The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. This boils down to a single digit µs latency toleration in the tail for far memory, and in addition to security and privacy concerns, rules out remote memory solutions.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

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 146

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 146

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

Some of the built-in features ( wal_compression ) have been there since 2016, and almost all backup tools do the WAL compression before taking it to the backup repository. Individual processes generate WAL records, and latency is very crucial for transactions. Lz4 is a good example.

Database 115

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 115

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The system table sys.sysprocesses was replaced way back in SQL Server 2005 by a set of dynamic management views (DMVs), most notably sys.dm_exec_requests , sys.dm_exec_sessions , and sys.dm_exec_connections. We recommend that you use the current SQL Server system views instead. Why this is a problem.

Latency 57

Latency Servers Monitoring Systems 57

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Only teams that master their systems can make intentional trade-offs.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

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. In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0: Attaching 2 probes. ^C variable curthread curtask.

C++ 110

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 110

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 ). This includes all architectures, all compilers, all operating systems, and all system configurations.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

They understood that most websites lack tight latency budgeting, dedicated performance teams, hawkish management reviews, ship gates to prevent regressions, and end-to-end measurements of critical user journeys. Not the developers being showered with shiny tools and boffo praise for replacing "legacy" HTML and CSS that performed fine.

Social Media 119

Social Media Website Technology Technology 119

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. We help Supercell to quickly develop, deploy, and scale their games to cope with varying numbers of gamers accessing the system throughout the course of the day.

AWS 124

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The Internet of Things is generally referred to as IoT which encompasses computers, cars, houses or some other technological system related. billion in 2016. Millions of different mobile apps are listed in various play stores of different operating systems. Better and quicker services are urgently needed today.

Artificial Intelligence 92

Artificial Intelligence Software Software IoT 92

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

The slightly newer Intel Xeon E5-26xx v4 (Broadwell) series which was introduced in Q1 of 2016, increased that to 2400MHz. They feature low latency, local NVMe storage that can directly leverage the 128 PCIe 3.0 Having multiple low latency local NVMe SSDs connected to those PCIe lanes will give you excellent storage performance.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0: Attaching 2 probes. ^C variable curthread curtask.

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Are there inherent time relationships in the messages that need to be preserved as they travel across the system? A message-oriented implementation requires an efficient messaging backbone that facilitates the exchange of data in a reliable and secure way with the lowest latency possible. Clean and reprocess it? At least once?

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Tools and CI systems help them monitor progress & prevent regressions. Some systems show median RTTs near ~100ms for 3G users. It simulates a link with a 400ms RTT and 400-600Kbps of throughput (plus latency variability and simulated packet loss). The true median device from 2016 sold at about ~$200 unlocked.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Some relatively minor additions (e.g.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145