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Mastering Latency With P90, P99, and Mean Response Times

DZone

In the fast-paced digital world, where every millisecond counts, understanding the nuances of network latency becomes paramount for developers and system architects. Latency, the delay before a transfer of data begins following an instruction for its transfer, can significantly impact user experience and system performance.

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Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support…

The Netflix TechBlog

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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Application observability meets developer observability: Unlock a 360º view of your environment

Dynatrace

Application observability helps IT teams gain visibility in their highly distributed systems, but what is developer observability and why is it important? In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. Observability is about answering.”

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LinkedIn Migrates Espresso to HTTP2 and Reduces Connections by 88% and Latency by 75%

InfoQ

to HTTP2, resulting in a reduction in the number of connections, latency, and garbage collection times. LinkedIn was able to dramatically improve the scalability and performance of its Espresso database by migrating it from HTTP1.1 To achieve these gains, the team had to optimize the Netty’s default HTTP2 stack to make it fit their needs.

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What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Dynatrace

They help foster confidence and consistency throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). The following are specific examples that demonstrate quality gates in action: Security gates Security gates ensure code meets key security requirements defined by development and security stakeholders.

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Best practices and key metrics for improving mobile app performance

Dynatrace

Why observability matters for mobile app performance monitoring Observability data is becoming increasingly important to mobile app performance monitoring because it provides mobile developers with deeper insight into their applications. Load time and network latency metrics. Proactive monitoring. Capacity planning.

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Architectural Insights: Designing Efficient Multi-Layered Caching With Instagram Example

DZone

Leveraging this hierarchical structure can significantly reduce latency and improve overall performance. Multi-layered caching involves using multiple levels of cache to store and retrieve data.

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