DZone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In this article, we will explore one of the most common and useful resilience patterns in distributed systems: the circuit breaker. A dependency can become unhealthy or unavailable for various reasons, such as network failures, high latency, timeouts, errors, or overload. What Is a Circuit Breaker?

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

A classic example is jQuery, that we might link to like so: There are a number of perceived benefits to doing this, but my aim later in this article is to either debunk these claims, or show how other costs vastly outweigh them. I won’t go into too much detail in this post, because I have a whole article. Penalty: Network Negotiation.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Matt Zeunert 2025-02-12T17:00:00+00:00 2025-02-13T01:34:15+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Loading your website HTML quickly has a big impact on visitor experience. But actually, theres a lot more to optimizing this metric.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

These include challenges with tail latency and idempotency, managing “wide” partitions with many rows, handling single large “fat” columns, and slow response pagination. It also serves as central configuration of access patterns such as consistency or latency targets. Useful for keeping “n-newest” or prefix path deletion.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This proximity to data generation reduces latency, conserves bandwidth and enables real-time decision-making. In this article, we will delve into the concept of orchestration in IoT edge computing, exploring how coordination and management of distributed workloads can be enhanced through the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

ecosystem was chosen for this new service deserves an article in and of itself. For each route we migrated, we wanted to make sure we were not introducing any regressions: either in the form of missing (or worse, wrong) data, or by increasing the latency of each endpoint. The context around why the Node.js

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2025

How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing Saad Khan 2025-01-07T14:00:00+00:00 2025-01-07T22:04:48+00:00 This article is sponsored by Cloudways Product launches and sales typically attract large volumes of traffic.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Since that presentation, Pushy has grown in both size and scope, and this article will be discussing the investments we’ve made to evolve Pushy for the next generation of features. In our case, we value low latency — the faster we can read from KeyValue, the faster these messages can get delivered.

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DZone

JULY 10, 2019

In addition, compute and storage are increasingly being separated causing larger latencies for queries. This article provides the top 10 tips for performance tuning for real-world workloads when running Spark on Alluxio with data locality, giving the most bang for the buck. The first few tips are related to locality.

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DZone

AUGUST 18, 2023

This article will explore what edge data platforms and real-time services are, why they are important, and how they can be used. Edge data platforms are software solutions that enable businesses to collect, process, and analyze data at the edge of the network. What Are Edge Data Platforms?

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

To meet user-defined goals for performance (request latency) and cost, the monitoring service tracks and adjusts resources to workload changes. This increases the cores and network bandwidth available to serve common requests. Related Articles. As you can imagine, that was unreasonably expensive.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A few years ago, we decided to address this complexity by spinning up a new initiative, and eventually a new team, to move the complex handling of user and device authentication, and various security protocols and tokens, to the edge of the network, managed by a set of centralized services, and a single team.

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Dynatrace

JULY 10, 2019

This article we help distinguish between process metrics, external metrics and PurePaths (traces). With insights from Dynatrace into network latency and utilization of your cloud resources, you can design your scaling mechanisms and save on costly CPU hours.

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember reading articles about how 3G connectivity was going to transform performance and, more generally, the way we used the internet altogether. ” The fallacy of networks, or new devices for that matter, fixing our performance woes is old and repetitive. We’re not talking months in most places, but years.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This article will list some of the use cases of AutoOptimize, discuss the design principles that help enhance efficiency, and present the high-level architecture. These principles reduce resource usage by being more efficient and effective while lowering the end-to-end latency in data processing. More processing resources.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

A performance budget as a mechanism for planning a web experience and preventing performance decay might consist of the following yardsticks: Overall page weight, Total number of HTTP requests, Page-load time on a particular mobile network, First Input Delay (FID). For more insight, see this Web.dev article. Serve the right size.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

This article expands on the most commonly used RabbitMQ use cases, from microservices to real-time notifications and IoT. RabbitMQ excels at managing asynchronous processing and reducing latency while distributing workloads effectively across the system. Wondering where RabbitMQ fits into your architecture?

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article. Using a fast DNS hosting provider ensures there is less latency between the DNS lookup and TTFB. Just like with content delivery networks, DNS hosting providers also have multiple POPs. So DNS services definitely go down!

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. That’s what this article is about.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You’ve probably heard things like: “HTTP/3 is much faster than HTTP/2 when there is packet loss”, or “HTTP/3 connections have less latency and take less time to set up”, and probably “HTTP/3 can send data more quickly and can send more resources in parallel”. We will discuss these features in more depth later in this article.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

This header can be set on the response of any network resource, such as XHR, fetch, images, HTML, stylesheets, etc. For this article, that’s all we’ll need to start exposing the value and leave other more specific articles to go deeper. Setting Server-Timing. More after jump! For Images, Stylesheets, JS files, the HTML Doc, etc.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

This article dives straight into what triggers a rollback in MongoDB, the risks it carries, and concrete steps you can take to both prevent and recover from one. This failure in replication could happen due to crashes, network partitions, or other situations where failover occurs.

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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. Or even on a plane. Ford, et al., “TCP

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies. I’m going to audit the performance of my slow site before and after the things we tackle in this article. Again, every millisecond counts. Lighthouse.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

This article will explore how they handle data storage and scalability, perform in different scenarios, and, most importantly, how these factors influence your choice. Redis’s support for pipelining in a Redis server can significantly reduce network latency by batching command executions, making it beneficial for write-heavy applications.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Performance Benchmarking of PostgreSQL on ScaleGrid vs. AWS RDS Using Sysbench This article evaluates PostgreSQL’s performance on ScaleGrid and AWS RDS, focusing on versions 13, 14, and 15. Network Latency : We ran both machines in the same region and conducted the tests from within the same box in that region.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This article will explore hybrid cloud benefits and steps to craft a plan that aligns with your unique business challenges. When delving into the networking aspect of a hybrid cloud deployment, complexities arise due to the requirement of linking or expanding existing on-premises network architectures into the cloud sphere.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

You can view the original article on Ably's blog. In this article, we discuss the concepts of dependability and fault tolerance in detail and explain how the Ably platform is designed with fault tolerant approaches to uphold its dependability guarantees. Users need to know that they can depend on the service that is provided to them.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Suppose the encoding team develops more efficient encodes that improve video quality for members with the lowest quality (those streaming on low bandwidth networks). Your instinct might tell you this is caused by an unusually slow network, but you still become frustrated that the video quality is not perfect.

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This article is an effort to explore techniques used by developers of in-stream data processing systems, trace the connections of these techniques to massive batch processing and OLTP/OLAP databases, and discuss how one unified query engine can support in-stream, batch, and OLAP processing at the same time. Interoperability with Hadoop.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Suppose the encoding team develops more efficient encodes that improve video quality for members with the lowest quality (those streaming on low bandwidth networks). Your instinct might tell you this is caused by an unusually slow network, but you still become frustrated that the video quality is not perfect.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. Real usage data would be better, of course.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. I'm also excited to announce today that we are launching an AWS Edge Network Location in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first quarter of 2018.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 7, 2024

In this article, we will explore what RabbitMQ is, its mechanisms to facilitate message queueing, its role within software architectures, and the tangible benefits it delivers in real-world scenarios. RabbitMQ allows web applications to create and place messages in a message queue for further processing.

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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)). Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( current article ). You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. HTTP/3 performance features.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In one of our previous articles , we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. Monitoring can provide a way to differentiate between.

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