All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? With the launch of the AWS Storage Gateway our customers can now integrate their on-premises IT environment with AWSâ??s

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Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 115

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings. STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables).

Monitoring 203

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 203

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 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Infrastructure Excellence ScaleGrid’s infrastructure is designed to facilitate hosting in your cloud account and provides cost-saving options with AWS or Azure Reserved Instances or GCP. This results in faster response times and reduced network traffic, enhancing the overall efficiency and effectiveness of cloud services.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

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

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Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

Storage 203

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

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

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

The design space. We group the DBMS design choices and tradeoffs into three broad categories, which result from the need for dealing with (A) external storage; (B) query executors that are spun on demand; and (C) DBMS-as-a-service offerings. Key findings. Serverless o?erings

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

Cache 126

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

Designed to help scalable applications deliver high performance, it stores live, fast-changing data in memory (DRAM) for fast updates and retrieval. From its inception, the design philosophy behind ScaleOut StateServer has been to simultaneously maximize both performance and ease of use. In-Memory Data Grids for Fast-Changing Data.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

Designed to help scalable applications deliver high performance, it stores live, fast-changing data in memory (DRAM) for fast updates and retrieval. From its inception, the design philosophy behind ScaleOut StateServer has been to simultaneously maximize both performance and ease of use. In-Memory Data Grids for Fast-Changing Data.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. With the launch of the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, companies can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services directly connected to Japanese networks.

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AWS Cloud Games Latency 112

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. The following figure highlights how just one of these variables, batch size, impacts throughput and latency on ResNet50.

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

This article will explore how they handle data storage and scalability, perform in different scenarios, and, most importantly, how these factors influence your choice. Redis Data Types and Structures The design of Redis’s data structures emphasizes versatility. Memcached’s primary strength lies in its simplicity.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. or rss feed.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Storage reduction alone results in significant cost savings, and we can save more data in the same space. In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB.

Storage 107

Storage Network Open Source Latency 107

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The naming system that we are all most familiar with in the internet is the Domain Name System (DNS) that manages the naming of the many different entities in our global network; its most common use is to map a name to an IP address, but it also provides facilities for aliases, finding mail servers, managing security keys, and much more.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These nodes and edges require a good amount of compute and storage which is typically distributed across a large number servers either running in the cloud or your own data center. Every time data spikes - a phenomenon which will be not predictable in most cases - overall latency to process the data using data pipeline will go up.

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Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

From chunk encoding to assembly and packaging, the result of each previous processing step must be uploaded to cloud storage and then downloaded by the next processing step. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. For Premium HA, this has been extended from 10 ms latency (in the same network region) to around 100 ms network latency due to asynchronous data replication between regions.

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Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 247

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

Narrowing the gap between serverless and its state with storage functions , Zhang et al., Shredder is " a low-latency multi-tenant cloud store that allows small units of computation to be performed directly within storage nodes. " SoCC’19. "Narrowing Shredder’s implementation is built on top of Seastar.

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Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

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. We will examine each of these elements in more detail.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 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. The Cloud First strategy is most visible with new Federal IT programs, which are all designed to be â??Cloud Cloud Readyâ??; Subscribe to this weblogs.

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AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees. The deadline excels at latency-sensitive use cases ( like databases ), and noop is closer to no schedule at all. By default, most Linux installs use the CFQ ( Completely-Fair Queue ) scheduler. Two other schedulers are deadline and noop.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This is sometimes referred to as using an “over-cloud” model that involves a centrally managed resource pool that spans all parts of a connected global network with internal connections between regional borders, such as two instances in IAD-ORD for NYC-JS webpage DNS routing.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

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. Pipelining.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

When a new leader is elected it loads all data from external storage. In that scenario, the system would need to deal with the data propagation latency directly, for example, by use of timeouts or client-originated update tracking mechanisms. Active data includes jobs and tasks that are currently running.

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

We will share how its design has evolved over the years and the lessons learned while building it. To understand Axion’s design, we need to know the various components that interact with it. The motivation has not changed since then; the design has. Design evolution Axion fact store has four components?—?fact

Storage 187

Storage Design Scalability Latency 187

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. Any asset that carries the no-store directive will always hit the network, no matter what. We can completely cut out the overhead of a roundtrip of latency.

Cache 264

Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. Performing steps like switching from a single-CDN setup to a multi-CDN or separating strategies for content types can make the benefits twofold!

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). The example below visualizes average latency by API name and stage for a specific AWS API Gateway. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams. Amazon Redshift.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 136

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Before designing a solution it’s important to understand the main product requirements for such a feature: The content needs to be new, relevant, and regional (not all countries have the same catalogue). The homepage needs to load in a reasonable amount of time, even in poor network conditions. This requires an asset storage solution.

Engineering 165

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). The example below visualizes average latency by API name and stage for a specific AWS API Gateway. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams. Amazon Redshift.

AWS 133

AWS Metrics IoT Storage 133