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Comparing Approaches to Durability in Low Latency Messaging Queues

DZone

This is the first time I have benchmarked it with a realistic example. Little’s Law and Why Latency Matters. In many cases, the assumption is that as long as throughput is high enough, the latency won’t be a problem. However, latency is often a key factor in why the throughput isn’t high enough.

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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. Caching is a critical technique for optimizing application performance by temporarily storing frequently accessed data, allowing for faster retrieval during subsequent requests.

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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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Bandwidth or Latency: When to Optimise for Which

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When it comes to network performance, there are two main limiting factors that will slow you down: bandwidth and latency. Latency is defined as…. Where bandwidth deals with capacity, latency is more about speed of transfer 2. and reduction in latency. and reduction in latency. Bandwidth is defined as….

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

Dynatrace

Quality gates examples in Dynatrace Quality gates hold much promise for organizations looking to release better software faster. 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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Scalable Annotation Service?—?Marken

The Netflix TechBlog

For example, we have a service that stores a movie entity’s metadata or a service that stores metadata about images. In Pic 1 below, we have an example of an application which is used by editors to review their work. We don’t allow incompatible changes, for example, users can not change the data type of a property.

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Bending pause times to your will with Generational ZGC

The Netflix TechBlog

Reduced tail latencies In both our GRPC and DGS Framework services, GC pauses are a significant source of tail latencies. For a given CPU utilization target, ZGC improves both average and P99 latencies with equal or better CPU utilization when compared to G1.

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