Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The use of server-timing headers by content delivery networks closes a big gap. Latency – How much time does it take to deliver a packet from A to B. db = Duration of the request processing spent querying the database. For more years than I care to mention, I've been advising folks that their TTFB should be under 500ms.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

The mean and percentile measurements hide this structure, but the rest of this post will show how the structure can be measured and analyzed so that you can figure out a useful model of your system, understand what is driving the long tail of latencies and come up with better SLAs and measures of capacity.

Lambda 98

Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. Redis® Monitoring Essentials Ensuring the performance, reliability, and safety of a Redis® database requires active monitoring. Monitoring tools should also be considered when setting up your Redis® database.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The IT service catalog is typically a database or resource that an organization creates to provide users with information on their operational services and offerings. Knowing when and where an error, downtime, or application latency occurs is a critical factor in limiting the impact to users and customers. Service Catalog. Postmortems.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At its core, a distributed storage system comprises three main components: a controller for managing the system’s operations, an internal datastore where information is held, and databases geared towards ensuring scalability, partitioning capabilities, and high availability for all types of data.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Here's the slides from my presentation at the Auckland Web Dev Nights meetup. The network constraints and what makes the web slow? The network constraints and what makes the web slow? Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web. How to make your website faster. Optimization tools and techniques.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

Percona

JULY 20, 2023

It is very common to see many infrastructure layers standing between a PostgreSQL database and the Application server. We often forget or take for granted the network hops involved and the additional overhead it creates on the overall performance. But let’s see what the wait events look like if the network slows down.

Network 64

Network Performance Latency Servers 64

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

When delving into the networking aspect of a hybrid cloud deployment, complexities arise due to the requirement of linking or expanding existing on-premises network architectures into the cloud sphere. Ready to take your database management to the next level with ScaleGrid’s cutting-edge solutions?

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB. We will discuss snappy and zstd for data block and zstd compression in a network. I am using PSMDB 6.0.4

Storage 111

Storage Network Open Source Latency 111

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Remote calls are never free; they impose extra latency, increase probability of an error, and consume network bandwidth. There are a number of utilities and conventions on how to use this message when it is present in an RPC request. FieldMask is a protobuf message.

Design 245

Design Java Efficiency Code 245

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

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. What is workload in cloud computing? The environments, which were previously isolated, are now working seamlessly under central control.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

There are different considerations when deciding where to allocate resources with latency and cost being the two obvious ones, but compliance sometimes plays an important role as well. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services.

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. We expanded pipeline support to serve our studio/content-development use cases, which had different latency and resiliency requirements as compared to the traditional streaming use case. divide the input video into small chunks 2.

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

A common question that I get is why do we offer so many database products? To do this, they need to be able to use multiple databases and data models within the same application. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This PoC demonstrates how to install and configure pg_stat_monitor in order to extract useful and actionable metrics from a PostgreSQL database and display them on a Grafana dashboard. Grafana database backend: Prometheus version 2.15.2+d The collected data is aggregated and presented in a single view.

Benchmarking 124

Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 124

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This article will list some of the use cases of AutoOptimize, discuss the design principles that help enhance efficiency, and present the high-level architecture. These principles reduce resource usage by being more efficient and effective while lowering the end-to-end latency in data processing. Transparency to end-users.

Storage 203

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Network or connection error. Network latency. Database connectivity. Network Latency. Network latency can be affected due to. Network equipment like cable or router. HTTP error.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

You need to beware that slow server response times can significantly increase TTFB, often due to server overload, network issues, or un-optimized logic on the server side. You need to beware of large HTML files or slow network connections because they can lead to longer download times. LCP seconds over time.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. Do you have a database? Was the database running? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? The recipe was straightforward. Do you have a web server?

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

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

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

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

OPN304 Learnings from migrating a service from JDK 8 to JDK 11 AWS Lambda improved latency by migrating to JDK 11 with Amazon Corretto. I’ll be there all week, presenting my own talks on Monday: ARC203 Innovation at Speed ?—?based PartiQL is a unifying query language, enabling single-query-language access to multiple AWS services.

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

OPN304 Learnings from migrating a service from JDK 8 to JDK 11 AWS Lambda improved latency by migrating to JDK 11 with Amazon Corretto. I’ll be there all week, presenting my own talks on Monday: ARC203 Innovation at Speed ?—?based PartiQL is a unifying query language, enabling single-query-language access to multiple AWS services.

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. For heavily latency-sensitive use-cases like WebXR, this is a critical component in delivering a good experience. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Declarative recursive computation on an RDBMS… or, why you should use a database for distributed machine learing Jankov et al., Machine learning inside a relational database has been done before, most notably in the form of MADlib , which was integrated into Greenplum during my time at Pivotal. VLDB’19.

Network 44

Network Database Programming Hardware 44

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Google was among the pioneers that created “web scale” architectures to analyze the massive data sets that resulted from “crawling” the web that gave birth to Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, and NoSQL databases. Fast forward to the present day and we find ourselves in a world where the number of connected devices is constantly increasing.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Collecting some critical metrics at one second intervals, with a total observability latency of ten seconds or less matches the human attention span much better. When there’s three ways to succeed, we still have two ways to succeed when a failure is present, and if data is corrupted, we can tell which of the three is the odd one out.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 30, 2018

Modern hybrid applications typically utilize public cloud components, including content delivery networks and cloud storage. In the case that DNS monitoring finds the master server unavailable, DNS can be used to seamlessly redirect database requests to predetermined, available servers.

Cloud 68

Cloud Traffic Internet Internet 68

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Collecting some critical metrics at one second intervals, with a total observability latency of ten seconds or less matches the human attention span much better. When there’s three ways to succeed, we still have two ways to succeed when a failure is present, and if data is corrupted, we can tell which of the three is the odd one out.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. This White Paper is for informational purposes only.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

full TCP/IP & UDP networking, including local network discovery. built-in relational SQL database engines. Java arrived with a focus on structured programming (including threads), GUI controls , networking, device access, and graphics. high-color image raster. vector rendering and graphics filter APIs. floppy/CD/DVD).

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. Let us imagine that we hashed each element in the data set and these hashed values are presented as binary strings. A Liner-Time Probabilistic Counting Algorithm for Database Applications. References.

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103