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Varnish and BBR: Lower Latency OTT Video Delivery

DZone

When delivering video over-the-top (OTT), the internet is the principal highway for distributing this content. However, OTT streaming delivery requires something faster than what the internet offers in terms of how chunks/fragments are supposed to flow.

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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Dynatrace

According to Google’s SRE handbook , best practices, there are “ Four Golden Signals ” we can convert into four SLOs for services: reliability, latency, availability, and saturation. Latency is the time that it takes a request to be served. Availability. Define SLOs for each service. Reliability.

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AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of things

The Morning Paper

AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of Things , Abadi et al., Despite the "Internet of Things" featuring prominently in the title, there’s nothing particular to IoT in the technical solution at all. CIDR’20. It just happens to be an initial use case that fits well with the AnyLog model.

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Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters

CSS Wizardry

The first—and often most surprising for people to learn—thing that I want to draw your attention to is that TTFB counts one whole round trip of latency. The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections. Last mile latency deals with the disproportionate complexity toward the terminus of a connection.

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SpaceX Spending $10 Billion to Make the Internet 20ms Faster

MachMetrics

A lot of coverage on this project is centered (rightfully) around the potential of this project to deliver fast internet to underdeveloped nations at a minimal cost. Starlink’s Goal: Reduce Internet Latency. At a cost of 300 million dollars, this cable reduced the latency of this transatlantic journey down to 59.95

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Act locally, connect globally with IoT and edge computing

All Things Distributed

But they usually have little to no internet connection, making the challenge of exploring environments inhospitable for humans seem even more impossible. The answer to this question is actually on your phone, your smartwatch, and billions of other places on earth—it's the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) vs. Dedicated Hosting at ScaleGrid

Scalegrid

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). These are advanced cloud configurations that allow you to protect your databases from the internet.

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