Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

While managing cloud workloads offers numerous benefits, it also presents several challenges such as security risks, compliance issues, and resource optimization, which can be addressed effectively with tools like ScaleGrid, offering features like encryption, disaster recovery, and real-time resource optimization for diverse databases.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Colleagues/Internet I love using Linux performance tools. But I also love solving issues quickly, and sometimes that means just asking colleagues or searching the Internet.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. But I also love solving issues quickly, and sometimes that means just asking colleagues or searching the Internet.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

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. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future. Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future. I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. Twitch developer documentation hosted on AWS, edited on CloudCannon.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Here's some output from my zfsdist tool, in bcc/BPF, which measures ZFS latency as a histogram on Linux: # zfsdist. Tracing ZFS operation latency. The odd time we hit them, we'll take the "oops message" – a dump of the kernel stack trace and other details from the system log – and search the Internet.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

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. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. Comments ().

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

This doesn't mean relational databases do not provide utility in present-day development and are not available, scalable, or provide high performance. In fact, this is been proven by our customers as Amazon Aurora remains the fastest growing service in AWS history. The opposite is true. Purpose-built databases.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Brotli is widely supported, and many CDNs support it ( Akamai , AWS , KeyCDN , Fastly , Cloudlare , CDN77 ) and you can enable Brotli even on CDNs that don’t support it yet (with a service worker).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Moreover, a GSI''s performance is designed to meet DynamoDB''s single digit millisecond latency - you can add items to a Users table for a gaming app with tens of millions of users with UserId as the primary key, but retrieve them based on their home city, with no reduction in query performance.

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Games Scalability Database Retail 130

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145