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Varnish and BBR: Lower Latency OTT Video Delivery

DZone

When delivering video over-the-top (OTT), the internet is the principal highway for distributing this content. However, OTT streaming delivery requires something faster than what the internet offers in terms of how chunks/fragments are supposed to flow.

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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Dynatrace

SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time. Latency is the time that it takes a request to be served. SLOs aid decision making. SLOs promote automation. Define SLOs for each service.

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SpaceX Spending $10 Billion to Make the Internet 20ms Faster

MachMetrics

A lot of coverage on this project is centered (rightfully) around the potential of this project to deliver fast internet to underdeveloped nations at a minimal cost. Starlink’s Goal: Reduce Internet Latency. At a cost of 300 million dollars, this cable reduced the latency of this transatlantic journey down to 59.95

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AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of things

The Morning Paper

AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of Things , Abadi et al., Despite the "Internet of Things" featuring prominently in the title, there’s nothing particular to IoT in the technical solution at all. CIDR’20. Note that AnyLog also differs from projects such as DeepDive or Google’s Knowledge Graph.

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Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters

CSS Wizardry

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. Armed with this knowledge, we can soon understand why TTFB can often increase so dramatically on mobile.

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Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) vs. Dedicated Hosting at ScaleGrid

Scalegrid

Are you comfortable setting up your own cloud infrastructure through AWS or Azure? Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) and Azure Virtual Networks (VNET) are private, isolated sections of the cloud infrastructure where you can launch resources. Do you want to deploy in an AWS VPC or Azure VNET? Expert Tip.

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Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale Internet services at the edge

The Morning Paper

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., Taiji’s routing table is a materialized representation of how user traffic at various edge nodes ought to be distributed over available data centers to balance data center utilization and minimize latency. SOSP’19.

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