Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

service availability with <50ms latency for an application with no revenue impact. To avoid this, start the SLO discussion early in the design process. This can create an unnecessary distraction and steal time away from critical tasks. For example, the IT team of a bank wants to ensure that for a trailing 30-day period there is 99.9%

DevOps 189

DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency 189

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 client MWW combines these estimates with an estimate of the input/output transmission time (latency) to find the worker with the minimum overall execution latency. The opencv app has the largest state (4.6

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. Let’s explore these benefits in more detail.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Server caches help lower the latency between a Frontend and Backend; since key-value databases are faster than traditional relational SQL databases, it will significantly increase an API’s response time. Data-loading patterns are one way you can optimize your applications’ speed.

Cache 125

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Redis Data Types and Structures The design of Redis’s data structures emphasizes versatility. Snapshots provide point-in-time captures of the dataset, which are efficient for recovery on startup.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

The applications are designed using the same code base as Desktop like HTML, Javascript, and CSS. Unlike Native Applications, Mobile web applications do not have to be designed separately for IOS and Android. The reason behind being the speed and convenience of using mobile phones. Best Practices For Mobile Website Testing.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2020

If products are not designed, keeping testability in mind, achieving continuous testing may become a distant dream. Maintaining test data in a central repository and then accessing it from different test environments may ease this problem but may introduce other issues like network latency in tests. Not always!

Testing 69

Testing Open Source Scalability Latency 69

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments. Some of these will serve large urban areas and will be sensitive to efficiency.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments. Some of these will serve large urban areas and will be sensitive to efficiency.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

In practice, a hybrid cloud operates by melding resources and services from multiple computing environments, which necessitates effective coordination, orchestration, and integration to work efficiently. Tailoring resource allocation efficiently ensures faster application performance in alignment with organizational demands.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

However, getting reliable answers from observability data so teams can automate more processes to ensure speed, quality, and reliability can be challenging. This drive for speed has a cost: 22% of leaders admit they’re under so much pressure to innovate faster that they must sacrifice code quality. What is DevOps?

DevOps 190

DevOps Best Practices Innovation Strategy 190

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Figure 1: A Simplified Video Processing Pipeline With this architecture, chunk encoding is very efficient and processed in distributed cloud computing instances. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

As the amount of data grows, the need for efficient data compression becomes increasingly important to save storage space, reduce I/O overhead, and improve query performance. Snappy compression is designed to be fast and efficient regarding memory usage, making it a good fit for MongoDB workloads.

Storage 110

Storage Network Open Source Latency 110

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We will show how we are building a clean and efficient incremental processing solution (IPS) by using Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg. As our business scales globally, the demand for data is growing and the needs for scalable low latency incremental processing begin to emerge. past 3 hours or 10 days).

Processing 210

Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 210

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Cloud-native environments bring speed and agility to software development and operations (DevOps) practices. But with that speed and agility comes new complications and complexity, all while maintaining performance and reliability with less than 1% down-time per year. Reduced latency. Efficiency. Knowing where to start.

DevOps 184

DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google 184

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. 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.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While data lakes and data warehousing architectures are commonly used modes for storing and analyzing data, a data lakehouse is an efficient third way to store and analyze data that unifies the two architectures while preserving the benefits of both. Data lakehouses deliver the query response with minimal latency. Data management.

Artificial Intelligence 201

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Government 201

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

For example, data collected on load actions can include navigation start, request start, and speed index metrics. Analyzing a clinician’s clickstream when using an electronic medical record system to better improve the efficiency of data entry. Real user monitoring collects data on a variety of metrics.

Monitoring 173

Monitoring Latency Mobile Best Practices 173

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s been clear for a while that software designed explicitly for the data center environment will increasingly want/need to make different design trade-offs to e.g. general-purpose systems software that you might install on your own machines. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 13, 2020

The teams have been working closely on SVT-AV1 development, discussing architectural decisions, implementing new tools, and improving compression efficiency. The SVT-AV1 encoder supports all AV1 tools which contribute to compression efficiency. As seen below, SVT-AV1 demonstrates 16.5%

Open Source 154

Open Source Efficiency C++ Speed 154

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. This ensures a consistent viewing experience, irrespective of the internet speed or quality.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. This ensures a consistent viewing experience, irrespective of the internet speed or quality.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. Our experiments show an impressive level of both performance and cost efficiency.

Storage 199

Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective. SEO is key to our success.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. Jack Dongarra talked about the scores, and pointed out the low efficiency on some important workloads.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

’ Stateless is fine until you need state, at which point the coarse-grained solutions offered by current platforms limit the kinds of application designs that work well. On the Cloudburst design teams’ wish list: A running function’s ‘hot’ data should be kept physically nearby for low-latency access.

Lambda 98

Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

They understood that most websites lack tight latency budgeting, dedicated performance teams, hawkish management reviews, ship gates to prevent regressions, and end-to-end measurements of critical user journeys. You'd be forgiven for thinking the verbiage was designed obfuscate. The most recent turn is as predictable as it is bilious.

Social Media 119

Social Media Website Technology Technology 119

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

There will be a considerable gain if we combine this with other sets of great improvements in WAL archiving in PostgreSQL 15, as discussed in previous posts New WAL Archive Module/Library in PostgreSQL 15 and Speed Up of the WAL Archiving in PostgreSQL 15. Modern compression algorithms and libraries are excellent.

Database 118

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 118

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

A common design pattern is to capture transactional and operational data (such as logs) that require high throughput and performance in DynamoDB, and provide periodic updates to search clusters and data warehouses. DynamoDB Streams simplifies and improves this design pattern with a distributed systems approach. DynamoDB Triggers.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. I’m going to update my referenced URL to the new site to help decrease latency that adds drag to the initial page load.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. In Designing The Perfect Navigation , Vitaly will explore 100s of practical examples of better mega-dropdowns , hamburgers, carousels, modals and filters.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Sometimes developers only care about speed. Some will claim that any type of RPC communication ends up being faster (meaning it has lower latency) than any equivalent invocation using asynchronous messaging. There are more steps, so the increased latency is easily explained. So we’ll just use “RPC” for short.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Latency Servers Systems 97

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints. You'll have to read on for what it is!

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Congestion Control.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

The Morning Paper

MAY 19, 2019

Last week we learned about the [increased tail-latency sensitivity of microservices based applications with high RPC fan-outs. Seer uses estimates of queue depths to mitigate latency spikes on the order of 10-100ms, in conjunction with a cluster manager. So what we have here is a glimpse of the limits for low-latency RPCs under load.

Latency 80

Latency Hardware Network Architecture 80

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Moreover, a GSI''s performance is designed to meet DynamoDB''s single digit millisecond latency - you can add items to a Users table for a gaming app with tens of millions of users with UserId as the primary key, but retrieve them based on their home city, with no reduction in query performance. Efficient Queries.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130