All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. A number of outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling commercial technologies beyond their boundaries. s read latency, particularly as dataset sizes grow. Amazon DynamoDB provides high throughput at very low latency.

Scalability 164

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 164

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

In 2004 I was working for Microsoft in the Xbox group, and a new console was being created. One benchmark I wrote measured the L2 cache latency. I don’t remember what the L2 cache latency was but do remember that the latency varied depending on which CPU core I ran it on. So, anyway. I wrote a lot of benchmarks.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. AWS has been an active member of the local technology community since 2004. It is our first Region in Africa, and we're shooting to have it ready in the first half of 2020.

AWS 167

AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Using a fast DNS hosting provider ensures there is less latency between the DNS lookup and TTFB. They have been in operation since 2004 and have a long history of providing solid free DNS hosting. Speed Speed also plays a role with DNS. You can test the DNS lookup time and TTFB with a website speed test tool.

Cache 134

Cache Website Internet Internet 134

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle.

Internet 113

Internet Internet AWS Performance 113

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Screenshot: tracing read latency for PID 181: # bpftrace -e 'kprobe:vfs_read /pid == 30153/ { @start[tid] = nsecs; } kretprobe:vfs_read /@start[tid]/ { @ns = hist(nsecs - @start[tid]); delete(@start[tid]); }'. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0: I wrote seeksize.d

C++ 105

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 105

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Although both countries are relatively close to one another, they are separated by a distance of approximately 500km, which adds up in terms of latency. The use of online bank services, online shopping, and travel service browsing have increased significantly since spring 2004.

Internet 48

Internet Internet Speed Network 48