Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

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). Appliance manufacturers hire kernel engineers to develop custom features, including storage appliances. Outside of EC2, many other providers are deploying on KVM.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. Depending on the database size and on disk speed, a backup/restore process might take hours or even days! Depending on the database size and on disk speed, a backup/restore process might take hours or even days!

Best Practices 72

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 72

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. Vivino also uses Auto Scaling to deal with the large seasonal fluctuations in traffic. The AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region is our fifth European Region, joining Dublin, Frankfurt, London, and Paris. Telenor Connexion.

AWS 124

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

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 VPC Endpoints give you the ability to control whether network traffic between your application and DynamoDB traverses the public Internet or stays within your virtual private cloud. million requests per second.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

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. A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The Moto G4 , for example. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web development is evolving at a rapid speed with each passing year. And so, it optimizes the page loading speed and reduces the bounce rate. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

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. Thankfully, this is somewhat easier than network speeds: more than half of American mobile users are on Android devices. Global Ground-Truth.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68