Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools].

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments. Bear in mind that the internet currently takes 4ms from New York to Philadelphia. Vikings fight zombies. With transformer Viking ships.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments. Bear in mind that the internet currently takes 4ms from New York to Philadelphia. Vikings fight zombies. With transformer Viking ships.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

A typical example of modern "microservices-inspired" Java application would function along these lines: Netflix : We observed during experimentation that RAM random read latencies were rarely higher than 1 microsecond whereas typical SSD random read speeds are between 100–500 microseconds. There are a few more quotes.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

We thus assigned a priority to each use case and sharded event traffic by routing to priority-specific queues and the corresponding event processing clusters. This separation allows us to tune system configuration and scaling policies independently for different event priorities and traffic patterns.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

As we began growing the AWS business, we realized that external customers might find our Dynamo database just as useful as we found it within Amazon.com. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

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.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

In fact, this is been proven by our customers as Amazon Aurora remains the fastest growing service in AWS history. We are increasingly seeing customers wanting to build Internet-scale applications that require diverse data models. The opposite is true. What we experienced at Amazon.com was using a database beyond its intended purpose.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

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 ().

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Thus, it "hides" latency (both in the network and on the server) from clients.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145