Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

ACM Sigarch

MARCH 18, 2019

How many buffers are needed to track pending requests as a function of needed bandwidth and expected latency? Can one both minimize latency and maximize throughput for unscheduled work? These models are useful for insight regarding the basic computer system performance metrics of latency and throughput (bandwidth). Little’s Law.

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Systems Latency Performance Analytics 60

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

ACM Sigarch

MARCH 25, 2019

How many buffers are needed to track pending requests as a function of needed bandwidth and expected latency? Can one both minimize latency and maximize throughput for unscheduled work? The M/M/1 queue will show us a required trade-off among (a) allowing unscheduled task arrivals, (b) minimizing latency, and (c) maximizing throughput.

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Systems Latency Performance C++ 53

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Performance issues surrounding Availability Groups typically were related to disk I/O or network speeds. As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated. Our design for SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014 is still proven and meets the demands for many of our customers.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites.

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Systems Cache Website Network 63

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Macbook Air (2014). Macbook Air (2014). Macbook Air (2014). Macbook Air (2014). On powerful devices, like my Macbook Air (2014), parse and execution time was negligible. It’s a device actively being sold by a few prepaid networks. The result was a 10x reduction in startup latency. Firefox 31.

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Latency Google Hardware Servers 41

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

And here's an excerpt from [Linux] today (include/linux/sched/loadavg.h): #define EXP_1 1884 /* 1/exp(5sec/1min) as fixed-point */ #define EXP_5 2014 /* 1/exp(5sec/5min) */ #define EXP_15 2037 /* 1/exp(5sec/15min) */. 90491 N|rnberg (Germany) Consulting+Networking+Programming+etc'ing 42. Network I/O? Which type of I/O?

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Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Delayed three years ( Chrome 40, November 2014 vs. Safari 11.1, Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. Delayed five years. Gamepad API. Delayed three years [8].

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Here's some output from my zfsdist tool, in bcc/BPF, which measures ZFS latency as a histogram on Linux: # zfsdist. Tracing ZFS operation latency. At my employer we sometimes use SR-IOV for direct network interface access, and NVMe for direct disk access. Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C x series.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency.

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AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. That's where we built many pioneering networking technologies, our next-generation software for customer support, and the technology behind our compute service, Amazon EC2.

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AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

The pool of resources, at this time, is the CPU, memory, and networking resources of Amazon EC2 instances as partitioned by containers. networks ports, memory, CPU, etc). To be robust and scalable, this key/value store needs to be distributed for durability and availability, to protect against network partitions or hardware failures.

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Latency Architecture AWS Open Source 166

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

They can run applications in Sweden, serve end users across the Nordics with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and more. We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Telenor Connexion. Our AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region is open for business now.

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AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124