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. Since we’re talking about mobile applications, we have to assume a changing environment over time, including the possibility of losing internet connectivity altogether. The Mobile Web Worker (MWW) System.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.” If you’re interested in attending, please check out the links, and I look forward to meeting and re-meeting many of you there.

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

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. All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. After being available in an Early Adopter Release, we’re happy to announce that AWS supporting services are now Generally Available (GA). Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). Amazon EMR.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 137

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. After being available in an Early Adopter Release, we’re happy to announce that AWS supporting services are now Generally Available (GA). Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). Amazon EMR.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 133

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

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. tsc $ time java TimeBench.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., Taiji’s routing table is a materialized representation of how user traffic at various edge nodes ought to be distributed over available data centers to balance data center utilization and minimize latency. SOSP’19.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018. As a result, we have opened 43 Availability Zones across 16 AWS Regions worldwide. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience.

AWS 146

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 146

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Based in the Paris area, the region will provide even lower latency and will allow users who want to store their content in datacenters in France to easily do so. As a result, we have opened 35 Availability Zones (AZs), across 13 AWS Regions worldwide. After the launch of the French region there will be 10 Availability Zones in Europe.

AWS 166

AWS IoT Internet Internet 166

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. Using a fast DNS hosting provider ensures there is less latency between the DNS lookup and TTFB. What is DNS?

Cache 134

Cache Website Internet Internet 134

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Yes, it’s a single file, but that’s not how it’s stored on the internet. Login & Authentication: Systems that verify user credentials and maintain session-specific data.Â

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Yes, it’s a single file, but that’s not how it’s stored on the internet. 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.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

The new AWS EU (Stockholm) Region will have three Availability Zones and will be ready for customers to use in 2018. As a result, we have opened 42 Availability Zones across 16 AWS Regions worldwide. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons). Going forward, I'll produce both as top-line guidance. In the U.S.,

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 6, 2016

Today, I’m happy to announce that the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. The rapidly expanding AWS Partner Network (APN) in Korea includes independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) who are building innovative solutions and services around the AWS cloud.

AWS 110

AWS Cloud Games Latency 110

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

5 among all database management systems and No. 1 among non-relational/document-based systems ( DB-Engines, July 2023 ). Taking a deeper dive, MongoDB is a system for analyzing data because documents are easily shared across multiple nodes and because of its indexing, query-on-demand, and real-time aggregation capabilities.

Open Source 74

Open Source Database Scalability Software 74

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. If the content is readily available, the CDN delivers it straight away, negating the need to retrieve it from the origin server.

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. A more scalable option is to decouple these systems and build a pipe that connects these engines and feeds all change records from the source database to the data warehouse (e.g.,

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

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. Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Congestion Control.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage.

Speed 121

Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It may even be something you do regularly with Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools, where testing is freely available and produces a very attractive-looking report. CrUX is what fuels PSI and Google Search Console, but it is also available in other tools you may already use. Can’t be perfect every time! It’s right there in the name!

Speed 97

Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Testsigma

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Since the beginning of the internet era, browsers and websites have lived co-dependently. Starting from the internet explorer, then to the Mozilla project and now to at least six major browsers in the market, we have evolved quite well. Maybe just changing the code according to browsers and operating systems.

Testing 53

Testing Operating System Website Latency 53

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. Naming is one of the fundamental concepts in Distributed Systems. By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. If the content is readily available, the CDN delivers it straight away, negating the need to retrieve it from the origin server.

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Colleagues/Internet I love using Linux performance tools. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Lots can go wrong: a network request fails, a third-party library breaks, a JavaScript feature is unsupported (assuming JavaScript is even available), a CDN goes down, a user behaves unexpectedly (they double-click a submit button), the list goes on. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. And that decision directly impacts users.

Network 145

Network Engineering Monitoring Availability 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Now there’s a massive range of Jamstack CMSs available, which bring all the advantages of static sites while allowing non-technical folk to update content. During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. But, when it worked, it was magical.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

As such, it encompasses distributed system coordination, failover, resource management and many other capabilities. These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. System Coordination. Scalability is one of the main drivers of the NoSQL movement.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. For example, if you are using internet banking via a Mobile Web application, it will not allow you to save cards or mark any transaction as favourite. What are Mobile Web Applications?

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 30, 2018

Managed DNS, as your gateway to the internet, can provide improved resilience to ensure your applications are always available. If your organization relies on a single point of failure in terms of DNS, you’re open to system failure due to disasters of both technical and natural origins from power outages to sophisticated attacks.

Cloud 68

Cloud Traffic Internet Internet 68

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The Internet of Things is generally referred to as IoT which encompasses computers, cars, houses or some other technological system related. New technologies like the AI, NLP, AI, ML, autonomous products available are used by testers and organisations to solve the problems of test cases, time consumed in testing.

Artificial Intelligence 92

Artificial Intelligence Software Software IoT 92

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The predominant desktop situation is relatively straightforward: Browsers handle links, and non-browsers defer loading http and https URLs to the system, which in turn invokes the default browser. Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Each is crucial, and they all feed into each other to create a robust, responsive, and resilient security mechanism.Research‍In the dynamic world of the Internet, new threats are as constant as the rising sun. ‍Normally, you input a username and a password, which the system verifies before letting you in.

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

Amazon ML uses powerful algorithms that can help you create machine learning models by finding patterns in existing data, and using these patterns to make predictions from new data as it becomes available. The Amazon Elastic File System. Details on the AWS Blog. for a while already. Details on the AWS Blog.

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Lambda Cloud IoT AWS 122