Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Real-time stream processing to perform live activity tracking, data cleansing, metrics generation, and more. You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests. The function itself performs a small unit of work and Lambda charges subscribers by the millisecond.

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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.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

The first—and often most surprising for people to learn—thing that I want to draw your attention to is that TTFB counts one whole round trip of latency. The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections. But what else is TTFB? But what else is TTFB? Expect closer to 75ms.

Latency 269

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. CFS is widely used and therefore well tested and Linux machines around the world run with reasonable performance.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 27, 2018

A lot of companies—even if they are aware that performance is key to their business—are often unsure of how, when, or where performance testing sits within their development lifecycle. To make things worse, they’re also usually unsure whose responsibility performance measuring and monitoring is.

Performance Testing 172

Performance Testing Testing Performance Strategy 172

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

Unfortunately, this means that the age-old Telco bugbears will rear their ugly heads again, including latency. 5G, as a fundamental requirement, mandates a 1 millisecond latency from the datasource to its destination. This requires 1 ms network latency. These have to communicate with each other.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

Unfortunately, this means that the age-old Telco bugbears will rear their ugly heads again, including latency. 5G, as a fundamental requirement, mandates a 1 millisecond latency from the datasource to its destination. This requires 1 ms network latency. These have to communicate with each other.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It requires purchasing, powering, and configuring physical hardware, training and retaining the staff capable of servicing and securing the machines, operating a data center, and so on. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little. Reduced cost.

Cloud 165

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 165

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. While this is a good way to get a rough estimate, your monthly cloud costs will indeed vary based on the amount of backups performed and your data transfer activity.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.). Why would we want to live migrate web workers? The opencv app has the largest state (4.6

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., Finally, we show that Seer can identify application level design bugs, and provide insights on how to better architect microservices to achieve predictable performance. ASPLOS’19.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. “ For instance, Facebook applications issue tens-of-trillions of inference queries per day with varying performance, accuracy, and cost constraints.”

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With a simple example such as this, it would not necessarily be expected for the additional network traffic to be significant between the 2 approaches. However, with more complex application logic this network round trip soon becomes a key focus area for improving performance. performance advantage. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. Linux already has many performance tools, but these are often counter-based and have limited visibility. Linux already has many performance tools, but these are often counter-based and have limited visibility.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Keep in mind that setting the buffer pool size too high may result in other processes on your server competing for memory, which can impact performance. However, it’s important to note that the optimal value may vary depending on your specific workload and hardware configuration. 16) and monitoring the server’s performance.

Social Media 123

Social Media Database Servers Cache 123

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

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

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. To understand how these changes affect us from a performance perspective, we need to grasp the underlying technology.

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

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. How To Build Resilient JavaScript UIs. Callum Hart. 2021-08-03T11:00:00+00:00.

Network 145

Network Engineering Availability Monitoring 145

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

are all prone to performance issues and unexpected outages at some point. Problem management is the process by which the root causes of incidents are permanently fixed, which improves long-term performance and future service deployments. Software services still require physical devices and hardware for them to function.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. 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. HPC and Amazon EC2.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

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

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

trying to reduce the amount of manual work and ensuring all the components (infrastructure/hardware, middleware, software, etc.) Performance. Furthermore, SREs can view real-time dashboards, access reports, and review analytics to quickly identify performance issues. appeared first on Dotcom-Monitor Web Performance Blog.

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Our Premium High Availability comes with the following features: Active-active deployment model for optimum hardware utilization. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. – A Dynatrace customer, Head of Performance Engineering.

Availability 247

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 247

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Here are 8 fallacies of data pipeline The pipeline is reliable Topology is stateless Pipeline is infinitely scalable Processing latency is minimum Everything is observable There is no domino effect Pipeline is cost­-effective Data is homogeneous The pipeline is reliable The inconvenient truth is that pipeline is not reliable.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Buckle up as we delve into the world of Redis® monitoring, exploring the most important Redis® metrics, discussing essential tools, and even peering into the future of Redis® performance management. Key Takeaways Redis® monitoring is essential for safeguarding performance, reliability, and security.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. They maintain fault tolerance and redundancy by replicating this information throughout various nodes in the system.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing. Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities. Perform testing on browsers that are not frequently used by users.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

optimised container networking and security. overall performance comparable to bare metal. The good news is all of these challenges including performance can be tackled and in several cases, there are new developments to overcome them. Performance. faster access to external storage and data locality (I/O, bandwidth).

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand. Upgrades are performed incrementally, one engine at a time.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.” Description.

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Robin Marx. 2021-08-23T06:20:00+00:00.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

It’s a device actively being sold by a few prepaid networks. Another interesting note was how significant the impact of hardware has on the timing. JavaScript is fun and awesome but it’s also the most brittle layer of the web stack and, as we’ve seen, can seriously impact performance. That’s a bug.

Latency 41

Latency Google Hardware Servers 41

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., The paper examines the implications of microservices at the hardware, OS and networking stack, cluster management, and application framework levels, as well as the impact of tail latency.

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Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61