Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. These systems can include physical servers, containers, virtual machines, or even a device, or node, that connects and communicates with the network. The recipe was straightforward. Peer-to-Peer.

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Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

This is why our BYOC pricing is less than our Dedicated Hosting pricing, as the costs listed for BYOC are only what you pay for ScaleGrid and don’t include your hardware costs. A vast majority of the features are the same, outside of these advanced features available through the BYOC model: Virtual Private Clouds / Virtual Networks.

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Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN.

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Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. SOSP’19.

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Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. Usually today this means internet connectivity, cameras, GPS, and so on, but they are distinct from smartphones.)

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Mobile Design Internet Internet 103

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz). The maximum physical layer bit-rate for the 5G network is 1200.98 The short answer is no.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Tech News Gather

JULY 19, 2023

Smart home automation is the process of automating your house by using Internet of Things (IoT) devices to manage your lights, appliances, HVAC, entertainment, security cameras, and alarms, and other sensors for things like water or gas leaks. This action may prevent hackers from gaining access to the network and taking it over.

Wireless 52

Wireless IoT Development Internet 52

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections. This is why serving your content from a CDN is so important: even in the internet age, being geographically closer to your customers is advantageous. Armed with this knowledge, we can soon understand why TTFB can often increase so dramatically on mobile.

Latency 269

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

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Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

To secure consumer data, organizations need to make sure that their networks are updated and protected against any malicious activity. The complexity of the software being built and that billions of devices are connected with them through the internet, makes them vulnerable to security threats.

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Testing Hardware Open Source Internet 67

High Scalability

JANUARY 4, 2019

By replacing branch-heavy algorithms with neural networks, the DBMS can profit from these hardware trends.". Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading).

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Healthcare 29

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Sites that use an excess of resources, whether on the network or on the device, don’t just cause slow experiences, but can leave entire groups of people out. Similarly, there is a growing gap between what a top of the line network connection can handle and what someone with a poor mobile connection or satellite connection can handle.

Performance 111

Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Since we’re talking about mobile applications, we have to assume a changing environment over time, including the possibility of losing internet connectivity altogether. These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.).

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Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

During upgrade or maintenance, the devices are updated either with software or hardware. software and hardware installation upgrades wear and tear. Internet-based. However, this soon becomes a disadvantage in case if the internet is down, you are completely blocked and can not perform anything. Maintenance.

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Cloud Testing Infrastructure Internet 96

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

New topics range from additional workloads like video streaming, machine learning, and public cloud to specialized silicon accelerators, storage and network building blocks, and a revised discussion of data center power and cooling, and uptime.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

These devices ran on a diverse range of OS versions, screen resolutions, and network types. Once you have chosen your target devices, consider the architectural aspect of your hardware. Internet and Power Supply. Cloud-based testing offers access to a large or possibly every device and network type for application testing.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Hardware DevOps 52

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” This contains updated and new material that reflects the latest C++ standards and compilers, with a focus to using modern C++11/14/17 effectively on modern hardware and memory architectures. On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.”

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. For example, if you are using internet banking via a Mobile Web application, it will not allow you to save cards or mark any transaction as favourite. What are Mobile Web Applications?

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Lots can go wrong: a network request fails, a third-party library breaks, a JavaScript feature is unsupported (assuming JavaScript is even available), a CDN goes down, a user behaves unexpectedly (they double-click a submit button), the list goes on. The more enriched sentence (right) is an enhancement for when the network request succeeds.

Network 145

Network Engineering Availability Monitoring 145

MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

We wanted to have control of the hardware that runs our tests and deliver consistent results. Some visitors will be coming to your site via a blazing fast internet on an overpowered, flagship mobile device. Others will be coming to you from a slow, rural internet connection on a budget laptop.

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Speed Testing Website Cache 62

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. These include data transfer (i.e.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. is access to hardware devices.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

Infrastructure as a Service is the term used for those cloud-based solutions that provide complete infrastructure to the users including all the overheads, hardware, and networking facilities. As a user, you just need to pay for the services, install low-level requirements and set up the networking. Software as a Service (SaaS).

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Fast forward a decade, and both the software and hardware situations have changed dramatically. Don't like the consequences?

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. Instead of asking that question, I asked them this: “Are you a network or hosting provider?

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Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 20, 2018

Looking at current hardware and software security research, however, we are seeing a number of technologies that are being developed that limit this type of broad interoperability. For example, the Internet is designed to allow any system to communicate with any other system in the networks.

Hardware 47

Hardware Operating System Architecture Software 47

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Web Bluetooth.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118