All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Based in the Paris area, the region will provide even lower latency and will allow users who want to store their content in datacenters in France to easily do so. The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017. Cette nouvelle région sera disponible pour les clients dès 2017.

AWS 166

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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

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons). Emerging markets with high mobile internet use and dense populations can feature poor fixed-line broadband penetration compared with Western markets. In the U.S.,

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. include <sys/time.h>

Speed 40

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For years SSRS was bundled with the installation of SQL Server, which helped add to some of the confusion around licensing and support for the product, so beginning with SSRS 2017, the installation package for Reporting Services is a separate download. Unlike the system database tempdb, ReportServerTempDB is not recreated at startup.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

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. Converging Views. Media Session API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Per se, GraphQL is a query language for your API, and a server-side runtime for executing queries by using a type system you define for your data. In exchange, your team gains maintainability and developer efficiency, of course.

Performance 104

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