Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Redis Revealed: An Overview Redis, a renowned open-source, in-memory remote dictionary server, stands out for its diverse data structures and advanced features. Memcached’s primary strength lies in its simplicity.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Scalegrid

AUGUST 26, 2020

ScaleGrid MySQL on Azure so you can see which provider offers the best throughput and latency performance. We measure latency in ms 95th percentile latency. During Read-Intensive Workloads, ScaleGrid manages to achieve up to 3 times higher throughput and averages 66% better latency compared to Azure Database.

Azure 299

Azure Benchmarking Database Latency 299

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

A typical design pattern is the use of a semantic search over a domain-specific knowledge base, like internal documentation, to provide the required context in the prompt. With these latency, reliability, and cost measurements in place, your operations team can now define their own OpenAI dashboards and SLOs.

Monitoring 162

Monitoring Latency Metrics Azure 162

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

The Dynatrace Site Reliability Guardian is designed for this practice; it allows development teams to define quality objectives in their code, which is validated throughout the delivery process before the code reaches production. The queries are depicted below (sensitive data has been removed).

DevOps 183

DevOps Traffic Latency Best Practices 183

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

It is common to see a value of “ 0″ ( or sometimes “10” ) on database servers, telling the kernel to prefer to swap to memory for better response times. The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees. A setting of 100 determines it to swap aggressively to disk.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. In the world of HTTP Headers, there is one header that I believe deserves more air-time and that is the Server-Timing header. Setting Server-Timing. Sean Roberts. 2022-05-16T10:00:00+00:00.

Servers 92

Servers Monitoring Cache Network 92

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. These storage nodes collaborate to manage and disseminate the data across numerous servers spanning multiple data centers.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

InfoQ

JANUARY 26, 2024

Discord optimized its platform to serve over one million online users in a single server while maintaining a responsive user experience.

Servers 105

Servers Tuning Scalability Performance 105

Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

Cloud-based AI enables organizations to run AI in the cloud without the hassle of managing, provisioning, or housing servers. Containerization enables organizations to package AI applications and dependencies into a single unit, which can be easily deployed on any server with the necessary dependencies.

Strategy 219

Strategy Artificial Intelligence Storage Cloud 219

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

million AI server units annually by 2027, consuming 75.4+ For production models, this provides observability of service-level agreement (SLA) performance metrics, such as token consumption, latency, availability, response time, and error count. For example, generating an image requires as much power as fully charging your smartphone.

Cache 201

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 201

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

PostgreSQL Cluster One coordinator node citus-coord-01 Three worker nodes citus1 citus2 citus3 Hardware AWS Instance Ubuntu Server 20.04, SSD volume type 64-bit (x86) c5.xlarge Steps Provisioning The first step is to provision the four nodes with both PostgreSQL and Citus. psql pgbench <<_eof1_ qecho adding node citus3.

Database 108

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 108

CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

Critical assets are far too valuable to leave on someone else’s servers. Every new origin we need to visit needs a connection opening, and that can be very costly: DNS resolution, TCP handshakes, and TLS negotiation all add up, and the story gets worse the higher the latency of the connection is. Risk: Service Shutdowns. to just 3.6s.

Cache 274

Cache Latency Infrastructure Website 274

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

ITOps refers to the process of acquiring, designing, deploying, configuring, and maintaining equipment and services that support an organization’s desired business outcomes. Computer operations manages the physical location of the servers — cooling, electricity, and backups — and monitors and responds to alerts. Performance.

Artificial Intelligence 198

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 198

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. The Four Pillars of CDN Design‍CDN architecture can be broken down into several building blocks, known as the Four Pillars of CDN Design.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) supports all types of compression and enterprise-grade features for free. Snappy compression is designed to be fast and efficient regarding memory usage, making it a good fit for MongoDB workloads. In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB.

Storage 113

Storage Network Open Source Latency 113

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

Answer-driven DevOps automation goes beyond creating tickets and extends to executing workflows designed to extract ownership information and then route the ticket to the responsible teams. Consider an event-driven automation system designed for incident management.

DevOps 217

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 217

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. CDNs cache content on edge servers distributed globally, reducing the distance between users and the content they want.‍CDNs

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 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 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. 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. In the image below, three downed nodes make an entire cluster unavailable.

Availability 244

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 244

Percona

JULY 20, 2023

It is very common to see many infrastructure layers standing between a PostgreSQL database and the Application server. It is designed to be very lightweight as well. We can see that the CPU utilization and “DataFileRead” wait events are dropped, indicating that the overall server-side session activity is slow downed.

Network 65

Network Performance Latency Servers 65

Percona

APRIL 13, 2023

In PostgreSQL, replication lag can occur due to various reasons such as network latency, slow disk I/O, long-running transactions, etc. Replication lag can occur due to various reasons, such as: Network latency: Network latency is the delay caused by the time it takes for data to travel between the primary and standby databases.

Latency 85

Latency Tuning Open Source Network 85

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Tim Berners-Lee tweets that 'This is for everyone' at the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony using the NeXT computer he used to build the first browser and web server. Regardless of architecture, Gmail needs to send an HTTP request to the server and update some HTML when the server replies. This Is for Everyone #.

Performance 104

Performance Latency Architecture Network 104

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

This includes CDNs, proxy servers, and the like. Once the 60 seconds is up, the browser will head back to the server to revalidate the file. It means ‘do no t serve a copy from cache until you’ve revalidated it with the server and the server said you can use the cached copy’. public and private. Cache-Control: no-cache.

Cache 264

Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

For each route we migrated, we wanted to make sure we were not introducing any regressions: either in the form of missing (or worse, wrong) data, or by increasing the latency of each endpoint. Being able to canary a new route let us verify latency and error rates were within acceptable limits. This meant that data that was static (e.g.

Latency 233

Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. These topics apply to both SQL Server Reporting Services as well as Power BI Report Server. Installation and support of SSRS can be confusing.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. AWS continues to improve how it handles latency issues. What is AWS Lambda?

Lambda 178

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 178

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. Meeting Business Demands with Hybrid Cloud A range of business demands can be met by the design of hybrid cloud solutions.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

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 kind of edge server envisaged here might, for example, be integrated with your WiFi access point. As such, web workers are a natural target to offload to a more powerful server.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

using Compute Express Link or CXL), organizing memory components for optimal performance, adapting system software traditionally designed for homogeneous memory systems, and developing memory abstractions and programming constructs for HCM management. Figure 2: Latency characteristics of memory technologies (source: Maruf et al.,

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When designing an architecture, many components need to be considered before deciding on the best solution. Let us take a look also the latency: Here the situation starts to be a little bit more complicated. MySQL Router is the one that has the higher latency no matter what. That allows it to go a bit further. and ProxySQL 6.6k.

Games 125

Games Latency Traffic Cache 125

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

We ran performance tests for MongoDB on DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure and found that DigitalOcean performance was in line with, if not better, on both high throughput and low latency in the deployment. Sharding is ideal for very large data sets or high throughput deployments that require more capacity that you can get with a single server.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Questions Q: I have a MySQL server with 500 GB of RAM; my data set is 100 GB. Keep in mind that setting the buffer pool size too high may result in other processes on your server competing for memory, which can impact performance. Q: I have a MySQL server, and my application is writing at a rate of 100 MB/hour in my redo logs.

Social Media 124

Social Media Database Servers Cache 124

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

These include popular technologies such as web servers and web applications, along with advanced solutions like distributed data stores and containerized microservices. It also provides high availability and super user access features while offering dedicated servers specifically designed for MongoDB cloud hosting.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

CSS Wizardry

MAY 19, 2020

On a high-latency connection, this spells bad news. However, the execution of this header is bound by the response’s TTFB, which on high-latency networks can be very, very high. The median TTFB (including request queueing, DNS, TCP, TLS, and server time) for the Google Fonts CSS file across all tests was 1406ms.

Google 364

Google Media Latency Metrics 364

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. Time To First Byte (TTFB) This is the time it takes for the first piece of information from the server to reach the user’s browser.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

Shredder is " a low-latency multi-tenant cloud store that allows small units of computation to be performed directly within storage nodes. " From an operator perspective it makes it harder to follow the classic cloud-native design in which a global storage layer is separate to compute.

Serverless 99

Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99