VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. 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.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. 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.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. For example, if you are using internet banking via a Mobile Web application, it will not allow you to save cards or mark any transaction as favourite. What are Mobile Web Applications?

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

For years I had an aspirational goal of unifying all of my backups into one central directory tree, akin to the concept of a monorepo in software development. software” rather than “hardware” in our brains). So I figured that ChatGPT could help me brainstorm during one of my long drives.

Entertainment 73

Entertainment Internet Internet Design 73

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Different browsers running on different platforms and hardware, respecting our user preferences and browsing modes (Safari Reader/ assistive technologies), being served to geo-locations with varying latency and intermittency increase the likeness of something not working as intended. More after jump! Large preview ).

Network 145

Network Engineering Availability Monitoring 145

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Today, I am very proud to be a part of the Amazon Web Services team as we truly make HPC available as an on-demand commodity for every developer to use. Additionally, many high-end HPC applications take advantage of knowing their in-house hardware platforms to achieve major speedup by exploiting the specific processor architecture.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Another interesting note was how significant the impact of hardware has on the timing. Those markets are going to dominate internet growth over the next few years, and affordability is a more necessary feature than a souped up device. So what’s a web developer to do? The result was a 10x reduction in startup latency.

Latency 41

Latency Google Hardware Servers 41

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.”

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This article is an effort to explore techniques used by developers of in-stream data processing systems, trace the connections of these techniques to massive batch processing and OLTP/OLAP databases, and discuss how one unified query engine can support in-stream, batch, and OLAP processing at the same time. Partitioning and Shuffling.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. For basic and simple websites, a developer was able to easily automate these checks and fix any problems before a user encountered them. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. The Compatibility Tax.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. Many happy developers are using DynamoDB to handle trillions of requests every day. DynamoDB Cross-region Replication.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

SCM slots between DRAM and flash in terms of latency, cost, and density. Curriculum development, 6. Professional development. Thus, despite both quoting 11 nines of durability against hardware failures, S3 is durable against failures that B2 is not, and is thus better. Feedback & Scoring, 2. College readiness, 3.

Internet 30

Internet Internet Scalability Education 30

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. Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons).

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. This part is a bit more technical than the first, though it offloads most of the really deep stuff to outside sources, focusing on explaining why these things matter to the average web developer.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

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 ().

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Web engineers frequently refer to browsers as "User Agents", a nod to their unique role as interpreters of developer intent that give users the final say over how the web is experienced. PWA Feature Detector.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This metric is important, but quite vague because it can include anything — starting from server rendering time and ending up with latency problems. For example, for an internet shop, it may be a page with a product list, product details page, shopping cart, checkout, and so on. So make a competitors list. But how can you do it?

Performance 99

Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 99

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. General Purpose GPU programming.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. 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. Data Placement.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Switching from Solaris to Linux has become much easier in the last two years, with Linux developments in ZFS, Zones, and DTrace. Linux has also been developing its own ZFS-like filesystem, btrfs. Since ZFS is an add-on developed out-of-tree, it will always be harder to get the same level of attention. LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Using an image CDN, such as KeyCDN, can significantly reduce the latency of your image delivery. Developers often focus on improving scripting performance, but they need to realize that the bulk of their performance woes come from media content… - Una Kravets Image optimization. Mbps ( Opensignal ).

Speed 52

Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. So every time a conversation about further development happens, performance is a part of that conversation as well. Establish a performance culture. thanks, Guy Podjarny!

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. The former is particularly useful during development as it will help you identify, isolate and fix performance issues while working on the product. Establish a performance culture.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what strategies should be used to fix them. So every time a conversation about further development happens, performance is a part of that conversation as well. Establish a performance culture. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145