The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage , Vuppalapati, NSDI’20. Snowflake is a data warehouse designed to overcome these limitations, and the fundamental mechanism by which it achieves this is the decoupling (disaggregation) of compute and storage. joins) during query processing. Disaggregation (or not).

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Challenges At Netflix, temporal data is continuously generated and utilized, whether from user interactions like video-play events, asset impressions, or complex micro-service network activities. Storage Layer The storage layer for TimeSeries comprises a primary data store and an optional index data store.

Latency 242

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 242

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” VFX studios of varying sizes and locations can leverage these solutions to meet the unique rendering needs of their productions.

Cloud 293

Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 293

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Mobile applications (apps) are an increasingly important channel for reaching customers, but the distributed nature of mobile app platforms and delivery networks can cause performance problems that leave users frustrated, or worse, turning to competitors. Load time and network latency metrics. Minimize network requests.

Best Practices 211

Best Practices Mobile Metrics Performance 211

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. 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

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

KeyValue is an abstraction over the storage engine itself, which allows us to choose the best storage engine that meets our SLO needs. As a networking team, we naturally lean towards abstracting the communication layer with encapsulation wherever possible.

Latency 233

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 233

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

The more indexes, the more the requirement of memory for effective caching. Indexes need more cache than tables Due to random writes and reads, indexes need more pages to be in the cache. Cache requirements for indexes are generally much higher than associated tables.

Tuning 131

Tuning Cache Storage Database 131

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Storing frequently accessed data in faster storage, usually in-memory caching, improves data retrieval speed and overall system performance. Beyond A study by Amazon found that increasing page load time by just 100 milliseconds costs 1% in sales.  Beyond efficiency, validating performance thresholds is also crucial for revenues.

AWS 259

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 259

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. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

Cache 128

Cache Performance Servers Architecture 128

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

However, let’s take a step further and learn how to deploy modern qualities to PWAs, such as offline functionality, network-based optimizing, cross-device user experience, SEO capabilities, and non-intrusive notifications and requests. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser.

Cache 126

Cache Internet Internet Google 126

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. Cache Hit Ratio The cache hit ratio represents the efficiency of cache usage.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

It is well known and fairly obvious that in geographically distributed systems or other environments with probable network partitions or delays it is not generally possible to maintain high availability without sacrificing consistency because isolated parts of the database have to operate independently in case of network partition.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The Solution: Distributed Caching. The solution to this challenge is to use scalable, memory-based data storage for fast-changing data so that web sites can keep up with exploding workloads. It’s not enough simply to lash together a set of servers hosting a collection of in-memory caches.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 52

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The Solution: Distributed Caching. The solution to this challenge is to use scalable, memory-based data storage for fast-changing data so that web sites can keep up with exploding workloads. It’s not enough simply to lash together a set of servers hosting a collection of in-memory caches.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The naming system that we are all most familiar with in the internet is the Domain Name System (DNS) that manages the naming of the many different entities in our global network; its most common use is to map a name to an IP address, but it also provides facilities for aliases, finding mail servers, managing security keys, and much more.

Cloud 113

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 113

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

The DBMS is key to maintaining these aspects by offering a storage system that allows users to perform operations such as data insertion, deletion, and selection, thereby promoting enhanced data integration across diverse applications and platforms.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

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

VoltDB

MARCH 21, 2024

The most obvious and common way this happens is when companies try to evolve their caches into a data platform that can, for example, be used as highly available enterprise key-value stores for volatile data. Let’s look at a typical scenario involving the javax cache API, also known as JSR107. How hard can it be?

Cache 52

Cache Database Storage Availability 52

Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2022

According to Mozilla Developer Network, the Map object holds key-value pairs and remembers the original insertion order of the keys. WeakMap can be used in two areas of web development: caching and additional data storage. With caching, a copy of the result from a request is saved locally. Let’s see this in action.

Cache 120

Cache Programming Storage Code 120

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. My templates and blog posts are now located in DropBox and thus locally cached at each machine I use. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

Servers 112

Servers Social Media AWS Website 112

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

Technology 132

Technology Technology AWS Storage 132

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This includes latency, which is a major determinant in evaluating the reliability and performance of your Redis® instance, CPU usage to assess how much time it spends on tasks, operations such as reading/writing data from disk or network I/O, and memory utilization (also known as memory metrics).

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz). The maximum physical layer bit-rate for the 5G network is 1200.98 The short answer is no.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage.

Speed 98

Speed Cache Latency AWS 98

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

For example, the IMDG must be able to efficiently create millions of objects in each server to make use of its huge storage capacity. Also, load-balancing after membership changes must be both multi-threaded and pipelined to drive the network at maximum bandwidth. Please retry later.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

The rationale behind these methods is that frontend should be able to fetch transient information very efficiently and separately from fetching of heavy-weight domain entities because this information cannot be cached. So, the only way was to cache all necessary data to minimize interaction with RDBMS. Entity Gateway.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. The network latency of fetching data over the network, even considering fast data center networks. Oh, you mean a cache?

Cache 79

Cache Latency Google Network 79

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

We group the DBMS design choices and tradeoffs into three broad categories, which result from the need for dealing with (A) external storage; (B) query executors that are spun on demand; and (C) DBMS-as-a-service offerings. Query performance is measured from both warm and cold caches. Key findings. Serverless o?erings

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Cache 76

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

This consistent performance is a big part of why the Snapchat Stories feature , which includes Snapchat's largest storage write workload, moved to DynamoDB. Typical use cases for a graph database include social networking, recommendation engines, fraud detection, and knowledge graphs.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index. query cache: Disable (query_cache_size: 0, query_cache_type:OFF) innodb_adaptive_hash_index: Check adaptive hash index usage to determine its efficiency.

Performance 109

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 109

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

While caching continues to be a dominant use of ElastiCache for Redis, we see customers increasingly use it as an in-memory NoSQL database. Alternative solutions frequently use proxy layers to achieve failover and sharding, which slow down your application by requiring requests to do double the network hops. Redis and Fast Data.

Scalability 103

Scalability Cache Analytics AWS 103

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 127

Performance Network Metrics Cache 127

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The best paper runner-up was “ Dynamic Multi-Resolution Data Storage ”. . Goodman, and “Speculative Cache Ways: On-Demand Cache Resource Allocation” published at MICRO 1999 by David H.

Hardware 18

Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Our approach differs substantially by (1) providing economic incentives for data to be contributed and integrated into existing schemas, (2) offering a SQL interface instead of graph based approaches, (3) including the computational and storage infrastructure in the architectural vision. Market participants. web pages).

Blockchain 94

Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Configure the PostgreSQL hostname by editing configuration files and restarting the server, with secure storage of connection details to enhance security. PostgreSQL uses the label “hostname” to denote a host connected to a computer network, enabling recognition of this particular entity in all forms of electronic communication.

Database 130

Database Servers Storage Network 130

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

VPC Endpoints give you the ability to control whether network traffic between your application and DynamoDB traverses the public Internet or stays within your virtual private cloud. Secure – DynamoDB provides fine-grained access control at the table, item, and attribute level, integrated with AWS Identity and Access Management.

Internet 113

Internet Internet AWS Performance 113

All Things Distributed

MARCH 5, 2012

Amazon ElastiCache customers will see their prices drop by up to 10%, depending on their cache node types. We continuously apply all our innovative skills to the design of datacenters, servers, storage, network, etc. Similarly, Amazon RDS will cut its On-Demand prices by up to 10% and Reserved Instance prices by up to 42%.

AWS 92

AWS Innovation Scalability Cache 92