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KeyCDN Launches New POPs in 2021

KeyCDN

The image below shows a significant drop in latency once we've launched the new point of presence in Israel. In fact, latency has been reduced by almost 50%! With a total of 5 POPs in Oceania, this continent benefits from lower latency with every POP added. With a population of 2.5 Happy content delivery everyone!

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Software-defined far memory in warehouse scale computers

The Morning Paper

” 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. ML-based auto-tuning. Evaluation.

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

Screenshot: tracing read latency for PID 181: # bpftrace -e 'kprobe:vfs_read /pid == 30153/ { @start[tid] = nsecs; } kretprobe:vfs_read /@start[tid]/ { @ns = hist(nsecs - @start[tid]); delete(@start[tid]); }'. Back then I could already tell if disks were seeking by interpreting iostat(1) output: seeing high disk latency but small I/O.

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KeyCDN Launches POP in Romania

KeyCDN

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.

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Working at Netflix 2017

Brendan Gregg

I previously wrote about Netflix in [2015] and [2016], and if you are interested in what it's like to work here, I already covered much in those posts. A latency outlier issue that happened every 15 minutes. eBPF]: /blog/2016-10-27/dtrace-for-linux-2016.html eBPF]: /blog/2016-10-27/dtrace-for-linux-2016.html

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KeyCDN Launches POP in Helsinki

KeyCDN

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.

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

Screenshot: tracing read latency for PID 181: # bpftrace -e 'kprobe:vfs_read /pid == 30153/ { @start[tid] = nsecs; } kretprobe:vfs_read /@start[tid]/ { @ns = hist(nsecs - @start[tid]); delete(@start[tid]); }'. Back then I could already tell if disks were seeking by interpreting iostat(1) output: seeing high disk latency but small I/O.

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