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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Dynatrace

In this example, “Reverse proxy” and “Front-end server” are clearly in the critical path. In this example, “hipstershop.currency,” “hipstershop.checkout” and “hipstershop.cart” are also part of this critical path. In this example, we’re creating an SLO with a target of 98% of our requests without errors. Reliability.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 17th, 2018

High Scalability

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. 12 million requests / hour with sub-second latency, ~300GB of throughput / day. Keep on reading for many more quotes hot off the internet.

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SpaceX Spending $10 Billion to Make the Internet 20ms Faster

MachMetrics

A lot of coverage on this project is centered (rightfully) around the potential of this project to deliver fast internet to underdeveloped nations at a minimal cost. Starlink’s Goal: Reduce Internet Latency. At a cost of 300 million dollars, this cable reduced the latency of this transatlantic journey down to 59.95

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Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters

CSS Wizardry

The first—and often most surprising for people to learn—thing that I want to draw your attention to is that TTFB counts one whole round trip of latency. The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections. For example, request collapsing , edge-side includes , etc.). But what else is TTFB?

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Act locally, connect globally with IoT and edge computing

All Things Distributed

There are places so remote, so harsh that humans can't safely explore them (for example, hundreds of miles below the earth, areas that experience extreme temperatures, or on other planets). But they usually have little to no internet connection, making the challenge of exploring environments inhospitable for humans seem even more impossible.

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Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption

The Morning Paper

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. Throughput and latency. energy consumption).

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Interpreting A/B test results: false negatives and power

The Netflix TechBlog

Continuing on an example from Part 3 , a false negative corresponds to labeling the photo of the cat as a “not cat.” To build intuition about power, let’s go back to the same coin example from Part 3, where the goal is to decide if the coin is unfair using an experiment that calculates the fraction of heads in 100 flips.

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