Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

It provides significant advantages that include: Offering scalability to support business expansion Speeding up the execution of business plans Stimulating innovation throughout the company Boosting organizational flexibility, enabling quick adaptation to changing market conditions and competitive pressures.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2013

In the back to basics readings this week I am re-reading a paper from 1995 about the work that I did together with Thorsten on solving the problem of end-to-end low-latency communication on high-speed networks. The lack of low-latency made that distributed systems (e.g.

Network 96

Network Latency Operating System Speed 96

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

Unfortunately, this means that the age-old Telco bugbears will rear their ugly heads again, including latency. 5G, as a fundamental requirement, mandates a 1 millisecond latency from the datasource to its destination. In fact, 5G has plenty of valid use cases, one of which is virtual reality. This requires 1 ms network latency.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

Unfortunately, this means that the age-old Telco bugbears will rear their ugly heads again, including latency. 5G, as a fundamental requirement, mandates a 1 millisecond latency from the datasource to its destination. In fact, 5G has plenty of valid use cases, one of which is virtual reality. This requires 1 ms network latency.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

Tech News Gather

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Introduction With the recent rollout of the 5G network across the world, it is ensured that the mobile industry will revolutionize and the way we interact will completely change. With some unique advantages like low latency and faster speed, 5G aims to give birth to a new era of mobile application development with some innovations.

Mobile 40

Mobile Development Artificial Intelligence IoT 40

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. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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. This way, even if a user desires to watch in 4K but lacks the necessary network resources, HLS steps in to offer a lower-quality version.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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. This way, even if a user desires to watch in 4K but lacks the necessary network resources, HLS steps in to offer a lower-quality version.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

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. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

If a cyber network agent has observed an unusual pattern of failed login attempts, it needs to alert downstream network nodes (servers and routers) to block the kill chain in a potential attack. The list goes on. The Limitations of Today’s Streaming Analytics. A New Approach: Real-Time Device Tracking.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Not to belabor the point, but FID paints quite a different story, with virtually all (99.9%) desktop sites and 93.6% Latency is traditionally worse on mobile Despite improved network conditions in some parts of the world, round trip time is still much worse for mobile than desktop. for desktop, but only 64.9% for mobile.

Mobile 54

Mobile Performance Metrics Google 54

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Fast forward a few years after Azure SQL Database was released to when Azure SQL Managed Instance was in public preview, and "vCores" (virtual cores) were announced for Azure SQL Database. Hyperscale achieves high performance from each compute node having SSD-based caches which helps minimize the network round trips to fetch data.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

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

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Consistent performance matters just as much as low average latency.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2020

Maintaining test data in a central repository and then accessing it from different test environments may ease this problem but may introduce other issues like network latency in tests. Leveraging Cloud-based Virtual Infrastructure: Cloud-based test environments can be made accessible instantaneously on demand.

Testing 69

Testing Open Source Scalability Latency 69

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.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

OPN304 Learnings from migrating a service from JDK 8 to JDK 11 AWS Lambda improved latency by migrating to JDK 11 with Amazon Corretto. OPN402 Firecracker open-source innovation Since Firecracker’s release at re:Invent 2018, several open-source teams have built on it, while AWS has continued investing in Firecracker’s speed.

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

OPN304 Learnings from migrating a service from JDK 8 to JDK 11 AWS Lambda improved latency by migrating to JDK 11 with Amazon Corretto. OPN402 Firecracker open-source innovation Since Firecracker’s release at re:Invent 2018, several open-source teams have built on it, while AWS has continued investing in Firecracker’s speed.

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

VPC Endpoints give you the ability to control whether network traffic between your application and DynamoDB traverses the public Internet or stays within your virtual private cloud. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

The Morning Paper

APRIL 14, 2019

Microarchitectural timing channels result from competition for hardware resources that are functionally transparent to software… the [ISA] abstraction leaks, as it affects observable execution speed, leading to timing channels. There are also stateless interconnects including buses and on-chip networks.

Hardware 44

Hardware Cache Latency Speed 44

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.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Anyway, the following patch seems to make the load average much more consistent WRT the subjective speed of the system. 90491 N|rnberg (Germany) Consulting+Networking+Programming+etc'ing 42. . ;-). 90491 N|rnberg (Germany) Consulting+Networking+Programming+etc'ing 42. Network I/O? 3 tar termb$ iostat -x 60. [.]

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Here's some output from my zfsdist tool, in bcc/BPF, which measures ZFS latency as a histogram on Linux: # zfsdist. Tracing ZFS operation latency. Both Xen and KVM have had many performance and security improvements, and workloads can now be tuned to run at almost bare metal speeds (say, a 3% loss or less). Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

While most of our cloud & platform partners have their own dependency analysis tooling, most of them focus on basic dependency detection based on network connection analysis between hosts. What is the network traffic going to be between services we migrate and those that have to stay in the current data center?

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. The BPool consumes the majority of the user mode address space leaving only a few 100 MB of the virtual address range free for thread stacks, DLLs, and other activities.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/sparse_files.asp ) ​​ on the ​​ Microsoft Developer Network ​​ (MSDN). The caching of data pages and grouping of log records helps remove much, if not all, of the command latency associated with a write operation.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40