The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency. It is worth pointing out that cloud processing is always subject to variable network conditions. Doing so has the added advantage of being able to design and tune the enhancement to suit the requirements of packager and our other encoding applications.

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Cloud Media Storage Cache 242

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. Stay tuned for more exciting updates in the months to come! <p>The

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Latency AWS Storage Tuning 130

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 239

DZone

JULY 10, 2019

In addition, compute and storage are increasingly being separated causing larger latencies for queries. This article provides the top 10 tips for performance tuning for real-world workloads when running Spark on Alluxio with data locality, giving the most bang for the buck. The first few tips are related to locality.

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Best Practices Latency Storage Tuning 138

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This separation allows us to tune system configuration and scaling policies independently for different event priorities and traffic patterns. This network connection heterogeneity made choosing a single delivery model difficult. This approach enables the computing power to catch up quickly when the queues grow.

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Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN. Fault Tolerance If the underlying KafkaConsumer crashes due to ephemeral system or network events, it should be automatically restarted. million elements.

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Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 223

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Storage mount points in a system might be larger or smaller, local or remote, with high or low latency, and various speeds. Storage and network transfer of files is a measurable cost. For example: All subfolders of the /opt directory are mounted as local, low latency, high-throughput drives, with relatively low storage capacity.

Storage 150

Storage Latency Operating System Network 150

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings. 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).

Monitoring 210

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 210

InfoQ

DECEMBER 4, 2023

to HTTP2, resulting in a reduction in the number of connections, latency, and garbage collection times. LinkedIn was able to dramatically improve the scalability and performance of its Espresso database by migrating it from HTTP1.1 To achieve these gains, the team had to optimize the Netty’s default HTTP2 stack to make it fit their needs.

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Latency Scalability Database Performance 101

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

These principles reduce resource usage by being more efficient and effective while lowering the end-to-end latency in data processing. Orient: Gather tuning parameters for a particular table that changed. AutoAnalyze In short, AutoAnalyze finds the best tuning/configuration parameters for a table. More processing resources.

Storage 213

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 213

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key Takeaways Critical performance indicators such as latency, CPU usage, memory utilization, hit rate, and number of connected clients/slaves/evictions must be monitored to maintain Redis’s high throughput and low latency capabilities. Similarly, an increased throughput signifies an intensive workload on a server and a larger latency.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Failure can occur due to a myriad of reasons: misbehaving clients that trigger a retry storm, an under-scaled service in the backend, a bad deployment, a network blip, or issues with the cloud provider. Those two metrics are approximate indicators of failures and latency. Let’s dig into how we accomplished this.

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Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 261

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

This article will cover many areas that database administrators need to be aware of in order to properly license, recover, and tune a Reporting Services installation. Tuning Options. Tuning SSRS is much like any other application. Disk latency for ReportServer and ReportServerTempDB are very important. General Tuning.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The POP is strategially located within the country and lowers latency overall. KeyCDN is always on the lookout for ways to minimize latency and accelerate asset delivery worldwide. For more POPs planned, check our current network for a list of both active and planned edge server locations. Hola Mexico!

Latency 111

Latency Tuning Cache Traffic 111

Percona

APRIL 13, 2023

In PostgreSQL, replication lag can occur due to various reasons such as network latency, slow disk I/O, long-running transactions, etc. Replication lag can occur due to various reasons, such as: Network latency: Network latency is the delay caused by the time it takes for data to travel between the primary and standby databases.

Latency 85

Latency Tuning Open Source Network 85

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. DNS query time indicates the average response times of DNS requests across the system.

Metrics 177

Metrics Database Monitoring Network 177

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Each ran with the following specs: 8GB RAM 2 vCPU 120GB SSD Configuration Details : Each PostgreSQL instance for Scalegrid and Amazon RDS was set up with default tuning parameters for PostgreSQL versions 13, 14, and 15. Network Latency : We ran both machines in the same region and conducted the tests from within the same box in that region.

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Benchmarking AWS Tuning Metrics 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. The example below visualizes average latency by API name and stage for a specific AWS API Gateway. Stay tuned for updates in Q1 2020. Dynatrace news. You can also create custom charts.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 137

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. The example below visualizes average latency by API name and stage for a specific AWS API Gateway. Stay tuned for updates in Q1 2020. Dynatrace news. You can also create custom charts.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 133

Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

The software also extends capabilities allowing fine-tuning consumption parameters through QoS (Quality of Service) prefetch limits catered toward balancing load among numerous consumers, thus preventing overwhelming any single consumer entity. Take Softonic’s platform as an example.

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IoT Ecommerce Games Scalability 130

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As developers, we rightfully obsess about the customer experience, relentlessly working to squeeze every millisecond out of the critical rendering path, optimize input latency, and eliminate jank. Stay tuned for more in 2022! Ilya Grigorik. 2021-11-08T14:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-08T19:34:34+00:00.

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 137

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

Unfortunately, this means that the age-old Telco bugbears will rear their ugly heads again, including latency. 5G, as a fundamental requirement, mandates a 1 millisecond latency from the datasource to its destination. This requires 1 ms network latency. These have to communicate with each other.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

Unfortunately, this means that the age-old Telco bugbears will rear their ugly heads again, including latency. 5G, as a fundamental requirement, mandates a 1 millisecond latency from the datasource to its destination. This requires 1 ms network latency. These have to communicate with each other.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You’ve probably heard things like: “HTTP/3 is much faster than HTTP/2 when there is packet loss”, or “HTTP/3 connections have less latency and take less time to set up”, and probably “HTTP/3 can send data more quickly and can send more resources in parallel”. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

VPC Endpoints give you the ability to control whether network traffic between your application and DynamoDB traverses the public Internet or stays within your virtual private cloud. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases.

Internet 113

Internet Internet AWS Performance 113

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

After this, there is often a long process of training that includes tuning the knobs and levers, called hyperparameters, that control the different aspects of the training algorithm. Built-in model tuning (hyperparameter optimization) that can automatically adjust hundreds of different combinations of algorithm parameters.

Tuning 77

Tuning AWS Scalability Infrastructure 77

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

eBPF was created by Alexei Starovoitov while at PLUMgrid (he's now at Facebook) as a generic in-kernel virtual machine, with software defined networks as the primary use case. Back then I could already tell if disks were seeking by interpreting iostat(1) output: seeing high disk latency but small I/O. eBPF does more.

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C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 105

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

Making queries to an inference engine has many of the same throughput, latency, and cost considerations as making queries to a datastore, and more and more applications are coming to depend on such queries. The following figure highlights how just one of these variables, batch size, impacts throughput and latency on ResNet50.

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

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. What Does It All Mean?

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 108

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

They can also bolster uptime and limit latency issues or potential downtimes. Consistently evaluating and tuning resource allocations based on use patterns helps prevent overprovisioning and reduces unnecessary expenses.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 30, 2018

A co-worker introduced me to Craig Hanson and Pat Crain's performance mantras, which neatly summarize much of what we do in performance analysis and tuning. I've refuted many benchmarks by showing that they would require a network throughput that would far exceed the maximum network bandwidth (off by, for example, as much as 10x!).

Benchmarking 47

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 47

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

The data shape will dictate capacity planning, tuning of the backbone, and scalability analysis for individual components. 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. At least once? At most once?

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Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

KeyCDN

JANUARY 31, 2019

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. The next closest active POP location to Bucharest was Istanbul which was still almost 900km away; this distance adds up in terms of latency. What’s Next?

Internet 48

Internet Internet Ecommerce Speed 48

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 29, 2018

A co-worker introduced me to Craig Hanson and Pat Crain's performance mantras, which neatly summarize much of what we do in performance analysis and tuning. I've refuted many benchmarks by showing that they would require a network throughput that would far exceed the maximum network bandwidth (off by, for example, as much as 10x!).

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 40

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. Although both countries are relatively close to one another, they are separated by a distance of approximately 500km, which adds up in terms of latency. What’s Next?

Internet 48

Internet Internet Speed Network 48

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. These rules determine to which origin data center each request will be directed, based on customer-defined conditions, within the Content Delivery Network (CDN) infrastructure.‍For A Load Balancer operates based on a set of guidelines.

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Network 52

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Hyperscale achieves high performance from each compute node having SSD-based caches which helps minimize the network round trips to fetch data. This works well for many SQL Server workloads, however, there have been use cases for a lower CPU latency and higher clock speed for CPU-heavy workloads and a need for higher memory per vCore.

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Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55