Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) has recently become a critical discipline in recent years as the world has shifted in favor of web-based interactions. This shift is leading more organizations to hire site reliability engineers to guarantee the reliability and resiliency of their services. Mobile retail e-commerce spending in the U.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

The Akamas vision is that only an autonomous optimization approach powered by AI can effectively enable performance engineers, SREs, and architects to identify the best configurations that ensure maximum service performance and resilience, at the lowest possible cost and at business speed. below 500ms) and error rates (e.g.

Latency 246

Latency Tuning Efficiency AWS 246

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This is where Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices are applied. SREs use Service-Level Indicators (SLI) to see the complete picture of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across various systems, especially revenue-critical systems.

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DevOps Latency Traffic Best Practices 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

As organizations digitally transform, they’re also accelerating the speed of software delivery. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time. Both latency and response time are critical to ensure reliability. Latency primarily focuses on the time spent in transit.

Latency 245

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 245

Speed Curve

JANUARY 19, 2025

Annie leads the Chrome Speed Metrics team at Google, which has arguably had the most significant impact on web performance of the past decade. It's really important to acknowledge that none of this would have been possible without the great work from Annie and her small-but-mighty Speed Metrics team at Google. Nice job, everyone!

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Performance Google Speed Metrics 98

CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

So, for the last several years, I, along with other performance engineers like me, have been recommending that our clients move over from Gzip and to Brotli instead. The uncompressed version, on the other hand, takes a full two round trips more to be fully transferred, which—particularly on a high latency connection—could be quite noticeable.

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Latency Servers Website Speed 302

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

At Perform 2021 , Dynatrace’s Kristof Renders, Services Practice Manager for Autonomous Cloud Enablement, joined Sumit Nagal, Principal Engineer at Intuit, to demonstrate how service-level objectives (SLOs) and business-level objectives (BLOs) can “shift left.” For example, improving latency by as little as 0.1

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

However, getting reliable answers from observability data so teams can automate more processes to ensure speed, quality, and reliability can be challenging. This drive for speed has a cost: 22% of leaders admit they’re under so much pressure to innovate faster that they must sacrifice code quality. – blog.

DevOps 246

DevOps Best Practices Innovation Strategy 246

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. Our monitoring engine automatically moves data between tiers based on access patterns.

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Storage Performance AWS Cloud 199

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency. Figure 3: Video Processing with Index and Virtual Assembly Using virtual assembly greatly improves the latency performance of the ProRes 422 HQ proxy generation by removing one round trip of cloud downloading and cloud uploading by the physical assembler.

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Cloud Media Storage Cache 242

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Dynomite is a Netflix open source wrapper around Redis that provides a few additional features like auto-sharding and cross-region replication, and it provided Pushy with low latency and easy record expiry, both of which are critical for Pushy’s workload. As Pushy’s portfolio grew, we experienced some pain points with Dynomite.

Latency 234

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. Why is developer observability important for engineers? Dynatrace enables teams to specify SLOs, such as latency, uptime, availability, and more.

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Development DevOps Programming Cloud 290

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In that scenario, the system would need to deal with the data propagation latency directly, for example, by use of timeouts or client-originated update tracking mechanisms. We started seeing increased response latencies and leader servers running at dangerously high utilization.

Cache 233

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 233

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? I happened to be speaking at a technical confering while still debugging this, and mentioned what I was working on to a processor engineer.

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

These workflows also utilize Davis® , the Dynatrace causal AI engine, and all your observability and security data across all platforms, in context, at scale, and in real-time. Storing frequently accessed data in faster storage, usually in-memory caching, improves data retrieval speed and overall system performance. Beyond

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AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 305

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). connectivity, access, user count, latency) of geographic regions.

Best Practices 244

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 244

Uber Engineering

JANUARY 16, 2023

Uber’s interactive analytics team shares how they integrated Alluxio’s data caching into Presto, the SQL query engine powering thousands of daily active users on petabyte scale at Uber, to dramatically reduce data scan latencies through leveraging Presto on local disks.

Cache 98

Cache Speed Latency Analytics 98

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This includes response time, accuracy, speed, throughput, uptime, CPU utilization, and latency. The Dynatrace AI engine, Davis , provides precise answers with automatic root-cause analysis to help DevOps and ITOps continuously improve workflows. Performance. What does IT operations do? ” The post What is ITOps?

Artificial Intelligence 246

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Measuring application performance is increasingly important because as organizations digitally transform, they’re also accelerating the speed of software delivery. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time. Both latency and response time are critical to ensure reliability.

Traffic 173

Traffic Website Latency Virtualization 173

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. "For Tinder, performance is absolutely key.

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 95

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Netflix operates in multiple AWS regions.

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Media Storage Processing Cache 218

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release, and where engineers should focus their time. You can set SLOs based on individual indicators, such as batch throughput, request latency, and failures-per-second. Help with decision making.

Metrics 246

Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 246

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database. A more scalable option is to decouple these systems and build a pipe that connects these engines and feeds all change records from the source database to the data warehouse (e.g.,

Database 158

Database Lambda AWS IoT 158

VoltDB

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In this fast-paced ecosystem, two vital elements determine the efficiency of this traffic: latency and throughput. LATENCY: THE WAITING GAME Latency is like the time you spend waiting in line at your local coffee shop. All these moments combined represent latency – the time it takes for your order to reach your hands.

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Latency Games Traffic Network 52

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Data compression MongoDB offers various block compression methods used by the WiredTiger storage engine, like snappy, zlib, and zstd. Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) supports all types of compression and enterprise-grade features for free. I am using PSMDB 6.0.4 Snappy is a compression library developed by Google.

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 130

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It also improves the engineering productivity by simplifying the existing pipelines and unlocking the new patterns. As our business scales globally, the demand for data is growing and the needs for scalable low latency incremental processing begin to emerge. There are three common issues that the dataset owners usually face.

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Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 219

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I propose four key ingredients: Definition: What is "performance" beyond page speed? The chief effect of the architectural difference is to shift the distribution of latency within the loop. Improving latency for one scenario can degrade it in another. No silver bullets, only engineering. What are its goals?

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Performance Latency Architecture Network 113

Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Identifying key Redis metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. To monitor Redis instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold. It is important to understand these challenges properly to find solutions for them.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

VoltDB

MAY 14, 2024

Balancing Low Latency, High Availability and Cloud Choice Cloud hosting is no longer just an option — it’s now, in many cases, the default choice. Low usage or over-engineered legacy systems Until the arrival of cloud hosting, nobody knew how to size anything properly, or they did know but never got a chance to. Why are they refusing?

Latency 52

Latency Availability Cloud Hardware 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. 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.

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The eval process combines: Human review Model-based evaluation A/B testing The results then inform two parallel streams: Fine-tuning with carefully curated data Prompt engineering improvements These both feed into model improvements, which starts the cycle again. Were experiencing high latency in responses.

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Latency Tuning Metrics Processing 66

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Speed Index.

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 73

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. To monitor Redis® instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold. It is important to understand these challenges properly to find solutions for them.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

This freshness measurement can then be used by out-of-the-box Dynatrace anomaly detection to actively alert on abnormal changes within the data ingest latency to ensure the expected freshness of all the data records. Data observability is becoming a mandatory part of business analytics, automation, and AI.

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DevOps Analytics Airlines Metrics 272

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. physics engine that simulates 3D cubes falling from the air. improvement, and the wasm version a 1.4x (here the compute speed-up is offset by the long transmission time to send the input/output images).

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Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2013

In the back to basics readings this week I am re-reading a paper from 1995 about the work that I did together with Thorsten on solving the problem of end-to-end low-latency communication on high-speed networks. The lack of low-latency made that distributed systems (e.g.

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Network Latency Operating System Speed 77