IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. For instance, you might set up rules to send video streaming requests to data center A and image loading requests to data center B. What is “Origin”?An

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Latency is a concept that increases with distance, so a signal that has to travel 1,000 KM will be much faster compared to a signal sprinting for that 100,000 KM.

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments. 5G expects a latency of 1ms , which considering that the speed of light means the data center can’t be more than 186 miles away, or 93 miles for a round trip, assuming an instant response. Watch the Video. Everything else is just Horns and Valkyries ….

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing).

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Three years ago, as part of our AWS Fast Data journey we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed in-memory data store that operates at sub-millisecond latency. This allows for faster failover times while minimizing latency. Building upon Redis. Redis and Fast Data.

Scalability 130

Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 130

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. This broad range of use cases has helped grow WordPress to power almost 40% of the internet. More after jump!

Ecommerce 140

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 140

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. Going beyond Key-Value.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130