Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. This article will explore how they handle data storage and scalability, perform in different scenarios, and, most importantly, how these factors influence your choice.

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

DZone

JULY 10, 2019

In addition, compute and storage are increasingly being separated causing larger latencies for queries. This article provides the top 10 tips for performance tuning for real-world workloads when running Spark on Alluxio with data locality, giving the most bang for the buck. The first few tips are related to locality.

Best Practices 133

Best Practices Latency Storage Tuning 133

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. Or even on a plane.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Over the years, more and more articles have been published about clocksource in virtual machines, and it's now a well-known issue.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

To quote from an article about hard drive [air filters]: "some hard drives are not rated to exceed 7,000 feet while operating because the air pressure would be too low inside the drive to float the heads properly." Rotational disks have extra latency from head seeks for random I/O, and spin ups from the idle state. Hit Ctrl-C to end.

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Performance Latency Speed Systems 142

CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

TTFB mobile speed distribution (CrUX, July 2019). FCP mobile speed distribution (CrUX, July 2019). FID mobile speed distribution (CrUX, July 2019). TTFB mobile speed distribution comparison between all web and CMS (CrUX, July 2019). TTFB takes from 200ms to 1 second for users around the world. First Contentful Paint.

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Speed Mobile Metrics Scalability 46

Tech News Gather

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

With some unique advantages like low latency and faster speed, 5G aims to give birth to a new era of mobile application development with some innovations. With the increase in speed and less latency, there are a lot of possibilities that can be explored in the field of the internet of things (IOT) and smart devices.

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Mobile Development Artificial Intelligence IoT 40

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. Related Articles. What's changed ? They are about creating the future.

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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

CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 14, 2020

While this is suboptimal on desktop, it really kills performance on mobile, where round-trip latency is more important than raw download speed. Direct Link to Article — Permalink. The post HTTP Archive’s Annual State of the Web Report appeared first on CSS-Tricks.

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Latency Mobile Website Speed 98

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. Or even on a plane.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This article will explore hybrid cloud benefits and steps to craft a plan that aligns with your unique business challenges. A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer. This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential.

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Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. Recommended! In PageSpeed 5.0,

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

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. I mean, why wouldn't we? Also measured by round trip time (RTT).

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

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.

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Database Network Servers Monitoring 130

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

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. On high latency connections, this saving could be tangible. Imagine a purely decorative photograph accompanying an article.

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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 118

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

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 106

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. I’m going to audit the performance of my slow site before and after the things we tackle in this article. Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

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. Memory Allocation: Allocating sufficient memory linked directly to the assigned CPU ensures effective utilization resulting in better system speed.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

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. It also opens up the possibility for more effective use of caching strategies, potentially enhancing load times further.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

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. This works well for many SQL Server workloads, however, there have been use cases for a lower CPU latency and higher clock speed for CPU-heavy workloads and a need for higher memory per vCore.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

To quote from an article about hard drive [air filters]: "some hard drives are not rated to exceed 7,000 feet while operating because the air pressure would be too low inside the drive to float the heads properly." Rotational disks have extra latency from head seeks for random I/O, and spin ups from the idle state. Hit Ctrl-C to end.

Performance 40

Performance Latency Speed Systems 40

Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

To quote from an article about hard drive [air filters]: "some hard drives are not rated to exceed 7,000 feet while operating because the air pressure would be too low inside the drive to float the heads properly." Rotational disks have extra latency from head seeks for random I/O, and spin ups from the idle state. Hit Ctrl-C to end.

Performance 40

Performance Latency Speed Systems 40

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

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. If your latency is higher than 50ms, users may perceive your app as laggy.

Google 82

Google Latency Website Metrics 82

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

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Sometimes developers only care about speed. Some will claim that any type of RPC communication ends up being faster (meaning it has lower latency) than any equivalent invocation using asynchronous messaging. There are more steps, so the increased latency is easily explained. So we’ll just use “RPC” for short.

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Benchmarking Latency Servers Systems 97

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Assuming encode/decode speeds meet your needs. Encode/Decode Speed. Degree of compression, image quality, and decoding speed are key factors to be considered when comparing image performance for the web. Note: Image CDNs are mentioned a few times in this article. A tl;dr of recommendations can be found below.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144

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. Even if it is 4G (5G, or whatever else) that doesn’t exactly guarantee you’ll be getting the amazing, theoretical speeds promised. And those speeds aren’t constant.

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Network Speed Internet Internet 61

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. If there are too many 302 redirects.

Performance 52

Performance Cache Website Speed 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. That’s practically an eternity when talking about page speed performance. Homepage of a default Drupal site using the Umami theme. In case you’re wondering, 2.4

Media 73

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

These AMD EPYC processors have a number of advantages for SQL Server workloads, as I will explain in this article. This processor has a base clock speed of 2.0GHz, with an all-core boost speed of 2.55GHz, and a max boost clock speed of 3.0GHz. AMD EPYC 7551 Details. The L3 cache size is 64MB. lanes for I/O connectivity.

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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!),

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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. Decrease the Height of the Waterfall Chart.

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Performance Cache Website Speed 53

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

They understood that most websites lack tight latency budgeting, dedicated performance teams, hawkish management reviews, ship gates to prevent regressions, and end-to-end measurements of critical user journeys. This raises a follow-on question: what's an interaction?

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Social Media Website Technology Technology 119