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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

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Kubernetes for Big Data Workloads

Abhishek Tiwari

In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. A recent performance benchmark completed by Intel and BlueData using the BigBench benchmarking kit has shown that the performance ratios for container-based Hadoop workloads on BlueData EPIC are equal to and in some cases, better than bare-metal Hadoop [7].

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How to improve Redo, Transaction Log and WAL throughput for HammerDB benchmarks

HammerDB

This post at an entry-level discusses the options you have to improve log throughput in your benchmark environment. . Additionally for the log disk component it is latency for an individual write that is crucial rather than the total I/O bandwidth. log 2018-11-02T15:39:25.628040+00:00 Thread 1 cannot allocate new log, sequence 1403.

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Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. I’m going to update my referenced URL to the new site to help decrease latency that adds drag to the initial page load.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. April 2018 , but not usable until several releases later). Pointer Lock.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

If you or your company are able to generate a credible worldwide latency estimate in the higher percentiles for next year's update, please get in touch. Since 2010, volumes have been on a slow downward glide path , shrinking from ~350MM per year in a decade ago to ~260MM in 2018. but which blessedly sports 8GB of RAM.

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Aurora vs RDS: How to Choose the Right AWS Database Solution

Percona

This post was originally published in July 2018 and was updated in July 2023. It efficiently manages read and write operations, optimizes data access, and minimizes contention, resulting in high throughput and low latency to ensure that applications perform at their best. What are the differences between Aurora and RDS?

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