Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

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Media 73

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

Particular Software

JUNE 3, 2019

From Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design Course , Day 1 Problem of scale The real problem with bandwidth is not one of absolute speed but one of scale. When transferring lots of data in a given period of time, network congestion can easily occur and affect the absolute speed at which we're able to download.

Latency 40

Latency Speed Network Strategy 40

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Since that time, the SRE role has evolved as the industry has changed and shifted from the traditional monolithic structures to large, widely distributed networks and microservices. As defined by the Google SRE initiative, the four golden signals of monitoring include the following metrics: Latency.

Monitoring 91

Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

Making queries to an inference engine has many of the same throughput, latency, and cost considerations as making queries to a datastore, and more and more applications are coming to depend on such queries. First off there still is a model of course (but then there are servers hiding behind a serverless abstraction too!). autoscaling).

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. What will 5G mean in practice? I don’t, do you?

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

There are five different types of member in an AnyLog system, and any network node can join without restriction as any type of member. Publishers are the producers of the actual data to be served by the network. Given their position of power in the network, such caching seems to be highly incentivised in the absence of such mechanisms.

Blockchain 94

Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

For response times (latencies) reporting a simple metric such as ‘average’ is next to useless. Instead we want to understand what’s happening at different latency percentiles (e.g A characteristic of latency distributions is that they have a long tail. Why do we need a new sketch? At the 50th percentile, an accuracy within 0.5%

Latency 52

Latency Metrics Open Source Java 52

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We are kidding of course, but you know something is bad if happens that early in the morning. Knowing when and where an error, downtime, or application latency occurs is a critical factor in limiting the impact to users and customers. Nothing good happens at 2:00 a.m., especially when we are talking about the IT industry.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Percona

JULY 20, 2023

We often forget or take for granted the network hops involved and the additional overhead it creates on the overall performance. TCP/IP connection, triggered me to write about other aspects of network impact on performance. How to detect and measure the impact There is no easy mechanism for measuring the impact of network overhead.

Network 61

Network Performance Latency Servers 61

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand. Upgrades are also rolled out progressively across the cluster of course.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Durability Availability Fault tolerance These combined outcomes help minimize latency experienced by clients spread across different geographical regions. By breaking up large datasets into more manageable pieces, each segment can be assigned to various network nodes for storage and management purposes.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

This allows us to quickly tell whether the network link may be saturated or the processor is running at its limit. This allows us to quickly tell whether the network link may be saturated or the processor is running at its limit. DNS query time indicates the average response times of DNS requests across the system.

Metrics 171

Metrics Database Monitoring Network 171

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better. An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

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

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

There are ways around that, of course. The other issue is that the data I’m getting back is based on lab simulations where I can add throttling, determine the device that’s used, and the network connection, among other simulated conditions. On that note, it’s worth calling out that there are multiple flavors of network throttling.

Speed 81

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

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. What is Multi-CDN?A Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

Even though the network design for each data center is massively redundant, interruptions can still occur. No two zones are allowed to share low-level core dependencies, such as power supply or a core network. One is that the latency within a zone is incredibly fast. " Silo your traffic or not – you choose.

AWS 134

AWS Latency Lambda Architecture 134

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

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

Shredder is " a low-latency multi-tenant cloud store that allows small units of computation to be performed directly within storage nodes. " " Running end-user compute inside the datastore is not without its challenges of course. " Running end-user compute inside the datastore is not without its challenges of course.

Serverless 99

Serverless Storage Latency Hardware 99

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. Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc. Network or connection error. Network latency. Network Latency. Network latency can be affected due to. The list goes on and on. HTTP error.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

The Agile Manager

JULY 9, 2010

Instead of producing large returns, of course, investment banking can produce large losses. Of course, these complex properties don't make them "high value added" services. Firms dependent on low latency for competitive edge are not likely to get competitive advantage by hosting their applications in the cloud.

Retail 45

Retail Technology Technology Small Business 45

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. What is Multi-CDN?A Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. That's where we built many pioneering networking technologies, our next-generation software for customer support, and the technology behind our compute service, Amazon EC2.

AWS 167

AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Oh, and there’s a scheduler too of course to keep all the plates spinning. On the Cloudburst design teams’ wish list: A running function’s ‘hot’ data should be kept physically nearby for low-latency access. A low-latency autoscaling KVS can serve as both global storage and a DHT-like overlay network.

Lambda 98

Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

In ProtoCache (a component of a widely used Google application), 27% of its latency when using a traditional S+RInK design came from marshalling/un-marshalling. The network latency of fetching data over the network, even considering fast data center networks. Fetching too much data in a single query (i.e.,

Cache 79

Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

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

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

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. The top line shows the change in tail latency across a set of monolithic applications as operating frequency decreases. Hardware implications.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

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. What's the problem?

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

This work is latency critical, because volume IO is blocked until it is complete. Physalia is designed to offer consistency and high-availability, even under network partitions. And, of course, it is designed to minimise the blast radius of any failures that do occur. Larger cells have better tolerance of tail latency (e.g.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

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”. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips.

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

With just one click you can enable content to be distributed to the customer with low latency and high-reliability. Of course non-AWS origins are also permitted. This is in addition to the existing optimizations of routing viewers to the edge location with lowest latency for that user, and also persistent connections with the clients.

Cache 118

Cache Latency AWS Website 118

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

A performance budget as a mechanism for planning a web experience and preventing performance decay might consist of the following yardsticks: Overall page weight, Total number of HTTP requests, Page-load time on a particular mobile network, First Input Delay (FID). And of course, you need to host and deliver your images.

Media 117

Media Performance Mobile Latency 117

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Technically, “performance” metrics are those relating to the responsiveness or latency of the app, including start up time. Both of these metrics will fluctuate over the course of a test, so we post metric values at regular intervals throughout the test. so are power levels and network bandwidth. What do we mean by Performance?

Performance 199

Performance Metrics Performance Testing Testing 199

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Suppose the encoding team develops more efficient encodes that improve video quality for members with the lowest quality (those streaming on low bandwidth networks). Your instinct might tell you this is caused by an unusually slow network, but you still become frustrated that the video quality is not perfect.

Metrics 143

Metrics Strategy Efficiency Testing 143