MachMetrics

JUNE 16, 2020

Many were hesitant to sacrifice site speed for the added layer of security if they felt like they didn’t need it. In a vacuum, an SSL certificate does add some additional latency, as it requires 2 extra round trips to establish a secure connection before sending any data to the browser. So what’s the truth? Is SSL slow?

Speed 86

Speed Latency Google Website 86

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

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

These AMD EPYC processors have a number of advantages for SQL Server workloads, as I will explain in this article. This 14nm first-generation AMD EPYC 7551 processor has 32 cores and 64 threads, and it works in one or two-socket servers. This makes it a good choice for many SQL Server workloads, especially DW workloads.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

The lower conversion rate on mobile could be due to a variety of reasons including the website not being responsive for mobile devices, the speed isn’t up to par, etc. Improve Site Speed In 2019, having fast site speed is imperative. There are many ways to speed up a slow website.

Ecommerce 41

Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Devices and networks have evolved too: Alex Russell @slightlylate An update on mobile CPUs and the Performance Inequality Gap: Mid-tier Android devices (~$300) now get the single-core performance of a 2014 iPhone and the multi-core perf of a 2015 iPhone. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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) */. Anyway, the following patch seems to make the load average much more consistent WRT the subjective speed of the system.

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

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. Oracle VM Server is based on Xen. Many new tools can now be written, and the main toolkit we're working on is [bcc]. Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

If you put your whole website on CDN, technically you don’t need a large number of server infrastructure and CMS licenses. Using CDN for the whole website, you can offload most of the website traffic to your CDN which will handle not only large traffic spikes but also reduce the latency of content delivery.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63