All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Developers love the performance, simplicity, and in-memory capabilities of Redis, making it among the most popular NoSQL key-value stores. Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. ElastiCache for Redis delivers predictable microsecond latencies and is super easy to use.

Games 112

Games Retail Latency Education 112

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

They use a combination of timeouts, retries, and fallbacks to try to mitigate the effects of these failures, but these don’t get exercised as often as the happy path, so how can we be confident they’ll work as intended when called upon? This mode is still available but take up from busy service teams was limited.

Latency 77

Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 30, 2018

I have spent much of my career refuting bad benchmarks, and have developed such a knack for it that prior employers would not publish benchmarks unless they were approved by me. sounds like a homework exercise of purely academic value. Because benchmarking is so important for our industry, I'd like to share with you how I do it.

Benchmarking 54

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 54

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. It’s inherently tied to everything we build and develop. I’m going to update my referenced URL to the new site to help decrease latency that adds drag to the initial page load. Improvement #3: Unblock parsing.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

2 In general, IT has structural and social deficiencies that conspire against development of a management capability. Management of a professional capability is thus an exercise in making lots of adjustments, not pushing blindly ahead toward a solution. If you don’t have a firm hold, not everyone gets all the information. April, 1996.

Innovation 40

Innovation Technology Technology Latency 40

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 29, 2018

I have spent much of my career refuting bad benchmarks, and have developed such a knack for it that prior employers would not publish benchmarks unless they were approved by me. sounds like a homework exercise of purely academic value. Because benchmarking is so important for our industry, I'd like to share with you how I do it.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. 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. A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. 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. A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Therefore any programming abstraction must be low latency and the kernel needs to be kept off the path of persistent data access as much as possible. This is left as an exercise for the application developer at present. This means that the overheads of system calls become much more noticeable. What about security?

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

For example, the most fundamental abstraction trade-off has always been latency versus throughput. Modern CPUs strongly favor lower latency of operations with clock cycles in the nanoseconds and we have built general purpose software architectures that can exploit these low latencies very well.Â

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

There was no deep goal — just a desire to see the maximum GFLOPS in action. The exercise seemed simple enough — just fix one item in the Colfax code and we should be finished. Using the minimum number of accumulator registers needed to tolerate the pipeline latency (12), the assembly code for the inner loop is: B1.8:

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

The most common programming task that a typical software developer has to deal with is: receiving input, transforming it, and producing output. One of the key realizations one develops when integrating components of unequal capacities is that flow control is not optional, but mandatory. Let’s dive into this concept for a bit.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. in Atlas , Netflix’s in-memory dimensional time series database.

Media 214

Media Storage Processing Cache 214