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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

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()? In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report found that over 60% of system outages resulted in at least $100,000 in total losses, up from 39% in 2019. Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

## References I've reproduced the talk references below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency? Ford, et al., “TCP

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

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()? In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

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Memory-Optimized TempDB Metadata in SQL Server 2019

SQL Shack

By removing disk-based storage and the challenge of copying data in and out of memory, query speeds in SQL Server can be improved by orders of magnitude. TempDB is one of the biggest sources of latency in […].

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A Look at JAMstack’s Speed, By the Numbers

CSS - Tricks

The FCP distribution for the 10th, 50th and 90th percentile values as reported on August 1, 2019. TTI distribution for the 10th, 50th and 90th percentile values as reported on August 1, 2019. TTFB mobile speed distribution (CrUX, July 2019). FCP mobile speed distribution (CrUX, July 2019). First Input Delay.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

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