Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

Added support for the Akka HTTP client API (Server API was added in OneAgent version 1.161 ). Oracle discontinued Premium Support in September 2018. Oracle discontinued Premium Support in September 2018. We’ve uploaded a new minor release of the Dynatrace Service Broker tile to the Pivotal Network. Dynatrace news.

Cloud 124

Cloud Monitoring Java Servers 124

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Webhosting Compared: Testing The Uptime Of 32 Hosts In 2018. Webhosting Compared: Testing The Uptime Of 32 Hosts In 2018. If you’re into each month overviews with more detailed data, take a look at these pages below: Detailed Google Spredsheet (1st of January to 31st of December 2018). John Stevens. 2019-02-12T12:00:22+01:00.

Testing 53

Testing Website Servers Availability 53

Scalegrid

AUGUST 15, 2019

Should have an excellent way to measure server and query performance. SQL Import/Export that supports major databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Import data from RDBMS like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. Similarly, you can export data from MongoDB to MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and Oracle.

Database 40

Database Servers Availability Monitoring 40

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In a model for others to follow, the Caddy web server will automatically provision Let’s Encrypt certificates. Apache and Nginx remain the most popular Let’s Encrypt using web servers deployed in the wild though. In the beginnning. The Internet Security Research Group. ISRG’s budget is on the order of $3M per annum.

Internet 119

Internet Internet Open Source Transportation 119

All Things Distributed

APRIL 11, 2018

Having a consistent, immutable unit of deployment to work with lets you abstract away all the complexities of configuring your servers and deployment pipelines every time you change your code or want to run your app in a different place. AWS Fargate support for Amazon EKS , the Elastic Kubernetes Service, will be available later in 2018.

Cloud 115

Cloud AWS Innovation Traffic 115

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

By 2018, CARASSO is expected to process data collected by a fleet of 100,000 vehicles traveling more than eight billion kilometers. Fraud.net uses Amazon Machine Learning to provide more than 20 machine learning models and relies on Amazon DynamoDB and AWS Lambda to run code without provisioning or managing servers.

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AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 155

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. I mean, why wouldn't we?

Servers 64

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 64

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). This difference by itself doesn’t do all that much (it mainly reduces the overhead on the server-side), but it leads to most of the following points. Server Sharding and Connection Coalescing.

Network 120

Network Servers Cache Traffic 120

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 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The truth is that the two tools were fairly distinct until PSI was updated in 2018 to use Lighthouse reporting. Chrome DevTools includes a separate “Performance” tab where the testing environment’s CPU and network connection can be artificially throttled to mirror a specific testing condition, such as slow internet speeds.

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Speed Google Website Metrics 117

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

Website 141

Website Performance Google Website Performance 141

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2019

The idea presented here is now to load only so many bytes of a progressive JPEG from the server that you can quickly get an impression of the image content. With Ajax, however, this is possible, provided that the server delivering the image supports HTTP Range Requests. Later, at a time defined by us (e.g. and no more. and no more.

Network 106

Network Servers Programming Code 106

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

The new AWS EU (Stockholm) Region will have three Availability Zones and will be ready for customers to use in 2018. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe. AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners in the Nordics help customers migrate to the cloud.

AWS 107

AWS Airlines Latency Games 107

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Whereas many open source software offerings — like the community version of MySQL — use the GNU General Public License ( GPL ), MongoDB has been under the GNU Affero General Public License ( AGPL ) and more recently under the Server Side Public License ( SSPL ), introduced by MongoDB itself.

Open Source 98

Open Source Programming Database Servers 98

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 94

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. A modern commodity server can contain up to 1TB of RAM, and Lambda functions can use as little as 128MB. virtio is used for network and block devices.

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Virtualization Serverless Lambda AWS 101

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. A 2018 study by cable.co.uk found that Zimbabwe was the most expensive country in the world for mobile data, where 1 GB cost an average of $75.20, ranging from $12.50 to $138.46.

Cache 99

Cache Mobile Google Network 99

Abhishek Tiwari

JANUARY 6, 2018

Ark comes with an in-cluster service (Ark server) and CLI (Ark client). Ark server performs the actual backup, validates it and loads backup files in cloud object storage. — Abhishek Tiwari (@abhishektiwari) January 6, 2018. Cross-cloud-provider migration of Kubernetes API objects.

Open Source 111

Open Source DevOps Storage Engineering 111

The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

This summer also marks the 4-yearly event that is La Copa Mundial (we only get Telemundo in my apartment, not Fox Sports Network) but since the good old US of A are absent from the men’s World Cup this year, football fever is distinctly frigid. Next up Lynn Langit gave a talk on Serverless SQL , updated for 2018.

Serverless 40

Serverless AWS DevOps Open Source 40

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. With Helsinki being the capital and most populous municipality of Finland, it makes for a great edge server location. What’s Next?

Internet 48

Internet Internet Speed Network 48

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

eBPF was created by Alexei Starovoitov while at PLUMgrid (he's now at Facebook) as a generic in-kernel virtual machine, with software defined networks as the primary use case. Here's key differences as of August 2018: Type DTrace bpftrace. eBPF does more. eBPF is hard to use directly, so bcc was created as a Python front-end.

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

As the primary source of third-party JavaScript packages for the client-side, server-side, and other platforms, npm is the centrerpiece of a large and important software ecosystem. that means any third-party package can access the file system and network etc. In 2018 the average npm maintainer was responsible for almost 4.5

Code 76

Code Strategy Website Network 76

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. 2018-11-08T12:30:30+01:00. After the file is uploaded to a server on step 1, the file must be available to whichever server handles the request for steps 2 and 3, which may or may not be the same one for step 1.

AWS 45

AWS Servers Storage Cloud 45

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s take a look at some of the best error monitoring tools and strategies for 2018. Back-End Error Tracking Back-end, or server-side, errors include things like page exceptions and JavaScript errors. Back-end error tracking is relatively straightforward since all server-side code runs in the same place.

Monitoring 67

Monitoring Strategy Website Google 67

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Late-loading JavaScript can cause “server-side rendered” pages to fail in infuriating ways. The median user is on a slow network. Global Ground-Truth.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

The factors that impact on LCP: Slow origin server response times Render-blocking JavaScript and CSS on page load Page Resource load times User side page rendering. Pingdom, 2018. Role of web servers in page load time –. You must have been suggested to choose a fast web server for better performance and reliable uptime.

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

If performance is a problem, we can do progressive enhancement through Server-Side Rendering. — Alex Russell (@slightlylate) August 27, 2018. Perhaps the global network landscape is shifting so dramatically that the budget for client-side JS runtime has increased. Which set of users do we intend to serve? That’s OK.

Development 73

Development Government Mobile Network 73

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

What you may be overlooking is that peak-event readiness is about more than just load testing or ensuring that your servers are up throughout a specific timeframe. In one high-profile example, Amazon dealt with significant outages on Prime Day 2018 , which may have cost them as much as $99 million in sales. Case studies abound.

Website 74

Website Cache Traffic Ecommerce 74

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

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network. Image CDN Using a content delivery network like KeyCDN, or what we also call an image CDN , can be one of the easiest and fastest ways to speed up the delivery of your images.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Although a beta version was released in 2014, the first stable release of Kubernetes was just made available in September 2018. The result was Kubernetes, which allows developers to create and manage “clusters” of physical and virtual machines in order to coordinate cooperation via a shared network.

Virtualization 47

Virtualization Open Source Network Architecture 47

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? That’s not the same as failure, and 2018 significantly predates generative AI.

Open Source 137

Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 137

ACM Sigarch

MARCH 25, 2019

Figure 1 depicts a simple queue where tasks arrive, are optionally queued in the buffers to the left if the server is already busy, are then serviced one at a time in the circular server, and depart to the right. Intermediate latency/throughput values reveal a stark trade-off: Throughput fractions 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, and 0.90

Systems 54

Systems Latency Performance C++ 54

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

This allows you to restrict the access to your account by IP (/32) or network (e.g. /24). That’s why back in September of 2018, we were happy to announce that we launched TLS 1.3 back in March of 2018. In 2018, DDoS attacks upwards of 1.7Tbps were launched thus bringing certain websites to a crawl for hours.

Transportation 47

Transportation Website Google Infrastructure 47

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

As data centers and volumes of servers have grown, so has the overall amount of electricity consumed around the world. Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. Server Power Consumption (Source: Intel Labs 2008).

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40