple VMs

  by igrigorik on 3/3/2012, 8:21 PM with 0 comments

• Work-Stealing & Recursive Partitioning with Fork/Join

  by igrigorik on 2/29/2012, 6:06 PM with 0 comments

• SPDY Protocol (draft 3) submitted to IETF

  by igrigorik on 2/23/2012, 9:52 PM with 20 comments

• LLInt: new JS interpreter in webkit with 2-2.5x speedup

  by igrigorik on 2/21/2012, 7:29 AM with 17 comments

• SSTable and Log Structured Storage: LevelDB

  by igrigorik on 2/6/2012, 7:20 PM with 7 comments

• Google Summer of Code 2012 is on!

  by igrigorik on 2/4/2012, 8:45 PM with -1 comments

• Building a Modern Web Stack for the Real-time Web

  by igrigorik on 1/18/2012, 6:41 PM with 33 comments

• Google Web Toolkit: GWT, Closure, NaCl, Dart & JS

  by igrigorik on 1/5/2012, 5:27 PM with 0 comments

• Developer Belief vs. Reality: The Case of the Commit Size Distribution

  by igrigorik on 1/1/2012, 8:24 PM with 0 comments

• Don't "Push" Your Pull Requests

  by igrigorik on 12/19/2011, 6:54 PM with 0 comments

• Web-VPN: Secure Proxies with SPDY & Chrome

  by igrigorik on 12/1/2011, 5:40 PM with 0 comments

• Faster Web vs. TCP Slow-Start

  by igrigorik on 10/20/2011, 3:56 PM with 4 comments

• Optimizing HTTP: Keep-alive and Pipelining

  by igrigorik on 10/4/2011, 7:21 PM with 1 comments

• Ruby (and others) in the Browser - RubyConf 2011

  by igrigorik on 10/1/2011, 6:55 PM with 0 comments

• Omnipipe - a simple experiment with "web pipes"

  by igrigorik on 9/22/2011, 8:09 PM with 0 comments

• Server-Sent Event Notifications with HTML5 & Goliath

  by igrigorik on 8/26/2011, 7:29 PM with 1 comments

• Rails 3 Asset Pipeline & Google Closure

  by igrigorik on 8/16/2011, 9:00 PM with 0 comments

• Protocol Buffers, Avro, Thrift & MessagePack

  by igrigorik on 8/1/2011, 7:39 PM with 24 comments

• Instant pages with HTML5 Visibility API & Page Pre-Rendering

  by igrigorik on 6/25/2011, 6:10 PM with 7 comments

• 0-60: Deploying Goliath apps on Heroku Cedar

  by igrigorik on 6/2/2011, 5:09 PM with 0 comments

• Stream(SQL) Event Processing with Esper

  by igrigorik on 5/27/2011, 5:11 PM with 5 comments

• Nginx talking to Ruby via Luajit & ZeroMQ

  by igrigorik on 5/7/2011, 5:50 PM with 1 comments

• Zero-config reverse proxies: HTTP SPDY 0MQ

  by igrigorik on 5/4/2011, 4:23 PM with 5 comments

• Intuition & Data-Driven Machine Learning

  by igrigorik on 4/20/2011, 6:24 PM with 4 comments

• VMware CloudFoundry: Ruby powered PaaS

  by igrigorik on 4/14/2011, 4:48 PM with 7 comments

• Life beyond HTTP 1.1: Google’s SPDY

  by igrigorik on 4/7/2011, 4:58 PM with 53 comments

• Mneme: Scalable Duplicate Filtering Service (Ruby, Redis bloomfilters, HTTP)

  by igrigorik on 3/24/2011, 5:50 PM with 1 comments

• InfoQ: Meet the Goliath of Ruby Application Servers

  by igrigorik on 3/21/2011, 2:01 PM with 0 comments

• Goliath: Non-blocking, Ruby 1.9 Web Server

  by igrigorik on 3/8/2011, 7:35 PM with 25 comments

• 312 TED talks on Technology - ranked by engagement

  by igrigorik on 3/4/2011, 4:08 PM with 0 comments

• 30+ New Ruby 1.9 Features, Tips & Tricks

  by igrigorik on 2/3/2011, 5:32 PM with 0 comments

• HandlerSocket: The NoSQL MySQL & Ruby

  by igrigorik on 1/14/2011, 4:54 PM with 0 comments

• VimGolf.com - real Vim ninjas count every keystroke

  by igrigorik on 12/28/2010, 7:14 PM with 79 comments

• Beyond Ruby: Mirah, Reia, Rite

  by igrigorik on 12/14/2010, 6:47 PM with 13 comments

• Concurrency with Actors, Goroutines & Ruby

  by igrigorik on 12/2/2010, 6:03 PM with 0 comments

• Message routing with Ruby & ZeroMQ devices

  by igrigorik on 11/17/2010, 6:28 PM with 0 comments

• Tarantool: in-memory DB powering mail.ru

  by igrigorik on 11/16/2010, 11:23 PM with -1 comments

• Open Source Search with Lucene & Solr

  by igrigorik on 10/22/2010, 4:15 PM with 24 comments

• Case for Smartphone Web Activity Feeds

  by igrigorik on 10/5/2010, 5:46 PM with 0 comments

• Online Schema Change for MySQL

  by igrigorik on 9/15/2010, 9:27 PM with 0 comments

• ZeroMQ: Modern & Fast Networking Stack

  by igrigorik on 9/3/2010, 5:18 PM with 44 comments

• Multi-core, Threads & Message Passing

  by igrigorik on 8/18/2010, 5:24 PM with 2 comments

• Rails 3 Internals: Railtie & Creating Plugins

  by igrigorik on 8/4/2010, 4:59 PM with 0 comments

• Speed Tracer server-side tracing with Ruby/Rack

  by igrigorik on 7/19/2010, 7:48 PM with 0 comments

• Truth in Numbers (Wikipedia) trailer

  by igrigorik on 7/10/2010, 10:56 PM with 0 comments

• Weak Consistency and CAP Implications

  by igrigorik on 6/24/2010, 5:11 PM with 1 comments

• Recent developments in nginx.conf scripting

  by igrigorik on 6/22/2010, 4:20 AM with 0 comments

• Async Rails 3 stack

  by igrigorik on 6/20/2010, 12:42 AM with 1 comments

• Rails Performance Needs an Overhaul

  by igrigorik on 6/7/2010, 2:38 PM with 40 comments

• Scalable Work Queues with Beanstalk

  by igrigorik on 5/20/2010, 4:44 PM with 3 comments

• 689 TED talks ranked by engagement (spreadsheet)

  by igrigorik on 5/6/2010, 5:30 PM with 11 comments

• Distributed coordination with Apache Zookeeper

  by igrigorik on 4/30/2010, 6:30 PM with 7 comments

• High Concurrency MySQL @ Facebook #mysqlconf

  by igrigorik on 4/13/2010, 6:31 PM with 3 comments

• Untangling Evented Code with Ruby Fibers

  by igrigorik on 3/22/2010, 4:58 PM with 0 comments

• Data Serialization + RPC with Avro & Ruby

  by igrigorik on 2/16/2010, 6:38 PM with 0 comments

• ActiveRecord Job Resume: be different, be bold

  by igrigorik on 2/6/2010, 7:07 PM with -1 comments

• Cluster Monitoring with Ganglia & Ruby

  by igrigorik on 1/28/2010, 5:21 PM with 0 comments

• Distributed Ruby with the MagLev VM

  by igrigorik on 1/15/2010, 5:08 PM with 0 comments

• Top HN articles of 2009 by social engagement

  by igrigorik on 1/14/2010, 10:50 PM with 1 comments

• Flow Analysis & Time-based Bloom Filters

  by igrigorik on 1/6/2010, 5:50 PM with 0 comments

• Ruby & WebSockets: TCP for the Browser

  by igrigorik on 12/22/2009, 4:42 PM with 3 comments

• Future of RDBMS is RAM Clouds & SSD

  by igrigorik on 12/7/2009, 4:55 PM with 0 comments

• State of Ruby VM's: Ruby Renaissance

  by igrigorik on 11/20/2009, 10:07 PM with 3 comments

• Consuming XMPP PubSub in Ruby

  by igrigorik on 11/10/2009, 5:41 PM with 0 comments

• Nginx & Comet: Low Latency Server Push

  by igrigorik on 10/21/2009, 4:11 PM with 0 comments

• Advanced Messaging & Routing with AMQP

  by igrigorik on 10/8/2009, 4:40 PM with 5 comments

• Deploying JRuby apps on Google App Engine

  by igrigorik on 9/23/2009, 3:48 PM with 1 comments

• Collaborative Filtering with Ensembles (GitHub contest / Netflix challenge)

  by igrigorik on 9/1/2009, 6:14 PM with 0 comments

• Accessing post-Javascript DOM (server-side) with Aptana Jaxer

  by igrigorik on 8/25/2009, 5:43 PM with 0 comments

• Smart(er) Clients via ReverseHTTP & WebSockets

  by igrigorik on 8/18/2009, 3:35 PM with 0 comments

• Masking Latency & Failures with Squid Cache Server

  by igrigorik on 8/5/2009, 4:29 PM with 0 comments

• Extending Tokyo Cabinet DB with Lua

  by igrigorik on 7/13/2009, 4:38 PM with 5 comments

• HTTP PubSub: Webhooks & PubSubHubbub with Ruby

  by igrigorik on 6/29/2009, 4:15 PM with 0 comments

• Measuring & Optimizing for I/O: iostat, EBS and impact of architecture

  by igrigorik on 6/23/2009, 6:01 PM with 0 comments

• Profiling Ruby With Google's Perftools

  by igrigorik on 6/13/2009, 4:19 PM with 0 comments

• Easy Map-Reduce With Hadoop Streaming

  by igrigorik on 6/1/2009, 3:08 PM with 1 comments

• Fibers & Cooperative Scheduling in Ruby

  by igrigorik on 5/13/2009, 5:45 PM with 5 comments

• Open Source Software Apprentice

  by igrigorik on 4/27/2009, 4:12 PM with 0 comments

• Ruby Proxies for Scale, Performance and Monitoring

  by igrigorik on 4/20/2009, 7:34 PM with 1 comments

• Top Ruby blogs by engagement

  by igrigorik on 4/7/2009, 4:22 PM with 2 comments

• Henry Ford & Event Driven Architecture: Reinventing the assembly line

  by igrigorik on 4/6/2009, 3:02 PM with 3 comments

• Ruby Algorithms: Sorting, Trie, Priority Queue & Heaps

  by igrigorik on 3/26/2009, 4:03 PM with 0 comments

• Ruby Polyglot: Talking with Erlang

  by igrigorik on 3/20/2009, 7:41 PM with 0 comments

• Collaborative / Swarm Computing Notes: business, technology & applications

  by igrigorik on 3/7/2009, 5:17 PM with 0 comments

• Collaborative Map-Reduce in the browser

  by igrigorik on 3/3/2009, 4:35 PM with 15 comments

• Dynamic ActiveRecord Optimization with Scrooge

  by igrigorik on 2/27/2009, 4:17 PM with 0 comments

• Tokyo Cabinet DB: Beyond Key-Value Store

  by igrigorik on 2/13/2009, 3:46 PM with 21 comments

• Ruby 1.9 Internals: Ordered Hash

  by igrigorik on 2/4/2009, 9:53 PM with 11 comments

• Ruby Swarms: Visualizing Rails & Git

  by igrigorik on 1/27/2009, 7:20 PM with 5 comments

• Bridging MRI, JRuby & Rubinius with FFI

  by igrigorik on 1/15/2009, 10:41 PM with 0 comments

• Scalable Datasets with Bloom Filters and Ruby

  by igrigorik on 12/27/2008, 7:13 PM with 7 comments

• Ruby AST for Fun and Profit

  by igrigorik on 12/11/2008, 5:07 PM with 0 comments

• Concurrency is a Myth in Ruby (and Python)

  by igrigorik on 11/13/2008, 5:28 PM with 14 comments

• Scaling ActiveRecord with MySQLPlus + ConnectionPool

  by igrigorik on 10/27/2008, 2:56 PM with 0 comments

• Distributed Logging: Syslog-ng & Splunk

  by igrigorik on 10/22/2008, 3:40 PM with 0 comments

• Asynchronous HTTP Cache Validations + Ruby/EM Cache Server

  by igrigorik on 10/7/2008, 12:27 PM with 0 comments

• Performance & Load testing with Log Replay

  by igrigorik on 9/30/2008, 1:47 PM with 1 comments

• High-Performance DNS for the Cloud

  by igrigorik on 9/22/2008, 12:33 PM with 0 comments

• Keith Rarick: Building causes.com (3M dynamic views/day)

  by igrigorik on 8/21/2008, 3:13 PM with 0 comments

• Asynchronous Databases: DBSlayer and HTTP

  by igrigorik on 8/11/2008, 4:16 PM with 16 comments

• Fighting Technological Indulgences

  by igrigorik on 7/14/2008, 3:50 PM with 0 comments

• 6 Optimization Tips for Ruby MRI

  by igrigorik on 7/8/2008, 11:10 AM with 0 comments

• Splunk your distributed logs in EC2

  by igrigorik on 6/19/2008, 11:27 AM with 0 comments

• Ruby EventMachine - the speed demon!

  by igrigorik on 5/27/2008, 4:55 PM with 0 comments

• Load Balancing & QoS with HAProxy

  by igrigorik on 5/13/2008, 12:01 PM with 0 comments

• Memcached internals, tips & best practices

  by igrigorik on 4/22/2008, 4:32 PM with 1 comments

• Custom PuTTY color themes (for us lucky, Win devs)

  by igrigorik on 4/14/2008, 2:07 PM with 3 comments

• Agile Release & Testing Procedures - How, When, How much?

  by igrigorik on 4/7/2008, 11:11 AM with 1 comments

• AideRSS + GoogleReader = solve information overload

  by igrigorik on 4/1/2008, 3:32 PM with 3 comments

• Nginx and Memcached, an easy 400% boost in req/s

  by igrigorik on 2/11/2008, 5:55 PM with 13 comments

• Distributed Ruby Workers on EC2

  by igrigorik on 5/15/2007, 1:26 PM with 0 comments