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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

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Expanding the Cloud: More memory, more caching and more performance for your data

All Things Distributed

Certain parts of our architecture used to run on relational databases but we just couldn’t scale them fast enough to meet the demands of our fast growing online retail business, particularly during the holiday shopping seasons.

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Scaling Amazon ElastiCache for Redis with Online Cluster Resizing

All Things Distributed

Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. Four 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 microsecond latency. Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple.

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The Future in Visual Computing: Research Challenges

ACM Sigarch

cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. Each of these categories opens up challenging problems in AI/visual algorithms, high-density computing, bandwidth/latency, distributed systems. smart cameras & analytics) to interactive/immersive environments and autonomous driving (e.g.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases. million requests per second.

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