Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Different browsers running on different platforms and hardware, respecting our user preferences and browsing modes (Safari Reader/ assistive technologies), being served to geo-locations with varying latency and intermittency increase the likeness of something not working as intended. More after jump!

Network 145

Network Engineering Availability Monitoring 145

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

In particular this has been true for applications based on algorithms - often MPI-based - that depend on frequent low-latency communication and/or require significant cross sectional bandwidth. There is no more need for hardware tinkering to keep the clusters up and running (I spent many nights doing this; there is no glory in it).

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This system has been designed to supplement and succeed the existing Hadoop-based system that had too high latency of data processing and too high maintenance costs. For example, consider a system that calculates average purchase value in the internet shop for each hour. Daily average cannot be obtained from 24 hourly average values.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For example, you can think of a cell phone network as a type of distributed system, consisting of a network of internet-connected devices that share resources workload. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently. Today, there are a variety of architectures and systems in use. Peer-to-Peer.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons).

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. Comments ().

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167