Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Ford, et al., “TCP

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Based in the Paris area, the region will provide even lower latency and will allow users who want to store their content in datacenters in France to easily do so. Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in France! The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

MQTT is an OASIS standard messaging protocol for the Internet of Things (IoT) and was designed as a highly lightweight yet reliable publish/subscribe messaging transport that is ideal for connecting remote devices with a small code footprint and minimal network bandwidth. million elements.

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High Scalability

MAY 10, 2019

Quotable Stuff: @mjpt777 : APIs to IO need to be asynchronous and support batching otherwise the latency of calls dominate throughput and latency profile under burst conditions. Isobel Cockerell : A kind of WeChat code had developed through emoji: A half-fallen rose meant someone had been arrested. We work too much.

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High Scalability

MARCH 1, 2019

It was made possible by using a low latency of 0.1 seconds, the lower the latency, the more responsive the robot. If you are a developer building your own platform (AppEngine, Cloud Foundry, or Heroku clone), then Kubernetes is for you. They'll learn a lot and love you forever. So much more.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

These are advanced cloud configurations that allow you to protect your databases from the internet. At ScaleGrid we recommend you deploy your clusters on private VPC subnets so that your database is not routable from the internet. Deploying your application and database on the same VPC also provides the lowest possible latency path.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Since the beginning of the internet era, browsers and websites have lived co-dependently. Starting from the internet explorer, then to the Mozilla project and now to at least six major browsers in the market, we have evolved quite well. But browsers and web development technologies do not seem to be in a happy relationship.

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ACM Sigarch

MARCH 18, 2019

Computer systems, from the Internet-of-Things devices to datacenters, are complex and optimizing them can enhance capability and save money. Developing simulators, however, is time-consuming and requires a great deal of infrastructure development regarding a prospective system. Answered in Part 2.). Bottleneck Analysis.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. The Domain Name System is a wonderful practical piece of technology; it is a fundamental building block of our modern internet.

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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?

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

This new Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low-latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in South America. The new Sao Paulo Region provides better latency to South America, which enables AWS customers to deliver higher performance services to their South American end-users.

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Particular Software

JUNE 3, 2019

Everyone who is old enough to remember the sound of connecting to the Internet with a dial-up modem or of AOL announcing that "You've got mail" is acutely aware that there is an upper limit to how fast something can be downloaded, and it never seems to be as fast as we would like it. The big challenge is that we must strike a balance.

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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. I’ve recently been brainstorming ideas for how to design such a system and how to deal with the practical challenges of scaling and maintenance.

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember reading articles about how 3G connectivity was going to transform performance and, more generally, the way we used the internet altogether. To be fair, each new generation of network connectivity does bring some level of change and transformation to how we interact with the internet. We’re still nowhere close for 4G.

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VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Manpower Optimizers” want help with managing development and test in a large corporate environment. In some places 70-80% of all sysadmin time is expended on the management of development environments. Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments.

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Tim Kadlec

JUNE 24, 2014

Since it’s one of my favorite topics, I decided to share my notes: 34% of US adults use a smartphone as their primary means of internet access. Mobile networks add a tremendous amount of latency. Performance cops (developers or designers who enforce performance) is not sustainable. We are not our end users.

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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 ).

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VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Manpower Optimizers” want help with managing development and test in a large corporate environment. In some places 70-80% of all sysadmin time is expended on the management of development environments. Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Tim Bray : How to talk about [Serverless Latency] · To start with, don’t just say “I need 120ms.” Don’t waste your developers’ time trying to shave off nickels and dimes from your bill. Because nobody knows how to make money. Support contracts aren’t enough. Don't be late.

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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. There has been no easy way for developers to do this in Amazon EC2. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. HPC and Amazon EC2.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

Quite often "The Cloud" is portrayed as something magically transparent that lives somewhere in the internet. There are four main reasons to do so: Performance - For many applications and services, data access latency to end users is important. The new Singapore Region offers customers in APAC lower-latency access to AWS services.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

As a part of that process, we also realized that there were a number of latency sensitive or location specific use cases like Hadoop, HPC, and testing that would be ideal for Spot. To get started using Spot or for more details visit the Amazon EC2 Spot Instance web page, the AWS developer blog , and the EC2 Release Notes. Contact Info.

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Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

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? Google had a great post a few years back about how they reduced startup latency for Gmail. The result was a 10x reduction in startup latency.

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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++.” If you’re interested in attending, please check out the links, and I look forward to meeting and re-meeting many of you there.

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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. For more details on the AWS GovCloud (US) visit the Federal Government section of the AWS website and the posting on the AWS developer blog.

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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. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

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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.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Yes, it’s a single file, but that’s not how it’s stored on the internet. BandwidthImagine the internet as a ramified web of pipelines, each varying in size. A video, being a digital asset, is also based on these two parts.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Yes, it’s a single file, but that’s not how it’s stored on the internet. This type of traffic originates directly from the server, making it more challenging to handle due to latency and server load considerations; it’s hard but not impossible.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The convenience of having it tucked into Chrome DevTools is what makes it an easy go-to for many developers. Barry Pollard, a web performance developer advocate for Chrome, wrote an excellent primer on the CrUX Report for Smashing Magazine. ( Large preview ) Lighthouse is only one performance auditing tool out of many.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

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Testsigma

JULY 23, 2020

Some are accessed via the internet while some of them are installed on the user’s computer. This is a standalone software program which doesn’t depend on any internet connectivity for its working and its performance is not impacted because of any network related latencies.

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