Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Tim Berners-Lee tweets that 'This is for everyone' at the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony using the NeXT computer he used to build the first browser and web server. Regardless of architecture, Gmail needs to send an HTTP request to the server and update some HTML when the server replies. This Is for Everyone #.

Performance 104

Performance Latency Architecture Network 104

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Citrix is a sophisticated, efficient, and highly scalable application delivery platform that is itself comprised of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of servers. Dynatrace Extension: database performance as experienced by the SAP ABAP server. SAP server. It delivers vital enterprise applications to thousands of users.

Latency 117

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 117

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This query is performed by a Domain Name Server (DNS server) or servers nearby that have been assigned responsibility for that hostname. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. A DNS server maintains a directory of domain names and translates them to IPs.

Cache 134

Cache Website Internet Internet 134

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. The kind of edge server envisaged here might, for example, be integrated with your WiFi access point. As such, web workers are a natural target to offload to a more powerful server.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

CSS Wizardry

MAY 19, 2020

It’s widely accepted that self-hosted fonts are the fastest option: same origin means reduced network negotiation, predictable URLs mean we can preload , self-hosted means we can set our own cache-control. On a high-latency connection, this spells bad news. Put another-other way, this file is latency-bound, not bandwidth-bound.

Google 364

Google Media Latency Metrics 364

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. Â The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. Performing steps like switching from a single-CDN setup to a multi-CDN or separating strategies for content types can make the benefits twofold!Â

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. Performing steps like switching from a single-CDN setup to a multi-CDN or separating strategies for content types can make the benefits twofold!

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

The tooling to get a report with details from the time it takes to establish a server connection to the time it takes for the full page to render is out there. On that note, it’s worth calling out that there are multiple flavors of network throttling. Real usage data would be better, of course.

Speed 81

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With a simple example such as this, it would not necessarily be expected for the additional network traffic to be significant between the 2 approaches. However, with more complex application logic this network round trip soon becomes a key focus area for improving performance. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X performance advantage.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Historically, NoSQL paid a lot of attention to tradeoffs between consistency, fault-tolerance and performance to serve geographically distributed systems, low-latency or highly available applications. Isolated parts of the database can serve read/write requests in case of network partition. Read/Write latency. Data Placement.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Alternatively, you can also use: Addy Osmani’s Chrome UX Report Compare Tool , Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). What does it mean?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

Citrix is a sophisticated, efficient, and highly scalable application delivery platform that is itself comprised of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of servers. Dynatrace Extension: database performance as experienced by the SAP ABAP server. SAP server. It delivers vital enterprise applications to thousands of users.

Latency 36

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 36

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Consistent performance matters just as much as low average latency.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft, ​​ Windows, ​​ Windows NT, ​​ and Windows Server ​​ are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Thankfully, I found some older linux-devel mailing list archives, rescued from server backups, often stored as tarballs of digests. 90491 N|rnberg (Germany) Consulting+Networking+Programming+etc'ing 42. It's time in some cgroup paths, but this server is not doing much disk I/O. Network I/O? Which type of I/O?

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. Large preview ). What does it mean?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

During the logical backups, using client API, the data gets read from the server and returned back to the same API, which will be serialized and written into respective “ bson”, “ json” or “ csv” backup files on disk depending upon the type of backup utilities used.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

eBPF was created by Alexei Starovoitov while at PLUMgrid (he's now at Facebook) as a generic in-kernel virtual machine, with software defined networks as the primary use case. See the [reference guide] for more details. ## Script Comparison I could pick scripts that minimize or maximize the differences, but either would be misleading.

C++ 110

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 110

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Long FMP usually indicates JavaScript blocking the main thread, but could be related to back-end/server issues as well.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

For example, the IMDG must be able to efficiently create millions of objects in each server to make use of its huge storage capacity. 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

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network. Image CDN Using a content delivery network like KeyCDN, or what we also call an image CDN , can be one of the easiest and fastest ways to speed up the delivery of your images.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

eBPF was created by Alexei Starovoitov while at PLUMgrid (he's now at Facebook) as a generic in-kernel virtual machine, with software defined networks as the primary use case. See the [reference guide] for more details. ## Script Comparison I could pick scripts that minimize or maximize the differences, but either would be misleading.

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Here's some output from my zfsdist tool, in bcc/BPF, which measures ZFS latency as a histogram on Linux: # zfsdist. Tracing ZFS operation latency. Oracle VM Server is based on Xen. At my employer we sometimes use SR-IOV for direct network interface access, and NVMe for direct disk access. Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

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.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

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”. HTTP/2 versus HTTP/3 protocol stack comparison ( Large preview ).

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

To do this, we have teams of experts that develop more efficient video and audio encodes , refine the adaptive streaming algorithm , and optimize content placement on the distributed servers that host the shows and movies that you watch. The impact of this work reaches experimentation areas beyond streaming as well.

Metrics 143

Metrics Strategy Efficiency Testing 143

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

To do this, we have teams of experts that develop more efficient video and audio encodes , refine the adaptive streaming algorithm , and optimize content placement on the distributed servers that host the shows and movies that you watch. The impact of this work reaches experimentation areas beyond streaming as well.

Metrics 140

Metrics Strategy Efficiency Testing 140

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

To do this, we have teams of experts that develop more efficient video and audio encodes , refine the adaptive streaming algorithm , and optimize content placement on the distributed servers that host the shows and movies that you watch. The impact of this work reaches experimentation areas beyond streaming as well.

Metrics 130

Metrics Strategy Efficiency Testing 130

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)). This difference by itself doesn’t do all that much (it mainly reduces the overhead on the server-side), but it leads to most of the following points. Server Sharding and Connection Coalescing.

Network 104

Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Compression achieved is relevant because the higher the compression, the smaller the file size, and the lower the data required to transfer the image on the network. Tip: When evaluating quality, compression and fine-tuning of modern formats, Squoosh.app ’s ability to perform a visual side-by-side comparison is helpful.

Open Source 144

Open Source Speed Website Google 144