The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

This work is latency critical, because volume IO is blocked until it is complete. Larger cells have better tolerance of tail latency (e.g. Studies across three decades have found that software, operations, and scale drive downtime in systems designed to tolerate hardware faults. Cells have seven nodes.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. As OS and hardware deployed base integrate these components, the set of what most computers can do is expanded. This is often determined by hardware integration and device replacement rates. Same with IDEs and developer tools.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database. No matter which mechanism you choose to use, we make the stream data available to you instantly (latency in milliseconds) and how fast you want to apply the changes is up to you.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

In particular this has been true for applications based on algorithms - often MPI-based - that depend on frequent low-latency communication and/or require significant cross sectional bandwidth. Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2 change the HPC game for two important reasons: Access to scalable on-demand capacity. until today.

Cloud 119

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 119

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. This is not just predictability of median performance and latency, but also at the end of the distribution (the 99.9th percentile), so we could provide acceptable performance for virtually every customer. s read latency, particularly as dataset sizes grow.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. Try to measure your mean time to respond (MTTR) for incidents.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 17, 2020

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a resilient system. The essential component of a control system is a low latency and dependable way to measure the thing we are trying to control. What Happens Next?

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Government Airlines Systems 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. Try to measure your mean time to respond (MTTR) for incidents.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Integrated browsers present a model that, if allowed to flourish, pose a threat to the fundamentals of Apple and Google's whale-based, dopamine fueled, "casual" gaming monetisation rackets. Why is this not a game-over problem for Facebook's desktop website? Web Bluetooth.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This metric is important, but quite vague because it can include anything — starting from server rendering time and ending up with latency problems. All of this means that it will be more costly because of the growing hardware requirement and a little bit faster. It may appear that the game is not worth the candle.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 98

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Parsing and executing times vary significantly depending on the hardware of a device.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT).

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

Have we not learned anything since the movie War Games ? Video games already cater to multiple people’s experiences. With the Nintendo Switch or any other gaming system, several people can play together in a joint experience. When we consider the risk associated with an action, we need to understand its privacy implications.

Google 121

Google Games Technology Technology 121