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. Since we’re talking about mobile applications, we have to assume a changing environment over time, including the possibility of losing internet connectivity altogether. The Mobile Web Worker (MWW) System.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform. Fault Tolerance If the underlying KafkaConsumer crashes due to ephemeral system or network events, it should be automatically restarted. million elements.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Say at Netflix that we run a test that aims to reduce some measure of latency, such as the delay between a member pressing play and video playback commencing. Given the variety of devices and internet connections that people use to access Netflix, there is a lot of natural variability in this metric across our users.

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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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Tech News Gather

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

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. With the increase in speed and less latency, there are a lot of possibilities that can be explored in the field of the internet of things (IOT) and smart devices.

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Mobile Development Artificial Intelligence IoT 40

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

These are advanced cloud configurations that allow you to protect your databases from the internet. At ScaleGrid we recommend you deploy your clusters on private VPC subnets so that your database is not routable from the internet. Deploying your application and database on the same VPC also provides the lowest possible latency path.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

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Apica

JULY 1, 2022

HLS is one of the most common formats these days, originally intended as an alternative to Flash to stream over the internet. Apica’s advanced technology is even helping industries where even the smallest latency in video streaming can be disastrous. There are a few key streaming formats that support most streaming content.

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Internet Internet Latency Virtualization 52

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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Testsigma

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Since the beginning of the internet era, browsers and websites have lived co-dependently. Starting from the internet explorer, then to the Mozilla project and now to at least six major browsers in the market, we have evolved quite well. Maybe just changing the code according to browsers and operating systems.

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Testing Operating System Website Latency 53

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. Naming is one of the fundamental concepts in Distributed Systems. By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. In this blog post, we will give an overview of the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix and share some of the learnings we gained along the way.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

I’ve recently been brainstorming ideas for how to design such a system and how to deal with the practical challenges of scaling and maintenance. Speech recognition errors : ChatGPT’s speech recognition system (presumably based on OpenAI’s open-source Whisper model ) is very good, but it does at times misinterpret what I’m saying.

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Entertainment Internet Internet Design 73

Particular Software

JUNE 3, 2019

Everyone who is old enough to remember the sound of connecting to the Internet with a dial-up modem or of AOL announcing that "You've got mail" is acutely aware that there is an upper limit to how fast something can be downloaded, and it never seems to be as fast as we would like it. We'll never be satisfied.

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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?

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Comments ().

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

This premise, known as graceful degradation allows a system to continue working when parts of it are dysfunctional — much like an electric bike becomes a regular bike when its battery dies. Often system failures are chalked up as “corner cases” — things that rarely happen, however, the web has many corners.

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Network Engineering Availability Monitoring 145

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Telcos and Fortune 500 corporations used to spend years defining custom systems, down to the last cable. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. This new Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low-latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in South America. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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AWS Latency Storage Big Data 114

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Telcos and Fortune 500 corporations used to spend years defining custom systems, down to the last cable. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Not just for HPC but for mission critical enterprise systems such as OLTP. Cluster Compute Instances can be grouped as cluster using a "cluster placement group" to indicate that these are instances that require low-latency, high bandwidth communication.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In the early days of SSRS, a requirement was to also install and configure Internet Information Services (IIS). Unlike the system database tempdb, ReportServerTempDB is not recreated at startup. Disk latency for ReportServer and ReportServerTempDB are very important. Reporting Services Infrastructure.

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Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

The third wing of the architecture piece is the “domain specific system-on-chip.” tef : You can use a message broker to glue systems together, but never use one to cut systems apart. CompSciFact : 'Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small.' -- Rob Pike. There are a few more quotes.

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Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify. What is a Distributed System?

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Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

odrotbohm : I’ve seen microservice based systems more deranged after 2 years than any 1,5 decades old monolith could ever have been. Tim Bray : How to talk about [Serverless Latency] · To start with, don’t just say “I need 120ms.” Me : Nothing special. 1) Enterprise data centres will continue to close.

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Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 137

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. This new Region consists of multiple Availability Zones and provides low-latency access to the AWS services from for example the Bay Area. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Quite often "The Cloud" is portrayed as something magically transparent that lives somewhere in the internet. There are four main reasons to do so: Performance - For many applications and services, data access latency to end users is important.

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

In recent years, this idea got a lot of traction and a whole bunch of solutions like Twitter’s Storm, Yahoo’s S4, Cloudera’s Impala, Apache Spark, and Apache Tez appeared and joined the army of Big Data and NoSQL systems. The system should deliver performance of tens of thousands messages per second even on clusters of minimal size.

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Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. As a part of that process, we also realized that there were a number of latency sensitive or location specific use cases like Hadoop, HPC, and testing that would be ideal for Spot. All Things Distributed. Spot Instances - Increased Control. Comments ().

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AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 85

Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

I don’t advocate “Serverless Only”, and I recommended that if you need sustained high traffic, low latency and higher efficiency, then you should re-implement your rapid prototype as a continuously running autoscaled container, as part of a larger serverless event driven architecture, which is what they did.

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Serverless Lambda Best Practices Traffic 145

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. include <sys/time.h>

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures - background article in CACM on massively parallel and throughput vs latency oriented architectures. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Comments ().

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AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage 67

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++.” If you’re interested in attending, please check out the links, and I look forward to meeting and re-meeting many of you there.

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Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. There are different considerations when deciding where to allocate resources with latency and cost being the two obvious ones, but compliance sometimes plays an important role as well. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region.

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