Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. Gone are the days of monolithic architecture. These systems can include physical servers, containers, virtual machines, or even a device, or node, that connects and communicates with the network.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Testsigma

JULY 23, 2020

Some are accessed via the internet while some of them are installed on the user’s computer. This is a standalone software program which doesn’t depend on any internet connectivity for its working and its performance is not impacted because of any network related latencies. There is no client and server in these.

Testing 63

Testing Internet Internet Latency 63

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

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The OSI Model is like a layer cake of how data moves through networks. This means it specifically looks at the content of the data (like the writing inside our letters from the analogy) rather than just the envelope.So, what is the difference between a Firewall at the application level and network level?Network-level

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The OSI Model is like a layer cake of how data moves through networks. This means it specifically looks at the content of the data (like the writing inside our letters from the analogy) rather than just the envelope.So, what is the difference between a Firewall at the application level and network level?Network-level

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

ACM Sigarch

MARCH 18, 2019

Computer systems, from the Internet-of-Things devices to datacenters, are complex and optimizing them can enhance capability and save money. 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?

Systems 60

Systems Latency Performance Analytics 60

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

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. The Domain Name System is a wonderful practical piece of technology; it is a fundamental building block of our modern internet.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 30, 2018

When designing cloud architecture, it’s critical to consider that your applications could be affected by failures and that you must be prepared to respond to those failures quickly and effectively. Managed DNS, as your gateway to the internet, can provide improved resilience to ensure your applications are always available.

Cloud 68

Cloud Traffic Internet Internet 68

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). PWA Feature Detector. A well-behaved CCT-invoking-app (e.g.,

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

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. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

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. In the previous section, we noted that many distributed query processing algorithms resemble message passing networks. Pipelining. However, things are not so simple.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Motivation With the rapid growth in Netflix member base and the increasing complexity of our systems, our architecture has evolved into an asynchronous one that enables both online and offline computation. While a mobile device is almost always connected to the internet and reachable, a smart TV is only online while in use.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Building general purpose architectures has always been hard; there are often so many conflicting requirements that you cannot derive an architecture that will serve all, so we have often ended up focusing on one side of the requirements that allow you to serve that area really well.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136