Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Xbox 360 CPU had three PowerPC cores and a 1 MB L2 cache and these features are clearly visible on the wafer. In the die picture to the right (which looks to be about 14 mm by 12 mm) you can see the regular pattern of small black rectangles in the bottom right corner – that’s the L2 cache. register files? arithmetic units?)

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Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

When a user requests for feed then there will be two parallel threads involved in fetching the user feeds to optimize for latency. FUN FACT : In this talk , Dikang Gu, a software engineer at Instagram core infra team has mentioned about how they use Cassandra to serve critical usecases, high scalability requirements, and some pain points.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll demonstrate how Dynatrace automation and the Dynatrace Site Reliability Guardian can help you implement your applications according to all six AWS Well-Architected pillars by integrating them into your software development lifecycle (SDLC).

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ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

using Compute Express Link or CXL), organizing memory components for optimal performance, adapting system software traditionally designed for homogeneous memory systems, and developing memory abstractions and programming constructs for HCM management. Figure 2: Latency characteristics of memory technologies (source: Maruf et al.,

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 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

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

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

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

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Data lakehouses deliver the query response with minimal latency. By applying massively parallel processing and high-performance caches, all this contextualized data can be interrogated at high speeds for ad-hoc analytics or AI-powered precise answers. Massively parallel processing. The Dynatrace difference, now powered by Grail.

Artificial Intelligence 214

Artificial Intelligence Storage Analytics Government 214

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Developing software is becoming easier as frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular become the go-to solution for creating even the simplest applications. Active Memory Caching. When you want to get data that you already had quickly, you need to do caching — caching stores data that a user recently retrieved.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

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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Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

For example, when monitoring a database, you’ll want to know about any latency when writing data to a disk or average query response time. Examples include a spike in memory utilization, a decrease in cache hit ratio, or an increase in CPU utilization. Luckily, there are tools and practices that address these challenges.

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Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability 226

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe. We started seeing increased response latencies and leader servers running at dangerously high utilization.

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

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. ASPLOS’19.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

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. Investing tons of efforts into IT, building complicated deployment and clustering software etc. They are very expensive.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map. cachestat File system cache statistics line charts. runqlat CPU scheduler latency heat map. This is thinking like a sysadmin who installs and maintains software, and not like a programmer who codes everything. execsnoop New processes (via exec(2)) table. That's the fast way.

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Latency Cache Energy Systems 145

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

All of the web performance monitoring software we work with provide RUM clients that put additional layers of monkey patching on the page to maintain direct access to a request being made or the response coming back. Here are a few that come to mind: Is this request served from the service worker cache?

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Servers Monitoring Cache Network 92

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.

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Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Given its unchanging nature, static content is ideal for caching. This type of traffic originates directly from the server, making it more challenging to handle due to latency and server load considerations; it’s hard but not impossible. It doesn’t change very often and is generally not affected by user sessions.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

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. I’m going to update my referenced URL to the new site to help decrease latency that adds drag to the initial page load. Text-based assets.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

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

OCTOBER 26, 2020

We push as much data processing as possible onto warehouse-scale computers and systems software. It’s limited by the laws of physics in terms of end-to-end latency. We saw earlier that there is end-user pressure to replace batch systems with much lower latency online systems. Emphasis mine ). Emphasis mine ).

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Cloud Big Data Latency Architecture 104

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 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This type of traffic originates directly from the server, making it more challenging to handle due to latency and server load considerations; it’s hard but not impossible. Statistics reveal that a 1% improvement in latency can lead to a 3% increase in viewer engagement, highlighting its significance in live content delivery.3.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

MongoDB Community Edition software might set the stage for achieving your high-volume database goals, but you quickly learn that its features fall short of your enterprise needs. So you look at MongoDB Enterprise software, but its costly and complex licensing structure does not meet your budget goals.

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Open Source Database Scalability Software 74

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Efficient memory management, including optimizing query caches and buffer pools, can help strike the right balance between memory consumption and query response times.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

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

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

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.

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Hardware Cache Latency Speed 44

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

If the waiting time is too much, it may mean an overloaded network server or there may be an inefficient code, which must be fixed by software developers by finding the bugs and correcting the code. Moreover, caching utility may decrease the waiting time. One of the important things to realize is that the empty cache takes 6.8

Performance 52

Performance Cache Website Speed 52

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

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). How’s that going to work given what we know about the throughput and latency of blockchains, and the associated mining costs?" An embodiment for structured data for IoT.

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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

O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

The benefits of modeling data as events as a mechanism to evolve our software systems. My own journey into microservices began with work I was doing to help organizations ship software more quickly. All too often, the software wasn’t designed in a way that made it easy to ship. And data was at the heart of the problem.

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Database Cache Architecture Latency 72

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 30, 2018

In some cases, a benchmark may appear to exceed network bandwidth because it returns from a local memory cache instead of the remote target. There may be variance (eg, due to caching or turbo boost) or perturbations (eg, system cron tasks, GC) that skew a single benchmark result. Networking is the easiest to check. Does it reproduce?

Benchmarking 54

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 54

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

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.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

If the waiting time is too much, it may mean an overloaded network server or there may be an inefficient code, which must be fixed by software developers by finding the bugs and correcting the code. Moreover, caching utility may decrease the waiting time. One of the important things to realize is that the empty cache takes 6.8

Performance 53

Performance Cache Website Speed 53