All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Based on this experience and learning, we built DynamoDB to be a fast, highly scalable NoSQL database to meet the needs of Internet-scale applications. These high-throughput, low-latency requirements need caching, not as a consideration, but as a best practice. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage.

Speed 95

Speed Cache Latency AWS 95

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. Case Study.

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Big news this week was of course the launch of Cluster GPU instances for Amazon EC2. Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures - background article in CACM on massively parallel and throughput vs latency oriented architectures. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

AWS 62

AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage 62

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. It’s safe to say WordPress, the platform now powering 40% of the internet, won that battle, but MovableType paved the way for Jamstack CMSs in the future. But, when it worked, it was magical.

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

Unpredictable wait times : Wait times (latency) for ChatGPT’s responses are unpredictable, and there aren’t audio cues to help me establish an expectation for how long I need to wait before it responds. Misrecognizing words is forgivable, but I feel that it shouldn’t ever interpret background sounds as words.

Internet 112

Internet Internet Entertainment Design 112

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. Samsung Internet set as the default browser and loads web pages from links in the app. Fixing mobile won't be sufficient to unwind desktop's increasingly negative dark patterns, of course.

Google 134

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

This, of course, is unless I can organize my products by country as well, which is a bit unusual nowadays but not impossible. Of course, if I execute one of them without the sharding key, the firewall rule will stop the query execution, i.e.: mysql> SELECT id, millid, date,continent,active,kwatts_s FROM windmills_test1 WHERE id BETWEEN ?

Traffic 144

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 144

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

A survey of 90,240 companies using MongoDB listed the leading uses as Technology and Services (23%), Computer Software (16%), and Internet (6%). Alternatives to MongoDB Enterprise There are plenty of alternatives, but we’re not going to cover them all here, of course. And MongoDB is popular across industries.

Open Source 98

Open Source Database Scalability Software 98

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons). Emerging markets with high mobile internet use and dense populations can feature poor fixed-line broadband penetration compared with Western markets. In the U.S.,

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

Particular Software

JUNE 3, 2019

Everyone who is old enough to remember the sound of connecting to the Internet with a dial-up modem or of AOL announcing that "You've got mail" is acutely aware that there is an upper limit to how fast something can be downloaded, and it never seems to be as fast as we would like it. We'll never be satisfied.

Latency 40

Latency Speed Network Strategy 40

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). For heavily latency-sensitive use-cases like WebXR, this is a critical component in delivering a good experience. Converging Views.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

A GIF that lasts only a few seconds can be several megabytes in size , which means that visitors with slower internet connections could be looking at a blank page for a few seconds before it loads. This results in a reduction in distance travelled and therefore latency, as well as reduces the load on your origin server.

Speed 50

Speed Website Servers Latency 50

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Here's some output from my zfsdist tool, in bcc/BPF, which measures ZFS latency as a histogram on Linux: # zfsdist. Tracing ZFS operation latency. The odd time we hit them, we'll take the "oops message" – a dump of the kernel stack trace and other details from the system log – and search the Internet.

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Historically, NoSQL paid a lot of attention to tradeoffs between consistency, fault-tolerance and performance to serve geographically distributed systems, low-latency or highly available applications. Read/Write latency. Read/Write requests are processes with a minimal latency. Data Placement. Read/Write scalability.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

A typical example of modern "microservices-inspired" Java application would function along these lines: Netflix : We observed during experimentation that RAM random read latencies were rarely higher than 1 microsecond whereas typical SSD random read speeds are between 100–500 microseconds. There are a few more quotes.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

High Scalability

AUGUST 17, 2018

12 million requests / hour with sub-second latency, ~300GB of throughput / day. And of course it would work on an Apple II and other 8 bit micros (Logo ran nicely on them, etc.). Keep on reading for many more quotes hot off the internet. Its running in 3 nodes that cost us about $150 / month. myelixirstatus !#Serverless.No

Internet 105

Internet Internet Scalability Games 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Congestion Control.

Performance 109

Performance Network Latency Servers 109

Alex Russell

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Not all users are the same, of course. Using HTML that all browsers understand saves on complexity, latency, and confusion — assuming that HTML has something that says what you mean. Markup, the plain-text web, and the ability to enable searchability has been a mixed business bag for publishers, of course. Publishers.

Engineering 40

Engineering Technology Technology Systems 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Thanks to Tim Kadlec, Henri Helvetica and Alex Russel for the pointers! Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Thanks to Tim Kadlec, Henri Helvetica and Alex Russel for the pointers!

Performance 112

Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Of course, your data might show that your customers are not on these devices, but perhaps they simply don’t show up in your analytics because your service is inaccessible to them due to slow performance.

Performance 111

Performance Cache Network Metrics 111