High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. This increases the cores and network bandwidth available to serve common requests.

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Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Source: nameshield.com Why reliable DNS hosting is important Choosing a reliable DNS hosting provider is critical because it can affect everything from the redundancy of your website, speed, and even security. Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article. So DNS services definitely go down!

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Cache Website Internet Internet 134

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This article will explore hybrid cloud benefits and steps to craft a plan that aligns with your unique business challenges. Businesses can tailor the global infrastructure available via ScaleGrid to satisfy their unique regional and functional needs. A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. Latency – How much time does it take to deliver a packet from A to B. This data is available by enabling the mPulse behavior in property manager. I mean, why wouldn't we?

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

If there is a newer file available on the server, we definitely want to download it. If, however, there wasn’t a new file on the server, we’ll bring back a 304 header, no new file, but an entire roundtrip of latency. We can completely cut out the overhead of a roundtrip of latency. What do we mean by a mutable or immutable file?

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Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one. Also, if you are not using a content delivery network (CDN) or multiple CDNs to map users to the closest edge regions for reduced latencies — a practice called suboptimal routing — you might slow down the start of the video. Serve the right size.

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Media Performance Mobile Latency 119

Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

This article dives straight into what triggers a rollback in MongoDB, the risks it carries, and concrete steps you can take to both prevent and recover from one. This particular write concern prioritizes data longevity over reading speed. package) to manage and monitor the health of individual members within the replica set.

Database 130

Database Network Servers Monitoring 130

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. INP logs the latency of all interactions throughout the entire page lifecycle. It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast.

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

I highly recommend that you take a look at the diagram that breaks down the architecture and how it all works in this article. Microsoft took that idea and built a new compute tier called Azure SQL Database serverless, which became generally available in November 2019. Serverless Database. Conclusion.

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Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Elon Musk’s need for speed. However, there is excitement around Starlink for other reasons – namely, the implications it might have for internet speed and latency – even by just a small amount (20 milliseconds on average). This ultimately guides us to one conclusion: Speed is incredibly important.

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Internet Internet Latency Speed 44

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

First, some stage-setting for this blog article. It’s a good setup for real-time analytics and high-speed logging. MongoDB replica sets enable data redundancy and automatic failover, setting the stage (there’s that term again) for high availability. It ranks No. 5 among all database management systems and No.

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Open Source Database Scalability Software 75

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective. The shorter the TTFB, the better the perceived speed of the site from the user’s perspective. With over 100,000 landing pages, each available in seven different languages, we managed a total of around 700,000 individual pages.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

In this article we’re going to discuss various methods for improving eCommerce conversion rates. The lower conversion rate on mobile could be due to a variety of reasons including the website not being responsive for mobile devices, the speed isn’t up to par, etc. There are many ways to speed up a slow website.

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Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember reading articles about how 3G connectivity was going to transform performance and, more generally, the way we used the internet altogether. I remember how, later on, a common question I would get in after giving performance-focused presentations was: “Is any of this going to matter when 4G is available?”

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Network Speed Internet Internet 61

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

These VMs are not available in all regions, so you will want to check the availability in the Azure region that you are interested in using. These AMD EPYC processors have a number of advantages for SQL Server workloads, as I will explain in this article. Since then, Microsoft has changed the naming of this series to Lsv2.

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Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt. But equally, Simon the project manager may not understand what Speed Index or First Contentful Paint means, but when he sees the Lighthouse report showing website performance score knee deep in the red, he knows you still have work to do.

Google 82

Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Load Time Details For Individual Elements : In the waterfall chart, when the user moves their cursor on a specific bar, he is shown a load time details which are DnsTime, ConnectTime, SSLTime, RequestTime, FirstByteTime, ResponseTime, StartTime, EndTime, Speed which is pointed in a red oval. Waiting time. If there are too many 302 redirects.

Performance 52

Performance Cache Website Speed 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. This can significantly elevate user satisfaction and engagement.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. We already have 44 Availability Zones across 16 geographic Regions that customers can use today. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally.

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Cloud Education Energy Government 152

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

For instance, in SmashingMag’s Twitter account , the article’s featured image has a customized and consistent style, giving it a unique personality: Smashing Magazine’s article shared on Twitter ( Large preview ). For this article, I’ll be using its integration with WordPress and its plugin for WordPress v3.0

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Website Social Media Media Design 106

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

Load Time Details For Individual Elements : In the waterfall chart, when the user move his cursor on a specific bar, he is shown a load time details which are DnsTime, ConnectTime, SSLTime, RequestTime, FirstByteTime, ResponseTime, StartTime, EndTime, Speed which is pointed in a red oval. Waiting time. If there are too many 302 redirects.

Performance 53

Performance Cache Website Speed 53

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. The PHP library for the API is available on GitHub. There are currently 6 different types of rich pins: app, movie, recipe, article, product and place.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

1:18pm a key observation was made that an API call to populate the homepage sidebar saw a huge jump in latency. The shop had been closed so no data was available. 1:36pm it was discovered that this shop was linked to from the Etsy blog post, via an article posted by the Etsy employee that owned the shop. The last word.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

For more on the equation and similar experiments, Dr. Neil Gunther has written an article on load averages: [How It Works], plus there are many Linux source block comments in [loadavg.c]. ## Linux Uninterruptible Tasks When load averages first appeared in Linux, they reflected CPU demand, as with other operating systems.

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Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Modern network performance and availability. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. OpenSignal's global report on connection speeds ( pdf ) suggest that WebPageTest's default 4G configuration (9Mbps w/ 170ms RTT) is a reasonable stand-in for the P75 network link. Hard Reset.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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. Global Ground-Truth.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This article will help you with exactly that. The metrics selection is outside of the scope of this article and depends highly on the project context, but I recommend that you start by reading User-centric Performance Metrics by Philip Walton. The first questions we should ask ourselves are: “What is the performant project?”

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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. Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations.

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Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server).

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Performance Network Latency Servers 107

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Various defragmentation ​​ utilities ​​ are ​​ available ​​ on the market today. The caching of data pages and grouping of log records helps remove much, if not all, of the command latency associated with a write operation.

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Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Now there’s a massive range of Jamstack CMSs available, which bring all the advantages of static sites while allowing non-technical folk to update content. ’ Before MovableType, other personal blogging platforms were available such as Geocities , Blogger & Open Diary. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 140