The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds via HTML5 web worker migration , Jeong et al., Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. in the cloud). SoCC’19 [^1].

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As a discipline, SRE focuses on improving software system reliability across key categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.” Dynatrace can help.

Engineering 250

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 250

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 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

At Perform 2021 , Dynatrace’s Kristof Renders, Services Practice Manager for Autonomous Cloud Enablement, joined Sumit Nagal, Principal Engineer at Intuit, to demonstrate how service-level objectives (SLOs) and business-level objectives (BLOs) can “shift left.” For example, improving latency by as little as 0.1

Benchmarking 177

Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 177

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This move is another milestone in our global expansion and mission to bring flexible, scalable, and secure cloud computing infrastructure to organizations around the world. This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East.

Cloud 152

Cloud Education Energy Government 152

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As a discipline, SRE focuses on improving software system reliability across key categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.” Dynatrace can help.

Engineering 170

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 170

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. Throughput and latency. energy consumption).

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

VoltDB

APRIL 25, 2024

While Wi-Fi theoretically can achieve 5G-like speeds, it falls short in providing the consistent performance and reliability that 5G offers, including low latency, higher speeds, and increased bandwidth. Unlike the public cloud, organizations have to handle this work internally.

Network 52

Network IoT Wireless Infrastructure 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. A local AWS Region enables companies to deploy a global cloud platform for their operations.

AWS 112

AWS Cloud Games Latency 112

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

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Based in the Paris area, the region will provide even lower latency and will allow users who want to store their content in datacenters in France to easily do so. Since we opened the first AWS EU Region in Ireland in November 2007, we have seen an acceleration of companies adopting the AWS Cloud.

AWS 166

AWS IoT Internet Internet 166

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy Are you looking to leverage the best private and public cloud worlds to propel your business forward? A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer. This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2. Today, Amazon Web Services took very an important step in unlocking the advantages of cloud computing for a very important application area. Unlocking the benefits of the cloud for the HPC community. By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Comments ().

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Simform

JULY 13, 2022

But it also introduces cold starts and latency, decelerating your applications’ performance. This blog discusses how Lambda provisioned concurrency reduces cold starts and improves the speed and performance of your applications. AWS Lambda provides various benefits such as scalability, cost-efficiency, high availability, and more.

Lambda 52

Lambda Serverless AWS Performance 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Organizations across Italy have been using the AWS Cloud for over a decade, using AWS Regions located outside of Italy. We have offices in Rome and Milan, where we continue to help Italian customers of all sizes move to the AWS Cloud. The company decided it wanted the scalability, flexibility, and cost benefits of working in the cloud.

AWS 167

AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 167

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Cloud-native software and its supporting tools and infrastructure generate a diversity of metrics and data points every second that indicate a system’s state and performance. You can set SLOs based on individual indicators, such as batch throughput, request latency, and failures-per-second. How SLOs work.

Metrics 184

Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 184

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

What is workload in cloud computing? Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. The environments, which were previously isolated, are now working seamlessly under central control.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As an example, cloud-based post-production editing and collaboration pipelines demand a complex set of functionalities, including the generation and hosting of high quality proxy content. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency. Supporting those workflows poses new challenges to our packaging service.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services. What on Earth is Ubuntu doing that results in 30% higher CPU time!?

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2020

Maintaining test data in a central repository and then accessing it from different test environments may ease this problem but may introduce other issues like network latency in tests. Leveraging Cloud-based Virtual Infrastructure: Cloud-based test environments can be made accessible instantaneously on demand.

Testing 69

Testing Open Source Scalability Latency 69

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

Let’s take a closer look at today’s conventional streaming analytics architectures, which can be hosted in the cloud or on-premises. In-memory computing has the speed and scalability needed to generate responses within milliseconds, and it can evaluate and report aggregate trends every few seconds.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. In this case, what’s needed from a private cloud is lots of lightweight copies of what a production environment looks like, with heavy sharing of physical hardware. Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Rural connectivity is a persistent problem; many rural users (and some urban users) are still limited to dial-up speeds. There are impressive estimates for latency for 5G, but reality has a tendency to be harsh on such predictions. I don’t, do you?

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

It integrates seamlessly with Amazon S3 to provide low-latency distribution of content with high data transfer speeds through a world-wide network of edge locations. Today marks the launch of Amazon CloudFront, the new Amazon Web Service for content delivery.

Cloud 60

Cloud Latency Speed Network 60

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

can enhance Redis by handling management tasks, backups, and scalability, facilitating global reach and easy cloud integration for global businesses. Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Managed DBaaS solutions like ScaleGrid.io

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Being based on the cloud, Cloudinary can be integrated with any site, based on any stack or technology. By default, images are hosted in both the Cloudinary cloud and the WordPress server, giving us the chance to disable the Cloudinary plugin at any time without any data loss : Plugin’s general settings ( Large preview ).

Website 106

Website Social Media Media Design 106

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. In this case, what’s needed from a private cloud is lots of lightweight copies of what a production environment looks like, with heavy sharing of physical hardware. Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

SREs use Service-Level Indicators (SLI) to see the complete picture of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across various systems, especially revenue-critical systems. Thus, Site Reliability Guardian supports DevOps and SREs in speeding up release delivery and improving release quality. What’s next?

DevOps 212

DevOps Latency Traffic Best Practices 212

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services. What on Earth is Ubuntu doing that results in 30% higher CPU time!?

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

During a joint webinar , Henrik Rexed (Cloud Native Advocate, Dynatrace) joined us to talk about the Kubernetes challenges and how to leverage Dynatrace observability and Akamas AI-powered optimization to address them. The following figure shows the high-level architecture where any load testing solution (e.g. lower than 2%.). Conclusions.

Latency 197

Latency Tuning Efficiency AWS 197

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

When the word “performance” is heard, most people immediately think of speed. Wait time: Sometimes called average latency, wait time refers the amount of time a request spends in a queue before it gets processed. The cloud-based service sends massive numbers of requests per second to simulate how your website holds up.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

However, getting reliable answers from observability data so teams can automate more processes to ensure speed, quality, and reliability can be challenging. This drive for speed has a cost: 22% of leaders admit they’re under so much pressure to innovate faster that they must sacrifice code quality.

DevOps 191

DevOps Best Practices Innovation Strategy 191

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services. What on Earth is Ubuntu doing that results in 30% higher CPU time!?

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The events of 2020 accelerated the trend of organizations shifting to cloud-native technologies in response to the dramatic increase in demand for online services. Cloud-native environments bring speed and agility to software development and operations (DevOps) practices. Reduced latency. SRE as an application of DevOps.

DevOps 185

DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google 185

VoltDB

MAY 30, 2024

Problems around not having a clear understanding of the types of environments (ie, cloud vs on-prem) the data platform can operate in can result in insurmountable issues down the line. Consider the cloud. A lot of data platforms are now only available in a specific hyperscaler’s cloud. Another issue is geo-distribution.

Latency 52

Latency Cloud Database Tuning 52