Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. How would you time time?

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

If, however, there wasn’t a new file on the server, we’ll bring back a 304 header, no new file, but an entire roundtrip of latency. We can completely cut out the overhead of a roundtrip of latency. On high latency connections, this saving could be tangible. What do we mean by a mutable or immutable file? FAQs Page.

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Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

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. Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises—as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations—can use the new AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region.

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AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

Today we’ll be digging into the analysis of an incident that took place at Etsy on December 4th, 2014. 1:18pm a key observation was made that an API call to populate the homepage sidebar saw a huge jump in latency. This is part 2 of our look at Allspaw’s 2015 master thesis (here’s part 1 ). The last word.

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Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

This processor has a base clock speed of 2.0GHz, with an all-core boost speed of 2.55GHz, and a max boost clock speed of 3.0GHz. The older Intel Xeon E5-26xx v3 (Haswell) series which was introduced in Q3 of 2014, had a maximum memory bandwidth of 2133MHz. The L3 cache size is 64MB. lanes for I/O connectivity.

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Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

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. We needed to start thinking about how fast can we replicate to a synchronous secondary replica in terms of % of the speed of a standalone workload.

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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.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

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. They often get blindsided by vendor’s pitch and end-up making decision based on some fancy demos (see my post from 2014 on Adobe AEM ).

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Systems Cache Website Network 63

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.

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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. Both Xen and KVM have had many performance and security improvements, and workloads can now be tuned to run at almost bare metal speeds (say, a 3% loss or less). Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

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.

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Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41