Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Key Takeaways Multi-cloud strategies have become increasingly popular due to the need for flexibility, innovation, and the avoidance of vendor lock-in. Yet it reveals a migration trajectory favoring multi-cloud models as companies wake up to advantages such as heightened innovation potential tied with these varied service structures.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests. You can eliminate the latency issues caused by cold starts — an increase in normal response time when a new instance receives its first request — by using edge-optimized functions that run code closer to users and other projects.

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Tech News Gather

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Introduction With the recent rollout of the 5G network across the world, it is ensured that the mobile industry will revolutionize and the way we interact will completely change. With some unique advantages like low latency and faster speed, 5G aims to give birth to a new era of mobile application development with some innovations.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. These companies include Cathay Pacific, CLSA, HSBC, Gibson Innovations, Kerry Logistics, Ocean Park, Next Digital, and TownGas.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Some of the largest enterprises and public sector organizations in Italy are using AWS to build innovations and power their businesses, drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, and speed time-to-market. This helps support over 50 million searches every month on its networks across Italy.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Based in the Paris area, the region will provide even lower latency and will allow users who want to store their content in datacenters in France to easily do so. He has said, “By moving a large part of our IT system from our old IBM mainframe to AWS, we have adopted a cloud first strategy, boosting our power of innovation.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 6, 2016

A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, and more.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. I'm also excited to announce today that we are launching an AWS Edge Network Location in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first quarter of 2018.

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. What will 5G mean in practice? I don’t, do you?

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Meanwhile, mobile app developers have shown that they care a lot about getting to market quickly, the ability to easily scale their app from 100 users to 1 million users on day 1, and the extreme low latency database performance that is crucial to ensure a great end-user experience.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential. A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer. This article will explore hybrid cloud benefits and steps to craft a plan that aligns with your unique business challenges.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. We rolled out encoding innovations such as per-title and per-shot optimizations, which provided significant quality-of-experience (QoE) improvement to Netflix members. This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities. And here I’d also like to tell you about Testsigma (a mobile testing tool) , because it has really done some good work and innovation in order to simplify the mobile testing needs. Signup Now.

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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. SOSP’19. Emphasis mine). It reminds me of ZeroMQ.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time. Both latency and response time are critical to ensure reliability. Latency typically refers to the time it takes for a single request to travel from its source to its destination.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time. Both latency and response time are critical to ensure reliability. Latency typically refers to the time it takes for a single request to travel from its source to its destination.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Durability Availability Fault tolerance These combined outcomes help minimize latency experienced by clients spread across different geographical regions. By breaking up large datasets into more manageable pieces, each segment can be assigned to various network nodes for storage and management purposes.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

Full-stack observability is fast becoming a must-have capability for organizations under pressure to deliver innovation in increasingly cloud-native environments. Not just infrastructure connections, but the relationships and dependencies between containers, microservices , and code at all network layers. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This is sometimes referred to as using an “over-cloud” model that involves a centrally managed resource pool that spans all parts of a connected global network with internal connections between regional borders, such as two instances in IAD-ORD for NYC-JS webpage DNS routing. This also aids scalability down the line.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. That's where we built many pioneering networking technologies, our next-generation software for customer support, and the technology behind our compute service, Amazon EC2.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe. 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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This network connection heterogeneity made choosing a single delivery model difficult. Scaling Policies To address the thundering herd problem and to keep latencies under acceptable thresholds, the cluster scale-up policies are configured to be more aggressive than the scale-down policies.

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ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Each of these categories opens up challenging problems in AI/visual algorithms, high-density computing, bandwidth/latency, distributed systems. One such example is activity recognition in motion video (such as LRCN , Convnets ) which may entail running combinations of both convolutional as well as recurrent neural networks simultaneously.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The importance of the network. Each of those workloads have unique requirements when it comes to the network. AWS has developed a unique skill to innovate datacenter layout and operations, such that we can have flexible network infrastructure that can be adapted to meet the needs of our customers’ workloads, whatever they may be.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

They can run applications in Sweden, serve end users across the Nordics with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and more. We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Public sector. Telenor Connexion is all-in on AWS.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Accelerating Innovation. The homepage needs to load in a reasonable amount of time, even in poor network conditions. Server-generated assets, since client-side generation would require the retrieval of many individual images, which would increase latency and time-to-render.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. This increases the cores and network bandwidth available to serve common requests.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Most of the CMS vendors dodge questions of evolution by talking about incremental innovation primarily focused on customer experience (CX) such as analytics and personalisation. There is hardly any innovation from traditional CMS vendors. A ten thousand fit view of a traditional CMS, a headless CMS, and a static site generator.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Suppose the encoding team develops more efficient encodes that improve video quality for members with the lowest quality (those streaming on low bandwidth networks). Your instinct might tell you this is caused by an unusually slow network, but you still become frustrated that the video quality is not perfect.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Suppose the encoding team develops more efficient encodes that improve video quality for members with the lowest quality (those streaming on low bandwidth networks). Your instinct might tell you this is caused by an unusually slow network, but you still become frustrated that the video quality is not perfect.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Suppose the encoding team develops more efficient encodes that improve video quality for members with the lowest quality (those streaming on low bandwidth networks). Your instinct might tell you this is caused by an unusually slow network, but you still become frustrated that the video quality is not perfect.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

OPN304 Learnings from migrating a service from JDK 8 to JDK 11 AWS Lambda improved latency by migrating to JDK 11 with Amazon Corretto. OPN402 Firecracker open-source innovation Since Firecracker’s release at re:Invent 2018, several open-source teams have built on it, while AWS has continued investing in Firecracker’s speed.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

OPN304 Learnings from migrating a service from JDK 8 to JDK 11 AWS Lambda improved latency by migrating to JDK 11 with Amazon Corretto. OPN402 Firecracker open-source innovation Since Firecracker’s release at re:Invent 2018, several open-source teams have built on it, while AWS has continued investing in Firecracker’s speed.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. We believe that making these GPU resources available for everyone to use at low cost will drive new innovation in the application of highly parallel programming models. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

When using relational databases, traversing relationships requires expensive table JOIN operations, causing significantly increased latency as table size and query complexity grow. Like many AWS innovations, the desire to build a solution for a scalable graph database came from Amazon’s retail business. Enter graph databases.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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