All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

They can run applications in Sweden, serve end users across the Nordics with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and more. We help Supercell to quickly develop, deploy, and scale their games to cope with varying numbers of gamers accessing the system throughout the course of the day.

AWS 124

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Not as much as we'd like, of course, but the worldwide baseline has changed enormously. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. There are differences, of course, but not where it counts. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. Talk about a hard target. Reliance Jio, mostly.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

This work is latency critical, because volume IO is blocked until it is complete. And, of course, it is designed to minimise the blast radius of any failures that do occur. When a node joins or re-joins a cell it needs to be brought up to speed, a process the authors call teaching. Physalia in the large. Cells have seven nodes.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. As OS and hardware deployed base integrate these components, the set of what most computers can do is expanded. This is often determined by hardware integration and device replacement rates. Same with IDEs and developer tools. Same with utilities.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. It simulates a link with a 400ms RTT and 400-600Kbps of throughput (plus latency variability and simulated packet loss). Global Ground-Truth. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

SQL provides a declarative programming interface, below which the system itself can figure out the most effective execution plans based on data size and statistics, layout, compute hardware etc. Once a library of UDFs have been built up of course, they could be reused across computations. Be careful what you ask for (materialize).

Network 44

Network Database Programming Hardware 44

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. Both Xen and KVM have had many performance and security improvements, and workloads can now be tuned to run at almost bare metal speeds (say, a 3% loss or less). Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104