All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

When it comes to latency the authors measured RTTs for four 5G base stations spread across the city, and 20 other Internet servers nationwide. Emerging architectures that shorten the path length, e.g. edge caching and computing, may also confine the latency. Application performance. Some of these problems (e.g.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

That connection could be peer-to-peer across devices, and doesn’t have to be over the Internet. You can take incremental steps towards a local-first future by following these guidelines: Use aggressive caching to improve responsiveness. Use syncing infrastructure to enable multi-device access. It should support collaboration.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In the early days of SSRS, a requirement was to also install and configure Internet Information Services (IIS). DBAs must tune for overall health of the Reporting Services infrastructure as well as tuning the actual reports. Reporting Services Infrastructure. SSRS 2008 brought that component into the reporting service module.

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Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 14, 2018

The area he was in was served by satellite internet access, and experienced significant latency (a floor of 506 milliseconds) and packet loss (between 50-80% was typical). To counter this, the school he was visiting sets up their own local caching server. But, as he explains, this approach falls apart when HTTPS gets involved.

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ACM Sigarch

MARCH 18, 2019

Computer systems, from the Internet-of-Things devices to datacenters, are complex and optimizing them can enhance capability and save money. Developing simulators, however, is time-consuming and requires a great deal of infrastructure development regarding a prospective system. Figure 2: (Sub-)System for Little’s Law.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? It will be easier to get support for infrastructure or services if several teams have the same needs.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

That means multiple data indirections mean multiple cache misses. Mark LaPedus : MRAM, a next-generation memory type, is being touted as a replacement for embedded flash and cache applications. The third wing of the architecture piece is the “domain specific system-on-chip.” They are very expensive. Not so many this week.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Amazon S3 is much more than just storage; the network and distributed systems infrastructure to ensure that content can be served fast and at high rates without customers impacting each other, is amazing. My templates and blog posts are now located in DropBox and thus locally cached at each machine I use. Recent Entries.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University 2015. " Five infrastructure engineers and 3 product engineers were involved in the incident. This is part 2 of our look at Allspaw’s 2015 master thesis (here’s part 1 ).

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Setting up CI/CD : Although developers could come up with their own build and deployment pipelines, chances are that they are relying on some infrastructure provided by another team (eg an “infra” team). Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., Sharing is caring caching. Instead, we propose that popular Internet services such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube leverage their shared communities of users. SOSP’19. A binary tree of height is then constructed.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Yes, it’s a single file, but that’s not how it’s stored on the internet. Given its unchanging nature, static content is ideal for caching. BandwidthImagine the internet as a ramified web of pipelines, each varying in size.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Yes, it’s a single file, but that’s not how it’s stored on the internet. BandwidthImagine the internet as a ramified web of pipelines, each varying in size. A video, being a digital asset, is also based on these two parts.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. But there are parts of the world where mobile data is prohibitively expensive, and where there is little or no broadband infrastructure. But even countries with good established broadband infrastructure have so-called ‘not-spots’. respectively. I enabled Chrome.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. Using streams, you can apply the changes to a full-text search data store such as Elasticsearch, push incremental backups to Amazon S3, or maintain an up-to-date read cache.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. Internet Explorer 6 was fully supported, Firefox was gaining share, and Chrome was still years from launch. Lighthouse also caught a cache misconfiguration that prevented some of our static assets from being served from our CDN.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

While caching continues to be a dominant use of ElastiCache for Redis, we see customers increasingly use it as an in-memory NoSQL database. Each shard can include up to five read replicas to ensure high availability so that both planned and unforeseen outages of the infrastructure do not cause application outages. Building upon Redis.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. Cache Your Images. A website’s performance can suffer if frequently accessed images are not cached, as many requests will be made to images that have already been loaded in the user’s system. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente.

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Percona

JULY 17, 2023

A survey of 90,240 companies using MongoDB listed the leading uses as Technology and Services (23%), Computer Software (16%), and Internet (6%). Infrastructure incompatibility : Organizations might have existing tools and applications that are not readily compatible with MongoDB Enterprise software. Couchbase — No.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). The initial implementation was removed from Blink post-fork and re-implemented on new infrastructure several years later. Converging Views.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As such, fault tolerance is more expensive to implement because it requires dedicated infrastructure that completely mirrors the primary system. Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet. It also supports the flexibility and scalability of the database infrastructure.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. cents per gigabyte for storage versus 9 cents per gigabyte of data transfer out to the Internet at the time of writing). Client-Side Caching. In Conclusion.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control. And the case is especially different, when China’s Internet environment is involved.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Internet of Things (IoT). Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Internet of Things (IoT). Internet of things (IoT) – Number of IoT devices 2015-2025 Statista.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control. And the case is especially different, when China’s Internet environment is involved.

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Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control. And the case is especially different, when China’s Internet environment is involved.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services. In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. of mobile sites and 94.1%

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments ().

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Most sites were all hosted on a single physical server somewhere on our own hosting infrastructure, and it was the server we thought about defending when it came to security best practices. Support in modern browsers is broad, with the main exception being Internet Explorer.

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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

JANUARY 6, 2020

However, they do sound reasonable when we deal with the unpredictable nature of the network and hardware, including everything from congested networks to slowly developing infrastructure, to data caps , proxy browsers, save-data mode and sneaky roaming charges. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

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