Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

To overcome some of these challenges, we built our own Java-based player, complete with caching, content compression, and even bandwidth detection so it could switch between video, audio, and text versions of a course depending on network speed. Ultimately the business didn’t survive the dotcom bust, but it lit a spark.

Retail 52

Retail Internet Internet Education 52

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.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the next post we’ll look at the detailed analysis of how a team at Etsy handled a particular incident on December 4th 2014, to see what we can learn from it. The Internet itself, over which these systems operate, is a dynamically distributed network spanning national borders and policies with no central coordinating agent.

Internet 98

Internet Internet Strategy Energy 98

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. What is the limited resource that they control and monopolize? It’s not our data. It’s our attention.

Social Media 108

Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

ACM Sigarch

MARCH 25, 2019

Assume that a computer must handle network packets arriving unscheduled at a rate R = 10 packets/second with a goal of handling each packet with a total latency (including waiting) of L = 100 ms. For unscheduled arrivals, however, M/M/1 warns us that the above design will fail as maximal throughput causes exploding latency.

Systems 53

Systems Latency Performance C++ 53

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required.

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Vitaly specializes in front-end development, performance optimization, and responsive design, and he has made an epic contribution to the performance industry in addition to many other technology and design-related spaces. He was also the founder and president of Mobile Portland, where he started the first community device lab.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Speed Curve

JUNE 10, 2015

Companies looking to these regions for their next billion users need to keep in mind that these users are on underpowered phones over slow networks with high data costs. Here’s Kadlec’s related talk from Velocity 2014 in New York: The path to performance. Design + performance. Reaching everyone.

Metrics 40

Metrics Design DevOps Website 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

The FaaS model of cloud computing debuted in 2014 with startups like hook.io. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources. Consider a monolithic application, for example, designed to perform a host of functions. But how does FaaS fit in? How does function as a service affect scalability?

Development 250

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 250

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Since Kubernetes emerged in 2014, it has become a popular solution for scaling, managing, and automating the deployments of containerized applications in distributed environments. It automates complex tasks during the container’s life cycle, such as provisioning, deployment, networking, scaling, load balancing, and more.

Virtualization 133

Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 133

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

From Reloaded to Cosmos Reloaded Starting in 2014, we developed and operated the video processing pipeline on our third-generation platform Reloaded. When Reloaded was designed, we focused on a single use case: converting high-quality media files (also known as mezzanines) received from studios into compressed assets for Netflix streaming.

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Let’s Encrypt was publically announced on November 18th 2014, and began providing service to the public on Decemmber 3rd 2015. In late 2014, it secured financial commitments from Akamai, Cisco, EFF, and Mozilla, allowing the organization to purchase equipment, secure hosting contracts, and pay initial staff.

Internet 119

Internet Internet Open Source Transportation 119

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. Any asset that carries the no-store directive will always hit the network, no matter what. Steve Souders , 2014. Caching – 2014. Now we’d use no-store.

Cache 264

Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

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].

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

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 needed to scale and be adaptable to the modern hardware on the market. First, we looked at the overall architecture of the replica design.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

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.

Latency 166

Latency Architecture AWS Open Source 166

Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

It can be used to create a wide range of applications like social networks, streaming sites, hosting services and much more. Bootstrap designed website could be a bit heavy as it contains a lot of big files. Material UI was introduced in 2014 with a goal to bring Android’s material UI to the web with React. Material-UI.

Virtualization 64

Virtualization Website Speed Mobile 64

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Design the launch screen to be identical to the first screen of your app, as mentioned by Apple: “Design a launch screen that’s nearly identical to the first screen of your app. Don’t design an entry experience that looks like a splash screen or an "About" window. Every app must supply a launch screen.”.

Performance 75

Performance Energy Operating System Code 75

Scalegrid

AUGUST 15, 2019

In 2014, we discussed 4 of the top MongoDB GUIs: MongoVue, MongoHub, RockMongo, and Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo), and again in 2016: MongoDB Compass, Robo 3T, Studio 3T, and MongoBooster. The Best Mongo GUI’s of 2014. A good UI is an important part of the development experience. Full list of features: [link]. More info here.

Database 40

Database Servers Monitoring Availability 40

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

Public API as -a-service has become a good business model: examples include social networks like Facebook/Twitter, messaging as a service like Twilio, and even credit card authorization platforms like Marqeta. At the same time, it was not originally designed that way. So can we use it as our main datastore? voting','maven'] ? ?

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Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 40