Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition to Spark, we want to support last-mile data processing in Python, addressing use cases such as feature transformations, batch inference, and training. Occasionally, these use cases involve terabytes of data, so we have to pay attention to performance. For ETL and other heavy lifting of data, we mainly rely on Apache Spark.

Systems 226

Systems Media Cache Open Source 226

KeyCDN

JUNE 6, 2019

We’re happy to announce that WebP Caching has landed! How Does WebP Caching Work? Either you take advantage of image processing where we convert the images automatically for you or you deliver the WebP assets from your origin based on the accept header. It’s all about the accept header sent from the client.

Cache 81

Cache Servers Website Traffic 81

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. But we can discuss common bottlenecks, how to assess them, and have a better understanding as to why proactive monitoring is so important when it comes to responding to traffic growth.

Traffic 88

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 88

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Although this indexing strategy worked smoothly for a while, interesting challenges started coming up and we started to notice performance issues over time. We tried both, and in many cases it helps, but sometimes it is a short term fix and the performance problems come back after a while; and it did for us.

Strategy 258

Strategy Cache Analytics Storage 258

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What These are unchanging entities, served straight off the server, pre-generated, and devoid of server-side processing.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. Its goal is to assign running processes to time slices of the CPU in a “fair” way. Linux to the rescue?

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Percona

JANUARY 3, 2024

ProxySQL is a high-performance SQL proxy that runs as a daemon watched by a monitoring process. The process monitors the daemon and restarts it in case of a crash to minimize downtime. The daemon accepts incoming traffic from MySQL clients and forwards it to backend MySQL servers. sec) $ mysql -uadmin -p -h 127.0.0.1 -P

Traffic 106

Traffic Hardware Cache Servers 106

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

But its underlying goal is quite humble and straightforward: it wants to enable you to observe an IT system (for example, a web application, infrastructure, or services) and gain insight to its behavior, such as performance, error rates, hot spots of executed instructions in code, and more.

Metrics 171

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 171

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

Compress objects, not cache lines: an object-based compressed memory hierarchy Tsai & Sanchez, ASPLOS’19. Today’s paper introduces Zippads , which compared to a state of the art compressed memory hierarchy is able to achieve a 1.63x higher compression ratio and improve performance by 17%. ” The big idea.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. desc="Time to process request at origin" NOTE: This is not a new API. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018. Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. ‍But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. SOSP’19.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI. Looking at our high traffic UI screens (like the homepage) allowed us to identify any regressions caused by the endpoint before we enabled it for all our users.

Latency 233

Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What is Static Content?Static These are unchanging entities, served straight off the server, pre-generated, and devoid of server-side processing.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content.Â

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Digital Performance: 99% reduction in Response Time, from 18.2s Dynatrace Real User Monitoring (RUM) captures very detailed user behavior, as well as experience and performance information, about every user on your applications. Here are two I would start with: Web Performance Optimization with Dynatrace.

Cache 190

Cache Architecture Database Government 190

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity. It provides tools for organizing and retrieving data efficiently.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. Today, 40% of the online traffic is made up of dynamic content, CDN also did their part of the effort to adopt this new reality.

Cache 52

Cache Traffic Games Network 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. This method augments the performance benefits of using a CDN while also ensuring redundancy and resilience and reducing costs.To

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss. It utilizes methodologies like DStore, which takes advantage of underused hard drive space by using it for storing vast amounts of collected datasets while enabling efficient recovery processes.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

As an ad publisher, your revenue depends on two main factors: traffic to your site and ad optimization. A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of driving traffic to your site from an SEO perspective, but what if when visitors get to your site, they have a less than ideal experience? Optimize Your Pages.

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Percona

JANUARY 4, 2023

Recently I was working with a customer wherein our focus was to carry out a performance audit of their multiple MySQL database nodes. We started looking into the stats of the performance schema. I realized that it is important to understand the insights of the performance schema and how we can make effective use of it.

Performance 98

Performance C++ Monitoring Servers 98

Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

Unlike other popular programming languages such as C or Pearl, PHP pages have HTML with embedded code with some start and end processing instructions that allow you to jump directly into and out of PHP mode. Performance If you want to develop a website that can handle massive traffic, go for PHP.

Development 98

Development Ecommerce Open Source Website 98

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. Today, 40% of the online traffic is made up of dynamic content, CDN also did their part of the effort to adopt this new reality.

Cache 40

Cache Traffic Games Network 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Common CDN Security RisksWhile CDNs are essential for improving website performance, they also introduce certain security risks. While this information is often encrypted with public key cryptography, the CDN servers hold the private key, allowing them to decrypt incoming requests, process them, and route them to the origin.

Strategy 52

Strategy Cache Best Practices Website 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

Essentially, all traffic between China and the rest of the world goes through a few national level and a handful of core level access points in different regions. A website that is accessed in China for the first time will have a slow loading time due to this process. This makes censorship of domestic traffic faster. .

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. This method augments the performance benefits of using a CDN while also ensuring redundancy and resilience and reducing costs.To

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40