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.” Netflix production teams work with a global roster of VFX studios (both large and small) and their artists to create this amazing imagery.

Cloud 291

Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 291

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This includes how quickly the application loads, how much load it is putting on the device, how much storage is being used, and how frequently it crashes. This can be achieved by reducing the size of files or images, using caching, and compressing data. Optimize images and videos. Optimize battery life. Continuous monitoring.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices Mobile Metrics Performance 246

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them. The more indexes, the more the requirement of memory for effective caching. Cache requirements for indexes are generally much higher than associated tables.

Tuning 139

Tuning Cache Storage Database 139

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 Scalability Architecture 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By analyzing sessions of new employees interacting with key tools, teams can provide detailed instructions that will help to streamline the onboarding process and get staff up to speed faster. Streamlined asset caching: Asset caching is critical for creating accurate replays. Enhancing error correction. Transparent?

Mobile 264

Mobile Website Analytics Cache 264

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 95

Speed Cache Latency AWS 95

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. The DeviceToDeviceManager is also responsible for observability, with metrics around cache hits, calls to the data store, message delivery rates, and latency percentile measurements.

Latency 234

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Here’s what Google suggests: PageSpeed Insights demonstrates how much storage and bandwidth websites stand to save with WebP. Needless to say, there’s nothing that can beat WebP when it comes to speed while maintaining image integrity. “. Suzanne Scacca.

Website 75

Website Speed Cache Google 75

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 305

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 305

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection.

Cache 136

Cache Internet Internet Google 136

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. Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability. Setting oom_score_adj to -800. References How MySQL 8.0.21

Performance 144

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 144

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. This speeds up accesses and updates while offloading back-end database servers. Let’s take a look at some of these capabilities.

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. This speeds up accesses and updates while offloading back-end database servers. Let’s take a look at some of these capabilities.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 52

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

Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

To monitor Redis instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold. Such as INFO which gives statistics about the server, LATENCY LATEST which provides latency measurements in real time and MONITOR which allows observation of the clients transmitted command at live speed.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

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

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution. 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.

Performance 136

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 136

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

Percona

JANUARY 9, 2023

NOTE : All tests were applied for MySQL version 8.0.30, and in the background, I ran every query three to five times to make sure that all of them were fully cached in the buffer pool (for InnoDB) or by the filesystem (for MyISAM). But why we can’t just cache the actual number of the rows? sec) What flash speed we saw there!

Cache 107

Cache Engineering Storage Speed 107

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To monitor Redis® instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold. Such as INFO which gives statistics about the server, LATENCY LATEST which provides latency measurements in real time and MONITOR which allows observation of the client’s transmitted command at live speed.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

## References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Nx is an open-source build framework that helps you architect, test, and build at any scale — integrating seamlessly with modern technologies and libraries, while providing a robust command-line interface (CLI), caching, and dependency management. Nx uses distributed graph-based task execution and computation caching to speed up tasks.

Cache 121

Cache Servers Code Testing 121

SQL Server According to Bob

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Note: We received feedback that there was some confusion on us calling this functionality “tail of the log caching” because our documentation and prior history has referred to the tail of the log as the portion of the hardened log that has not been backed up. Block storage is what you think of today as disk access.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Media Storage 40

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz).

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In addition, DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache further speeds up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds and can continue to do so at millions of requests per second.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

Scalegrid

JUNE 14, 2024

By utilizing query folding effectively, you can ensure that Power BI sends optimized queries to MySQL, which can take advantage of the database’s indexing, caching, and processing capabilities. It involves pushing as much of the data transformation and filtering operations back to the data source (e.g.,

Database 130

Database Azure Efficiency Servers 130

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. We’ll also discuss the costs and benefits of CDNs and dedicated file storage solutions. First, you’ll need to install the libraries boto3 and django-storages.

Media 77

Media Cache Storage AWS 77

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. On the contrary, a native application of an e-commerce store can come at 30, 50, or even 100 MB and up, consuming internal device storage. Why is that? Read point 2. More after jump!

Code 90

Code Cache Mobile Retail 90

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Alongside more traditional sessions such as Real-World Deployed Systems and Big Data Programming Frameworks, there were many papers focusing on emerging hardware architectures, including embedded multi-accelerator SoCs, in-network and in-storage computing, FPGAs, GPUs, and low-power devices. Heterogeneous ISA. Programmable I/O Devices.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

Load Time Details For Individual Elements : In the waterfall chart, when the user move his cursor on a specific bar, he is shown a load time details which are DnsTime, ConnectTime, SSLTime, RequestTime, FirstByteTime, ResponseTime, StartTime, EndTime, Speed which is pointed in a red oval. Queued request. If there are too many 302 redirects.

Performance 53

Performance Website Cache Speed 53

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

At the intersection of the two is website speed. It should come as no surprise that images cause a lot of the problems websites have with speed. That or we’re going to have to get really good at optimizing for speed. Speaking of speed, let’s see what HTTP Archive has to say about image weight. Previously, this was a 3.6

Mobile 73

Mobile Media Website Storage 73

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This removes the burden of purchasing and maintaining your hardware, storage and networking infrastructure, while still giving you a very familiar experience with Windows and SQL Server itself. There are also large differences in storage capacity and throughput between these extremes. GHz, 128MB of L3 cache, 128 PCIe 4.0

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Load Time Details For Individual Elements : In the waterfall chart, when the user moves their cursor on a specific bar, he is shown a load time details which are DnsTime, ConnectTime, SSLTime, RequestTime, FirstByteTime, ResponseTime, StartTime, EndTime, Speed which is pointed in a red oval. Queued request. What’s the Difference?

Performance 52

Performance Website Cache Speed 52

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

The basic tier provides up to 5 DTUs with standard storage. The standard tier supports from 10 up to 3000 DTUs with standard storage and the premium tier supports 125 up to 4000 DTUs with premium storage, which is orders of magnitude faster than standard storage. vCore Pricing Tier. GB per vCore. HyperScale Database.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

The HBO sitcom Silicon Valley hilariously followed Pied Piper, a team of developers with startup dreams to create a compression algorithm so powerful that high-quality streaming and file storage concerns would become a thing of the past. I had several tricks that could significantly speed up websites. This is all so good.

Cache 83

Cache Website Servers Open Source 83

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. For storage, FIO is generally used. Storage: The system has a SATA drive for the operating system and one NVMe (Intel SSD D7-P5510 (3.84 Database: MySQL 8.0.31

Performance 55

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 55

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

It’s a good setup for real-time analytics and high-speed logging. Storing large datasets can be a challenge, as Redis’ storage capacity is limited by available RAM. Also, Redis is designed primarily for key-value storage and lacks advanced querying capabilities. Couchbase — No.

Open Source 98

Open Source Database Scalability Software 98