All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Building general purpose architectures has always been hard; there are often so many conflicting requirements that you cannot derive an architecture that will serve all, so we have often ended up focusing on one side of the requirements that allow you to serve that area really well.

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Tim Kadlec

JULY 28, 2015

This first post looks at the general architecture of proxy browsers with a performance focus. Typical Browser Architecture. That’s a very simplified list and some of them can happen in parallel, but it’s a good enough representation for the purpose of highlighting how proxy browser architecture differs. All of that came later.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis monitoring is essential for any tech professional. Identifying key Redis metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. Redis, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis® monitoring is essential for any tech professional. Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

About 5 years ago, I introduced you to AWS Availability Zones, which are distinct locations within a Region that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same region.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

In particular this has been true for applications based on algorithms - often MPI-based - that depend on frequent low-latency communication and/or require significant cross sectional bandwidth. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. There has been no easy way for developers to do this in Amazon EC2. until today.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

This makes the whole system latency sensitive. So we need low latency, but we also need very high throughput: A recurring theme in IDS/IPS literature is the gap between the workloads they need to handle and the capabilities of existing hardware/software implementations. Introducing Pigasus.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

While registrars manage the namespace in the DNS naming architecture, DNS servers are used to provide the mapping between names and the addresses used to identify an access point. This achieves very low-latency for queries which is crucial for the overall performance of internet applications. It is not the critic who counts.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. For basic and simple websites, a developer was able to easily automate these checks and fix any problems before a user encountered them. Gone are the days of monolithic architecture. Multi-Tier.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In serverless architecture, when applications are developed, they are typically composed of many different services. Other benefits to serverless architecture include the following: Cost. There is plenty to like about moving to a serverless architecture, but there can be some disadvantages compared to the traditional, monolithic model.

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O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Considerations for setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform. Google founders figured out smart ways to rank websites by analyzing their connection patterns and using that information to improve the relevance of search results. Back in the days of Web 1.0, Back in the days of Web 1.0, Determine requirements first.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures - background article in CACM on massively parallel and throughput vs latency oriented architectures. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Science & Engineering. Congrats to the Heroku team for officially serving 100,000 apps. The Bloundhound SSC project. -

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience. LCP is particularly vital for landing pages , which are predominantly content and often the first touch-point a visitor has with a website. Here are some examples: Looker Studio filter.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What As the website grows, the maintenance of static content can become more cumbersome and require robust content management practices.‍What

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VoltDB

AUGUST 8, 2024

Unfortunately, many organizations lack the tools, infrastructure, and architecture needed to unlock the full value of that data. For example, an e-commerce company can use real-time data on website traffic and customer behaviors to adjust pricing or launch targeted promotions during peak shopping periods. In a world where 2.5

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. If you’re interested in a high-level overview of Lighthouse architecture, read this guide from the official repository. Estimated Input Latency. Estimated Input Latency. Recommended! Speed Index. First CPU Idle.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What is Static Content?Static Static content represents fixed web elements like HTML, CSS, JavaScript files, images, and media assets.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The confusion that reliably results is the consequence of an inversion of the power relationship between app and website. Does any user expect that everything one does on any website loaded from a link in the Facebook app, Instagram, or Google Go can be fully monitored by those apps? Small Changes to Restore Choice #.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] If you or your company are able to generate a credible worldwide latency estimate in the higher percentiles for next year's update, please get in touch.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The technology develops single-page applications , websites, and backend API services designed with real-time and push-based architectures. with its low latency I/O operations, gives the benefit of ‘No buffering’ to developers. The complex architecture of React makes it tough to keep track of the traditional approach.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For example, Akamai introduced ASI in 2005, which became the standard for building new websites. Therefore, some of Akamai clients decided to use it to build their own website, and they did. because their website can never be supported by any other CDN.‍Sign Akamai tried to convince many users to use this new framework.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 18, 2019

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, ‘threads’ were a programming novelty rarely used and seldom trusted. In that environment, the first PostgreSQL developers decided forking a process for each connection to the database is the safest choice. It would be a shame if your database crashed, after all.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So, when businesses integrate these exclusive features into their applications, they become tied to the vendor, as replicating these features in another CDN is impossible.‍For example, Akamai introduced ASI in 2005, which became the standard for building new websites. Akamai tried to convince many users to use this new framework.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. Proactive monitoring aids in detecting performance bottlenecks, latency difficulties, and other anomalies that may influence availability.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. Proactive monitoring aids in detecting performance bottlenecks, latency difficulties, and other anomalies that may influence availability.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. . In particular on Intel Scalable Processors (Skylake architecture) the PAUSE instruction is much longer than previous architectures and therefore calling UT_RELAX_CPU can consume a lot more time resulting in reduced performance. This gives a performance gain.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. Common Websocket Architecture. In a common WebSocket architecture, the Front-end application will connect to a WebSocket API, an event bus, or a database. Event Sourcing Architecture.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

With just one click you can enable content to be distributed to the customer with low latency and high-reliability. It now supports delivery of entire websites containing both static objects and dynamic content. In addition to the TTLs, customers also need some other features to deliver dynamic websites through CloudFront.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

They understood that most websites lack tight latency budgeting, dedicated performance teams, hawkish management reviews, ship gates to prevent regressions, and end-to-end measurements of critical user journeys. And when websites stop being where most of the information and services are, who will hire web developers?

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

When it comes to innovation, most of CMS solutions are constrained by their legacy architecture (read strong coupling between content management and content presentation) which makes it difficult to serve content to new types of emerging channels such as apps and devices. can generate an HTML-only website without involving a CMS.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The risks embedded in these deep-wetware effects, and their cross-origin implications, mean that your website's success is partially a function of the health of the commons. Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge.

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Build a more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications. Software must also consume data from many potential sources and destinations of information—apps, websites, APIs, files, databases, proprietary services, and so on—and because of this, there’s plenty of incentives to do that well.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Two of them are particularly gnarly: fine-tuning rules to perfection and managing a WAF over a multi-CDN architecture. Configuring and Maintaining WAF on a Multi-CDN‍Multi-CDN architectures, the double-edged swords. It involves injecting malicious scripts into websites viewed by other users.‍In

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Two of them are particularly gnarly: fine-tuning rules to perfection and managing a WAF over a multi-CDN architecture. Configuring and Maintaining WAF on a Multi-CDN‍Multi-CDN architectures, the double-edged swords. Let's dive deep into these challenges.‍1. That's where Bot Detection comes in.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Image source ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? ( Large preview ). Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Image source ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? ( Large preview ). Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Image source ).

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