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

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

This is why our BYOC pricing is less than our Dedicated Hosting pricing, as the costs listed for BYOC are only what you pay for ScaleGrid and don’t include your hardware costs. A vast majority of the features are the same, outside of these advanced features available through the BYOC model: Virtual Private Clouds / Virtual Networks.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

Availability 110

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

There’s another emerging option that we didn’t talk about there: the use of far-memory , memory attached to the network that can be remotely accessed without mediation by a local processor. Processor caches can help to hide local accesses too, but not remote accesses. Clients cache the entire tree, but not the hash tables.

Design 80

Design Cache Hardware Scalability 80

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Cache-Headers missing? Lighthouse records metrics from the browser, applies a scoring model to them, and presents an overall performance score. Guidelines for improvement are suggested based on how specific metrics score. During performance tests, Lighthouse records many metrics focused on what a user sees and experiences.

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

We wanted to have control of the hardware that runs our tests and deliver consistent results. The website hasn’t had any changes made to it, (it’s a personal site I haven’t updated in some time), and you can see how each individual metric varies. PSI uses a Moto G4 on a slow 4G mobile network for its testing.

Speed 62

Speed Testing Website Cache 62

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace is suited for this kind of analysis: decomposing metrics into distributions or per-event logs, and creating new metrics for visibility into blind spots. hardware Hardware counter-based instrumentation. There are often two modes, one for device cache hits and one for cache misses, which can be shown by this tool.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ). Plus a service worker that caches all static assets and serves them for repeat views, along with cached versions of articles that a reader has already visited. This is where we started. As it happened, we lost track of performance in the busyness of day-to-day routine.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well. Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. This cache is often supported by a battery-powered backup facility.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Lazy-load offscreen images (reduce network contention for key resources). For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS, a Core Web Vitals metric) measures the instability of content. Lighthouse. Large preview ).

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

The key metric for measuring the sustainability of a digital product is its energy usage. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. An obvious metric here is CPU usage, but memory usage and other forms of data storage also play their part.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Another window into this question is provided by the Web Confluence Metrics project. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. is access to hardware devices.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. This helps support executive sponsors who then have meaningful metrics to point to in justifying the investments being made. Partner meetings are illuminating.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

A database should accommodate itself to different data distributions, cluster topologies and hardware configurations. Isolated parts of the database can serve read/write requests in case of network partition. Data version can be specified by a timestamps or application-specific metric. Data Placement. Read/Write latency.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The whole point of this section is that all the algorithms above can be naturally implemented using a message passing architectural style i.e. the query execution engine can be considered as a distributed network of nodes connected by the messaging queues. It is conceptually similar to the in-stream processing pipelines. Pipelining.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Edge caching. In general, Egnyte connect architecture shards and caches data at different levels based on: Amount of data. Nginx for disk based caching.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52