Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Every time you type a URL in the browser address bar, follow a link in a page or even load a resource like an image from a different domain, the browser needs to do a DNS lookup to find the server that holds the resource we’ve requested. One step on from DNS prefetching is preconnecting to a server. When Should I Use dns-prefetch ?

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. When instances are placed in a cluster they have access to low latency, non-blocking 10 Gbps networking when communicating the other instances in the cluster.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Randon ASCII

AUGUST 30, 2020

Sometimes tracking down a bug is as simple as paying attention to server dashboards, spending a few minutes in a profiler, or looking at compiler warnings. Server CPU Surprise. A few years ago I spent a few weeks doing some memory investigations on live game servers. The first server process that I profiled was… odd.

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Games Servers Code Monitoring 142

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. Four years ago, as part of our AWS fast data journey, we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed, in-memory data store that operates at microsecond latency. Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple.

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Games Retail Latency Education 112

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Congestion Control.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

While it can occasionally be a specific server or even an application within a data center, it's predominantly the data center itself. If the content is readily available, the CDN delivers it straight away, negating the need to retrieve it from the origin server.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

While it can occasionally be a specific server or even an application within a data center, it's predominantly the data center itself. If the content is readily available, the CDN delivers it straight away, negating the need to retrieve it from the origin server. Do you just give up the traffic trying to access it while you work on it?

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Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

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+). Consistent performance matters just as much as low average latency.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. At the time, Nanoc talked about compiling source files into HTML: It operates on local files, and therefore does not run on the server.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

This work is latency critical, because volume IO is blocked until it is complete. Cells are spread across a mesh of nodes (each node running on a single server). When a node joins or re-joins a cell it needs to be brought up to speed, a process the authors call teaching. Larger cells have better tolerance of tail latency (e.g.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

Absent compelling content and attentive security and performance focus, it soon retreated to the server. [6]. talking to POP and IMAP servers. Rendering text is important (think login screens), but there's no product without low-latency, adaptive codecs, networking, and camera/microphone access. microphones. temperature.

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Hardware Games Java Media 55

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This metric shows how much time it takes for the server to respond with something. This metric is important, but quite vague because it can include anything — starting from server rendering time and ending up with latency problems. It may appear that the game is not worth the candle.

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Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 98

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. OpenSignal's global report on connection speeds ( pdf ) suggest that WebPageTest's default 4G configuration (9Mbps w/ 170ms RTT) is a reasonable stand-in for the P75 network link. Updated Geekbench 4 single-core scores for each mobile price-point."

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Start Render time, Speed Index ). Rendering metrics provide an estimate of how fast content renders (e.g.

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