All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. 2017 continues a busy year for AWS in the Middle East. The Region will be in the heart of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, and we're aiming to have it ready by early 2019.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. 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.

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Internet Internet Speed Network 48

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? I've shared many posts about superpower observability tools, but often humble hacking is just as effective. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. Lighthouse results. One type is called lab data.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? I've shared many posts about superpower observability tools, but often humble hacking is just as effective. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.” If you’re interested in attending, please check out the links, and I look forward to meeting and re-meeting many of you there.

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Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

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. Both Xen and KVM have had many performance and security improvements, and workloads can now be tuned to run at almost bare metal speeds (say, a 3% loss or less). Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The talks are up on YouTube , including my own (behind a paywall, but the slides are freely available [1] ): The talk, like this post, is an update on network and CPU realities this series has documented since 2017. Speeds will be much slower than advertised in many areas , particularly for rural users. 2023 Content Targets #.

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Performance Network Mobile Latency 113

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. India's speed test medians are moving quickly, but variance is orders-of-magnitude wide, with 5G penetration below 25% in the most populous areas.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

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. This raises a follow-on question: what's an interaction?

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Social Media Website Technology Technology 119

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 Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile.

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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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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. 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.

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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. This processor has a base clock speed of 2.0GHz, with an all-core boost speed of 2.55GHz, and a max boost clock speed of 3.0GHz. The L3 cache size is 64MB. Azure Lsv2 Details.

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Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Anyway, the following patch seems to make the load average much more consistent WRT the subjective speed of the system. rc5-virtual (bgregg-xenial-bpf-i-0b7296777a2585be1) 08/01/2017 _x86_64_ (8 CPU) 10:15:51 PM UID PID %usr %system %guest %CPU CPU Command 10:16:51 PM 0 18468 2.85 Latency was acceptable and no one complained.

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Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

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 Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases. million requests per second.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. It simulates a link with a 400ms RTT and 400-600Kbps of throughput (plus latency variability and simulated packet loss). Global Ground-Truth.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

According to Monetate , the following conversion rate results were gathered for Q3 of 2017 until Q3 of 2018. The lower conversion rate on mobile could be due to a variety of reasons including the website not being responsive for mobile devices, the speed isn’t up to par, etc. There are many ways to speed up a slow website.

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Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103