The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN.

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Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

The primary metric for memory bandwidth in multicore processors is that maximum sustained performance when using many cores. This metric is interesting because we don’t always have the luxury of parallelizing every application we run, and our operating systems almost always process each call (e.g.,

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Regularly optimizing query structures is vital.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. Since then, the metrics conversation has moved forward significantly, culminating in Core Web Vitals , reported via the Chrome User Experience Report to reflect the real-world experiences of users. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

This is a fascinating paper from members of Netflix’s Resilience Engineering team describing their chaos engineering initiatives: automated controlled experiments designed to verify hypotheses about how the system should behave under gray failure conditions, and to probe for and flush out any weaknesses.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 17, 2020

higher latency and lower bandwidth)… We have found the actual behavior of Optane DIMMs to be more complicated and nuanced than the "slower, persistent DRAM" label would suggest. The read latency for Optane is 2x-3x higher than DRAM. Optane DIMMs are here! Optane memory is also more pattern-dependent than DRAM.

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

For example, iostat(1), or a monitoring agent, may tell you your average disk latency, but not the distribution of this latency. bpftrace is suited for this kind of analysis: decomposing metrics into distributions or per-event logs, and creating new metrics for visibility into blind spots. BEGIN Start of bpftrace.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

This boils down to a single digit µs latency toleration in the tail for far memory, and in addition to security and privacy concerns, rules out remote memory solutions. Thus we’re fundamentally trading (de)-compression latency at access time for the ability to pack more data in memory.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

To be robust and scalable, this key/value store needs to be distributed for durability and availability, to protect against network partitions or hardware failures. This architecture affords Amazon ECS high availability, low latency, and high throughput because the data store is never pessimistically locked.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

HammerDB has always used stored procedures as a design decision because the original benchmark was implemented as close as possible to the example workload in the TPC-C specification that uses stored procedures. Use the performance metrics available in the database first before looking at data further down in the stack.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. Comments ().

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The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

So it’s interesting to see a paper using nano-Joules per prediction as an evaluation metric. The goal is to produce a low-energy hardware classifier for embedded applications doing local processing of sensor data. Race logic has four primary operations that are easy to implement in hardware: MAX, MIN, ADD-CONSTANT, and INHIBIT.

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Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

ITSM defines how teams design, create, and deliver their services. Software services still require physical devices and hardware for them to function. Knowing when and where an error, downtime, or application latency occurs is a critical factor in limiting the impact to users and customers. It is much more than just IT support.

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Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 17, 2020

Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design. Is the model of the controlled process looking at the right metrics and behaving safely?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Quick Wins.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. This eliminates the need for complex or scripted backup procedures and designated backup windows. In any case, you should always keep in mind that performance depends on schema design.

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Another window into this question is provided by the Web Confluence Metrics project. Apple's policy against browser engine choice adds years of delays beyond the (expected) delay of design iteration, specification authoring, and browser feature development. is access to hardware devices. Converging Views. Offscreen Canvas.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment. Build Optimizations.

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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. A database should accommodate itself to different data distributions, cluster topologies and hardware configurations. Data Placement.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. Example 1: ​​ Hardware failure (CPU board) Battery backup on the caching controller maintained the data. Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

This helps support executive sponsors who then have meaningful metrics to point to in justifying the investments being made. Very rarely have we seen a team succeed that doesn’t set budgets, gather RUM metrics, and carry representative customer devices. Teams with budgets also find it easier to track and graph progress.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

For example HammerDB has not used tpmC terminology to report TPC-C based metrics instead using TPM and NOPM nomenclature. A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. This was both expensive and time consuming to configure.

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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.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The benefits to apps that adopt WebView-based IABs are numerous: WebViews are system components designed for use within other apps. This reduces friction and commensurately increases "engagement" metrics. [6]. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Basic navigation and window management features to (e.g. Web Serial.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This system has been designed to supplement and succeed the existing Hadoop-based system that had too high latency of data processing and too high maintenance costs. The design of the in-stream processing engine itself was driven by the following requirements: SQL-like functionality. Fault-tolerance.

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