All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Expanding the AWS Cloud—An AWS Region is coming to South Africa! Today, I am excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in South Africa! AWS is committed to South Africa's transformation. This news marks the 23rd AWS Region that we have announced globally. We have a long history in South Africa.

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AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

VoltDB

JUNE 21, 2024

Because our perceptions of what AI would be were heavily shaped by the media before any real AI existed. An awful lot of the available time will be spent cranking the handle of your AI decision engine, leaving little time for all the other stuff that has to happen. Why mention this in a tech blog about AI in 2024?

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Speed Engineering Media Latency 52

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

No, I don’t think that is because AWS is earning a 355x margin on DynamoDB! 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.

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Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Clouds using Ethernet that are multipath optimized using libfabric and features like EFA on AWS are going to be increasingly competitive, and Ethernet will replace other interconnects between racks. AWS has invested in optimizing Ethernet for HPC via the Elastic Fabric Adaptor (EFA) option, and the l ibfabric library.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Social media apps navigate relationships between friends, photos, videos, pages, and followers. When using relational databases, traversing relationships requires expensive table JOIN operations, causing significantly increased latency as table size and query complexity grow. Enter graph databases. Graph databases at Amazon.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

You need to watch out for complex design elements, large media files, or slow browser rendering can delay the time it takes for the largest contentful element to render. This proximity significantly reduces the time it takes for the data to travel from the server to the user, thus reducing latency and improving load times.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Now there’s a massive range of Jamstack CMSs available, which bring all the advantages of static sites while allowing non-technical folk to update content. ’ Before MovableType, other personal blogging platforms were available such as Geocities , Blogger & Open Diary. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 140

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. Four years ago, as part of our AWS fast data journey, we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed, in-memory data store that operates at microsecond latency. TB of in-memory capacity in a single cluster. Under the hood.

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Games Retail Latency Education 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Layout Shift GIF Generator that visualizes CLS with a simple GIF (also available from the command line). To complete the picture, we’d usually look out for useful metrics among all of these groups.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Getting started with Webpack can be tough though.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms.

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