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Towards a Reliable Device Management Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

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. million elements.

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Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

The Morning Paper

I’m jumping ahead a bit here, but the component of Snap which provides the transport and communications stack is called Pony Express. Here are the bombshell paragraphs: Our datacenter applications seek ever more CPU-efficient and lower-latency communication, which Pony Express delivers. Enter Google! Emphasis mine). Emphasis mine).

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RPCValet: NI-driven tail-aware balancing of µs-scale RPCs

The Morning Paper

Last week we learned about the [increased tail-latency sensitivity of microservices based applications with high RPC fan-outs. Seer uses estimates of queue depths to mitigate latency spikes on the order of 10-100ms, in conjunction with a cluster manager. So what we have here is a glimpse of the limits for low-latency RPCs under load.

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Why I hate MPI (from a performance analysis perspective)

John McCalpin

According to Dr. Bandwidth, performance analysis has two recurring themes: How fast should this code (or “simple” variations on this code) run on this hardware? The user environment defines the mapping of MPI ranks to hardware resources (cores, sockets, nodes). The MPI runtime library. in ways that are seldom transparent.

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Talk Video: Welcome to the Jungle (60 min version + Q&A)

Sutter's Mill

Now welcome to the hardware jungle. One of the slides I omitted to shorten this version of the talk highlighted that there are actually two issues when you go from “Disjoint (tightly coupled)” to “Disjoint (loosely coupled)”: reliability and latency , and both are important. (I — The free lunch is over.

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Can You Afford It?: Real-world Web Performance Budgets

Alex Russell

Contended, over-subscribed cells can make “fast” networks brutally slow, transport variance can make TCP much less efficient , and the bursty nature of web traffic works against us. It simulates a link with a 400ms RTT and 400-600Kbps of throughput (plus latency variability and simulated packet loss).

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe.

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