KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

With Helsinki being the capital and most populous municipality of Finland, it makes for a great edge server location. 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. This is a massive increase from year 2000 when only 37.2%

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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. Oracle VM Server is based on Xen. If you choose this route, AWS makes it very easy to create servers (you just need a credit card) and learn how to use them. amazon").

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! I've shared many posts about superpower observability tools, but often humble hacking is just as effective. 30.14% in the middle of the flame graph.

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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. "Server-Side Rendering", a.k.a. "SSR" " [ an intro to "isomorphic javascript", a.k.a. "Server-Side

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Back in 2017 the engineering team at Facebook had a problem. The initial version of Delos went into production after eight months using a ZooKeeper-backed Loglet implementation, and then four months later it was swapped out for a new custom-built NativeLoglet that gave a 10x improvement in end-to-end latency. Every little helps!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

The tooling to get a report with details from the time it takes to establish a server connection to the time it takes for the full page to render is out there. In contrast, tools like DebugBear and WebPageTest use more realistic throttling that accurately reflects network round trips on a higher-latency connection.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2017, we brought the Amazon Global Network to Africa, through AWS Direct Connect. What would have taken two weeks on local servers now only takes a few minutes.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

A 2017 study by Akamai says as much when it found that even a 100ms delay in page load can decrease conversions by 7% and lose 1% of their sales for every 100ms it takes for their site to load which, at the time of the study, was equivalent to $1.6 Site performance is potentially the most important metric.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. To update our global baseline from 2017, we want to update our priors on a few dimensions: The evolved device landscape. The Moto G4 , for example. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! I've shared many posts about superpower observability tools, but often humble hacking is just as effective. 30.14% in the middle of the flame graph.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 percent availability in the event of a server, a rack of servers, or an Availability Zone failure. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Thankfully, I found some older linux-devel mailing list archives, rescued from server backups, often stored as tarballs of digests. It's time in some cgroup paths, but this server is not doing much disk I/O. Latency was acceptable and no one complained. My search was starting to feel cursed. to the load average. termc$ uptime.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. These AMD EPYC processors have a number of advantages for SQL Server workloads, as I will explain in this article. Since then, Microsoft has changed the naming of this series to Lsv2.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. Late-loading JavaScript can cause “server-side rendered” pages to fail in infuriating ways. The server sends it as a stream of bytes and when the browser encounters each of the sub-resources referenced in the document, it requests them. First Load.

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KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

According to Monetate , the following conversion rate results were gathered for Q3 of 2017 until Q3 of 2018. Online users are becoming less and less patient meaning you as an eCommerce store owner need to implement methods for reducing latency and speeding up your website. This reduces latency and speeds up your website.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Long FMP usually indicates JavaScript blocking the main thread, but could be related to back-end/server issues as well.

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