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. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Clone Disk],” [link] 2020 - [Moore 20] Samuel K. Ford, et al., “TCP Ford, et al., “TCP

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The processed data is typically stored as data warehouse tables in AWS S3. The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. Therefore, we must efficiently move data from the data warehouse to a global, low-latency and highly-reliable key-value store. Dataset of January 1st 2020.

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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. Clone Disk],” - [link] 2020 - [Moore 20] Samuel K. Ford, et al., “TCP

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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. Clone Disk],” [link] , 2020 [Moore 20] Samuel K. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Clone Disk],” [link] 2020 - [Moore 20] Samuel K. Ford, et al., “TCP Ford, et al., “TCP

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

arXiv 2020. On the Cloudburst design teams’ wish list: A running function’s ‘hot’ data should be kept physically nearby for low-latency access. A low-latency autoscaling KVS can serve as both global storage and a DHT-like overlay network. Cloudburst: stateful functions-as-a-service , Sreekanti et al.,

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

This blog was originally published in September 2020 and was updated in May 2023. test.collG 1533/195563 (0.8%) Aug 19 08:48:09 ip-172-30-2-122 pbm-agent[24331]: 2020/08/19 08:48:09 [####################.] test.collF 116432/134747 (86.4%) Aug 19 10:01:09 ip-172-30-2-122 pbm-agent[24331]: 2020/08/19 10:01:09 [#######################.]

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Today, I am happy to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Spain in late 2022 or early 2023! Currently, AWS provides 69 Availability Zones across 22 infrastructure regions worldwide, with announced plans for thirteen more Availability Zones and four more Regions in Indonesia, Italy, South Africa, and Spain in the next few years.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2020-01-06T10:30:13+00:00. 2020-01-06T12:35:48+00:00. New metrics landing in Lighthouse v6 in early 2020. Vitaly Friedman. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? Large view.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

An average of 434 ms is awful, and a small queue size (aqu-sz) indicates it's a problem with the disk and not the workload applied. From these outputs I try to determine if the problem is: - **The workload**: High-latency disk I/O is commonly caused by the workload applied. Note the sdb latencies range from 32 ms to over 2 seconds!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. This proximity significantly reduces the time it takes for the data to travel from the server to the user, thus reducing latency and improving load times. Bookaway site search. Time to First Byte over time. LCP in seconds.

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

For applications like communication between AVs, latency–how long it takes to get a response–is more likely to be a bigger limitation than raw bandwidth, and is subject to limits imposed by physics. There are impressive estimates for latency for 5G, but reality has a tendency to be harsh on such predictions.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

An average of 434 ms is awful, and a small queue size (aqu-sz) indicates it's a problem with the disk and not the workload applied. From these outputs I try to determine if the problem is: - **The workload**: High-latency disk I/O is commonly caused by the workload applied. I want to see distributions and event logs. Hit Ctrl-C to end.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

An average of 434 ms is awful, and a small queue size (aqu-sz) indicates it's a problem with the disk and not the workload applied. From these outputs I try to determine if the problem is: - **The workload**: High-latency disk I/O is commonly caused by the workload applied. Note the sdb latencies range from 32 ms to over 2 seconds!

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. Passive instances across regions are also possible, though it is recommended to operate in the same region as the database host in order to keep the change capture latencies low. The destination may be a datastore or an external API.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. Passive instances across regions are also possible, though it is recommended to operate in the same region as the database host in order to keep the change capture latencies low. The destination may be a datastore or an external API.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

New metrics landed in Lighthouse v6 in early 2020. In May 2020, Google has announced Core Web Vitals , a set of new user-focused performance metrics, each representing a distinct facet of the user experience. Globally in 2020, according to the IDC, 84.8% Treo provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

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