Scalegrid

DECEMBER 19, 2019

It’s a very simple utility that does exactly one thing – it sits between the database and the clients and speaks the PostgreSQL protocol, emulating a PostgreSQL server. When PgBouncer receives a client connection, it first performs authentication on behalf of the PostgreSQL server. pgBouncer Architecture | Source.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. Given its unchanging nature, static content is ideal for caching.

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Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

When undertaking system migrations, one of the main challenges is establishing confidence and seamlessly transitioning the traffic to the upgraded architecture without adversely impacting the customer experience. These include options where replay traffic generation is orchestrated on the device, on the server, and via a dedicated service.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. HLS ensures users get the optimal video quality based on their internet performance.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. The report also reveals the leading programming languages practitioners use for application workloads.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

To get a better understanding of AWS serverless, we’ll first explore the basics of serverless architectures, review AWS serverless offerings, and explore common use cases. Serverless architecture: A primer. Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Digital Performance: 99% reduction in Response Time, from 18.2s Dynatrace Real User Monitoring (RUM) captures very detailed user behavior, as well as experience and performance information, about every user on your applications. Here are two I would start with: Web Performance Optimization with Dynatrace.

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Cache Architecture Database Government 201

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? Sysbench ran on a third server, which I’ll refer to as the application server (APP).

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ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The Solution: Distributed Caching. A widely used technology called distributed caching meets this need by storing frequently accessed data in memory on a server farm instead of within a database. This speeds up accesses and updates while offloading back-end database servers.

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ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The Solution: Distributed Caching. A widely used technology called distributed caching meets this need by storing frequently accessed data in memory on a server farm instead of within a database. This speeds up accesses and updates while offloading back-end database servers.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. These storage nodes collaborate to manage and disseminate the data across numerous servers spanning multiple data centers.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). It was at this point that we realized we needed to make a significant change in our approach towards performance, and that we must embrace performance as part of our culture. Dan Shappir. Large preview ).

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Website Performance Google Media 126

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis® monitoring is essential for any tech professional. Key Takeaways Redis® monitoring is essential for safeguarding performance, reliability, and security.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Today, we added two important choices for customers running high performance apps in the cloud: support for Redis in Amazon ElastiCache and a new high memory database instance (db.cr1.8xlarge) for Amazon RDS. No single database architecture or solution can meet all of Amazon.com’s or our customers’ needs.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

According to the official AWS announcement, Graviton2-based Lambda functions offer up to 34% better price-performance improvement. According to the official AWS announcement, Graviton2-based Lambda functions offer up to 34% better price-performance improvement. Dynatrace’s Lambda extension fully supports Arm-based architectures.

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Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

In our previous posts in this series, we spoke at length about using PgBouncer and Pgpool-II , the connection pool architecture and pros and cons of leveraging one for your PostgreSQL deployment. However, these must be set up outside the PostgreSQL system, while PgBouncer can offload this to the PostgreSQL server. Performance Testing.

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Benchmarking Database Performance Testing Availability 246

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What These are unchanging entities, served straight off the server, pre-generated, and devoid of server-side processing.

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Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

Netflix Modeling Challenges Before Caveats SpiceDB, being a Relationship Based Access Control (ReBAC) system, expected authorization checks to be performed against the existence of a specific relationship between objects. This is a Caveated SpiceDB relationship. Users fit this model — they have a single user ID to describe who they are.

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O'Reilly Software

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Learn how to properly design RESTful APIs communication with clients, accounting for request structure, authentication, and caching. We are using the principles of RESTful architecture over HTTP. In this second part, we will talk in more detail about how the server should react to incoming requests with status codes.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

Segmented Rendering is a new pattern for the Jamstack that lets you personalize content statically, without any sort of client-side rendering or per-request Server-Side Rendering. You are now “Head of Performance” at Repairing Magazine, the most serious competitor to Smashing Magazine. Congratulations On Your New Job.

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Cache Website Energy Servers 115

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

Architecture. When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.) from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.)

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Design Media Storage Logistics 334

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Organizations are depending more and more on distributed architectures to provide application services. Because monitoring tends to focus on key indicators such as utilization rates and throughput, monitoring indicates overall system performance. Dynatrace news. This trend is prompting advances in both observability and monitoring.

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Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability 226

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]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Percona

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced open source command-line tools, developed and used by the Percona technical staff, that are engineered to perform a variety of MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually. Caches | 12.4G Caches | 12.4G

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Cache Database Virtualization Servers 96

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I had a professor in grad school who used to joke that all architecture is reinvented every 5 years. Both virtualization and power burst onto the architecture community seemingly out of nowhere even though there was a clear historical basis and trend for both. Virtualization, for instance, was being addressed by IBM in the 1960s.

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

It’s a complex architecture with multiple layers of controlled tricks to block access to websites. Any website request initially goes to the DNS server to fetch the IP address of the website and accesses it on the responded address. If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., Our analysis suggests that the wireline paths, upper-layer protocols, computing and radio hardward architecture need to co-evolve with 5G to form an ecosystem, in order to fully unleash its potential. 5G Coverage.

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. The recently announced CXL3.0

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Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What is Static Content?Static These are unchanging entities, served straight off the server, pre-generated, and devoid of server-side processing.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Common CDN Security RisksWhile CDNs are essential for improving website performance, they also introduce certain security risks. While this information is often encrypted with public key cryptography, the CDN servers hold the private key, allowing them to decrypt incoming requests, process them, and route them to the origin.

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Strategy Cache Best Practices Website 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. It’s a static file, and CDN can cache it, enabling quick delivery to various locations. Here’s where CDN’s global architecture will not be as advantageous.Â

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