VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Telcos and Fortune 500 corporations used to spend years defining custom systems, down to the last cable. Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments. Vikings fight zombies.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. They state in the blog that this was quick to build, which is the point.

Serverless 145

Serverless Lambda Best Practices Traffic 145

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. Cliff Click : The JVM is very good at eliminating the cost of code abstraction, but not the cost of data abstraction.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

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?

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

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.

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Let’s analyze how you can achieve this win-win as effectively as possible!‍What

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Yes, it’s a single file, but that’s not how it’s stored on the internet.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

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>

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

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

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. ‍At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You've put new rules in place.

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 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. ‍ Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. ‍But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

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. Google also doesn’t report CrUX data for some high-traffic pages because the visitors may not be logged in to their Google profile.

Speed 97

Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

DNS, which stands for domain name system , is an Internet service that translates domains names into IP addresses. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. Using a fast DNS hosting provider ensures there is less latency between the DNS lookup and TTFB. What is DNS?

Cache 134

Cache Website Internet Internet 134

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

The main reason behind this is that MySQL is a relational database system (RDBMS), and any data that is going to be written in it must respect the RDBMS rules. As well, very few cases are in need to have a full system/solution to provide scalability with sharding. I will eventually increase them if I see the need.

Traffic 127

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 127

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. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 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. Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You've put new rules in place.

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 30, 2018

Harnessing DNS for traffic steering, load balancing, and intelligent response. Managed DNS, as your gateway to the internet, can provide improved resilience to ensure your applications are always available. Today, however, essential system components and the cloud application itself depend on managed DNS services.

Cloud 68

Cloud Traffic Internet Internet 68

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. The predominant desktop situation is relatively straightforward: Browsers handle links, and non-browsers defer loading http and https URLs to the system, which in turn invokes the default browser. The Baseline Scenario #. PWA Feature Detector.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

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>

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. Case Study. Case Study. Case Study. Case Study.

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

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.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This metric is important, but quite vague because it can include anything — starting from server rendering time and ending up with latency problems. For example, for an internet shop, it may be a page with a product list, product details page, shopping cart, checkout, and so on. So make a competitors list. Good luck with that! (ra,

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 98

Nick Desaulniers

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

How do such techniques enable us to bank online and carry out other sensitive transactions on the Internet while trusting numerous relays? Today, we use a system of certificates to provide authentication. This system certainly has its flaws , but it is what we use today. Trust is a funny thing. in a Typed Array.

C++ 71

C++ Servers Education Government 71

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. Large preview ).

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145