Speed Curve

JANUARY 19, 2025

Of course writes were much less common than reads, so I added a caching layer for reads, and that did the trick. Then in 2008, Google issued a code yellow for application speed, and I was the code yellow lead for Google Docs. But my original version was slow, because I queried the database for every page load.

Performance 98

Performance Google Speed Metrics 98

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

AWS 125

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 125

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 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

MovableType was one of the first static site generators on the market, although that term wouldn’t become popular until 2008. By the end of 2008, Tom Preston-Werner announces Jekyll — a simple, blog-aware, static site generator. Editing a blog post in MovableType 2.0 released 2002 ( Large preview ). Templates.

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

SSRS 2008 brought that component into the reporting service module. Disk latency for ReportServer and ReportServerTempDB are very important. Caches of report results are stored in the ReportServerTempDB database and I/O performance can become an issue here. Reporting Services Infrastructure.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In 2008, with the emergence of Btrfs, a new implementation was built taking advantage of Btrfs’ transactions, deduplication, checksums, and compression. To avoid any consistency overheads on object writes it writes data directly to raw disk , so there is only one cache flush fora data write. The first implementation (c.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64