Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

The advantage of using a quorum is that it’s a lower cost alternative, but the downside is that you only have 2 data-bearing nodes as the other acts as a quorum node to determine the best failover course. Azure Virtual Networks. The Best Way to Host MySQL on Azure Cloud Click To Tweet.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. ” That’s 4-8x the speed of evolution and feedback cycles. ” That’s 4-8x the speed of evolution and feedback cycles.

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 111

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. Souders presents his 14 rules throughout the course of the book while discussing the importance of front-end performance. If these rules can be applied to improving speeds at Yahoo!

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This increased automation, resilience, and efficiency helps DevOps teams speed up software delivery and accelerate the feedback loop — ultimately allowing them to innovate faster and more confidently. It may have third-party calls, such as content delivery networks, or more complex requests to a back end or microservice-based application.

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DevOps Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Innovation 246

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In today’s world, the speed of innovation is key to business success. WAFs protect the network perimeter and monitor, filter, or block HTTP traffic. Of course, as with all vulnerability management solutions, there was and is the risk that vulnerabilities are exploited while DevSecOps teams are working to fix them.

Traffic 246

Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 246

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. There are ways around that, of course.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

This allows us to quickly tell whether the network link may be saturated or the processor is running at its limit. This allows us to quickly tell whether the network link may be saturated or the processor is running at its limit. Who wouldn’t like to avoid the infamous missing column index?

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Metrics Database Monitoring Network 243

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video.

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Network Speed Website Mobile 144

High Scalability

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Cables of course going down into the room at both ends. Going back we had two dedicated 1,200-baud lines: high-speed lines at the time. davidfrum : In order to lose 80% of its value, the bitcoin network expended more electricity than 150 of the world's 195 countries. That was our video link. Homemade modems.

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Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 141

Speed Curve

MARCH 17, 2025

Page slowdowns can cause as much damage as downtime While Amazon and other big players take pains to avoid outages, these companies also go to great effort to manage the day-to-day performance – in terms of page speed and user experience – of their sites.

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Metrics Airlines Website Speed 66

MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

You run a speed test on a website, and the results don’t match what you personally experience. Perhaps you feel like your site loads fairly quickly, but the speed test results are sub-optimal. Of course, you still won’t see the same loading time every test , so let’s look at some of the reasons why.

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Speed Testing Website Cache 62

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

Managing The Execution Speed of The Slaves. With these settings, we will be able to get better parallelization and speed on the slave, but if there are too many parallel threads, the overhead involved in coordinating between the threads will also increase and can unfortunately offset the benefits. slave_preserve_commit_order = 1.

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Availability Tuning Speed Network 113

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. "We are using DAX to scale our reads across our network of services.

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 95

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. They'll love you even more. Cars: $1 trillion.

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Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. It graphs server, network, CSS, Javascript, critical content, and image optimizations to show the potential savings you could gain by incorporating fixes into your site. Network and CPU are throttled for lab data tests for more realistic conditions. Once a week.

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 134

Particular Software

MARCH 1, 2021

Of course, there are upfront and ongoing costs associated with any computer network. The servers themselves, cabling, network switches, racks, load balancers, firewalls, power equipment, air handling, security, rent/mortgage, not to mention experienced staff to keep it all running smoothly, all come with a cost.

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Transportation Network Cloud Design 98

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

DRM-free, of course. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. HTTP caching, service workers, image spriting, and preloading help optimize network requests. Image Content Delivery Networks. +. DRM-free, of course.

Media 124

Media Cache Google Best Practices 124

O'Reilly

AUGUST 4, 2022

DeepMind’s Gato is an AI model that can be taught to carry out many different kinds of tasks based on a single transformer neural network. It may be that artificial general intelligence is a far more significant challenge than taking task-based models and increasing data, speed, and number of tasks. billion parameters.

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Games Social Media Hardware Architecture 134

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

This could of course be a local worker on the mobile device. To speed up migration and quickly restore wasm functions at the destination, the wasm instantiate function is intially called with a dummy linear memory, and then this is later replaced once the real memory has arrived over the network. in the cloud).

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Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one. A performance budget as a mechanism for planning a web experience and preventing performance decay might consist of the following yardsticks: Overall page weight, Total number of HTTP requests, Page-load time on a particular mobile network, First Input Delay (FID).

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Media Performance Mobile Latency 122

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. So obviously, backups take more time, storage, and network resources, and then the same backup can put more load on the host machine. What should we do?

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Tuning Cache Storage Database 139

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors. Teachers can interact with their colleagues in professional learning networks.

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Innovation AWS Education Network 112

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Assuming encode/decode speeds meet your needs. Compression achieved is relevant because the higher the compression, the smaller the file size, and the lower the data required to transfer the image on the network. Encode/Decode Speed. A tl;dr of recommendations can be found below. JPEG is also a lossy compression format.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 145

Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2019

At over 700 pages, it covers CPUs, memory, disks, file systems, networking, multiple languages, applications, containers, hypervisors, security analysis, and the Linux kernel. - I learned firsthand how to bring beginners from different backgrounds up to speed. I've followed this proven approach in my book.

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Systems Performance Education Technology 111

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

DRM-free, of course. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. HTTP caching, service workers, image spriting, and preloading help optimize network requests. Image Content Delivery Networks. +. DRM-free, of course.

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. 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. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 132

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. 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. Our AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region is open for business now.

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AWS Cloud Games Serverless 119

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Servers and Networks.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 120

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The more interesting thing, however, is the impact on the speed of our side. When we measure speed through Lighthouse, we get a speed index of 1.5 There are of course some places where you won’t want to use SWR or to use SWR without ISR. The obvious thing is that now, the client gets an updated version.

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Cache Servers Internet Internet 119

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It also makes for a good crash course on the tools if you haven’t used them before. You can then choose what device and resolution to emulate, add a network throttle, and even define the device orientation. In the Network panel click on an image and then right click on it to have the option to Copy image as data URI.

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Google Website Network Media 85

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. Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 94

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Speeds up development. Key metrics here include memory requests, CPU requests, disk utilization, and network throughput. Of course, not all automation is created equal. OpenShift incorporates all the tools necessary to manage the underlying nodes and control plane. Enhances DevOps productivity. Control plane performance.

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Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

Physalia is designed to offer consistency and high-availability, even under network partitions. 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.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Lazy-load offscreen images (reduce network contention for key resources). For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS. You can of course also do this manually just using the <img> element directly. We’ll cover this later. Large preview ).

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2019

The complex — and often implicit — network of teams, tools and processes that plan, build and deliver are disconnected by the role-specific tools used by teams across the ideate, create, release and operate stages. . Architecting for flow is crucial because enterprise software delivery, by its very nature, is a broken process. Learn more.

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