Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 29, 2018

These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Accurate benchmarking rewards engineering investment that actually improves performance, but, unfortunately, inaccurate benchmarking is more common. If the benchmark reported 20k ops/sec, you should ask: why not 40k ops/sec?

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Data loading patterns are an essential part of your application as they will determine which parts of your application are directly usable by visitors. But isn’t waiting for the data the point?

Performance 125

Performance Cache Servers Social Media 125

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

” The fallacy of networks, or new devices for that matter, fixing our performance woes is old and repetitive. To be fair, each new generation of network connectivity does bring some level of change and transformation to how we interact with the internet. The fastest 4G network clocks in around 10 Mbps, and the slowest around 6.3

Network 61

Network Speed Internet Internet 61

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., A typical architecture diagram for one of these services looks like this: Suitably armed with a set of benchmark microservices applications, the investigation can begin! ASPLOS’19.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. Traces collected from various microservices are ingested in a stream processing manner into the data store.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. RUM collects data on each user action within a session, including the time required to complete the action, so IT pros can identify patterns and where to make improvements in experience.

Best Practices 175

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 175

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Key Takeaways A cloud workload encompasses any application or service running on a cloud infrastructure, facilitating tasks ranging from basic functions to advanced data analysis with the help of resources like databases, collaboration tools, and disaster recovery systems. This applies to both virtual machines and container-based deployments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. In early January a related paper was published by Satoshi Matsuoka et. petaflops, which is 0.8%

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

They can also bolster uptime and limit latency issues or potential downtimes. This covers everything from tech specs and what you expect from the service to security, how you’ll handle data, and how services will be managed. Each private cloud setup has perks and benefits, especially for handling specific tasks.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced. What's changed since last year? And how much more HTML, CSS, and (particularly) JavaScript can a new project afford?

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. Disk space usage Monitor the disk space usage of MySQL data files, log files, and temporary files.

Performance 107

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 107

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Kubernetes has emerged as go to container orchestration platform for data engineering teams. In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. Organisations are already using Kubernetes for a variety of workloads [1] [2] and data workloads are up next. better cluster resource utilization.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., on end-to-end latency) and less than 0.15% on throughput. This tracing system is similar to Dapper and Zipkin and records per-microservice latencies and number of outstanding requests. ASPLOS’19. Seer in action.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The OSI Model is like a layer cake of how data moves through networks. This means it specifically looks at the content of the data (like the writing inside our letters from the analogy) rather than just the envelope.So, what is the difference between a Firewall at the application level and network level?Network-level

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

There’s a broad set of choices including where you store the data, whether you run your own DBMS nodes or use a service, the kinds of instance types to go for if you do run your own, and so forth. We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. 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.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Consistent performance matters just as much as low average latency. Photo by von Vix.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The OSI Model is like a layer cake of how data moves through networks. This means it specifically looks at the content of the data (like the writing inside our letters from the analogy) rather than just the envelope.So, what is the difference between a Firewall at the application level and network level?Network-level

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. This rework delays launch which, in turn, delays gathering data about the viability of a PWA strategy. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. The median user is on a slow network. Where to start?

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Synthetic monitoring vendors provide a remote (often global) infrastructure that visits a website periodically and records the performance data for each run. The measured traffic is not of your actual users; it is synthetically generated to collect data on page performance. Benchmark Against Competitors.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Converging Views.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. An interruption in data flow due to limited capacity is called a bottleneck. Test and collect data: Let your testing software do all the hard work, then assess the results.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Performance issues surrounding Availability Groups typically were related to disk I/O or network speeds. Our customers who deployed Availability Groups were now using servers for primary and secondary replicas with 12+ core sockets and flash storage SSD arrays providing microsecond to low millisecond latencies.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. Furthermore, using data from case studies and experiments published on WPO Stats will help increase sensitivity for business about why performance matters, and what impact it has on user experience and business metrics. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The Lighthouse Performance score is based on some of the most important performance metrics : First Contentful Paint, First Meaningful Paint, Speed Index, Time to Interactive, First CPU Idle, and Estimated Input Latency. Data granularity becomes more important as your development processes mature.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

We have spent a great deal of time at ScaleOut Software re-architecting our in-memory data grid (IMDG)’s code base to make best use of many cores and large memory. Likewise, object access paths must be heavily multi-threaded and avoid lock contention to minimize access latency and maximize throughput. Testing Scale-Up Performance.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

With request tracing and additional data from logs, events, metadata, and analysis, Edgar is able to show the flow of a request through our distributed system?—?what But, there are a few substantial differences in how Edgar approaches its data and its users. starting and finishing a method).

Latency 296

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

To ensure data integrity for our customers who are running SQL Server, it is important that I/O environments provide appropriate functionality. Atomicity A transaction must be an atomic unit of work; either all of its data modifications are performed or none of them are performed.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

If ​​ it is ​​ not, ​​ the ​​ data ​​ is considered ​​ to be ​​ changed ​​ or ​​ damaged. In ​​ other words, ​​ a formula is applied ​​ to a given set of bytes.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40