IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDNs cache content on edge servers distributed globally, reducing the distance between users and the content they want.‍CDNs CDN architecture also focuses on caching, load balancing, routing, and optimizing content delivery, which can be measured by: cache offloading and round-trip time (RTT).‍RTT

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDNs cache content on edge servers distributed globally, reducing the distance between users and the content they want.‍CDNs use load-balancing techniques to distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers called Points of Presence (PoPs) which distribute content closer to end-users and improve overall performance.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

InfoQ

JULY 3, 2023

LinkedIn introduced Couchbase as a centralized caching tier for scaling member profile reads to handle increasing traffic that has outgrown their existing database cluster. The new solution achieved over 99% hit rate, helped reduce tail latencies by more than 60% and costs by 10% annually. By Rafal Gancarz

Cache 84

Cache Latency Traffic Database 84

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They cache static content and enable lightning-fast delivery around the globe.This symbiosis reduces server load, boosts loading times, and ensures efficient content distribution. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), web browsers, and proxy servers can store static files in their caches. What is Dynamic Content?Dynamic

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Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability. Second, developers had to constantly re-learn new data modeling practices and common yet critical data access patterns.

Latency 212

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 212

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. even lowered the latency by introducing a multi-headed device that collapses switches and memory controllers. The recently announced CXL3.0

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They cache static content and enable lightning-fast delivery around the globe.This symbiosis reduces server load, boosts loading times, and ensures efficient content distribution. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), web browsers, and proxy servers can store static files in their caches.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe. Active data includes jobs and tasks that are currently running. Titus Gateway handles user requests.

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Cache Latency Traffic Systems 233

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Scalability As your data volume and user base expand, a finely tuned database can seamlessly accommodate increased workloads without compromising performance. Regularly optimizing query structures is vital.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

ScaleOut StateServer® Pro Adds Analytics to In-Memory Data Grids . In-Memory Data Grids for Fast-Changing Data. For more than fifteen years, ScaleOut StateServer® has demonstrated technology leadership as an in-memory data grid (IMDG) and distributed cache.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

ScaleOut StateServer® Pro Adds Analytics to In-Memory Data Grids . In-Memory Data Grids for Fast-Changing Data. For more than fifteen years, ScaleOut StateServer® has demonstrated technology leadership as an in-memory data grid (IMDG) and distributed cache.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience.

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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 141

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

There’s a broad set of choices including where you store the data, whether you run your own DBMS nodes or use a service, the kinds of instance types to go for if you do run your own, and so forth. We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. This system has been designed to supplement and succeed the existing Hadoop-based system that had too high latency of data processing and too high maintenance costs.

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Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Architecture Scalability 130

O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

The benefits of modeling data as events as a mechanism to evolve our software systems. For as long as we’ve been talking about microservices, we’ve been talking about data. Data is all-important—vital for the continued success of our businesses—but has also been seen as a massive constraint in how we design and evolve our systems.

Database 72

Database Cache Architecture Latency 72

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to effectively monitor and manage data is of paramount importance. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception. Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

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.

Cloud 136

Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 136

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Often these namespaces are hierarchical in nature such that it becomes easier to manage them and to decentralize control, which makes the system more scalable. There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers.

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Cloud Internet Internet AWS 116

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It should offer high bandwidth, horizontal scalability, fault tolerance, and strong consistency. FileStore on Btrfs was the production backend for several years, throughout which Btrfs remained unstable and suffered from severe data and metadata fragmentation. What is a distributed storage backend? Taking it to the next level.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Scalegrid

MAY 11, 2024

WiredTiger excels with operational databases and transactional workloads as it offers b-tree-based storage and well-ordered data structures. In-memory Storage Engine This storage engine works completely in RAM, providing the fastest possible access to data. It uses a filesystem cache and write-ahead log for crash recovery.

Storage 130

Storage Engineering Cache Database 130

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

KeyCDN’s Cache Enabler plugin is fully compatible the HTML attributes that make images responsive. The main reason is because it decreases the latency to the user where they are located by serving your images from a POP physically closest to them. The Cache Enabler plugin then delivers WebP images based to supported browsers.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2022

Because of its scalability and distributed architecture, thousands of companies trust it to run their cloud and hybrid-based workloads at high availability without compromising performance. From there, you can dive deeper into infrastructure metrics (cluster, datacenter, racks, and nodes) and data metrics (keyspaces and tables).

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Azure Latency Metrics Infrastructure 230

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

Cliff Click : The JVM is very good at eliminating the cost of code abstraction, but not the cost of data abstraction. That means multiple data indirections mean multiple cache misses. Mark LaPedus : MRAM, a next-generation memory type, is being touted as a replacement for embedded flash and cache applications.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Fast Data is an emerging industry term for information that is arriving at high volume and incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. Three 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 sub-millisecond latency.

Scalability 123

Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 123

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

As we prepared to launch these features, I was struck not only by the range of services we provide to enable customers to run fully managed, scalable, high performance database workloads, including Amazon RDS , Amazon DynamoDB , Amazon Redshift and Amazon ElastiCache , but also by the pace at which these services are evolving and improving.

Cache 121

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 121

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. Requirements In a previous blog post, we discussed Delta , a data enrichment and synchronization platform.

Database 221

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 221

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. Requirements In a previous blog post, we discussed Delta , a data enrichment and synchronization platform.

Database 207

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 207

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube Chattopadhyay et al., Anchored in the primary use case of supporting Google’s YouTube business, what we’re looking at here could well be the future of data processing at Google. Because they had too many data processing systems! ;). VLDB’19. are divided.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

But once we had a good understanding, we knew exactly what to look for and began analyzing the analytics of our user data to identify areas that could be improved. Jump to table of contents ↬ Analyzing User Data To effectively monitor and respond to our website’s performance, we need a robust process for collecting and analyzing this data.

Performance 75

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

Serverless 98

Serverless Lambda Cache Latency 98

The Morning Paper

MARCH 17, 2020

An empirical guide to the behavior and use of scalable persistent memory , Yang et al., The data we have collected demonstrate that many of the assumptions that researchers have made about how NVDIMMs would behave and perform are incorrect. The Optane DIMM is the first scalable, commercially available NVDIMM. FAST’20.

Scalability 59

Scalability Latency Cache Media 59

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When deciding what to pick, there are many things to consider, like where the proxy needs to be, if it “just” needs to redirect the connections, or if more features need to be in, like caching and filtering, or if it needs to be integrated with some MySQL embedded automation. Given that, there never was a single straight answer.

Games 122

Games Latency Traffic Cache 122

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

By caching hot datasets, indexes, and ongoing changes, InnoDB can provide faster response times and utilize disk IO in a much more optimal way. Some cloud providers also offer specialized instances for database workloads, which may provide additional features and optimizations for performance and scalability.

Performance 127

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 127

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Logging provides additional data but is typically viewed in isolation of a broader system context. Observability is the ability to understand a system’s internal state by analyzing the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. Monitoring typically provides a limited view of system data focused on individual metrics.

Monitoring 210

Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability 210

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

Scalability 166

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 166