All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values.

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Database AWS Games Latency 166

Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

Use cases for RabbitMQ encompass areas like order processing in eCommerce, real-time notifications, and multiplayer gaming, showcasing its adaptability to different operational needs. RabbitMQ excels at managing asynchronous processing and reducing latency while distributing workloads effectively across the system.

IoT 130

IoT Ecommerce Games Scalability 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world.

AWS 38

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

Speed Curve

JANUARY 19, 2025

After I finished college, I did performance work here and there while developing games for Playstation 2, and later at Google. So in addition to all the optimization work we did for Google Docs, I got to spend a lot of time and energy working on the measurement problem: how can we get end-to-end latency numbers?

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Performance Google Speed Metrics 98

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.

Latency 52

Latency Games Traffic Network 52

High Scalability

JANUARY 24, 2019

TServerless : We sat with a solution architect, apparently they are aware of the latency issue and suggested to ditch api gw and build our own solution. Stand under Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (35 nearly 5 star reviews). 10% : Netflix captured screen time in US; 8.3 7x : faster PyPy python; 9B : gallons of water/day for lawns; 2.6

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Games 29

Randon ASCII

AUGUST 30, 2020

A few years ago I spent a few weeks doing some memory investigations on live game servers. I found a series of bugs that were causing memory usage to be triple what it needed to be and I fixed those: I found map ID mismatches which meant that a new copy of ~20 MB of data was loaded for every game instead of being reused I found an unused (!)

Games 142

Games Servers Code Monitoring 142

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

Let us take a look also the latency: Here the situation starts to be a little bit more complicated. MySQL Router is the one that has the higher latency no matter what. Brief summary This test highlights that HAProxy and ProxySQL can reach a level of connection higher than the slowest runner in the game (MySQL Router).

Games 141

Games Latency Traffic Cache 141

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables). How digital experience monitoring changes the game.

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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 246

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 6, 2016

A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, and more.

AWS 99

AWS Cloud Games Latency 99

All Things Distributed

APRIL 17, 2013

While DynamoDB already allows you to perform low-latency queries based on your tableâ??s This gives you the ability to perform richer queries while still meeting the low-latency demands of responsive, scalable applications. s say that your social gaming application tracks player activity. With LSI we expand DynamoDBâ??s

Cloud 86

Cloud Latency Games Scalability 86

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In addition, Netflix is always changing: we’re constantly adding new initiatives like live streaming, ads and games, and evolving our architecture. There is a downside to fetching this data on-demand: this adds latency to the first request to a cluster. This means the clusters that a service communicates with will change over time.

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Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 229

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. This is not just predictability of median performance and latency, but also at the end of the distribution (the 99.9th percentile), so we could provide acceptable performance for virtually every customer. s read latency, particularly as dataset sizes grow.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. The advanced Asia Pacific network infrastructure also makes the AWS Tokyo Region a viable low-latency option for customers from South Korea.

AWS 90

AWS Cloud Games Latency 90

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 client MWW combines these estimates with an estimate of the input/output transmission time (latency) to find the worker with the minimum overall execution latency.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. Four years ago, as part of our AWS fast data journey, we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed, in-memory data store that operates at microsecond latency. Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple.

Games 96

Games Retail Latency Education 96

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. Supercell is a mobile game developer, based in Helsinki, Finland, with over 100 million people playing their games every single day.

AWS 119

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 119

High Scalability

AUGUST 17, 2018

12 million requests / hour with sub-second latency, ~300GB of throughput / day. A much better way to do this would be to make a "next Logo" that would allow game players to make the AI brains needed by the robots. When logic and memory chips get to be under ten bucks I can take these big games and shove them into a pinball machine.

Internet 105

Internet Internet Scalability Games 105

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. So, anyway. I wrote a lot of benchmarks.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Tim Berners-Lee tweets that 'This is for everyone' at the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony using the NeXT computer he used to build the first browser and web server. 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.

Performance 113

Performance Latency Architecture Network 113

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Similarly, relationships are essential in many other use cases such as financial modeling, risk analysis, genome research, search, gaming, and others. When using relational databases, traversing relationships requires expensive table JOIN operations, causing significantly increased latency as table size and query complexity grow.

Database 119

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 119

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

DynamoDB continues to be embraced for workloads in Gaming, Ad-tech, Mobile, Web Apps, and other segments where scale and performance are critical. Let’s walk through another gaming example. Consider a table named GameScores that keeps track of users and scores for a mobile gaming application.

Games 106

Games Scalability Database Retail 106

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy. In this way, intelligent automation is a game-changer in the cloud computing landscape. Discover how AI is reshaping the cloud and what this means for the future of technology. Frequently Asked Questions What role does AI play in cloud computing?

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

No matter which mechanism you choose to use, we make the stream data available to you instantly (latency in milliseconds) and how fast you want to apply the changes is up to you. An AWS Lambda function is a simpler option that you can use, as it only requires you to code the logic, set it, and forget it. DynamoDB Cross-region Replication.

Database 156

Database Lambda AWS IoT 156

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Critical for gaming with a mouse. Delayed five years. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, in-memory caching service for customers to optimize the latency, performance and cost of their read workloads. For example, Scopely has built their gaming platform with DynamoDB as their primary datastore, while using Amazon RDS where they need complex query support.

Cache 97

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 97

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Customers from various verticals (media, social gaming, mobile, news, advertisement) such as Netflix, Shazam and Scopely have used SQS in variety of use-cases requiring loose coupling and high performance. Amazon SQS provides highly scalable â??eventual eventual throughputâ?? for cases when Shazamâ??s

Efficiency 82

Efficiency Cloud Games Scalability 82

Sutter's Mill

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

I can’t wait! Wednesday 0730 MDT: Bjarne Stroustrup AMA (moderator).

C++ 91

C++ Games Programming Latency 91

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

From the papers overview: Hive is a formalisation, extension and optimization of what is typically known as a ‘bucket array’ or ‘object pool’ container in game programming circles. This can create variable latency during iteration.

C++ 67

C++ Programming Code Google 67

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

For example, let's say you send more HTML and less JavaScript, or your serving game is on lock and all critical assets load over a single H/2 link. If your product behavior or your own team's data or market research suggests different tradeoffs, then it's only right to set your own per-product baseline. How should your estimates change?

Performance 120

Performance Mobile Network Latency 120

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2013

I spent a lot of time talking to AWS developers, many working in the gaming and mobile space, and most of them have been finding Node.js allows these developers to handle a large number of concurrent connections with low latencies. well suited for their web applications. With its asynchronous, event-driven programming model, Node.js

AWS 80

AWS Mobile Games Java 80

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

In particular this has been true for applications based on algorithms - often MPI-based - that depend on frequent low-latency communication and/or require significant cross sectional bandwidth. Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2 change the HPC game for two important reasons: Access to scalable on-demand capacity.

Cloud 96

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 96

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

A well-planned multi cloud strategy can seriously upgrade your business’s tech game, making you more agile. They can also bolster uptime and limit latency issues or potential downtimes. Thinking about going multi-cloud? And then there’s the big decision of where to host your workloads—public clouds, private clouds, or a mix.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

Synchronous events operate with low latency so you can deliver dynamic, interactive experiences to your users. Apply Custom Logic to User Preferences and Game State – Amazon Cognito makes it easy to save user data, such as app preferences or game state, in the AWS Cloud and synchronize it among all the user’s devices.

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Lambda Cloud IoT AWS 102