Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

PBM is a fully-supported community backup tool capable of performing cluster-side consistent backups in MongoDB for replica sets and sharded clusters. The speed of backup also depends on allocated IOPS and type of storage since lots of read/writes would be happening during this process. mongodump --host=mongodb1.example.net

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

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. If you put your whole website on CDN, technically you don’t need a large number of server infrastructure and CMS licenses.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 14 December 2011 07:00 PM. The new Sao Paulo Region provides better latency to South America, which enables AWS customers to deliver higher performance services to their South American end-users. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Comments ().

AWS 114

AWS Latency Storage Big Data 114

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 22 August 2011 07:40 PM. There are many success stories about the effectiveness of caching in many different scenarios; next to helping applications achieving fast and predictable performance, it often protects databases from requests bursts and brownouts under overload conditions. All Things Distributed.

Cloud 117

Cloud Cache AWS Storage 117

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 29 June 2011 09:55 AM. In Amazon Web Services there are similar dimensions that are forever important to our customers; scale, reliability, security, performance, ease of use, and of course pricing. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 18 August 2011 04:00 PM. For example, for data-critical workloads you might decide to run only the Task Group on Spot Instances, with the Core Group on On-Demand, while if you are performing application testing you may decide to run all Instance Groups using Spot Instances. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Big Data 111

Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 111