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.

Serverless 98

Serverless Lambda Cache Latency 98

The Agile Manager

JULY 9, 2010

Instead of producing large returns, of course, investment banking can produce large losses. This includes things like data storage, servers, e-mail, office productivity applications, virus protection, security and so forth. Of course, these complex properties don't make them "high value added" services. They're still utilities.

Retail 45

Retail Technology Technology Small Business 45

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. 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. HTTP error.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. The network latency of fetching data over the network, even considering fast data center networks. Who knew! ;).

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

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. This work is latency critical, because volume IO is blocked until it is complete. This paper is a real joy to read.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Therefore any programming abstraction must be low latency and the kernel needs to be kept off the path of persistent data access as much as possible. Traditionally one of the major costs when moving data in and out of memory (be it to persistent media or over the network) is serialisation.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 26, 2020

Reverb also take a snapshot of the client’s local storage (e.g. If the edit creates a new, unlogged network request, then the replay framework must inject new network events into the log. Of course you’d hope the authors were able to use their own tool effectively! cookies) at the start of logging.

Programming 86

Programming Servers Network Latency 86

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 launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Our AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region is open for business now.

AWS 124

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

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

JUNE 21, 2017

DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage. These high-throughput, low-latency requirements need caching, not as a consideration, but as a best practice. "We are using DAX to scale our reads across our network of services.

Speed 121

Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

" Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing. VPC Endpoints give you the ability to control whether network traffic between your application and DynamoDB traverses the public Internet or stays within your virtual private cloud.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The median user is on a slow network.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

Of course analog signalling comes with a whole bunch of challenges of its own, which is one of the reasons we tend to convert to digital. The resulting system can integrate seamlessly into a scikit-learn based development process, and dramatically reduces the total energy usage required for classification with very low latency.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. Where Chrome Has Lagged. Delayed five years. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Because they lean on the system-provided WebView component, they do not need to pay the expense of a heavier app download to support rendering HTML, running JavaScript, decoding images, or loading network resources. Fixing mobile won't be sufficient to unwind desktop's increasingly negative dark patterns, of course.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

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. 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 x series.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. The straightforward approaches for implementation of this system are: Log all events in a large storage like Hadoop and compute unique visitor periodically using heavy MapReduce jobs or whatever.

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. In fact, it might be a good idea to look into current Amazon Best Sellers for your target market.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Thanks to Tim Kadlec, Henri Helvetica and Alex Russel for the pointers!

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104