All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Amazon ElastiCache embodies much of what makes fast data a reality for customers looking to process high volume data at incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. TB of in-memory capacity in a single cluster.

Games 112

Games Retail Latency Education 112

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. 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. Improvement #2: The Critical Render Path.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Staff should be familiar with recovery processes and the behavior of the system when it’s working hard to mitigate failures. A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

Management of a professional capability is thus an exercise in making lots of adjustments, not pushing blindly ahead toward a solution. Consider this description of Super Aguri’s F1 pre-race meetings: "The process is very formal," says Super Aguri sporting director Graham Taylor. "I 4 But that, too, isn’t enough.

Innovation 40

Innovation Technology Technology Latency 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Staff should be familiar with recovery processes and the behavior of the system when it’s working hard to mitigate failures. A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

1:18pm a key observation was made that an API call to populate the homepage sidebar saw a huge jump in latency. A technique called process tracing was employed to try and recover "a record of participant data acquisition, situation assessment, knowledge activation, expectations, intentions, and actions as the case unfolds over time."

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji’s routing table is a materialized representation of how user traffic at various edge nodes ought to be distributed over available data centers to balance data center utilization and minimize latency. For example, balance utilisation across all data centers, or optimise for network latency.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Therefore any programming abstraction must be low latency and the kernel needs to be kept off the path of persistent data access as much as possible. The eagle-eyed reader will have noticed another feature of this work in that quotation: the aim is to create a global address space that spans nodes and processes. What about security?

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

From financial processing and traditional oil & gas exploration HPC applications to integrating complex 3D graphics into online and mobile applications, the applications of GPU processing appear to be limitless. For example, the most fundamental abstraction trade-off has always been latency versus throughput.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases. DynamoDB automatically re-distributes your data to healthy servers to ensure there are always multiple replicas of your data without you needing to intervene. Auto Scaling is on by default for all new tables and indexes.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large We have one file?—?the

Media 214

Media Storage Processing Cache 214

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Working with never-ending streams of data necessitates continuous processing of it, ensuring the system keeps up with the load patterns it is exposed to, and always provides real-time, up-to-date information. Sadly, it is very common to write logic that deeply couples the notion of IO with the processing of that IO.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72