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. CFS is widely used and therefore well tested and Linux machines around the world run with reasonable performance.

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

AWS Lambda enables organizations to access many types of functions from AWS’ cloud-based services, such as: Data processing, to execute code based on triggers, system states, or user actions. Real-time stream processing to perform live activity tracking, data cleansing, metrics generation, and more. Data entering a stream.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 180

Randon ASCII

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

The fact that this shows up as CPU time suggests that the reads were all hitting in the system cache and the CPU time was the kernel overhead (note ntoskrnl.exe on the first sampled call stack) of grabbing data from the cache. Remember that these are calls to the operating system – kernel calls. Think about that for a moment.

Latency 79

Latency Cache Programming Operating System 79

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Understanding why a user is experiencing transactional or performance issues enables organizations to achieve greater observability that goes beyond metrics, traces and logs. EM can identify an anomaly quickly, so an issue can be fixed before it disrupts business operations and impacts an employee or customer experience.

Monitoring 203

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 203

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Organizations are taking advantage of having managed backups, lots of built-in security features, an uptime SLA of 99.99%, and an always up-to-date environment where they are no longer responsible for patching SQL Server or the operating system. Managed Instance provides two tiers for performance. GB per vCore.

Azure 63

Azure Performance Storage Latency 63

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Testsigma

DECEMBER 12, 2020

To ease out the web development, developers think of new ways to have a dedicated and organised system of sustainable websites such as subgrids. Let alone browsers, the website may get into trouble for different resolutions, different operating systems and different browser versions too!! Challenges In Cross-Browser Testing.

Testing 53

Testing Operating System Website Latency 53

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

This article explores SLOs for service performance. According to the Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) handbook, monitoring the four golden signals is crucial in delivering high-performing software solutions. SLOs, as a measure of service quality, can track the related availability, reliability, and performance.

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Performance Latency Traffic Metrics 174

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 6, 2021

This simplifies the installation process and ensures portability across operating systems. The results of aggregate analytics and queries performed within the in-memory data grid can then be accessed and visualized on workstations running throughout an organization.

IoT 52

IoT Azure Analytics Healthcare 52

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Buckle up as we delve into the world of Redis® monitoring, exploring the most important Redis® metrics, discussing essential tools, and even peering into the future of Redis® performance management. Key Takeaways Redis® monitoring is essential for safeguarding performance, reliability, and security.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

Performance 127

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 127

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

So the PAUSE instruction is an optimization over NOP when a thread is waiting to acquire a lock and is particularly important in spin-locks on x86 CPUs for power and performance. ” and “as the PAUSE latency has been increased significantly, workloads that are sensitive to PAUSE latency will suffer some performance loss.”

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

AWS handles all the administration of the underlying compute resources, including server and operating system maintenance, capacity provisioning and automatic scaling, code and security patch deployment, and code monitoring and logging. You can go from code to service in three clicks and then let AWS Lambda take care of the rest.

Lambda 136

Lambda AWS Cloud Scalability 136

cdemi

DECEMBER 4, 2016

If the service is subjected to intermittent heavy loads, it can cause performance or reliability issues. Azure Service Bus - The Go-To choice if you're already on Azure, High Throughput, Predictable Performance, Predictable Pricing, Secure, Scalable on Demand. Modern software usually involves running tasks that invoke services.

Design 47

Design Azure Scalability Latency 47

Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

That is because Kubernetes provides several benefits from a performance perspective. However, setting the right parameters for Kubernetes clusters to ensure application availability, performance, and resilience while avoiding overspending isn’t a walk in the park. Dynatrace news. below 500ms) and error rates (e.g. lower than 2%.).

Latency 204

Latency Tuning Efficiency AWS 204

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. Let’s take a look at what kind of additional telemetry data we will have at our fingertips with OneAgent.

Metrics 171

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 171

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

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. There is no need to plan for extra resources, update operating systems, or install frameworks. The provider is essentially your system administrator.

Serverless 243

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 243

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

This means that Dynatrace continues full operation when a majority of nodes are up and a maximum of two nodes are down at a time. The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. – A Dynatrace customer, Head of Performance Engineering. A similar analysis can be performed on your GRO.

Availability 247

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 247

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The ProRes codec family provides great editing performance and image quality. Lastly, the packager kicks in, adding a system layer to the asset, making it ready to be consumed by the clients. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency. For write operations, those challenges do not apply.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

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.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

If you’re responsible for the overall performance and success of a mobile application, you likely have many KPIs to measure and monitor, along with business KPI tracking. How can you optimize performance and user experience? . With an improved and better-performing app, usage went up by 250% over a span of just 6 months.

Mobile 219

Mobile Metrics Monitoring Latency 219

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). This includes all architectures, all compilers, all operating systems, and all system configurations.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., Systems built with lots of microservices have different operational characteristics to those built from a small number of monoliths, we’d like to study and better understand those differences.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. Can’t be perfect every time!

Speed 97

Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

on Myths and Legends of High Performance Computing  — it’s a somewhat light-hearted look at some of the same issues by the leader of the team that built the Fugaku system I mention below. HPCG is led by Japan’s RIKEN Fugaku system at 16 petaflops, which is 3% of it’s peak capacity. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 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. Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. 25.84 - Total 21.04

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

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

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Linux load averages are "system load averages" that show the running thread (task) demand on the system as an average number of running plus waiting threads. This measures demand, which can be greater than what the system is currently processing. then your system is idle. - cat /proc/loadavg. 42/3411 43603.

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. About 20 percent would return a set of rows, but still operate on only a single table.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. This boils down to a single digit µs latency toleration in the tail for far memory, and in addition to security and privacy concerns, rules out remote memory solutions. Enter zswap!

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. Build evolvable systems. Systems need to keep running even if the “house is on fire.”

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

The Morning Paper

JUNE 30, 2019

Here’s the set-up as relayed to me by Pat (with permission): At work, I am part of a good sized team working on a large system implementation. One of the very senior engineers with 25+ years experience mentioned a problem with the system. In such a situation I’d expect to see unusually high latencies, but normal throughput).

Traffic 75

Traffic Latency Programming Scalability 75

All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

The Amazon Elastic File System. Customers have been asking to add file system functionality to our set of solutions as much of their traditional software required a broad accessible shared file system. Today Amazon ECS moves into General Availability (GA) so you can use it for your certified production systems.

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Lambda Cloud IoT AWS 122

Testsigma

JULY 23, 2020

This is a standalone software program which doesn’t depend on any internet connectivity for its working and its performance is not impacted because of any network related latencies. Any network-related latencies result in performance hindrances in these types of applications.

Testing 63

Testing Internet Internet Latency 63

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

AWS Developer Relations on how the shift from Robot Operating System (ROS) 1 to ROS 2 will change the landscape for all robot lovers. OPN303 BPF performance analysis (repeats) Learn how Netflix uses eBPF to create powerful performance analysis tools.

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40