All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Performant – The service would need to be able to maintain consistent performance in the face of diverse customer workloads.

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Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 17, 2018

OSes usually show you virtual memory and resident memory, shown as the "VIRT" and "RES" columns in top. Short durations can be useful for understanding how well a WSS will fit into the CPU caches (L1/L2/L3, TLB L1/L2, etc). That's the working set size. It is used for capacity planning and scalability analysis. 16.570 403.66 32.980 403.66

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Cache Latency C++ Programming 71

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Web Performance APIs.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 16, 2018

OSes usually show you virtual memory and resident memory, shown as the "VIRT" and "RES" columns in top. Short durations can be useful for understanding how well a WSS will fit into the CPU caches (L1/L2/L3, TLB L1/L2, etc). That's the working set size. It is used for capacity planning and scalability analysis. 16.570 403.66 32.980 403.66

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Cache Latency C++ Programming 40