Percona

JULY 20, 2023

It is very common to see many infrastructure layers standing between a PostgreSQL database and the Application server. Of course, there are “ClientWrite” events, which is the wait event related to writing the data to the client (pg_dump) in this case. Case 2: Bulk data loading This is the opposite of the previous case.

Network 62

Network Performance Latency Servers 62

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. The kind of edge server envisaged here might, for example, be integrated with your WiFi access point. As such, web workers are a natural target to offload to a more powerful server.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

VoltDB

JUNE 26, 2024

Increased efficiency Leveraging advanced technologies like automation, IoT, AI, and edge computing , intelligent manufacturing streamlines production processes and eliminates inefficiencies, leading to a more profitable operation.

IoT 52

IoT Analytics Artificial Intelligence Energy 52

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. Being able to canary a new route let us verify latency and error rates were within acceptable limits. Background The Netflix Android app uses the falcor data model and query protocol.

Latency 238

Latency Cache Java Traffic 238

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

Shredder is " a low-latency multi-tenant cloud store that allows small units of computation to be performed directly within storage nodes. " " Running end-user compute inside the datastore is not without its challenges of course. " Running end-user compute inside the datastore is not without its challenges of course.

Serverless 99

Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

A single OneAgent instance can handle the monitoring of many types of entities, including servers, applications, services, databases, and more. You want to optimize your Citrix landscape with insights into user load and screen latency per server? Dynatrace Extensions 2.0 What’s next. extensions based on these capabilities.

Metrics 173

Metrics Monitoring Network Technology 173

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. It is also recommended to have experienced professionals accompany you throughout the process. What is Multi-CDN?A

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Helios also serves as a reference architecture for how Microsoft envisions its next generation of distributed big-data processing systems being built. We push as much data processing as possible onto warehouse-scale computers and systems software. It’s limited by the laws of physics in terms of end-to-end latency.

Cloud 104

Cloud Big Data Latency Architecture 104

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

These guidelines work well for a wide range of applications, though the optimal settings, of course, depend on the workload. Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Benchmark before you decide.

Performance 124

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 124

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Factor VI in the 12-factor app manifesto , “Execute the app as one or more stateless processes,” to be dropped and replaced with “Execute the app as one or more stateful processes.” session state that you want to survive an application process crash), and to keep the application server/services layer stateless.

Cache 79

Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. It is also recommended to have experienced professionals accompany you throughout the process. What is Multi-CDN?A

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Oh, and there’s a scheduler too of course to keep all the plates spinning. On the Cloudburst design teams’ wish list: A running function’s ‘hot’ data should be kept physically nearby for low-latency access. A low-latency autoscaling KVS can serve as both global storage and a DHT-like overlay network.

Lambda 98

Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc. Early web applications involved less on client-side behavior and more server-side for all its navigation, query handling, and updates. Connection closed by the server.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

The tooling to get a report with details from the time it takes to establish a server connection to the time it takes for the full page to render is out there. There are ways around that, of course. Real usage data would be better, of course. That’s the “thing” I’ve been missing in my performance efforts.

Speed 82

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 82

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Consistent performance matters just as much as low average latency.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

The paper examines the implications of microservices at the hardware, OS and networking stack, cluster management, and application framework levels, as well as the impact of tail latency. The top line shows the change in tail latency across a set of monolithic applications as operating frequency decreases. Hardware implications.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In both cases, when using virtually-synchronous replication, the process will require certification from each node and local (by node) write; as such, the number of writes is NOT distributed across multiple nodes but duplicated. Because the solutions still rely on writing in one single node that works as Primary. The POC Why this POC?

Traffic 122

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 122

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Systems, web applications, servers, devices, etc., We are kidding of course, but you know something is bad if happens that early in the morning. Now that we have talked about what an incident is, incident management is the process by which teams resolve these events and bring systems and services back to normal operation.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Advances in browser content processing. Not as much as we'd like, of course, but the worldwide baseline has changed enormously. There are differences, of course, but not where it counts. Instead, experience teaches that it's the process of taking care to attend to those least-well-off that changes outcomes.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Micro-optimizations are great for keeping performance on track, but it’s critical to have clearly defined targets in mind — measurable goals that would influence any decisions made throughout the process. Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. This work is latency critical, because volume IO is blocked until it is complete. NSDI’20.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Coordinators are servers that receive queries and return results (search engines). How’s that going to work given what we know about the throughput and latency of blockchains, and the associated mining costs?" Clients issue queries over data (queries can be one-off, i.e., static, or continuous).

Blockchain 94

Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Redirects are often pretty light in terms of the latency that they add to a website, but they are an easy first thing to check, and they can generally be removed with little effort. I’m going to update my referenced URL to the new site to help decrease latency that adds drag to the initial page load. KB to 11.2 That’s a win!

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Although it can hardly be said that NoSQL movement brought fundamentally new techniques into distributed data processing, it triggered an avalanche of practical studies and real-life trials of different combinations of protocols and algorithms. Read/Write latency. Read/Write requests are processes with a minimal latency.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

I’ve been diligent about data backup throughout my life, but my files are fragmented amongst different media over the years—burning CDs and DVDs back in the day, several generations of external hard drives (that are in various states of decay), university servers, Dropbox, and other cloud services.

Entertainment 75

Entertainment Internet Internet Design 75

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Fortunately, there are plenty of free editing tools that streamline the process. RIOT The Radical Image Optimization Tool , or RIOT, gives you considerable control over the optimization process. A CDN will pull the GIF files from your origin server and cache them.

Speed 50

Speed Website Latency Cache 50

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Answering it requires an understanding of how browsers process resources (which differs by type) and the concept of the critical path. Late-loading JavaScript can cause “server-side rendered” pages to fail in infuriating ways. This input processing happens on document’s main thread , where JavaScript runs.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). 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.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better. An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

After all, those are properties that browsers compete on, benefiting users in the process. Absent compelling content and attentive security and performance focus, it soon retreated to the server. [6]. talking to POP and IMAP servers. The a secondary benefit to adjacency is that it provides time to learn and course-correct.

Games 55

Games Hardware Java Media 55

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Partisans for slow, complex frameworks have successfully marketed lemons as the hot new thing, despite the pervasive failures in their wake, and crowding out higher-quality options in the process. [1] Sandy Foundations # It was, of course, b t. "Server-Side Rendering", a.k.a. "SSR" The excuses are running out.

Social Media 119

Social Media Website Technology Technology 119

The Agile Manager

JULY 9, 2010

Instead of producing large returns, of course, investment banking can produce large losses. This includes things like data storage, servers, e-mail, office productivity applications, virus protection, security and so forth. Of course, these complex properties don't make them "high value added" services. They're still utilities.

Retail 45

Retail Technology Technology Small Business 45

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT).

Performance 107

Performance Network Latency Servers 107

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

jaybo_nomad : The Allen Institute for Brain Science is in the process of imaging 1 cubic mm of mouse visual cortex using TEM at a resolution of 4nm per pixel. It also works well to justify an acquisition of more servers to investors. That means multiple data indirections mean multiple cache misses. They are very expensive.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. Using AWS, JUMO has been able to process this data more than 1 000 times faster. What would have taken two weeks on local servers now only takes a few minutes.

AWS 167

AWS Cloud Education Programming 167