The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

This makes memory a critical factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of large compute clusters, or as Google like to call them “Warehouse-scale computers (WSCs).” ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Enter zswap!

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Software Software Google Hardware 78

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

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Google recently published an article where they describe their experience with deploying this very technology to hundreds of millions of lines of code. Google Andromeda published an article ~1 year ago about their successful experience enabling hardening. This can create variable latency during iteration.

C++ 66

C++ Programming Code Google 66

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier. A standard version of an approach demonstrated in Google's web applications to dramatically improve security. PowerPoint or Google Slides). is access to hardware devices. Trusted Types.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Network latency. Hardware resources. Network Latency. With the evolution of cloud technologies, such as Single Page Applications (SPAs), Web APIs, and Model View Controller (MVC), network latency has become a crucial factor to be monitored. Network latency can be affected due to. Hardware Resources.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Traffic 63

cdemi

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Let's talk about the elephant in the room; Serverless doesn't really mean that there are no Software or Hardware servers. Performance - Serverless Functions that are used less frequently may suffer from warmup response latency, where the infrastructure needs some time to deploy the function. Google: Google Cloud Functions.

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Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 64

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For some background, Kubernetes was created by Google and is currently maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Your workloads, encapsulated in containers, can be deployed freely across different clouds or your own hardware. It has become the industry standard for cloud-native container orchestration.

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Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 117

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Et Tu, Google? #. Web Bluetooth. Web Serial.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

Examples include popular home assistants and smart displays like the Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod, and many others. In Privacy in Context, Nissenbaum talks about the privacy implications of Google Street View when it places photos of people’s houses on Google Maps. Source: Google Face Match video, [link] ).

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Google Games Technology Technology 134

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Google founders figured out smart ways to rank websites by analyzing their connection patterns and using that information to improve the relevance of search results. A message-oriented implementation requires an efficient messaging backbone that facilitates the exchange of data in a reliable and secure way with the lowest latency possible.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. trying to reduce the amount of manual work and ensuring all the components (infrastructure/hardware, middleware, software, etc.) At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

those resources now belong to cloud providers, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and others. However, when the time comes for resources to be requested, there can be latency in the time it takes to for that code to start back up. The time it takes between an action and a response is latency.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Here are 8 fallacies of data pipeline The pipeline is reliable Topology is stateless Pipeline is infinitely scalable Processing latency is minimum Everything is observable There is no domino effect Pipeline is cost­-effective Data is homogeneous The pipeline is reliable The inconvenient truth is that pipeline is not reliable.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Most existing adtech infrastructure simply can not achieve the required latency. VoltDB provides the necessary technology to achieve the latency required by header bidding. However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. Another adtech infrastructure problem is capacity.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Open Source 40

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Most existing adtech infrastructure simply can not achieve the required latency. VoltDB provides the necessary technology to achieve the latency required by header bidding. However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. Another adtech infrastructure problem is capacity.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Open Source 40

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 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

It offers reliability and performance of a data warehouse, real-time and low-latency characteristics of a streaming system, and scale and cost-efficiency of a data lake. Apache Arrow's in-memory columnar layout is specifically optimized for data locality for better performance on modern hardware like CPUs and GPUs.

Big Data 49

Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Using an image CDN, such as KeyCDN, can significantly reduce the latency of your image delivery. This is crucial due to mobile devices requiring additional optimizations because they typically have less powerful hardware and a slower network connection when compared to desktop devices. Google loves speed. Mbps ( Opensignal ).

Speed 52

Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

is an open collaboration between Google, Microsoft , Intel , Samsung , and others to safely bring capabilities to the web which native developers have come to expect. In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. This is often determined by hardware integration and device replacement rates.

Hardware 64

Hardware Games Java Mobile 64

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Wait time: Sometimes called average latency, wait time refers the amount of time a request spends in a queue before it gets processed. Google Lighthouse Google Lighthouse is a free and open source tool that is part of the Google Chrome DevTools family. Peak response time: The longest response time.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

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. decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> Google spent more on the SoC for the Pixel 4a and enjoyed a later launch date, boosting performance relative to the A51.

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Our metrics at Google show a conflicted picture (which I’m working to get to clarity on). It simulates a link with a 400ms RTT and 400-600Kbps of throughput (plus latency variability and simulated packet loss). Simulated packet loss and variable latency, however, can make benchmarking extremely difficult and slow.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities. Test how user-friendly an application is: Google search engine gives high priority to websites in comparison to desktop apps. Google ranks applications based on how user friendly it is.

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Another interesting note was how significant the impact of hardware has on the timing. This is notable because we’re seeing companies such as Mozilla and Google targeting emerging markets with affordable, low-powered devices that otherwise run modern browsers. The result was a 10x reduction in startup latency.

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Latency Google Hardware Servers 41

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Read more of our blog series: The Benefits of Amazon RDS for MySQL Embrace the Cloud with Microsoft Azure Benefit from Ongoing Innovation with Google Cloud Need help with your cloud migration?

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

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).

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Performance Network Latency Servers 109

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

Performance 112

Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Performance Cache Metrics Media 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). A good starting point is to choose a good default stack for your application.

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