All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database.

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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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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. To this end, having a solid caching strategy can make all the difference for your visitors. ?? How is your knowledge of caching and Cache-Control headers?

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me.

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me.

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

About 5 years ago, I introduced you to AWS Availability Zones, which are distinct locations within a Region that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same region.

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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? Estimated Input Latency. Estimated Input Latency. Service workers that will cache the bytecode result of a parsed and compiled script. After that, it’ll be mitigated by cache.

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Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Synthetic monitoring vendors provide a remote (often global) infrastructure that visits a website periodically and records the performance data for each run. Real user monitoring vendors provide an agent (Javascript) that is injected on each page of a website or application. Real User Monitoring (RUM). Benchmark Against Competitors.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 18, 2019

Raise your hand if you've ever poured countless hours into making a fast website, only to have it slowly degrade over time. At some point you'll be given permission to "focus on performance" and after many more hours, the website will be fast again. The secret to a faster website? Network latency will affect performance testing.

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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.

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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. Providing them with clear insights into their system’s performance overall.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

For a busy page with lots of external resources (like perhaps a news website with loads of ads and trackers), there might be dozens of DNS lookups required per page. 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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience. LCP is particularly vital for landing pages , which are predominantly content and often the first touch-point a visitor has with a website. Here are some examples: Looker Studio filter.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Go ahead, briefly look at the things that Lighthouse says are wrong with the website. Before we do anything else, let’s see what happens when we first hit the website. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 It gets redirected.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Type 2: Full Real-User Monitoring (RUM) If CrUX offers one flavor of real-user data, then we can consider “full real-user data” to be another flavor that provides even more in the way individual experiences, such as specific network requests made by the page. The accuracy of observed data depends on how the test environment is set up.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With the rise of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using a high quality DNS hosting provider is very important to the redundancy of your website. There is nothing worse for visitors than your website being inaccessible. Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article.

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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. For Images, Stylesheets, JS files, the HTML Doc, etc.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For example, if you’re deploying the infrastructure for an e-commerce website, security becomes a fundamental requirement. Transition to a Multi-CDN SetupA multi-CDN strategy has multiple advantages, like ensuring network redundancy and enhanced performance. Some CDNs offer features like security and load balancing.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites. can generate an HTML-only website without involving a CMS.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. Turbocharge Your Content Delivery With CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer!

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For example, if you’re deploying the infrastructure for an e-commerce website, security becomes a fundamental requirement. Transition to a Multi-CDN SetupA multi-CDN strategy has multiple advantages, like ensuring network redundancy and enhanced performance. Some CDNs offer features like security and load balancing.

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Infrastructure Traffic Cache Strategy 52

All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

With just one click you can enable content to be distributed to the customer with low latency and high-reliability. It now supports delivery of entire websites containing both static objects and dynamic content. In addition to the TTLs, customers also need some other features to deliver dynamic websites through CloudFront.

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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.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. Turbocharge Your Content Delivery With CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer!

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Waterfall charts are diagrams which represent how website resources are being downloaded, parsed by the engine, in a timeline that gives us the opportunity to see the sequence and dependencies between resources. If your website isn’t fast enough, the user will not wait for it to finish loading. DNS lookup.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

Waterfall charts are diagrams which represent how website resources are being downloaded, parsed by the engine, in a timeline that gives us the opportunity to see the sequence and dependencies between resources. If your website isn’t fast enough, the user will not wait for it to finish loading. DNS lookup.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

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. The purpose of DynamoDB is to provide consistent single-digit millisecond latency for any scale of workloads. Take Expedia, for example.

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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.

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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.

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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. Especially if going into or out of storage types that may throttle bandwidth/network traffic.

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KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Well, that is probably true, as long as they don’t slow down your website to the point where you are losing visitors. When it comes to optimizing your website, images are generally the most important asset you should spend time on figuring out how to reduce in size and deliver in a more efficient way. Mbps ( Opensignal ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You’ve probably heard things like: “HTTP/3 is much faster than HTTP/2 when there is packet loss”, or “HTTP/3 connections have less latency and take less time to set up”, and probably “HTTP/3 can send data more quickly and can send more resources in parallel”. Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch!

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The technology develops single-page applications , websites, and backend API services designed with real-time and push-based architectures. with its low latency I/O operations, gives the benefit of ‘No buffering’ to developers. Network: Node.js Caching of individual modules. Use cases of Node.js Micro-services.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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