Dynatrace

JULY 10, 2019

This article we help distinguish between process metrics, external metrics and PurePaths (traces). If you already have the OneAgent installed, and you’d like to bring in additional process metrics into Dynatrace , the OneAgent plugin is a good fit. To get more process metrics, use a OneAgent plugin. Use the OneAgent SDK.

Java 139

Java Best Practices Metrics Azure 139

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. This type of traffic originates directly from the server, making it more challenging to handle due to latency and server load considerations; it’s hard but not impossible. Those days are long gone.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Core Web Vital metrics definitions. However, achieving a good LCP score is often a multi-faceted process that involves optimizing several stages of loading and rendering. You need to look out for large image file sizes or improperly optimized images that can delay the fetching and decoding process.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Prediction serving latency matters. There is a lot of rich information available regarding accommodations, which can be overwhelming for users. Before you start building models, it’s worth spending time carefully constructing a definition of the problem you are trying to solve. Lesson 4: prediction serving latency matters.

Latency 102

Latency Metrics Cache Design 102

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. the term "smartphone dependence" has been coined to describe folks without other ways to access the increasing fraction of essential services only available through the internet. Going forward, I'll produce both as top-line guidance. In the U.S.,

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

ScaleOut Software

JULY 14, 2021

The Microsoft Azure IoT ecosystem offers a rich set of capabilities for processing IoT telemetry, from its arrival in the cloud through its storage in databases and data lakes. Acting as a switchboard for incoming and outgoing messages, Azure IoT Hub forms the core of these capabilities.

IoT 52

IoT Azure Analytics Serverless 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. This type of traffic originates directly from the server, making it more challenging to handle due to latency and server load considerations; it’s hard but not impossible. Those days are long gone.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2021

As a strong supporter of open source and open standards, I’m aware that the wide availability of standards, open-source tools, and some newly coined terms are causing a lot of confusion. The overall fallacy in this assumption becomes obvious when you look at the definitions of the terms. The same can be said for “observing.”

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Open Source Monitoring Google Systems 201

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

By definition, a distributed system is any system that comprises of multiple components on variety of machines that work together to appear as a single, organized system. Although the definition may seem straightforward, in the real-world, a distributed system is one of the most complex environments to understand, manage, and monitor.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

For example, if a lookup fails and times out to your first DNS server it queries the next DNS server until the correct IP address is returned, or it is unable to resolve as seen in the infamous "This webpage is not available" error below. So DNS services definitely go down! Speed Speed also plays a role with DNS.

Cache 134

Cache Website Internet Internet 134

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Now that we have talked about what an incident is, incident management is the process by which teams resolve these events and bring systems and services back to normal operation. ITSM is the policies, processes, and structure behind the lifecycle of IT services. Incident Management Lifecyle: Process and Steps. Service Desk.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

LCP is only available in Chromium-based browsers, so if you have a significant number of users that come in via other browsers, you should also consider tracking Last Painted Hero, below. > INP logs the latency of all interactions throughout the entire page lifecycle. It's only tracked on certain elements, e.g., IMG and VIDEO.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. Redirects are often pretty light in terms of the latency that they add to a website, but they are an easy first thing to check, and they can generally be removed with little effort. This process can be “blocked” if it has to wait for resources to load before it runs.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

There’s a lot of material in this paper’s 29 pages, and to make sure I have the space to properly understand the ideas (the process of summary writing is a critical part of that for me), I’m going to spread my coverage over two posts. Local operation, global coordination. Mergeable replicated data types. E.g., (+2), (x5) != (x5),

Strategy 104

Strategy Latency Systems Processing 104

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

This boils down to a single digit µs latency toleration in the tail for far memory, and in addition to security and privacy concerns, rules out remote memory solutions. Zswap is readily available and runs as a swap device in the Linux kernel. Enter zswap! Google use zswap to implement their far memory tier.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

At the end of the day, you get the dual benefit of higher throughput and lower latency (as compared to coordination-based approaches) coupled with knowing that there isn’t some nasty invariant-violating concurrency bug waiting to bite you (so long as you specified your invariants and operation effects correctly of course!).

Database 42

Database Latency Games Design 42

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Even with all of the available tools at my disposal, I still find myself reaching for several of them. In contrast, tools like DebugBear and WebPageTest use more realistic throttling that accurately reflects network round trips on a higher-latency connection. Lighthouse results. Real usage data would be better, of course.

Speed 81

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

Testsigma

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Cross-browser testing might sound like an easy process of running your website on different browsers. Maintaining the infrastructure for cross-browser testing becomes a problem or a challenge only when you are testing through the manual process. Manual processes include setting your own lab or virtual systems etc. Conclusion.

Testing 53

Testing Operating System Website Latency 53

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt. If not, then check your Node installation is working and you’re definitely in the correct project directory. This allows us to process the report later without resulting in a messy pyramid of JavaScript. What is Google Lighthouse?

Google 82

Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. Kubernetes has all necessary primitives available to make it happen. For instance, scatter/gather pattern can be used to implement a MapReduce like batch processing architecture on top of Kubernetes. Custom schedulers.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

From the moment a Netflix film or series is pitched and long before it becomes available on Netflix, it goes through many phases. Operational Reporting is a reporting paradigm specialized in covering high-resolution, low-latency data sets, serving detailed day-to-day activities¹ and processes of a business domain.

Big Data 253

Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In both cases, when using virtually-synchronous replication, the process will require certification from each node and local (by node) write; as such, the number of writes is NOT distributed across multiple nodes but duplicated. Note that Backup for POM PS is available only on demand, given the solution is still in technical preview.

Traffic 128

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 128

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

We live in the era of the connected experience, where our daily interactions with the world can be digitized, collected, processed, and analyzed to generate valuable insights. Accumulating all this data to process overnight is not an option anymore. Do we need to process each record individually? Process tolerance.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Modern network performance and availability. Advances in browser content processing. If those specs sound eerily familiar, it's perhaps because they're identical to 2016's $200USD Moto G4 , all the way down to the 2011-vintage 28nm SoC process node used to fab the chip's anemic, 2012-vintage A53 cores.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

I've got a long blog post brewing on this, but jumping to the end, an operable definition is: A browser is an application that can register with an OS to handle http and https navigations by default. No documentation is available for third-party web developers from any of the largest WebView IAB (ab)users. " you might ask?

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network. This is useful if you want to store optimized images instead of using a real-time image processing service. The PHP library for the API is available on GitHub. KB (30%) without losses.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Hence, the node would still be available for other operations. Cons of logical backups As it reads all data, it can be slow and will require disk reads too for databases that are larger than the RAM available for the WT cache—the WT cache pressure increases, which slows down the performance. Records backup progress logging.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

John McCalpin

JULY 23, 2018

When running a single user thread, you will often get the advertised single-core Turbo frequency, but if the operating system enables more cores to handle (even very short-lived) background processes, your frequency may drop unexpectedly. RDTSCP can still be executed later than expected, but not earlier.

Code 45

Code Programming Latency Testing 45

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Answering it requires an understanding of how browsers process resources (which differs by type) and the concept of the critical path. This input processing happens on document’s main thread , where JavaScript runs. Processing input (including scrolling w/ active touch listeners). ” A good question!

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Micro-optimizations are great for keeping performance on track, but it’s critical to have clearly defined targets in mind — measurable goals that would influence any decisions made throughout the process. Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

There are several benefits of such optimizations like saving on storage, faster query time, cheaper downstream processing, and an increase in developer productivity by removing additional ETLs written only for query performance improvement. More processing resources. Also, respond to ad-hoc requests created manually by end-users.

Storage 203

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Today, data needs to be available at all times, serving its users—both humans and computer systems—across all time zones, continuously, in close to real time. Sadly, it is very common to write logic that deeply couples the notion of IO with the processing of that IO. Welcome to a new world of data-driven systems.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

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

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 22, 2019

Baking Windows with Packer By Justin Phelps and Manuel Correa Customizing Windows images at Netflix was a manual, error-prone, and time consuming process. We looked at our process for creating a Windows AMI and discovered it was error-prone and full of toil. Last year, we decided to improve the AMI baking process.

DevOps 207

DevOps AWS Tuning Infrastructure 207