The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI. You can find a lot more details about how this works in the Spinnaker canaries documentation. This meant that data that was static (e.g.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

This allows resource requests, including the HTML document itself, to be enriched with data during its lifecycle, and that information can be inspected for measuring the attributes of that resource! For the top-level HTML document, it is fetched upon user navigation but is still a resource request.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

To further exacerbate the problem, the 302 response has a Cache-Control: must-revalidate, private. header , meaning that we will always make an outgoing request for this resource regardless of whether or not we’re hitting the site from a cold or a warm cache. com , which introduces yet more latency for the connection setup.

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Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When deciding what to pick, there are many things to consider, like where the proxy needs to be, if it “just” needs to redirect the connections, or if more features need to be in, like caching and filtering, or if it needs to be integrated with some MySQL embedded automation. Given that, there never was a single straight answer.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While dynamic serving provides simplicity in implementation, it imposes significant time costs due to the computational resources required to generate the pages and the latency involved in serving these pages to users at distant locations. The shorter the TTFB, the better the perceived speed of the site from the user’s perspective.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

The mean and percentile measurements hide this structure, but the rest of this post will show how the structure can be measured and analyzed so that you can figure out a useful model of your system, understand what is driving the long tail of latencies and come up with better SLAs and measures of capacity.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

In response to these needs, developers now have the choice of relational, key-value, document, graph, in-memory, and search databases. Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Jamstack is popular with documentation sites that usually compile code to HTML files and host them on the CDN. Active Memory Caching. When you want to get data that you already had quickly, you need to do caching — caching stores data that a user recently retrieved. Caching Schemes. Caching Schemes.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

ChatGPT: The InnoDB buffer pool is used by MySQL to cache frequently accessed data in memory. If we expand the cache concept more, the buffer pool could be even less if the working set (hot data) is smaller. Also, there is a documented bug: OPTIMIZE TABLE does not sort R-tree indexes, such as spatial indexes on POINT columns.

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 19, 2020

It’s widely accepted that self-hosted fonts are the fastest option: same origin means reduced network negotiation, predictable URLs mean we can preload , self-hosted means we can set our own cache-control. On a high-latency connection, this spells bad news. Put another-other way, this file is latency-bound, not bandwidth-bound.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

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. I’m going to update my referenced URL to the new site to help decrease latency that adds drag to the initial page load. Text-based assets.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map. cachestat File system cache statistics line charts. runqlat CPU scheduler latency heat map. There is already documentation as man pages and example files in the bcc and bpftrace repositories that you can link to, to help your customers understand the tool output.

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Percona

JULY 17, 2023

1 among non-relational/document-based systems ( DB-Engines, July 2023 ). Instead of the table-based structure of relational databases, MongoDB stores data in documents and collections, a design for handling large amounts of unstructured data and for real-time web applications. It ranks No.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees. The deadline excels at latency-sensitive use cases ( like databases ), and noop is closer to no schedule at all. Make sure the drives are mounted with noatime and also if the drives are behind a RAID controller with appropriate battery-backed cache.

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The talks are up on YouTube , including my own (behind a paywall, but the slides are freely available [1] ): The talk, like this post, is an update on network and CPU realities this series has documented since 2017. More importantly, it is also a look at what the latest data means for our collective performance budgets. 4GiB of RAM.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Caching of query results on the other hand, looks like a good business model, at large enough scale these might amount to pretty much the same thing). How’s that going to work given what we know about the throughput and latency of blockchains, and the associated mining costs?" An embodiment for structured data for IoT.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

All these resource hints use the rel attribute of the <link> element that you’ll be familiar with finding in the <head> of your HTML documents. The browser caches the results of these lookups, but they can be slow. You might think of a prefetch as being a bit like adding a file to the browser’s cache.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CloudFront makes a simple choice here as it offers direct integration with all these services to let you cache responses across its global edge locations. These companies often utilize CDNs optimized for low-latency content delivery of the products that they offer.

Lambda 52

Lambda AWS Cache Website 52

Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 17, 2018

Short durations can be useful for understanding how well a WSS will fit into the CPU caches (L1/L2/L3, TLB L1/L2, etc). In this case, 28 Mbytes is a little larger than the LLC for this CPU, so may not cache so well (in a single LLC, anyway, and based on this single measurement). Why did I use a 100 ms interval? 16.570 403.66

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Real-time software system – Collaboration tools used for video/audio conferencing, document writing, Chat applications, etc. with its low latency I/O operations, gives the benefit of ‘No buffering’ to developers. Performance: React uses Virtual DOM (document object model), which improves the performance of applications.

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Open Source Virtualization Programming Servers 52

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. Hence, the node would still be available for other operations.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. PRPL stands for Pushing critical resource, Rendering initial route, Pre-caching remaining routes and Lazy-loading remaining routes on demand. Getting started with Webpack can be tough though.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Unless a site is installed to the home screen as a PWA , any single page is just another in a series of documents that users experience as a river of links. A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The Moto G4 , for example.

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CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

Linux; Android 6.0.1; Moto G (4)) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.85 Mobile Safari/537.36 PTST/210419.211328", "accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9", image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9",

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Transportation Cache Google Mobile 86

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Copyright The information contained in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication. Microsoft may have patents, patent applications, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights covering subject matter in this document.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Using CDN for the whole website, you can offload most of the website traffic to your CDN which will handle not only large traffic spikes but also reduce the latency of content delivery. They were using a very legacy CMS or more precisely a document management system which was painful to work with.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CloudFront makes a simple choice here as it offers direct integration with all these services to let you cache responses across its global edge locations. But since they don't rely much on dynamic content, but rely more upon static content that can be cached at the edge.

Lambda 52

Lambda AWS Cache Website 52

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

This isn’t true (more on that in a follow-up post), and sites which are built this way implicitly require more script in each document (e.g., The server sends it as a stream of bytes and when the browser encounters each of the sub-resources referenced in the document, it requests them. for router components). Parsing CSS.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. This is not just predictability of median performance and latency, but also at the end of the distribution (the 99.9th percentile), so we could provide acceptable performance for virtually every customer. s read latency, particularly as dataset sizes grow.

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 16, 2018

Short durations can be useful for understanding how well a WSS will fit into the CPU caches (L1/L2/L3, TLB L1/L2, etc). In this case, 28 Mbytes is a little larger than the LLC for this CPU, so may not cache so well (in a single LLC, anyway, and based on this single measurement). Why did I use a 100 ms interval? 16.570 403.66

Cache 40

Cache Latency C++ Programming 40

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map 5. cachestat File system cache statistics line charts 7. runqlat CPU scheduler latency heat map 10. There is already documentation as man pages and example files in the bcc and bpftrace repositories that you can link to, to help your customers understand the tool output.

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Open Source Latency Cache Energy 40

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

One example could be using an RDBMS for most of the Online transaction processing ( OLTP) data shared by country and having the products as distributed memory cache with a different technology. Let’s see the write operations with 24 and 64 threads: We get a gain of ~33% just using sharding, while for latency, we do not have a cost.

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Traffic Scalability Database Servers 121

Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

You can find more information about modifying this file within your server’s documentation. Because HTTP redirection is handled server-side, it is typically faster than client-side redirection, especially if the browser can cache the new location of the requested file. Implementing this requires access to your server’s.htaccess file.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Copyright The information ​​ that is contained ​​ in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication. After reading ​​ this document you will better understand SQL Server I/O needs and capabilities.

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Servers Cache Database Media 40

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

For heavily latency-sensitive use-cases like WebXR, this is a critical component in delivering a good experience. An extension to Service Workers that enables browsers to present users with cached content when offline. In the days that followed, belated documentation included a shocking revelation: against all expectations, iOS 14.5

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