The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This way, log event processing can resume event-by-event afterwards, eventually discovering the watermarks, without ever needing to cache log event entries. This is why our approach is briefly pausing log processing during steps 2–4 so that the watermarks are not missed. Proceedings of the Third ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing.

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Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 207

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It was heralded as an amazing performance revolution, with exciting new features such as server push, parallel streams, and prioritization. We would have been able to stop bundling resources, stop sharding our resources across multiple servers, and heavily streamline the page-loading process. Why Do We Need HTTP/3?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. Despite all of this, Intel is not going to lose their entire server processor business any time soon. So, what has changed my mind?

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Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

I will compare AWS Aurora with MySQL (Percona Server) 5.6 Aurora Parallel Query response time (for queries which can not use indexes) can be 5x-10x better compared to the non-parallel fully cached operations. 84.1 | | version_comment | Percona Server (GPL), Release 84.1, MySQL on ec2.

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Cache C++ AWS Airlines 48

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

Simply put, compression allows the web server to send smaller files to your web site viewers. When someone enters your URL and requests your site, their browser will indicate to the web server that it understands compression (and which type it understands). What is HTTP Compression? Gzip Compression. How Do I Enable Gzip?

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Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The fastest Androids predictably remain 18-24 months behind, owing to cheapskate choices about cache sizing by Qualcomm, Samsung Semi, and all the rest. The Moto G4 , for example.

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Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 14, 2019

That’s what it was called back in 2015 when the team working on the service wrote up a detailed paper about the optimizations Flywheel applied , and why. Google’s servers are still involved, by as a proxy service forwarding the initial request along. Google’s servers make the request and apply any optimizations.

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Google Traffic Cache Servers 63

Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

This was starting to look like a Windows file cache bug. Maybe something to do with multi-socket coherency of the disk and cache or ??? This bug shows up from Server 2008 R2 (Windows 7) up to the latest stable build of Windows 10 and OS fixes will take a while to propagate so you might as well be careful.

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Programming Hardware Cache Code 79

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

SQL Server 2016 ‘It Just Runs Faster’ A bold statement that any SQL Server professional can stand behind with confidence. Try SQL Server 2016 Today. The SQL Server Development team tasked several individuals with scalability improvements and real world testing patterns. – [link]. Auto-soft NUMA. . ….

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Hardware Software Engineering Transportation Scalability 40

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.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? How do you scale it through different servers? In May 2015, Vox Media wrote about the slowness of their site and commitment to make them faster. What happens when a browser tries to load a website? When will that be run?

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Performance Speed Google Media 100

Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

Reactjs has the capability of server-side rendering, which offers a power boost to the SEO of a web page or an application and helps in fetching more organic traffic. When a web crawler visits a server that has already rendered the content and pictures, indexing and caching of the content becomes quicker. React Native.

Mobile 52

Mobile Open Source Virtualization Speed 52

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Internet of things (IoT) – Number of IoT devices 2015-2025 Statista. IBM OpenWhisk, Microsoft Azure, AWS Lambda, and Google Cloud Functions are famous names that provide server-less services. Smart cities.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

cachestat File system cache statistics line charts 7. The architecture is: While the bpftrace binary is installed on all the target systems, the bpftrace tools (text files) live on a web server and are pushed out when needed. execsnoop New processes (via exec(2)) table 2. opensnoop Files opened table 3.

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Open Source Latency Cache Energy 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. What does it mean?

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Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Long FMP usually indicates JavaScript blocking the main thread, but could be related to back-end/server issues as well.

Performance 107

Performance Cache Metrics Network 107

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data.

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Performance Cache Metrics Media 145