Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

However, when looking at Googles Core Web Vitals , TTFB starts from the time when the users start navigating to a new page. What Network Latency Means For Time To First Byte Lets add up all the network round trips in the example above: 2 server connections: 6 round trips. TCP: Establishing a reliable connection to the server.

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Servers Latency Cache Website 78

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As a discipline, SRE focuses on improving software system reliability across key categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

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Engineering DevOps Government Latency 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

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks? But how can you ensure that your applications meet these pillars and deliver the best outcomes for your business? SRG validates the status of the resiliency SLOs for the experiment period.

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AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 305

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

These functions are executed by a serverless platform or provider (such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions) that manages the underlying infrastructure, scaling and billing. Higher latency and cold start issues due to the initialization time of the functions. Sign up for a free trial.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As Google’s Ben Treynor explains , “Fundamentally, it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operations function.” As Google explains , both SRE and DevOps require teams to: Understand that change is necessary for improvement. Reduced latency. SRE vs DevOps? Efficiency.

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DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google 268

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

In their new dashboard, they added dimensions for load, latency, and open problems for each component. To ensure their global service levels, they fully embraced the best practices outlined in Google’s SRE handbook , called the “Four Golden Signals,” to standardize what they show on their SRE dashboards.

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Automotive Latency Architecture Mobile 290

CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

21 years later, in 2013, Google launched Brotli, a new algorithm that claims even greater improvement than Gzip! This is because file-size is only one aspect of web performance, and whatever the file-size is, the resource is still sat on top of a lot of other factors and constants—latency, packet loss, etc. decrease in file-size.

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Latency Servers Website Speed 311

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

ScyllaDB offers significantly lower latency which allows you to process a high volume of data with minimal delay. percentile latency is up to 11X better than Cassandra on AWS EC2 bare metal. Google Cloud. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) was the second most popular cloud provider for ScyllaDB, coming in at 30.4%

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Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Today we are excited to announce latency heatmaps and improved container support for our on-host monitoring solution?—?Vector?—?to Remotely view real-time process scheduler latency and tcp throughput with Vector and eBPF What is Vector? to the broader community. Vector is open source and in use by multiple companies.

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Performance Latency Open Source Metrics 216

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines. When an application is triggered, it can cause latency as the application starts. This creates latency when they need to restart.

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Serverless Efficiency Lambda AWS 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time. Both latency and response time are critical to ensure reliability. Latency typically refers to the time it takes for a single request to travel from its source to its destination. Latency primarily focuses on the time spent in transit.

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Latency Website Traffic DevOps 245

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

At the lowest level, SLIs provide a view of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across systems. It detects regressions and deviations from previously observed behavior across metrics such as latency, traffic, error rates, saturation, security coverage, vulnerability risk levels, and memory consumption.

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Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 246

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. Therefore, we must efficiently move data from the data warehouse to a global, low-latency and highly-reliable key-value store. How Bulldozer leverages Spark, Protobuf and KV DAL for moving the data.

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Latency Storage Big Data Tuning 252

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2021

Already in the 2000s, service-oriented architectures (SOA) became popular, and operations teams discovered the need to understand how transactions traverse through all tiers and how these tiers contributed to the execution time and latency. It also introduced the terms ‘Trace’ for a transaction and ‘Span’ for an operation within a trace.

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Open Source Monitoring Google Systems 279

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

It also needs to handle third-party integration with Google Drive, making copies of PDFs with watermarks specific to each recipient, adding password protection, creating revocable links, generating thumbnails, and sending emails and push notifications. Early prototypes and load tests validated that the offering could meet our needs.

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Traffic Java Latency Google 166

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Additionally, we’ve added the Philadelphia AWS Local Zone , helping to reduce latency for customers operating in the eastern U.S. This enables ScaleGrid users in Australia and nearby regions to access lower-latency services and improved performance.

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Latency AWS Storage Tuning 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

For production models, this provides observability of service-level agreement (SLA) performance metrics, such as token consumption, latency, availability, response time, and error count. Estimates show that NVIDIA, a semiconductor manufacturer, could release 1.5 million AI server units annually by 2027, consuming 75.4+

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Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 276

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

An outgoing request from a whitelisted domain returns a 302 , forwarding the request to a self-hosted CSS file that is optimised specifcally for your browser, OS, and UA (Google Fonts do something similar). com , which introduces yet more latency for the connection setup. The CSS file(s) that we host is provided by Cloud.typography.

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Latency Cache Strategy Media 213

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Volume, velocity, variety, and complexity : It’s nearly impossible to get answers from the sheer amount of raw data collected from every component in ever-changing modern cloud environments, such as AWS , Azure , and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This is also true for Kubernetes and containers that can spin up and down in seconds.

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Metrics Open Source Monitoring Cloud 363

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 86

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

While you may assume a great majority of the cloud database deployments are run on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, small to medium-sized businesses in particular are gravitating towards the developer-friendly cloud provider, DigitalOcean , for their hosting for MongoDB® needs. DigitalOcean Droplets.

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Azure AWS Database Latency 187

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

They can also see when new users adopt newer versions of the application as they roll out on the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store. Application owners can observe over time to understand how many users are interacting with the application.

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Mobile Metrics Monitoring Latency 264

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

service availability with <50ms latency for an application with no revenue impact. This can create an unnecessary distraction and steal time away from critical tasks. For example, the IT team of a bank wants to ensure that for a trailing 30-day period there is 99.9% Let’s take service availability for example.

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DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency 246

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Last year, Google made two significant changes to their search indexing and ranking algorithms : In March, indexing became based on the mobile version of a page , rather than desktop. What is Google Lighthouse?

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 73

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Operational Reporting is a reporting paradigm specialized in covering high-resolution, low-latency data sets, serving detailed day-to-day activities¹ and processes of a business domain. Centralized data will be moved to third party services such as Google Sheets and Airtable for the stakeholders.

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Big Data Government Processing Analytics 257

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time. Both latency and response time are critical to ensure reliability. Latency typically refers to the time it takes for a single request to travel from its source to its destination. Latency primarily focuses on the time spent in transit.

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Traffic Website Latency DevOps 173

High Scalability

DECEMBER 7, 2018

It's HighScalability time: This is your 1500ms latency in real life situations - pic.twitter.com/guot8khIPX. 2: Alphabet (Google); No.3: — Ivo Mägi (@ivomagi) November 27, 2018. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud?

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Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 163

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

## References I've reproduced the talk references below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency? Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Tim Bray : How to talk about [Serverless Latency] · To start with, don’t just say “I need 120ms.” And if you know someone with hearing problems they might find Live CC useful. 202,157 flights tracked! Whether it’s database or message queues it’s a really weird combo of licenses and features for hostage.

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Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 137

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Remote calls are never free; they impose extra latency, increase probability of an error, and consume network bandwidth. This can change in the foreseeable future, as a recently approved Google API Improvement Proposal AIP-161 Field masks includes support for wildcards on repeated fields.

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Design Java Code Servers 246

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Enter Google! Here are the bombshell paragraphs: Our datacenter applications seek ever more CPU-efficient and lower-latency communication, which Pony Express delivers. SOSP’19. Emphasis mine).

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

µs of replication latency on lossy Ethernet, which is faster than or comparable to specialized replication systems that use programmable switches, FPGAs, or RDMA.". It has 41 mostly 5 star reviews. They'll learn a lot and love you even more.5 5 billion : weekly visits to Apple App store; $500m : new US exascale computer; $1.7

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Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One free tool has become prominent in the space – Google Lighthouse – and one question often bubbles up: “I use Google Lighthouse for one-off snapshots of my site’s performance, so why do I need a performance monitoring solution?” Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright.

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Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

High Scalability

JANUARY 24, 2019

The most famous of these companies—the so-called faangs, of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google—have seen their price-earnings ratios collapse by more than 60 percent in the past two years. Rob Pike (1984) : A collection of impressions after doing a week’s work (rather than demo reception) at PARC.

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Internet Internet Scalability Games 29

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

72 : signals sensed from a distant galaxy using AI; 12M : reddit posts per month; 10 trillion : per day Google generated test inputs with 100s of servers for several months using OSS-Fuzz; 200% : growth in Cloud Native technologies used in production; $13 trillion : potential economic impact of AI by 2030; 1.8 They'll love you even more.

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Internet Internet Scalability Education 30

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

This methodology aims to improve software system reliability using several key categories such as availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. When it comes to DevOps metrics , the Four Keys from Google’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team are a great place to start.

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