The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

If we do that naively though, we’re going to end up with a lot of universes to store and maintain and the storage requirements alone will be prohibitive. The amount of computation required on a base update can be reduced by sharing computation and cached data between universes.

Database 90

Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

From chunk encoding to assembly and packaging, the result of each previous processing step must be uploaded to cloud storage and then downloaded by the next processing step. Since not all projects are terabytes projects, allocating the largest cloud storage to all packager instances is not an efficient use of cloud resources.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The Solution: Distributed Caching. The solution to this challenge is to use scalable, memory-based data storage for fast-changing data so that web sites can keep up with exploding workloads. It’s not enough simply to lash together a set of servers hosting a collection of in-memory caches.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 52

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The Solution: Distributed Caching. The solution to this challenge is to use scalable, memory-based data storage for fast-changing data so that web sites can keep up with exploding workloads. It’s not enough simply to lash together a set of servers hosting a collection of in-memory caches.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 52

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

But since retrieving data from disk is slow, databases tend to work with a caching mechanism to keep as much hot data, the bits and pieces that are most often accessed, in memory. In MySQL, considering the standard storage engine, InnoDB , the data cache is called Buffer Pool. In PostgreSQL, it is called shared buffers.

Tuning 133

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 133

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

The wide range of database support gives HammerDB an advantage over other database benchmarking tools that only implement workloads against one or two databases, limiting comparison between database engines and assessing relative performance. Cached vs Scaled Workloads. Instead, most users prefer to implement a cached workload.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

For example, the IMDG must be able to efficiently create millions of objects in each server to make use of its huge storage capacity. Given all this, we thought it would be a good opportunity to see how we are doing relative to the competition, and in particular, relative to Microsoft’s AppFabric caching for Windows on-premise servers.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Cons of logical backups As it reads all data, it can be slow and will require disk reads too for databases that are larger than the RAM available for the WT cache—the WT cache pressure increases, which slows down the performance. Especially if going into or out of storage types that may throttle bandwidth/network traffic.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Given its unchanging nature, static content is ideal for caching. Yes, these might change based on localization settings, but in terms of storage, it’s still a completely baked cookie that the server can choose to serve or not serve.Whenever a user clicks on an episode, these bits remain unchanged. Now, let's delve a little deeper.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

The beauty of persistent memory is that we can use memory layouts for persistent data (with some considerations for volatile caches etc. The paper concludes with a quick comparison of a KVS written using a modified FreeBSD kernel in the Twizzler-proposed model, and a traditional Unix implementation using files.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Yes, these might change based on localization settings, but in terms of storage, it’s still a completely baked cookie that the server can choose to serve or not serve.Whenever a user clicks on an episode, these bits remain unchanged. By the time the player needs it, the content is already cached and ready to go.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

The rationale behind these methods is that frontend should be able to fetch transient information very efficiently and separately from fetching of heavy-weight domain entities because this information cannot be cached. So, the only way was to cache all necessary data to minimize interaction with RDBMS.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

For example, Azure SQL Database Edge can already use TSQL Predict Machine Learning (ML) and Column Storage. The lock manager has partitions, lock block cache and other structures. Reduce the number of partitions and size of the cache. IO Request Caches. SQLPAL may cache I/O request structures with each thread.

IoT 61

IoT Servers Development Cache 61

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

now has a version which will support parallelism for SELECT queries (utilizing the read capacity of storage nodes underneath the Aurora cluster). Aurora Parallel Query response time (for queries which can not use indexes) can be 5x-10x better compared to the non-parallel fully cached operations. Aurora instance type and comparison.

Cache 46

Cache C++ AWS Airlines 46

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. An extension to Service Workers that enables browsers to present users with cached content when offline. A-series chips have run circles around other ARM parts for more than half a decade, largely through gobsmacking amounts of L2/L3 cache per core.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In comparison with pure anti-entropy, this greatly improves consistency with a relatively small performance penalty. The Push-Pull approach greatly improves efficiency in comparison with the original push or pulls techniques, so it is typically used in practice. This redirect is a one-time and should not be cached.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Time of Last Access The time of last access is a caching ​​ algorithm ​​ that enables ​​ cache ​​ entries to be ordered by their ​​ access times.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

SQL Performance

AUGUST 23, 2019

The SQL Server batch mode implementation of a Bloom filter is optimized for modern CPU cache architectures and is known internally as a complex bitmap. A further optimization exists to convert the compressed dictionary bitmap to a comparison filter if the dictionary bitmap represents a single contiguous range of values.

Servers 75

Servers Engineering Efficiency Retail 75

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Instead, you can integrate your existing image server (on your web host) or external storage service (like S3) with ImageKit. However, once you integrate your images or image storage with ImageKit, the tool will take control of your image sizing. There was no need to move their images to ImageKit or another third-party storage service.

Mobile 62

Mobile Media Website Storage 62

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. This improves page load time and caching during navigations.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Alternatively, you can also use Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Other options are available , too.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103