Brendan Gregg
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP
Brendan Gregg
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP
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All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 19, 2010
Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures - background article in CACM on massively parallel and throughput vs latency oriented architectures. Physics and the limits of human perception - Why goalkeepers have trouble stopping long-range shots - Seed Magazine. Congrats to the Heroku team for officially serving 100,000 apps.
Smashing Magazine
AUGUST 3, 2021
Different browsers running on different platforms and hardware, respecting our user preferences and browsing modes (Safari Reader/ assistive technologies), being served to geo-locations with varying latency and intermittency increase the likeness of something not working as intended. More after jump!
Smashing Magazine
OCTOBER 31, 2023
Barry Pollard, a web performance developer advocate for Chrome, wrote an excellent primer on the CrUX Report for Smashing Magazine. Chrome DevTools includes a separate “Performance” tab where the testing environment’s CPU and network connection can be artificially throttled to mirror a specific testing condition, such as slow internet speeds.
Smashing Magazine
AUGUST 20, 2021
I vividly remember receiving a PC Magazine for my birthday with a trial of Dreamweaver. I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. Smashing Magazine powered by Netlify. But, when it worked, it was magical. More after jump!
Smashing Magazine
AUGUST 22, 2021
This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Congestion Control.
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