Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

ITOps refers to the process of acquiring, designing, deploying, configuring, and maintaining equipment and services that support an organization’s desired business outcomes. Computer operations manages the physical location of the servers — cooling, electricity, and backups — and monitors and responds to alerts. Performance.

Artificial Intelligence 195

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 195

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. using Compute Express Link or CXL), organizing memory components for optimal performance, adapting system software traditionally designed for homogeneous memory systems, and developing memory abstractions and programming constructs for HCM management.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI algorithms embedded in cloud architecture automate repetitive processes, streamlining workloads and reducing the chance of human error. With a multi-cloud architecture, Scalegrid offers the flexibility and competitive edge necessary for AI applications in the rapidly evolving tech environment.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We tried a few iterations of what this new service should look like, and eventually settled on a modern architecture that aimed to give more control of the API experience to the client teams. For us, it means that we now need to have ~15 MDN tabs open when writing routes :) Let’s briefly discuss the architecture of this microservice.

Latency 233

Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

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

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. AWS continues to improve how it handles latency issues. What is AWS Lambda?

Lambda 176

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 176

Tim Kadlec

JULY 28, 2015

This first post looks at the general architecture of proxy browsers with a performance focus. I’d venture to say that most developers and designers are not big fans of proxy browsers—assuming they pay attention to them at all. Typical Browser Architecture. Establish TCP connection(s) to the server(s).

Architecture 75

Architecture Servers Network Latency 75

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Client Side Rendering, Server Side Rendering And Jamstack. But during SSR, the client retrieves the HTML from the server.

Performance 127

Performance Cache Servers Social Media 127

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

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

cdemi

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Control Costs : You don't have to design your service to meet peak load, but rather average load. Message Brokers are servers that take care of Queue Handling , Routing Messages, High Availability and Scaling out. Apache Kafka - High-Throughput, Low-Latency, Uses Apache ZooKeeper for Distribution, Written in Scala and Java.

Design 47

Design Azure Scalability Latency 47

ACM Sigarch

MARCH 25, 2019

How many buffers are needed to track pending requests as a function of needed bandwidth and expected latency? Can one both minimize latency and maximize throughput for unscheduled work? The M/M/1 queue will show us a required trade-off among (a) allowing unscheduled task arrivals, (b) minimizing latency, and (c) maximizing throughput.

Systems 53

Systems Latency Performance C++ 53

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

About 5 years ago, I introduced you to AWS Availability Zones, which are distinct locations within a Region that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same region.

Cloud 145

Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud providers manage all the underlying hardware, server maintenance, and security practices, allowing you to spend less on expensive IT operations and maintenance. This can dramatically decrease network latency and its effect on the end-user experience. Reduced cost. Inconsistent performance.

Cloud 161

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 161

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

Making queries to an inference engine has many of the same throughput, latency, and cost considerations as making queries to a datastore, and more and more applications are coming to depend on such queries. First off there still is a model of course (but then there are servers hiding behind a serverless abstraction too!). autoscaling).

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. on end-to-end latency) and less than 0.15% on throughput.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Remote calls are never free; they impose extra latency, increase probability of an error, and consume network bandwidth. How can we achieve a similar functionality when designing our gRPC APIs? of our message definition: [link] In this chart, the producer (server) utilizes new descriptors, with field number 2 named title_name.

Design 245

Design Java Efficiency Code 245

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

Designed to help scalable applications deliver high performance, it stores live, fast-changing data in memory (DRAM) for fast updates and retrieval. From its inception, the design philosophy behind ScaleOut StateServer has been to simultaneously maximize both performance and ease of use.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

Designed to help scalable applications deliver high performance, it stores live, fast-changing data in memory (DRAM) for fast updates and retrieval. From its inception, the design philosophy behind ScaleOut StateServer has been to simultaneously maximize both performance and ease of use.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 6, 2021

As illustrated in the following diagram, ScaleOut StreamServer DT installs its management console on a standalone server that connects to ScaleOut StreamServer’s in-memory data grid. The management console installs as a set of Docker containers on the management server.

IoT 52

IoT Azure Analytics Healthcare 52

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.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These nodes and edges require a good amount of compute and storage which is typically distributed across a large number servers either running in the cloud or your own data center. Every time data spikes - a phenomenon which will be not predictable in most cases - overall latency to process the data using data pipeline will go up.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. until today.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The naming system that we are all most familiar with in the internet is the Domain Name System (DNS) that manages the naming of the many different entities in our global network; its most common use is to map a name to an IP address, but it also provides facilities for aliases, finding mail servers, managing security keys, and much more.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Plus, the architecture of the Edge tier was evolving to a PaaS (platform as a service) model, and we had some tough decisions to make about how, and where, to handle identity token handling. The API server orchestrates backend systems to authenticate the user. The whole system was quite complex, and starting to become brittle.

Architecture 221

Architecture Latency Servers Website 221

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. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

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. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures - background article in CACM on massively parallel and throughput vs latency oriented architectures. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. Science & Engineering.

AWS 67

AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage 67

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

It is common to see a value of “ 0″ ( or sometimes “10” ) on database servers, telling the kernel to prefer to swap to memory for better response times. The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. Two other schedulers are deadline and noop.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Conduit Architecture. Conduit CLI is designed to work in conjunction with kubectl whenever possible. conduit/bin:$PATH" To check if everything is in place now run following command which should print client and server version. Initially, server version will be unavailable as we have not created the control plane yet.

Traffic 40

Traffic Latency Google Servers 40

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. Architecture As shown in the diagram above, the RENO service can be broken down into the following components.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The original assumptions and architectural choices were no longer viable. Overview The figure below depicts a simplified high-level architecture of a single Titus cluster (a.k.a We started seeing increased response latencies and leader servers running at dangerously high utilization.

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

It supports both high throughput services that consume hundreds of thousands of CPUs at a time, and latency-sensitive workloads where humans are waiting for the results of a computation. The subsystems all communicate with each other asynchronously via Timestone, a high-scale, low-latency priority queuing system.

Serverless 228

Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements. A/B testing is also a key technique in migrations where the updates to the architecture involve changing device contracts as well.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments. To improve availability, we designed systems where components could fail separately and avoid single points of failure. There is a downside to fetching this data on-demand: this adds latency to the first request to a cluster.

Traffic 220

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In particular, it’s our job to design and build the systems and protocols that enable customers from all over the world to sign up for Netflix with the plan features and incentives that best suit their needs. Let’s take a deeper look at the architecture, protocols, and systems involved.

Engineering 142

Engineering Scalability Architecture Innovation 142

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

SLOG: serializable, low-latency, geo-replicated transactions Ren et al., That’s where SLOG (Serializable LOw-latency, Geo-replicated transactions) comes in. Data is replicated across regions, but for every data item one of these regions is designated as its home replica. VLDB’19. Let’s make a plan. Multi-home transactions.

Latency 70

Latency Processing Benchmarking Systems 70