Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 26, 2020

This week we’ll be looking at a selection of papers from the 2019 edition of the ACM Symposium of Cloud Computing ( SoCC ). Second, Reverb enables speculative bug fix analysis … Third, Reverb supports wide-area debugging for applications whose server-side components use event-driven architectures. The problem.

Programming 86

Programming Servers Network Latency 86

KeyCDN

JANUARY 31, 2019

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. With Bucharest being the capital and largest city of Romania, it makes for a great edge server location. Our newest point of presence has been launched in Bucharest, Romania!

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Internet Internet Ecommerce Speed 48

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

Having released this functionality in an Preview Release back in September 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of our Citrix monitoring extension. Citrix is a sophisticated, efficient, and highly scalable application delivery platform that is itself comprised of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of servers.

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Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 36

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Many of the newer features we have in SQL Server were initially launched in Azure SQL Database, including (but not limited to) Always Encrypted, Dynamic Data Masking, Row Level Security, and Query Store. There is a lot of awesome technology involved with Hyperscale in how it is architected to use SSD-based caches and page servers.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Software Developers got to use JavaScript CLI tools to create the back-end part of web applications or server-side. allows creating web application’s server-side or back-end components. is a server-side, open-source, JavaScript runtime environment that allows developers to write JavaScript on the client and the server-side.

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Open Source Virtualization Programming Servers 52

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. Two failure modes we focus on are a service becoming slower (increase in response latency) or a service failing outright (returning errors).

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Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

2019-04-17T12:30:16+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Every time you type a URL in the browser address bar, follow a link in a page or even load a resource like an image from a different domain, the browser needs to do a DNS lookup to find the server that holds the resource we’ve requested. Drew McLellan. Preconnecting.

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Performance Games Servers Cache 106

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. What will 5G mean in practice? I don’t, do you?

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Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. In the end, it’s not the load events or server response times that define the experience, but the perception of how snappy the interface feels. It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

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? It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. What does it mean? 300ms RTT, 1.6

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Using an image CDN, such as KeyCDN, can significantly reduce the latency of your image delivery. Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8 Image Processing Service We offer an image processing service that is fully integrated into our existing network. Mbps ( Opensignal ).

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Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

Time spent on redirect is most noticeable on mobile devices, especially since they tend to use slower networks. You can find more information about modifying this file within your server’s documentation. Originally published September 2016, updated July 2019. Reducing the Use of Redirection. Use Responsive Layouts.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The Apache MADLib project is still going strong, and the recent (July 2019) 1.16 A pipeline breaker occurs when the output of one operator must be materialized to disk or transferred over the network, as opposed to being directly communicated from operator to operator via CPU cache, or, in the worst case, via RAM. Experimental results.

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Network Database Programming Hardware 44

KeyCDN

MAY 14, 2019

This new feature is available to all customers, is fully integrated into our existing network, and allows comprehensive on the fly image transformation and optimization. It’s no longer necessary to store several variations of the same image on your server. How Does Image Processing Work? For example, the query string ?

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Processing Cache Latency Network 13

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8 An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network. Another is to ensure that the settings on your server and or CDN are setup correctly.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Compression achieved is relevant because the higher the compression, the smaller the file size, and the lower the data required to transfer the image on the network. It was released in February 2019 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). Since its release in 2019, the support for AVIF has increased considerably.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144