The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Options 1 and 2 are of course the ‘scale out’ options, whereas option 3 is ‘scale up’. When used in prevention mode (IPS), this all has to happen inline over incoming traffic to block any traffic with suspicious signatures. This makes the whole system latency sensitive.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

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

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. 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.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

" Silo your traffic or not – you choose. One is that the latency within a zone is incredibly fast. To provide geographic diversity and lower latencies to end users. Of course, all sorts of automation immediately kick in to mitigate any impact to even that subset.

AWS 110

AWS Latency Lambda Architecture 110

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. As illustrated above, ProxySQL allows us to set up a common entry point for the application and then redirect the traffic on the base of identified sharding keys.

Traffic 144

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 144

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. A few days later, the traffic on the website will get back to the normal state.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Traffic 63

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You’ve probably heard things like: “HTTP/3 is much faster than HTTP/2 when there is packet loss”, or “HTTP/3 connections have less latency and take less time to set up”, and probably “HTTP/3 can send data more quickly and can send more resources in parallel”. TLS, TCP, and QUIC handshake durations ( Large preview ).

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As defined by the Google SRE initiative, the four golden signals of monitoring include the following metrics: Latency. Latency is the amount of time, or delay, a service takes to respond to a request. Traffic refers to the amount of user demand, or load, is on the system. Monitoring can provide a way to differentiate between.

Monitoring 91

Monitoring DevOps Google Engineering 91

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. Organizations can select the most cost-effective option for each region or traffic type, reducing overall CDN expenses.4.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Durability Availability Fault tolerance These combined outcomes help minimize latency experienced by clients spread across different geographical regions. Opting for synchronous replication within distributed storage brings about reinforced consistency and integrity of data, but also bears higher expenses than other forms of replicating data.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

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

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Fixing mobile won't be sufficient to unwind desktop's increasingly negative dark patterns, of course.

Google 134

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

There are ways around that, of course. In contrast, tools like DebugBear and WebPageTest use more realistic throttling that accurately reflects network round trips on a higher-latency connection. Real usage data would be better, of course. That’s the “thing” I’ve been missing in my performance efforts.

Speed 85

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 85

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

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. Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). Maybe someday the Resource Bundles proposal will help with this, but not yet.

Network 120

Network Servers Cache Traffic 120

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. Organizations can select the most cost-effective option for each region or traffic type, reducing overall CDN expenses.4.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Contended, over-subscribed cells can make “fast” networks brutally slow, transport variance can make TCP much less efficient , and the bursty nature of web traffic works against us. It simulates a link with a 400ms RTT and 400-600Kbps of throughput (plus latency variability and simulated packet loss).

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

5G enthusiasts frequently say it’s an enabling technology for autonomous vehicles (AV), which will need high bandwidth to download maps and images, and perhaps even to communicate with each other: AV heaven is a world in which all vehicles are autonomous and can therefore collaboratively plan traffic.

Wireless 56

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 56

The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

Of course publishing it on Martin Fowler’s site was always going to get it to a wider audience (thanks Martin!), I also rewrote the section on Startup Latency since Cold Starts are one of the big “FUD” areas of Serverless. Because of course it did. Finally, of course, there’s the community section.

Serverless 40

Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 40

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. Many new tools can now be written, and the main toolkit we're working on is [bcc]. Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C The OS is becoming a forgotten cog in a much larger cloud-based system.

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

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

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 109

Performance Network Latency Servers 109

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. Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge. Talk about a hard target. I'm happy to report that it has.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

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. For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools.

Performance 112

Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Webpack Fundamentals is a very comprehensive 4h course with Sean Larkin, released by FrontendMasters.

Performance 111

Performance Cache Network Metrics 111