The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. This avoids thrashing caches too much for B and evens out the pressure on the L3 caches of the machine.

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Type 2: Full Real-User Monitoring (RUM) If CrUX offers one flavor of real-user data, then we can consider “full real-user data” to be another flavor that provides even more in the way individual experiences, such as specific network requests made by the page. The accuracy of observed data depends on how the test environment is set up.

Speed 97

Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. 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. Do you have a database?

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

The Morning Paper

JUNE 30, 2019

In such a situation I’d expect to see unusually high latencies, but normal throughput). I was only partially right (there is a steady-state queue involved)… Plus, although it’s not described, the performance degradation observed in this case would almost certainly be poor latency and poor throughput. Hence convoys will occur.

Traffic 75

Traffic Latency Programming Scalability 75

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

This proposal seeks to define a standard for real-time carbon and energy data as time-series data that would be accessed alongside and synchronized with the existing throughput, utilization and latency metrics that are provided for the components and applications in computing environments.

Energy 52

Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. What will 5G mean in practice? I don’t, do you?

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Collecting some critical metrics at one second intervals, with a total observability latency of ten seconds or less matches the human attention span much better. For systems that are latency sensitive, creating two independent ways to succeed is an important technique for greatly reducing the 99th percentile latency.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Collecting some critical metrics at one second intervals, with a total observability latency of ten seconds or less matches the human attention span much better. For systems that are latency sensitive, creating two independent ways to succeed is an important technique for greatly reducing the 99th percentile latency.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Failures are a given and everything will eventually fail over time: from routers to hard disks, from operating systems to memory units corrupting TCP packets, from transient errors to permanent failures. The importance of the network. Each of those workloads have unique requirements when it comes to the network.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128