The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. First off there still is a model of course (but then there are servers hiding behind a serverless abstraction too!). autoscaling).

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. The current system assumes an application specific regression model is available on the servers which can predict processing time given the current parameters of the job (e.g. in the cloud).

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 27, 2018

The short answers are, of course ‘all the time’ and ‘everyone’, but this mutual disownership is a common reason why performance often gets overlooked. Of course, it is impossible to fix (or even find) every performance issue during the development phase. Each have their own time, place, purpose, focus, and audience. Who: Engineers.

Performance Testing 172

Performance Testing Testing Performance Strategy 172

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

Over the decade since [the introduction of Availability Zones], our thinking on failure and availability has continued to evolve, and we paid increasing attention to blast radius and correlation of failure. EBS uses chain replication for availability, with data flowing from client to primary to replica. Physalia in the large.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Going forward, I'll produce both as top-line guidance. In the U.S., This nets out to 2.32

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We are kidding of course, but you know something is bad if happens that early in the morning. Software services still require physical devices and hardware for them to function. This helps to improve efficiency and ensures that information is consistent, up-to-date, and available. Nothing good happens at 2:00 a.m.,

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

The goal is to produce a low-energy hardware classifier for embedded applications doing local processing of sensor data. Of course analog signalling comes with a whole bunch of challenges of its own, which is one of the reasons we tend to convert to digital. One such possible representation is pure analog signalling.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. The information it captures is, however, available going back somewhat further, providing a fuller picture of the trend lines of engine completeness. Count of APIs available from JavaScript by Web Confluence.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Modern network performance and availability. Not as much as we'd like, of course, but the worldwide baseline has changed enormously. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. There are differences, of course, but not where it counts. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset. Advances in browser content processing.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Historically, NoSQL paid a lot of attention to tradeoffs between consistency, fault-tolerance and performance to serve geographically distributed systems, low-latency or highly available applications. A database should accommodate itself to different data distributions, cluster topologies and hardware configurations.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

This matters because it is the corpus of attractive content uniquely available through a meta-platform that convinces users to adopt its runtime, and no platform developer can afford to build enough content to be compelling on their own. In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. Same with utilities.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

Sutter's Mill

JUNE 21, 2012

They made a nice recording and it’s now available online here: Facebook Engineering. Now welcome to the hardware jungle. The slides are available here. For those interested in a longer version, in April I gave a 105-minute + Q&A version of this talk in Kansas City at Perceptive, also available online where I posted before.

Latency 40

Latency Transportation Hardware Education 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

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 ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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

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.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. The situation is even more acute in WebView IABs, which tend not to fully support features from these categories even when they appear available to developers via script. No documentation is available for third-party web developers from any of the largest WebView IAB (ab)users.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

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).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. 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). Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT).

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. With this launch, AWS now provides 60 Availability Zones, with another 12 zones and four Regions expected to come online by 2020 in Bahrain, Cape Town, Hong Kong, and Milan.

AWS 124

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124