High Scalability

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Bill English : What we did was lease two video circuits from the phone company. That was our video link. davidfrum : In order to lose 80% of its value, the bitcoin network expended more electricity than 150 of the world's 195 countries. Cables of course going down into the room at both ends. The only words of comfort I have are.

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Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 141

High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC! They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

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Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

From this data, the team found that internet service providers are “giving a fixed amount of bandwidth—typically something in the range of one and a half megabits per second to four megabits per second—to video traffic, but they don’t impose these limits on other network traffic.” More quotes.

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Internet Internet Scalability Traffic 126

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

They are continuously innovating compression algorithms to efficiently send high quality audio and video files to our customers over the internet. I focus on improving experimentation methodology to test how well the newest files are working: do they need less bits to stream while providing a higher video quality? benefit more?

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Analytics Education Innovation Engineering 223

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A lot of coverage on this project is centered (rightfully) around the potential of this project to deliver fast internet to underdeveloped nations at a minimal cost. Starlink’s Goal: Reduce Internet Latency. The post SpaceX Spending $10 Billion to Make the Internet 20ms Faster appeared first on MachMetrics Speed Blog.

Internet 44

Internet Internet Latency Speed 44

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz). Does 5G improve the end-user experience for applications (web browsing, and 4K+ video streaming)?

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Particular Software

AUGUST 19, 2019

In one such organization I've heard of, there existed two separate networks. To get data from a different network, you needed to browse in a separate room, as workstations did not have access to the Internet. Design secure systems: See what Udi has to say in Day 1 of his Advanced Distributed Systems Design video course.

Network 40

Network Best Practices Database Internet 40

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In this paper, we examine the advertising and tracking ecosystems of Over-The-Top ("OTT") streaming devices, which deliver Internet-based video content to traditional TVs/display devices. smart TVs) to facilitate the delivery of Internet-based video content.

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Systems Traffic Internet Internet 104

Testsigma

MAY 5, 2021

MultiBrowser supports testing on all versions of Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Internet Explorer 11. Rapise supports multiple versions of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Chrome; plus, the test scripts can be executed across different browsers that you have on your local machine. Picture Credit: MultiBrowser. Highlights.

Testing Tools 74

Testing Tools Testing Internet Internet 74

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 3, 2019

After HTTP/2, coming up next is QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections). Google has been working for quite some time to speed up its network protocols in order to minimize website response times. By contrast, QUIC is based on UDP, which is used for streaming data (hence the name Quick UDP Internet Connections).

Transportation 51

Transportation Internet Internet Google 51

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

There are no videos of the talks, so I tend to be a bit more experimental and try out new content at GlueCon. One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD.

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

High Scalability

JANUARY 4, 2019

Sometimes 15GB+ updates to video games are in fact necessary and unavoidable 2. By replacing branch-heavy algorithms with neural networks, the DBMS can profit from these hardware trends.". @pmddomingos : Overheard at Stanford: trying to run a university in Silicon Valley is like trying to run a monastery in Gomorrah.

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Healthcare 29

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on [YouTube]: The slides are [online] and as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

My journey into performance started in the late 1990s, while I was working for an elearning provider and discovering the challenges of delivering rich content over the internet. We were already using both synthetic and network-based real user monitoring (RUM) tools to measure how fast our site was, so we knew we had room to improve.

Retail 52

Retail Internet Internet Education 52

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

New topics range from additional workloads like video streaming, machine learning, and public cloud to specialized silicon accelerators, storage and network building blocks, and a revised discussion of data center power and cooling, and uptime.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Our CDN and DNS network now has 18 points of presence across Europe, we have added a third AZ in Ireland, a second infrastructure region in Frankfurt and a third region in the UK (due in coming months). Another of these exciting start-ups is Teads which runs video advertising for publishers and advertisers.

AWS 166

AWS IoT Internet Internet 166

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The idea behind these UI decisions is that a badge would let a user know quickly if a site is loading slowly due to a problem on their end (network issue, internet is down, etc) or if the website is known to be built in a way that loads slowly. Another displays a green loading bar for a website known to load quickly.

Google 86

Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

“The Best in Performance” video series from Rigor gives you the chance to eavesdrop on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists. The top myth Gringaus says she had to bust was: “The Internet is designed for optimal performance.” The Internet was built for resilience, not for performance.

Performance 72

Performance Social Media Internet Internet 72

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

I recently shared some of my favourite research at Beyond Tellerrand (video here ) and thought it would be fun to round it up in a post. The internet may change, and web pages may grow and evolve, but user expectations are constant. In 1993 and again in 2010 , usability expert Jakob Nielsen found that: 0.1

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Speed Website Mobile Cloud 134

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. Â The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It should work without a network. That connection could be peer-to-peer across devices, and doesn’t have to be over the Internet. Used in conjunction with the dat:// networking stack the result is Hypermerge. If you have 2 minutes and 10 seconds available, it’s well worth watching this short video showing Trellis in action.

Cloud 83

Cloud Software Software Internet 83

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Lots can go wrong: a network request fails, a third-party library breaks, a JavaScript feature is unsupported (assuming JavaScript is even available), a CDN goes down, a user behaves unexpectedly (they double-click a submit button), the list goes on. The more enriched sentence (right) is an enhancement for when the network request succeeds.

Network 145

Network Engineering Availability Monitoring 145

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Let’s understand this with the help of an example – there is a video-streaming website that is available for laptops and computers only. Internet-based. From one point of view, it is advantageous that the whole testing process requires only a stable internet and a browser to commence and complete the testing activities.

Cloud 96

Cloud Testing Infrastructure Internet 96

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.

Latency 40

Latency Speed Network Strategy 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on YouTube : The slides are online and as a PDF : first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Testsigma

MAY 2, 2020

These machines could be hosted on the cloud or hosted in the organization’s headquarters within a private network. You need to keep yourself and your internet self safe and secure. Testsigma attaches screenshots, video recording of test execution and logs to execution reports. Debug your failed test cases on the cloud.

Testing 53

Testing Cloud Internet Internet 53

The Morning Paper

APRIL 11, 2019

In addition, service workers have the ability to intercept and handle network requests (for e.g., caching and pre-loading purposes). MarioNet can conduct a subset of DDoS attacks by instructing Servants to connect to a specific Internet host. No user permission is required to register and maintain a service worker. MarioNet use cases.

Website 44

Website Network Traffic Cache 44

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Of course, there are also times when the problem lies not with your application but with the user’s connection or network configuration. When LogRocket detects a bug, it automatically creates a video capturing exactly what users see on their screens. LogRocket LogRocket is a little bit different from the others.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 6, 2014

Take any device, give it an internet connection and a browser of some kind and it transforms into a gateway into the largest repository of cat pictures, funny videos and human knowledge ever assembled. In some of these areas network connectivity is intermittent and slow. Fast networks and slow. Small screens and large.

Network 40

Network Internet Internet Design 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The only time the Internet was mentioned was as a tool for communicating with one another without the need to chop down more trees, or for working without a commute. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical.

Website 135

Website Energy Internet Internet 135

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance. Watch the Video.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

Quirky : Thus there is a tradeoff: separateness enables inventors to create heterodox ideas, but strong cohesive networks are likely to be better for getting them implemented. Mark Lapedus : Costs of developing a complex chip could run as high as $1.5B, while power/performance benefits are likely to decrease. Don't stop here.

Scalability 131

Scalability Internet Internet Wireless 131

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Low-end phones on the other hand are getting cheaper , making the mobile internet accessible to demographics that previously maybe couldn’t afford it. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. More after jump!

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Games Architecture Code C++ 145