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Improve Application Latency With Read Replicas Using YugabyteDB [Video]

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Scalability and low latency are crucial for any application that relies on real-time data. In this post, we'll discuss how you can use YugabyteDB and its read replica nodes to improve the read latency for users across the globe. One way to achieve this is by storing data closer to the users.

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Comparing Approaches to Durability in Low Latency Messaging Queues

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Little’s Law and Why Latency Matters. In many cases, the assumption is that as long as throughput is high enough, the latency won’t be a problem. However, latency is often a key factor in why the throughput isn’t high enough. This is the first time I have benchmarked it with a realistic example.

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Simulate Network Latency and Packet Drop In Linux

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There may be a scenario when you want to test an application when the network is slow(we also call it high network latency). Or you are reproducing a customer scenario(having high network latency) where some anomalous behavior is observed. In the Chrome browser, we can easily Simulate a slower network connection.

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Reducing Network Latency and Improving Read Performance With CockroachDB and PolyScale.ai

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This versatility provides a cost-effective solution to reduce global network latency by bringing the database closer to the end user. PolyScale operates a global network of PoPs (Points of Presence). Think of PoPs as regional database connections.

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LinkedIn Migrates Espresso to HTTP2 and Reduces Connections by 88% and Latency by 75%

InfoQ

to HTTP2, resulting in a reduction in the number of connections, latency, and garbage collection times. LinkedIn was able to dramatically improve the scalability and performance of its Espresso database by migrating it from HTTP1.1 To achieve these gains, the team had to optimize the Netty’s default HTTP2 stack to make it fit their needs.

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Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support…

The Netflix TechBlog

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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CDNs: Speed Up Performance by Reducing Latency

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Welcome back to this series all about file uploads for the web. In the previous posts, we covered things we had to do to upload files on the front end, things we had to do on the back end, and optimizing costs by moving file uploads to object storage.

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