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. A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

AWS 149

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 149

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Redirects are often pretty light in terms of the latency that they add to a website, but they are an easy first thing to check, and they can generally be removed with little effort. I’m going to update my referenced URL to the new site to help decrease latency that adds drag to the initial page load. Text-based assets.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). Here I assumed a particular analytical function for the amount of memory traffic as a function of cache size to scale the bandwidth time.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

KeyCDN

JANUARY 31, 2019

The next closest active POP location to Bucharest was Istanbul which was still almost 900km away; this distance adds up in terms of latency. As of 2016, Bucharest alone had a population of over 1.83 million people. As for Romania, it covers an area of over 238,000 square kilometers and as of 2017 had a population of almost 20 million.

Internet 48

Internet Internet Ecommerce Speed 48

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Although both countries are relatively close to one another, they are separated by a distance of approximately 500km, which adds up in terms of latency. As of 2016, there were just over 5.1 Before the implementation of our Helsinki POP, Finnish users were delivered content from our POP in Stockholm, Sweden. penetration rate.

Internet 48

Internet Internet Speed Network 48

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

The L3 cache size is 64MB. The slightly newer Intel Xeon E5-26xx v4 (Broadwell) series which was introduced in Q1 of 2016, increased that to 2400MHz. The L3 cache size is 64MB. They feature low latency, local NVMe storage that can directly leverage the 128 PCIe 3.0 lanes for I/O connectivity. lanes per processor.

Azure 42

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John McCalpin

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

In the latest (October 2016) revision of Intel’s Instruction Extensions Programming Reference , Intel has disclosed a fairly dramatic departure from these “traditional” approaches. With 2 FMA units that have 5-cycle latency, the code must implement at least 2*5=10 independent accumulators in order to avoid stalls.

Cache 40

Cache C++ Latency Hardware 40

Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

Because HTTP redirection is handled server-side, it is typically faster than client-side redirection, especially if the browser can cache the new location of the requested file. Originally published September 2016, updated July 2019. Using JavaScript Redirection. Keep in mind that all of these methods add time to your page loads.

Mobile 60

Mobile Traffic Google Latency 60

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

It simulates a link with a 400ms RTT and 400-600Kbps of throughput (plus latency variability and simulated packet loss). Simulated packet loss and variable latency, however, can make benchmarking extremely difficult and slow. Our baseline, then, should probably trade lower throughput/higher-latency for packet loss.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

At the time of the last Confluence run, the gap had stretched to nearly 1000 APIs, doubling since 2016. For heavily latency-sensitive use-cases like WebXR, this is a critical component in delivering a good experience. An extension to Service Workers that enables browsers to present users with cached content when offline.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

I started writing “ Serverless Architectures ” in May 2016. I was a little restricted in my thinking the first time around and I’ve come to see FaaS as something not quite stateless, since caching state in a Lambda instance that might stick around for 5 hours is a perfectly reasonable idea. I thought a few folks might be interested.

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