The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. Luckily, the m5.12xl instance type exposes a set of core PMCs (Performance Monitoring Counters, a.k.a.

Hardware 363

Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

Essentially, all traffic between China and the rest of the world goes through a few national level and a handful of core level access points in different regions. The censorship and monitoring of internet have evolved from anti-virus-like and firewall software to hardware security patches for all devices that uses internet.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). This becomes really important for cache solutions like Redis™. SSH Access to Machine.

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. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion.

Availability 112

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 112

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

It optimizes performance through monitoring tools and expert support, offers scalable solutions, and ensures high data security with end-to-end encryption and compliance adherence. However, some challenges may arise when scaling a DBMS, such as improper traffic distribution, inefficient database management, and performance issues.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

This paper is all about the design of efficient data structures for far-memory, which turns out to have consequences reaching all the way down to the hardware. A far memory data structure has: far data in far memory, containing the core content of the data structure data caches at clients algorithms for operations. Refreshable vectors.

Design 80

Design Cache Hardware Scalability 80

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. Cache-Headers missing? Service workers that will cache the bytecode result of a parsed and compiled script. After that, it’ll be mitigated by cache. Monitoring Time to Interactive. Recommended!

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

It is recommended to lower this setting and monitor the impact on query performance and disk IO. Make sure the drives are mounted with noatime and also if the drives are behind a RAID controller with appropriate battery-backed cache. Set the value to 60-70% and monitor the memory usage.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Coverage is assessed with a walk-test (4-5km/h) over all road segments on the campus, monitoring the physical-layer information from both 5G and 4G at each location. Emerging architectures that shorten the path length, e.g. edge caching and computing, may also confine the latency. Let’s jump in! 5G Coverage.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

When a QoS violation is predicted to occur and a culprit microservice located, Seer uses a lower level tracing infrastructure with hardware monitoring primitives to identify the reason behind the QoS violation. E.g., in memcached there are five main internal stages, each of which has a hardware or software queue associated with it.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system. Testing shows that by using the Fua bit with the data, write request can reduce the I/O traffic by ~50% for a SQL Server, write-intensive workload. Linux open command flag used to bypass file system cache.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Testing And Monitoring. 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 and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Testing And Monitoring. Good for raising alarms and monitoring changes over time, not so good for understanding user experience. Good for describing the user experience and monitoring, not so good for knowing what happens between the milestones. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Setting Realistic Goals. Assets Optimizations.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

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. The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Tools and CI systems help them monitor progress & prevent regressions. Contended, over-subscribed cells can make “fast” networks brutally slow, transport variance can make TCP much less efficient , and the bursty nature of web traffic works against us. Performance budgets are set early in the life of the project.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68