The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN. Fault Tolerance If the underlying KafkaConsumer crashes due to ephemeral system or network events, it should be automatically restarted. million elements.

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Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

CSS Wizardry

MAY 19, 2020

It’s widely accepted that self-hosted fonts are the fastest option: same origin means reduced network negotiation, predictable URLs mean we can preload , self-hosted means we can set our own cache-control. On a high-latency connection, this spells bad news. Put another-other way, this file is latency-bound, not bandwidth-bound.

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Google Media Latency Metrics 364

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. Any asset that carries the no-store directive will always hit the network, no matter what. We can completely cut out the overhead of a roundtrip of latency.

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Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

In response to these needs, developers now have the choice of relational, key-value, document, graph, in-memory, and search databases. Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

It keeps application processing closer to the data to maintain higher bandwidth and lower latencies, adheres to compliance regulations that don’t yet approve cloud managed services, and allows data center capital investments to be fully amortized before moving to the cloud. More details can be found in the Dynatrace documentation.

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AWS IoT Virtualization Infrastructure 131

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

This allows resource requests, including the HTML document itself, to be enriched with data during its lifecycle, and that information can be inspected for measuring the attributes of that resource! This header can be set on the response of any network resource, such as XHR, fetch, images, HTML, stylesheets, etc. Setting Server-Timing.

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Servers Monitoring Cache Network 93

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

The mean and percentile measurements hide this structure, but the rest of this post will show how the structure can be measured and analyzed so that you can figure out a useful model of your system, understand what is driving the long tail of latencies and come up with better SLAs and measures of capacity.

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Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

As a request flows between services, each distinct unit of work is documented as a span. A span: Represents a unit of work, such as a network call from one service to another (a client/server relationship) or a purely internal action (e.g., starting and finishing a method). Is this an anomaly or are we dealing with a pattern?

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Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

Scalegrid

JUNE 18, 2019

In this blog, we’ll show you how to connect to a MongoDB server configured with self-signed certificates for SSL using both the Ruby MongoDB driver and the popular Object-Document-Mapper (ODM) mongoid. The connection options available for the driver are documented here , and the options we will need are: :ssl. ssl_verify.

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C++ Servers Database Network 100

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

You need to beware that slow server response times can significantly increase TTFB, often due to server overload, network issues, or un-optimized logic on the server side. You need to beware of large HTML files or slow network connections because they can lead to longer download times.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon ElastiCache (see AWS documentation for Memcached and Redis ). The example below visualizes average latency by API name and stage for a specific AWS API Gateway. Dynatrace news.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 137

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon ElastiCache (see AWS documentation for Memcached and Redis ). The example below visualizes average latency by API name and stage for a specific AWS API Gateway. Dynatrace news.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 133

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

A performance budget as a mechanism for planning a web experience and preventing performance decay might consist of the following yardsticks: Overall page weight, Total number of HTTP requests, Page-load time on a particular mobile network, First Input Delay (FID). Similarly, unoptimized images were the leading cause of page bloat.

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Media Performance Mobile Latency 118

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With a simple example such as this, it would not necessarily be expected for the additional network traffic to be significant between the 2 approaches. However, with more complex application logic this network round trip soon becomes a key focus area for improving performance. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X performance advantage.

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Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT). Congestion Control.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

The pool of resources, at this time, is the CPU, memory, and networking resources of Amazon EC2 instances as partitioned by containers. networks ports, memory, CPU, etc). To be robust and scalable, this key/value store needs to be distributed for durability and availability, to protect against network partitions or hardware failures.

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Latency Architecture AWS Open Source 166

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees. The deadline excels at latency-sensitive use cases ( like databases ), and noop is closer to no schedule at all. On the other hand, MongoDB schema design takes a document-oriented approach. Two other schedulers are deadline and noop.

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Lots can go wrong: a network request fails, a third-party library breaks, a JavaScript feature is unsupported (assuming JavaScript is even available), a CDN goes down, a user behaves unexpectedly (they double-click a submit button), the list goes on. The more enriched sentence (right) is an enhancement for when the network request succeeds.

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Network Engineering Monitoring Availability 145

Dynatrace

JULY 10, 2019

With insights from Dynatrace into network latency and utilization of your cloud resources, you can design your scaling mechanisms and save on costly CPU hours. For examples of writing Custom devices, take a look at our document or take inspiration from our GitHub repository. Extending Dynatrace is easy!

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Java Best Practices Metrics Azure 140

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. This takes the image out of the normal document flow , which is a fancy way of saying that the elements surrounding it act as if it’s not there.

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Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

concurrent threads running, duration of queries, etc) As we can see, the decision is not only based on a formula or documentation. Also, there is a documented bug: OPTIMIZE TABLE does not sort R-tree indexes, such as spatial indexes on POINT columns. So the actual answer is highly dependent on the workload (i.e.

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Social Media Database Servers Cache 119

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

This work is latency critical, because volume IO is blocked until it is complete. Physalia is designed to offer consistency and high-availability, even under network partitions. Larger cells have better tolerance of tail latency (e.g. Thus the configuration master is under stress just when you need it the most.

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Database AWS Network Design 106

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Engagement: Poor performance has a well-documented relationship to reduced engagement.

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Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. What will 5G mean in practice? I don’t, do you?

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Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

There are five different types of member in an AnyLog system, and any network node can join without restriction as any type of member. Publishers are the producers of the actual data to be served by the network. Given their position of power in the network, such caching seems to be highly incentivised in the absence of such mechanisms.

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Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Redirects are often pretty light in terms of the latency that they add to a website, but they are an easy first thing to check, and they can generally be removed with little effort. Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. This isn’t true (more on that in a follow-up post), and sites which are built this way implicitly require more script in each document (e.g., for router components).

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

All these resource hints use the rel attribute of the <link> element that you’ll be familiar with finding in the <head> of your HTML documents. This typically happens once per server and takes up valuable time — especially if the server is very distant from the browser and network latency is high.

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Performance Games Servers Cache 106

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

Cache 126

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Real-time software system – Collaboration tools used for video/audio conferencing, document writing, Chat applications, etc. with its low latency I/O operations, gives the benefit of ‘No buffering’ to developers. Network: Node.js no DOM (Document Object Model) concept. Use cases of Node.js Micro-services.

Open Source 52

Open Source Virtualization Programming Servers 52

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Especially if going into or out of storage types that may throttle bandwidth/network traffic. Many people don’t realize how long it takes to back up very large data sets. And they are generally very surprised at how long it takes to restore them!

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2020

Teams often resort to using in-house test automation tools or frameworks which are neither well-documented nor well-maintained. Maintaining test data in a central repository and then accessing it from different test environments may ease this problem but may introduce other issues like network latency in tests.

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Testing Open Source Scalability Latency 69

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Large preview ). 300ms RTT, 1.6

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Servers and Networks. Network Configuration.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

OPN304 Learnings from migrating a service from JDK 8 to JDK 11 AWS Lambda improved latency by migrating to JDK 11 with Amazon Corretto. a joint presentation including customer experiences, multi-region networking technology, and a section by me based on the previous blog post on failure modes.

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

OPN304 Learnings from migrating a service from JDK 8 to JDK 11 AWS Lambda improved latency by migrating to JDK 11 with Amazon Corretto. a joint presentation including customer experiences, multi-region networking technology, and a section by me based on the previous blog post on failure modes.

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Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40