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.

Lambda 98

Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index. query cache: Disable (query_cache_size: 0, query_cache_type:OFF) innodb_adaptive_hash_index: Check adaptive hash index usage to determine its efficiency.

Performance 104

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 104

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. For example, iostat(1), or a monitoring agent, may tell you your average disk latency, but not the distribution of this latency. software Kernel software-based events.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

For more than fifteen years, ScaleOut StateServer® has demonstrated technology leadership as an in-memory data grid (IMDG) and distributed cache. To address these challenges, ScaleOut Software has introduced ScaleOut StateServer Pro , an advanced version of ScaleOut StateServer that integrates data analytics within the IMDG.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

There are five different types of member in an AnyLog system, and any network node can join without restriction as any type of member. 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). Market participants. web pages).

Blockchain 94

Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

For more than fifteen years, ScaleOut StateServer® has demonstrated technology leadership as an in-memory data grid (IMDG) and distributed cache. To address these challenges, ScaleOut Software has introduced ScaleOut StateServer Pro , an advanced version of ScaleOut StateServer that integrates data analytics within the IMDG.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

ACM Sigarch

MARCH 18, 2019

Existing systems can be studied with measurement, while prospective systems are most often studied by extrapolating from measurements of prior systems or via simulation software that mimics target system function and provides performance metrics. Can one both minimize latency and maximize throughput for unscheduled work? Little’s Law.

Systems 60

Systems Latency Performance Analytics 60

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. on end-to-end latency) and less than 0.15% on throughput.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

For query executors that can be frequently started and stopped the authors explore performance with cold and warm caches (where applicable), and also the horizontal and vertical scaling performance. For cost calculations, the costs are a combination of compute costs, storage costs, data scan costs, and software license costs.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. To monitor Redis® instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The naming system that we are all most familiar with in the internet is the Domain Name System (DNS) that manages the naming of the many different entities in our global network; its most common use is to map a name to an IP address, but it also provides facilities for aliases, finding mail servers, managing security keys, and much more.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

Speed Curve

JUNE 18, 2019

Continuous integration ("CI") is a stepping stone on the journey to streamlined software delivery. Here's a short (and definitely not exhaustive) list of things that you may want to consider when running performance tests on an integration environment: Caches may need to be warmed up beforehand. Break the build! I know, I know.

Performance Testing 49

Performance Testing Testing Performance Cache 49

O'Reilly Software

DECEMBER 11, 2017

To illustrate our pattern, let us consider a Team Service that manages teams in a software-as-a-service solution. This approach also minimizes network traffic throughout the architecture, as all external calls are handled by this service. This simple service design minimizes latency in the write path for incoming request messages.

Architecture 68

Architecture Government Latency Efficiency 68

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Synthetic monitoring actively allows users to monitor the performance of their website or application with a set of controlled variables (geography, network, device, browser, cached vs. uncached) over time. This is valuable because it allows users to block out much of the noise that is reported with real user monitoring.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Speedier access to stored information within distributed storage is achieved by leveraging software-defined storage solutions and strategies like sharding or distributing sections of large databases and improving scalability by dividing tasks among many servers.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

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. Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.” If you’re interested in attending, please check out the links, and I look forward to meeting and re-meeting many of you there.

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. Given its unchanging nature, static content is ideal for caching. However, what sets HLS apart is its adaptability.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

This header can be set on the response of any network resource, such as XHR, fetch, images, HTML, stylesheets, etc. These subtypes are currently the only subtypes related to network requests and thus exposing the Server-Timing information. Setting Server-Timing. This is important because of the need to manage memory.

Servers 93

Servers Monitoring Cache Network 93

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. Â The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. This way, even if a user desires to watch in 4K but lacks the necessary network resources, HLS steps in to offer a lower-quality version.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., The paper examines the implications of microservices at the hardware, OS and networking stack, cluster management, and application framework levels, as well as the impact of tail latency.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

We have spent a great deal of time at ScaleOut Software re-architecting our in-memory data grid (IMDG)’s code base to make best use of many cores and large memory. Likewise, object access paths must be heavily multi-threaded and avoid lock contention to minimize access latency and maximize throughput. Testing Scale-Up Performance.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This system has been designed to supplement and succeed the existing Hadoop-based system that had too high latency of data processing and too high maintenance costs. In the previous section, we noted that many distributed query processing algorithms resemble message passing networks. Pipelining. However, things are not so simple.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. Adding caching when your app is already experiencing load is not easy.

Speed 121

Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. In addition, traditional CMS solutions lack integration with modern software stack, cloud services, and software delivery pipelines. At the core, a traditional CMS is a monolith.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 30, 2018

I've refuted many benchmarks by showing that they would require a network throughput that would far exceed the maximum network bandwidth (off by, for example, as much as 10x!). Networks, PCIe busses, CPU interconnects, memory busses, and storage devices (both throughput and IOPS), all have fixed limits. Did it error?

Benchmarking 54

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 54

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. Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT). Congestion Control.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

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.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 29, 2018

I've refuted many benchmarks by showing that they would require a network throughput that would far exceed the maximum network bandwidth (off by, for example, as much as 10x!). Networks, PCIe busses, CPU interconnects, memory busses, and storage devices (both throughput and IOPS), all have fixed limits. Did it error?

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Three years ago, as part of our AWS Fast Data journey we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed in-memory data store that operates at sub-millisecond latency. While caching continues to be a dominant use of ElastiCache for Redis, we see customers increasingly use it as an in-memory NoSQL database.

Scalability 130

Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 130

The Morning Paper

APRIL 14, 2019

The paper sets out what we can do in software given today’s hardware, and along the way also highlights areas where cooperation from hardware will be needed in the future. Microarchitectural state of interest includes data and instruction caches, TLBs, branch predictors, instruction- and data-prefetcher state machines, and DRAM row buffers.

Hardware 44

Hardware Cache Latency Speed 44

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. For heavily latency-sensitive use-cases like WebXR, this is a critical component in delivering a good experience. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Therefore any programming abstraction must be low latency and the kernel needs to be kept off the path of persistent data access as much as possible. The beauty of persistent memory is that we can use memory layouts for persistent data (with some considerations for volatile caches etc. in front of that memory , as we saw last week).

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Also, we will take a look at our open-source backup utility custom-built to help avoid costs and proprietary software – Percona Backup for MongoDB or PBM. Especially if going into or out of storage types that may throttle bandwidth/network traffic. Hence, the node would still be available for other operations.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

This will typically include environment variables that can influence the behavior of the MPI runtime, and might include environment variables that can influence the behavior of the lower-level shared-memory transport and/or network hardware interfaces. The networking hardware. The MPI runtime library.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. This is true, but only to a relatively limited extent.

Network 105

Network Servers Cache Traffic 105