Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. Largest Contentful Paint ( LCP ) < 2.5 considerations.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

have pointed out in their recent Science article (“There’s plenty of room at the Top”) — and cited by Hennessy in his Turing lecture — a naive implementation of matrix-matrix multiply in Python runs between 100x and 60,000x slower than their counterparts written in a “metal” language (highly optimized C).

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This removes the burden of purchasing and maintaining your hardware, storage and networking infrastructure, while still giving you a very familiar experience with Windows and SQL Server itself. BTW, the "i" in the Standard_E64is_v3 naming means that the instance is isolated to hardware dedicated to a single customer.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. The entire site is built with progressive enhancement in mind, meaning that you, dear reader, can read every Smashing article in its entirety without the need to boot the application at all. We had to fix that.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Large preview ). Getting started with Webpack can be tough though.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Important When planning, deploying, and maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server installation, ensure that the I/O system supports all the factors outlined in this article. Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Long FMP usually indicates JavaScript blocking the main thread, but could be related to back-end/server issues as well.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The rest of the article presents some examples of this behavior and how it impacts our field, whether we care to admit it or not. However, what these articles miss is that historically this was not always the case. I recall heated discussions 20+ years ago on whether speculative data in caches improves or degrades cache performance.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability is a cornerstone of any database system and starting with SQL Server 2017 on Linux Cumulative Update 6 (CU6), SQL Server on Linux enables “Forced Flush” behavior as described in this article , improving durability on non-Fua optimized systems. “Be Linux open command flag used to bypass file system cache. Device Flush.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

Originally posted at https:/opensource.com/article/19/8/introduction-bpftrace. This example instrumented one of many thousands of available events. hardware Hardware counter-based instrumentation. There are often two modes, one for device cache hits and one for cache misses, which can be shown by this tool.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

In this article, I describe major architectural decisions we made and techniques we used. Besides this, each product has some transient information like in-stock availability that is a subject of frequent updates (every 5 minutes or so). I can recommend this article by Peter Morville and Jeffrey Callender for further reading.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X 25.84 - Total 21.04

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. Modern network performance and availability. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. The Moto G4 , for example. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset. Content Is Dead, Long Live Content.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

In this article, we’re going to see some of those differences and how to overcome them. Here’s what a Material app with a Drawer looks like on Android: Material app running on Android: the AppBar title is in the left side of the available space. The situation when it comes to mobile apps is completely different. Large preview ).

Storage 94

Storage Mobile Website Java 94

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In this article, I will share the current architecture and some of the lessons we learned scaling it along with some of the things we are looking to improve upon in the near future. Edge caching. In general, Egnyte connect architecture shards and caches data at different levels based on: Amount of data. Disk based caching.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

On multi-core machines – which is the majority of the hardware nowadays – and in the cloud, we have multiple cores available for use. In this article, we will look at how this can improve the reporting/analytical query performance in MySQL. The second and third run used the cached data. This query is 100% cached.

Cache 46

Cache C++ AWS Airlines 46

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Time of Last Access The time of last access is a caching ​​ algorithm ​​ that enables ​​ cache ​​ entries to be ordered by their ​​ access times.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. I predominantly use Nginx, and I have a particular fondness for FastCGI cache and have found it to be especially efficient. A particular favorite in the WordPress space is WP Super Cache.

Website Performance 74

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In this article I’m trying to provide more or less systematic description of techniques related to distributed operations in NoSQL databases. In the rest of this article we study a number of distributed activities like replication of failure detection that could happen in a database. Data Placement. Read/Write latency. Consistency.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

If our example document wasn’t reliant on JavaScript to construct the <my-app> custom element, the contents of the document would likely be interactive as soon as enough CSS and content was available to render meaningfully. Any DOM or UI created in JS is not available for use until the script runs. 400Kbps transfer.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

This article aims to help you understand where the timings come from in each case, and how they can be best interpreted in context. This uses hardware, typically a crystal oscillator, that produces ticks at a very high constant rate regardless of processor speed, power settings, or anything of that nature.

Servers 95

Servers Tuning Architecture Performance 95

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This article is an effort to explore techniques used by developers of in-stream data processing systems, trace the connections of these techniques to massive batch processing and OLTP/OLAP databases, and discuss how one unified query engine can support in-stream, batch, and OLAP processing at the same time. Interoperability with Hadoop.

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Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Imagine you’ve started reading an article when all of a sudden elements shift around the page, throwing you off and requiring you to find your place again. Device Pixel Ratio (DPR) represents how a CSS pixel is translated to physical pixels on a hardware screen. A component with similar capabilities is available for Nuxt.js.

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Additionally, even if we knew the available physical bandwidth, that wouldn’t mean we could use all of it ourselves. Several users are typically active on a network concurrently, each of whom need a fair share of the available bandwidth. More in-depth information is available.

Performance 107

Performance Network Latency Servers 107