O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

I even contributed my own hot take last year with my O’Reilly Radar article Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT.) Unpredictable wait times : Wait times (latency) for ChatGPT’s responses are unpredictable, and there aren’t audio cues to help me establish an expectation for how long I need to wait before it responds.

Entertainment 73

Entertainment Internet Internet Design 73

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

This article will cover many areas that database administrators need to be aware of in order to properly license, recover, and tune a Reporting Services installation. In the early days of SSRS, a requirement was to also install and configure Internet Information Services (IIS). Reporting Services Infrastructure.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Different browsers running on different platforms and hardware, respecting our user preferences and browsing modes (Safari Reader/ assistive technologies), being served to geo-locations with varying latency and intermittency increase the likeness of something not working as intended. More after jump! Avoid unhelpful error messages.

Network 145

Network Engineering Availability Monitoring 145

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.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

In an in-depth article on Streaming Media Dan Rayburn analyzed the impact of Amazon Cloudfront move to GA: Amazons CDN Gets More Competitive, Adds SLA, New Edge Locations, Lower Pricing. Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures - background article in CACM on massively parallel and throughput vs latency oriented architectures.

AWS 67

AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage 67

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. But I also love solving issues quickly, and sometimes that means just asking colleagues or searching the Internet.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. That’s what this article is about.

Speed 99

Speed Google Website Metrics 99

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University 2015. 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.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

DNS, which stands for domain name system , is an Internet service that translates domains names into IP addresses. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article. What is DNS? So DNS services definitely go down!

Cache 134

Cache Website Internet Internet 134

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Colleagues/Internet I love using Linux performance tools. But I also love solving issues quickly, and sometimes that means just asking colleagues or searching the Internet.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). 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).

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. But I also love solving issues quickly, and sometimes that means just asking colleagues or searching the Internet.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You’ve probably heard things like: “HTTP/3 is much faster than HTTP/2 when there is packet loss”, or “HTTP/3 connections have less latency and take less time to set up”, and probably “HTTP/3 can send data more quickly and can send more resources in parallel”. Did You Know? HTTP/2 versus HTTP/3 protocol stack comparison ( Large preview ).

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

Because we’ll be running this using Node.js, we’re able to safely use ES6 syntax as we don’t have to worry about those pesky Internet Explorer users. Estimated input latency - Estimated Input Latency is an estimate of how long your app takes to respond to user input, in milliseconds, during the busiest 5s window of page load.

Google 82

Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. It’s safe to say WordPress, the platform now powering 40% of the internet, won that battle, but MovableType paved the way for Jamstack CMSs in the future. But, when it worked, it was magical.

Ecommerce 140

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 140

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

First, some stage-setting for this blog article. A survey of 90,240 companies using MongoDB listed the leading uses as Technology and Services (23%), Computer Software (16%), and Internet (6%). Redis can handle a high volume of operations per second, making it useful for running applications that require low latency.

Open Source 74

Open Source Database Scalability Software 74

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. Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Additionally.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

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?”

Performance 99

Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 99

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. Read/Write latency. Data Placement.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

Let’s see the write operations with 24 and 64 threads: We get a gain of ~33% just using sharding, while for latency, we do not have a cost. In any case, we need to keep in mind a few key points: Do not believe most of the articles on the internet that promise you infinite scalability for your database.

Traffic 122

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 122

Alex Russell

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

What’s important in an article. Using HTML that all browsers understand saves on complexity, latency, and confusion — assuming that HTML has something that says what you mean. What everyone else (search engines, publishers, etc.) get out of this arrangement is as side effect ; an echo of the original conversation.

Engineering 40

Engineering Technology Technology Systems 40

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. Case Study. Case Study.

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I laid out some of these challenges in an article explaining the concept of eventual consistency. Achieving strict consistency can come at a cost in update or read latency, and may result in lower throughput. Lowest read latency. Higher read latency. Consistent read. Stale reads possible. Highest read throughput.

AWS 69

AWS Latency Database Scalability 69

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I wrote an ftrace toolkit, [perf-tools], and the article [Ftrace: the hidden light switch]. - **perf**: since 2009, this started as a PMC profiler but can do tracing now as well, usually in a dump-and-post-process style. Here's some output from my zfsdist tool, in bcc/BPF, which measures ZFS latency as a histogram on Linux: # zfsdist.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Some of those factors include the following: URL Test Location Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, mobile browsers etc…) Connection Number of Tests Repeat View Elements Used in Waterfall Charts Interactive Slider : The Interactive Slider is an indicator of the performance of each element in terms of milliseconds. Do You Need a CDN?

Performance 52

Performance Cache Website Speed 52

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, mobile browsers etc…). Waterfall charts allow the user to discover how latency is influencing the speed of the website. Going back to the color-coded chart earlier in the article, the yellow bar means the web browser is waiting for data from domain name server (DNS). Test Location.

Performance 53

Performance Cache Website Speed 53

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s worth noting that you will end up with better Core Web Vitals scores by following a general advice in this article.). Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Largest Contentful Paint ( LCP ) < 2.5 considerations. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. awesome-webpack is a curated list of useful Webpack resources, libraries and tools, including articles, videos, courses, books and examples for Angular, React and framework-agnostic projects.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104