DZone

MAY 1, 2023

CPU isolation and efficient system management are critical for any application which requires low-latency and high-performance computing. To achieve this level of performance, such systems require dedicated CPU cores that are free from interruptions by other processes, together with wider system tuning.

Tuning 246

Tuning Systems Latency Performance 246

InfoQ

DECEMBER 4, 2023

LinkedIn was able to dramatically improve the scalability and performance of its Espresso database by migrating it from HTTP1.1 to HTTP2, resulting in a reduction in the number of connections, latency, and garbage collection times. By Rafal Gancarz

Latency 95

Latency Scalability Database Performance 95

DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

The Journey to HTTP/3 Network performance, such as low latency and high throughput, is critical to Pinners’ experience. The aim was to enhance the user experience and improve critical business metrics by leveraging the capabilities of the modern HTTP/3 protocol.

Performance 177

Performance Latency Network Infrastructure 177

Scalegrid

AUGUST 26, 2020

While Microsoft offers their own Azure Database product, there are other alternatives available that may be able to help you improve your MySQL performance. In this blog post, we compare Azure Database for MySQL vs. ScaleGrid MySQL on Azure so you can see which provider offers the best throughput and latency performance.

Azure 299

Azure Benchmarking Database Latency 299

DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Benefits of Caching Improved performance: Caching eliminates the need to retrieve data from the original source every time, resulting in faster response times and reduced latency. Reduced server load: By serving cached content, the load on the server is reduced, allowing it to handle more requests and improving overall scalability.

Cache 246

Cache Scalability Performance Latency 246

Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

Compare Latency. On average, ScaleGrid achieves almost 30% lower latency over DigitalOcean for the same deployment configurations. MySQL DigitalOcean Performance Benchmark. We are going to use a common, popular plan size using the below configurations for this performance benchmark: Comparison Overview. Compare Pricing.

Database 217

Database Benchmarking Latency Performance 217

DZone

APRIL 30, 2020

Currently, publicly available wifi hotspots are the preferred networks for video consumption, but poor network infrastructure also leads to unbearable video buffering and latency. However, OTT streaming delivery requires something faster than what the internet offers in terms of how chunks/fragments are supposed to flow.

Latency 147

Latency Internet Internet Network 147

CSS Wizardry

JANUARY 31, 2019

When it comes to network performance, there are two main limiting factors that will slow you down: bandwidth and latency. Latency is defined as…. Where bandwidth deals with capacity, latency is more about speed of transfer 2. and reduction in latency. and reduction in latency. Bandwidth is defined as….

Latency 133

Latency Network Speed Servers 133

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Secondly, determining the correct allocation of resources (CPU, memory, storage) to each virtual machine to ensure optimal performance without over-provisioning can be difficult. This presents a challenge for IT operations teams, specifically in identifying and addressing performance issues or planning how to prevent future issues.

Efficiency 214

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 214

DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

As an engineer, you probably know that server performance under heavy load is crucial for maintaining the availability and responsiveness of your services. In this post, we'll explore both strategies through a simple simulation in Colab, allowing you to see the impact of changing parameters on system performance.

Strategy 141

Strategy Latency Availability Traffic 141

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Benefits of quality gates Quality gates provide several advantages to organizations, including the following: Optimized software performance : Quality gates assess code at different SDLC stages and ensure that only high-quality code progresses. Several tools can be used to collect metrics in load/performance testing.

Speed 207

Speed Software Software Latency 207

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

Reduced tail latencies In both our GRPC and DGS Framework services, GC pauses are a significant source of tail latencies. For a given CPU utilization target, ZGC improves both average and P99 latencies with equal or better CPU utilization when compared to G1. There is no best garbage collector.

Latency 228

Latency Java Tuning Efficiency 228

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure. MySQL on AWS Performance Test. AWS High Performance XLarge (see system details below).

AWS 183

AWS Latency Performance Benchmarking 183

DZone

JULY 19, 2021

We want to make scale, availability and low latency access to data as easy as possible for everyone, and it’s all about where your data lives. CockroachDB was built to address these challenges and we’ve recently simplified a multi-region deployment of a consistent database down to a few simple, declarative SQL statements applied as DML.

Latency 246

Latency Database Performance Availability 246

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

While Microsoft offers their own Azure Database product, there are other alternatives available that may be able to help you improve your MySQL performance. In this blog post, we compare Azure Database for MySQL vs. ScaleGrid MySQL on Azure so you can see which provider offers the best throughput and latency performance.

Azure 137

Azure Database Benchmarking Performance 137

DZone

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

We often dwell on the technical aspects of database selection, focusing on performance metrics , storage capacity, and querying capabilities. The New Decision Matrix: Beyond Performance Metrics Performance metrics are pivotal, no doubt. Factors like read and write speed, latency, and data distribution methods are essential.

Database 268

Database Latency Speed Metrics 268

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

InfoQ

JULY 14, 2023

Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod discuss the internal architecture of Azure Cosmos DB and how it achieves high availability, low latency, and scalability. By Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod Sridharan

Latency 52

Latency Azure Availability Scalability 52

Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

People often tell me they don't understand performance tool output because they can't tell what's "good" or "bad." It can be hard as performance is subjective. I recently encountered terrible disk performance and thought it'd be useful to collect Linux tool screenshots and share them for reference. Linux 4.15.0-66-generic

Performance 142

Performance Latency Speed Systems 142

DZone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The circuit breaker is a design pattern that prevents cascading failures and improves the overall availability and performance of a system. A dependency can become unhealthy or unavailable for various reasons, such as network failures, high latency, timeouts, errors, or overload. What Is a Circuit Breaker?

Latency 258

Latency Network Database Monitoring 258

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Caching is a critical technique for optimizing application performance by temporarily storing frequently accessed data, allowing for faster retrieval during subsequent requests. Leveraging this hierarchical structure can significantly reduce latency and improve overall performance.

Cache 161

Cache Efficiency Architecture Design 161

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It's being reposted here for completeness, but if you care about web performance, make sure to check out the whole series and get subscribed to the RSS feed to avoid missing any of next year's posts. The predominant answer: a unified theory of web performance. What, in particular, is "web performance"? How do we do it?

Performance 104

Performance Latency Architecture Network 104

DZone

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Your team celebrates a success story where a trace identified a pesky latency issue in your application's authentication service. It turns out that the fix we made did improve performance at one point but created a situation in which key information was never cached. But the celebrations are short-lived.

Latency 247

Latency Cache Software Software 247

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

The first phase involves validating functional correctness, scalability, and performance concerns and ensuring the new systems’ resilience before the migration. These include Quality-of-Experience(QoE) measurements at the customer device level, Service-Level-Agreements (SLAs), and business-level Key-Performance-Indicators(KPIs).

Traffic 339

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 339

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

We note that for MongoDB update latency is really very low (low is better) compared to other dbs, however the read latency is on the higher side. The latency table shows that 99th percentile latency for Yugabyte is quite high compared to others (lower is better). Again Yugabyte latency is quite high. Conclusion.

Benchmarking 308

Benchmarking Latency C++ Database 308

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

DZone

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Today, every business wants high-performing and high-quality software. But usually, it is seen that most of the applications fail to deliver expected performance under peak load or fluctuating network conditions. What Is Performance Testing? Today, let's learn more about this testing type in depth.

Performance Testing 122

Performance Testing Testing Performance Latency 122

DZone

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Learn how to make your Java applications performance perfectly. You may also like: How to Properly Plan JVM Performance Tuning. While Performance Tuning an application both Code and Hardware running the code should be accounted for. For low latency, applications use Concurrent Mark and Sweep Algorithm — CMS or G1 GC.

Java 147

Java Tuning Performance Hardware 147

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time. SLOs improve software quality.

Software 264

Software Software Benchmarking Latency 264

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

The service should be able to serve real-time, aka UI, applications so CRUD and search operations should be achieved with low latency. Our service will be used by a lot of internal UI applications hence the latency for CRUD and search operations must be low. Search latency for the generic text queries are in milliseconds.

Scalability 283

Scalability Latency Media Architecture 283

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

DZone

AUGUST 29, 2023

You can use Istio to observe the performance and behavior of all your microservices in your infrastructure (see the image below).

Monitoring 253

Monitoring Latency Infrastructure Network 253

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The new Amazon capability enables customers to improve the startup latency of their functions from several seconds to as low as sub-second (up to 10 times faster) at P99 (the 99th latency percentile). This can cause latency outliers and may lead to a poor end-user experience for latency-sensitive applications.

Lambda 225

Lambda AWS Serverless Latency 225

DZone

JUNE 15, 2023

In the realm of production applications, it is customary to address performance bottlenecks such as CPU and memory issues in order to identify and resolve their underlying causes. It is worth noting that this data collection process does not impact the performance of the application.

Latency 246

Latency Storage Strategy Metrics 246

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDNs cache content on edge servers distributed globally, reducing the distance between users and the content they want.‍CDNs use load-balancing techniques to distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers called Points of Presence (PoPs) which distribute content closer to end-users and improve overall performance.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When an edge server goes down, end users in the affected region may experience an increase in latency for that specific location. Performance‍The number and distribution of PoPs play a crucial role in performance. Performance‍The number and distribution of PoPs play a crucial role in performance.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

DZone

JANUARY 21, 2024

These organizations face a common challenge – how much infrastructure do they need to ensure optimal performance without overprovisioning – which can become very costly, very quickly.

Retail 169

Retail Games Latency Traffic 169