VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. Vikings fight zombies.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

If you’re interested in a high-level overview of Lighthouse architecture, read this guide from the official repository. Estimated Input Latency. Estimated Input Latency. It’s time to come to terms that your customers aren’t using the same powerful hardware as you. How Lighthouse calculates the Performance Score.

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. By implementing data replication strategies, distributed storage systems achieve greater.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands. It distributes the load among containers and nodes automatically, ensuring that your application can handle any spike in traffic without the need for manual intervention from an IT staff.

Efficiency 102

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 102

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Gone are the days of monolithic architecture. When we think of a system’s architecture, the first thing that may pop into your mind is the traditional client-server system, where a server was the shared resource among many different devices and machines, like printers, computes, clients, etc. Multi-Tier. Concurrency. Heterogeneity.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Server-generated assets, since client-side generation would require the retrieval of many individual images, which would increase latency and time-to-render. To reduce latency, assets should be generated in an offline fashion and not in real time. Here’s what the final architecture looked like.

Engineering 165

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The expectation was that with each order or two of magnitude, we would need to revisit and revise the architecture to make sure we could address the issues of scale. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. Primitives not frameworks.

AWS 147

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 147

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to Dr. Bandwidth, performance analysis has two recurring themes: How fast should this code (or “simple” variations on this code) run on this hardware? The user environment defines the mapping of MPI ranks to hardware resources (cores, sockets, nodes). The MPI runtime library. in ways that are seldom transparent.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer. Consistency. SimpleDBâ??s

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Architecture An explanatory description of Amazon Aurora’s architecture can be found in Vadim’s post written a few years ago.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees. The deadline excels at latency-sensitive use cases ( like databases ), and noop is closer to no schedule at all.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Basic navigation and window management features to (e.g.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

One distinct trend is a belief that a JavaScript framework and Single-Page Architecture (SPA) is a must for PWA development. Contended, over-subscribed cells can make “fast” networks brutally slow, transport variance can make TCP much less efficient , and the bursty nature of web traffic works against us.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

When used in prevention mode (IPS), this all has to happen inline over incoming traffic to block any traffic with suspicious signatures. This makes the whole system latency sensitive. The FPGA hardware really wants to operate in a highly parallel mode using fixed size data structures. Introducing Pigasus.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Defining The Environment Choosing a framework, baseline performance cost, Webpack, dependencies, CDN, front-end architecture, CSR, SSR, CSR + SSR, static rendering, prerendering, PRPL pattern. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. Large preview ).

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103