O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Of course, theres more to making improvements than just relying on tools and metrics. Were experiencing high latency in responses. The AI is taking too long to reply; we need to speed it up. This trade-off affects speed and quality. So, you trade some performance for speed and cost savings.

Latency 66

Latency Tuning Metrics Testing 66

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Here are the bombshell paragraphs: Our datacenter applications seek ever more CPU-efficient and lower-latency communication, which Pony Express delivers. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand. ” That’s 4-8x the speed of evolution and feedback cycles. Emphasis mine). Performance numbers.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.” If you’re interested in attending, please check out the links, and I look forward to meeting and re-meeting many of you there.

Latency 48

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 48

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one. Also, if you are not using a content delivery network (CDN) or multiple CDNs to map users to the closest edge regions for reduced latencies — a practice called suboptimal routing — you might slow down the start of the video. Wrapping Up.

Media 122

Media Performance Mobile Latency 122

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. Cross-function communication should work at wire speed.

Serverless 98

Serverless Lambda Cache Latency 98

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Let’s cover some ways to speed up GIF animations on your website and look at some alternative formats that you should consider. Why Speed Up GIF Animations? Speed Up GIF Animations With Compression Tools Due to their nature, it’s not possible to make changes to GIF files without affecting their graphical data.

Speed 50

Speed Website Servers Latency 50

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

These guidelines work well for a wide range of applications, though the optimal settings, of course, depend on the workload. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

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Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 144

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

They can run applications in Sweden, serve end users across the Nordics with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and more. We help Supercell to quickly develop, deploy, and scale their games to cope with varying numbers of gamers accessing the system throughout the course of the day.

AWS 119

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 119

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Assuming encode/decode speeds meet your needs. Encode/Decode Speed. Degree of compression, image quality, and decoding speed are key factors to be considered when comparing image performance for the web. However, the AVIF team is working on improving encoding speeds. A tl;dr of recommendations can be found below.

Open Source 145

Open Source Speed Website Google 145

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

" Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

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. What's the problem?

Performance 99

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 99

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

This work is latency critical, because volume IO is blocked until it is complete. And, of course, it is designed to minimise the blast radius of any failures that do occur. When a node joins or re-joins a cell it needs to be brought up to speed, a process the authors call teaching. Physalia in the large. Cells have seven nodes.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. I’m going to update my referenced URL to the new site to help decrease latency that adds drag to the initial page load.

Cache 94

Cache Social Media Media Website 94

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. 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.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

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. Network latency. Network Latency. Network latency can be affected due to. The list goes on and on. Website and Web Application Monitoring. Connection time. Wi-Fi usage.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Traffic 63

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. India's speed test medians are moving quickly, but variance is orders-of-magnitude wide, with 5G penetration below 25% in the most populous areas.

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

It’s a good setup for real-time analytics and high-speed logging. Alternatives to MongoDB Enterprise There are plenty of alternatives, but we’re not going to cover them all here, of course. Redis can handle a high volume of operations per second, making it useful for running applications that require low latency.

Open Source 98

Open Source Database Scalability Software 98

Particular Software

JUNE 3, 2019

We become annoyed when we run a speed test on our broadband provider only to find that, on a good day, we are getting maybe half of the rated download speed we are paying for, and the upload speed is likely much worse. But to prevent running afoul of latency (the 2 nd fallacy), we must also be careful not to download too little!

Latency 40

Latency Speed Network Strategy 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. That’s practically an eternity when talking about page speed performance. Homepage of a default Drupal site using the Umami theme. In case you’re wondering, 2.4

Media 77

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 77

VoltDB

JUNE 26, 2024

On top of this, intelligent manufacturing enables organizations to automate repetitive tasks, ensuring consistency and speed while reducing errors and freeing up staff to focus on more complex tasks. Using real-time streaming data and analytics, manufacturers can optimize workflows in the moment, reducing bottlenecks and minimizing downtime.

IoT 52

IoT Analytics Artificial Intelligence Energy 52

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. It simulates a link with a 400ms RTT and 400-600Kbps of throughput (plus latency variability and simulated packet loss). Performance isn’t the (entire) product, of course. Global Ground-Truth.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

This processor has a base clock speed of 2.0GHz, with an all-core boost speed of 2.55GHz, and a max boost clock speed of 3.0GHz. Of course, if I were buying an AMD-based server for on-premises SQL Server use right now, I would try to get the newer, frequency-optimized AMD EPYC 7371 processor. The L3 cache size is 64MB.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Rural connectivity is a persistent problem; many rural users (and some urban users) are still limited to dial-up speeds. There are impressive estimates for latency for 5G, but reality has a tendency to be harsh on such predictions. I don’t, do you?

Wireless 56

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 56

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Platforms such as Snipcart , CommerceLayer , headless Shopify , and Stripe enable you to manage products in a friendly UI while taking advantage of the benefits of Jamstack: Amazon’s famous study reported that for every 100ms in latency, they lose 1% of sales. Of course the template approach is cheaper. Large scale blogs.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

1:18pm a key observation was made that an API call to populate the homepage sidebar saw a huge jump in latency. There’s much more colour around these in the full thesis report of course). Members of the team begin diagnosing the issue using the #sysops and #warroom internal IRC channels. " – wikipedia. The last word.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Finally, not inlining resources has an added latency cost because the file needs to be requested. All of this is, of course, still true for HTTP/3 as well.

Network 120

Network Servers Cache Traffic 120

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Once a library of UDFs have been built up of course, they could be reused across computations. Beyond that, the RDBMS wins: For the Word2Vec and LDA computations the speed-ups as the number of dimensions/topics grows are very significant (e.g minutes vs almost 5hrs for LDA with 50,000 topics).

Network 44

Network Database Programming Hardware 44

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 12, 2020

Another great insight here (which reminds me of discussions of system latency) is that ‘average’ performance (i.e., Systems with longer control intervals of course bring the opposite problem: we can’t run the task faster than real-time in order to speed-up data generation. Who would have thought!

Programming 43

Programming Systems Efficiency Network 43

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. Both Xen and KVM have had many performance and security improvements, and workloads can now be tuned to run at almost bare metal speeds (say, a 3% loss or less). Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. 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

All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

With just one click you can enable content to be distributed to the customer with low latency and high-reliability. Of course non-AWS origins are also permitted. This is in addition to the existing optimizations of routing viewers to the edge location with lowest latency for that user, and also persistent connections with the clients.

Cache 97

Cache Latency AWS Website 97

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.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

They understood that most websites lack tight latency budgeting, dedicated performance teams, hawkish management reviews, ship gates to prevent regressions, and end-to-end measurements of critical user journeys. Sandy Foundations # It was, of course, b t. Astonishingly, gobsmackingly effective b t, but nonsense nonetheless.

Social Media 130

Social Media Website Technology Technology 130

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

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. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. Talk about a hard target. Four years later, has anything changed? I'm happy to report that it has.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

Rendering text is important (think login screens), but there's no product without low-latency, adaptive codecs, networking, and camera/microphone access. The a secondary benefit to adjacency is that it provides time to learn and course-correct. Unfortunately, much has already been done to speed the web's irrelevance.

Games 64

Games Hardware Java Mobile 64

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

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Performance Cache Servers Network 112