Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Matt Zeunert 2025-02-12T17:00:00+00:00 2025-02-13T01:34:15+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Loading your website HTML quickly has a big impact on visitor experience. TCP: Establishing a reliable connection to the server.

Servers 78

Servers Latency Cache Website 78

DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Benefits of Caching Improved performance: Caching eliminates the need to retrieve data from the original source every time, resulting in faster response times and reduced latency. Reduced server load: By serving cached content, the load on the server is reduced, allowing it to handle more requests and improving overall scalability.

Cache 246

Cache Scalability Performance Latency 246

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Redis Server: 5.07, x86/64. MongoDB server: 4.4.2, BangDB server: 2.0.0, We note that for MongoDB update latency is really very low (low is better) compared to other dbs, however the read latency is on the higher side. Again Yugabyte latency is quite high. The latency table for test D is as below.

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Benchmarking Latency C++ Database 308

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

These events are promptly relayed from the client side to our servers, entering a centralized event processing queue. Automating Performance Tuning with Autoscalers Tuning the performance of our Apache Flink jobs is currently a manual process. This queue ensures we are consistently capturing raw events from our global userbase.

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Tuning Latency Efficiency Storage 166

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

The first phase involves validating functional correctness, scalability, and performance concerns and ensuring the new systems’ resilience before the migration. These include Quality-of-Experience(QoE) measurements at the customer device level, Service-Level-Agreements (SLAs), and business-level Key-Performance-Indicators(KPIs).

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Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 347

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Firstly, developers struggled to reason about consistency, durability and performance in this complex global deployment across multiple stores. These include challenges with tail latency and idempotency, managing “wide” partitions with many rows, handling single large “fat” columns, and slow response pagination.

Latency 260

Latency Storage Cache Servers 260

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. Before GraphQL: Monolithic Falcor API implemented and maintained by the API Team Before moving to GraphQL, our API layer consisted of a monolithic server built with Falcor. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

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Traffic Latency Metrics Cache 357

Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

High performance. Does it affect latency? Yes, you can see an increase in latency. So, if you’re hosting your application in AWS or Azure and move your database to DigitalOcean, you will see an increase in latency. Meltdown Performance Impact on MongoDB: AWS, Azure & DigitalOcean. Simple pricing.

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Azure AWS Database Latency 344

CSS Wizardry

JANUARY 31, 2019

When it comes to network performance, there are two main limiting factors that will slow you down: bandwidth and latency. Latency is defined as…. Where bandwidth deals with capacity, latency is more about speed of transfer 2. and reduction in latency. and reduction in latency. Bandwidth is defined as….

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Latency Network Speed Servers 137

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

A lot of people surmise that TTFB is merely time spent on the server, but that is only a small fraction of the true extent of things. The first—and often most surprising for people to learn—thing that I want to draw your attention to is that TTFB counts one whole round trip of latency. But what else is TTFB?

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Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 270

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Jose Fernandez , Sebastien Dabdoub , Jason Koch , Artem Tkachuk The Compute and Performance Engineering teams at Netflix regularly investigate performance issues in our multi-tenant environment. Traditional performance analysis tools such as perf can introduce significant overhead, risking further performance degradation.

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Latency Metrics Programming Monitoring 262

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Secondly, determining the correct allocation of resources (CPU, memory, storage) to each virtual machine to ensure optimal performance without over-provisioning can be difficult. This presents a challenge for IT operations teams, specifically in identifying and addressing performance issues or planning how to prevent future issues.

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Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 264

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When serving and storing files on the web, there are a number of different things we need to take into consideration in order to balance ergonomics, performance, and effectiveness. Concatenating our files on the server: Are we going to send many smaller files, or are we going to send one monolithic file? That’s almost 22× more!

Cache 348

Cache Latency Strategy Speed 348

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. 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. SLOs improve software quality.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 306

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Citrix is a sophisticated, efficient, and highly scalable application delivery platform that is itself comprised of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of servers. Platform performance —get visibility into the performance of the Citrix platform to optimize application delivery. Dynatrace Extension: SAP ABAP platform performance.

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Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 164

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Sure, cloud infrastructure requires comprehensive performance visibility, as Dynatrace provides , but the services that leverage cloud infrastructures also require close attention. Well-defined APIs are required for managing such microservices and tracking changes in their performance. High latency or lack of responses.

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Infrastructure Latency Metrics Cloud 263

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

By having appropriate indexes on your MySQL tables, you can greatly enhance the performance of SELECT queries. During this time, you are also likely to experience a degraded performance of queries as your system resources are busy in index-creation work as well. Performance Benefits of Rolling Index Creation. EC2 instance m4.large

Best Practices 239

Best Practices Latency Tuning Database 239

SQL Shack

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In this article, we will learn how to use Apache JMeter to perform a load test on SQL Server. This test type enables us to measure the application behaviors under specific conditions so that it enables us to observe a variety of resource consumptions (CPU, memory, latency, response times, etc) and it also helps to […].

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Servers Testing Performance Latency 115

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital.

Latency 239

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 239

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

You get all the multicore Anna performance you want, but you don’t pay for what you don’t need. Just to throw out some numbers, we measured Anna providing 355x the performance of DynamoDB for the dollar. Each storage server collects statistics about the requests it serves, the data it stores, etc.

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Storage Performance AWS Cloud 199

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. Taking a very reductive and simplistic view of how files are transmitted from server to client, we need to look at TCP. Browser Support: A brief interlude. packet loss).

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Latency Servers Website Speed 302

CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

Critical assets are far too valuable to leave on someone else’s servers. Every new origin we need to visit needs a connection opening, and that can be very costly: DNS resolution, TCP handshakes, and TLS negotiation all add up, and the story gets worse the higher the latency of the connection is. Risk: Service Shutdowns. to just 3.6s.

Cache 274

Cache Latency Infrastructure Website 274

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Despite the name, serverless computing still uses servers. This means companies can access the exact resources they need whenever they need them, rather than paying for server space and computing power they only need occasionally. If servers reach maximum load and capacity in-house, something has to give before adding new services.

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Serverless Infrastructure Lambda Latency 241

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Furthermore, tools like LangChain leverage large language models (LLM) as one of their basic building blocks for creating AI agents (think of AI agents as APIs that perform a series of chat interactions that target a desired outcome) which perform complex and potentially large queries against an LLM like GPT-4.

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Monitoring Latency Metrics Azure 241

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. Optimizing Lambda for performance. What is AWS Lambda? Data entering a stream.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 258

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2025

Too many concurrent server requests can lead to website crashes if youre not equipped to deal with them. How To Design For High-Traffic Events Lets take a look at six ways to design websites for high-traffic events, without worrying about website crashes and other performance-related issues. Lets jump right in!

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Traffic Website Design Cache 86

DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

As an engineer, you probably know that server performance under heavy load is crucial for maintaining the availability and responsiveness of your services. In this post, we'll explore both strategies through a simple simulation in Colab, allowing you to see the impact of changing parameters on system performance.

Strategy 147

Strategy Latency Availability Traffic 147

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. – A Dynatrace customer, Head of Performance Engineering. For Premium HA, this has been extended from 10 ms latency (in the same network region) to around 100 ms network latency due to asynchronous data replication between regions.

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Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 264

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Karthik Yagna , Baskar Odayarkoil , and Alex Ellis Pushy is Netflix’s WebSocket server that maintains persistent WebSocket connections with devices running the Netflix application. Finally, the device receives the message, and the action, such as “Show me Stranger Things on Netflix”, is performed.

Latency 234

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2023

Dynatrace is a launch partner in support of AWS Lambda Response Streaming , a new capability enabling customers to improve the efficiency and performance of their Lambda functions. Customers can use AWS Lambda Response Streaming to improve performance for latency-sensitive applications and return larger payload sizes.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Latency 246

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Validation tasks are then extended left to cover performance testing and release validation in a pre-production environment. More precisely, this team uses AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) to run fault injection to improve the application’s performance and resiliency. The queries are depicted below (sensitive data has been removed).

DevOps 246

DevOps Traffic Latency Best Practices 246

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

Reduced tail latencies In both our GRPC and DGS Framework services, GC pauses are a significant source of tail latencies. That’s particularly true of our GRPC clients and servers, where request cancellations due to timeouts interact with reliability features such as retries, hedging and fallbacks.

Latency 237

Latency Java Tuning Efficiency 237

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.) from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.) High Level Design. Architecture.

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Design Media Storage Logistics 334

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 4, 2023

AI model observability plays a crucial role in achieving this by addressing these key aspects: Model performance and reliability: Evaluating the model’s ability to provide accurate and timely responses, ensuring stability, and assessing domain-specific semantic accuracy. Maintained under the Apache 2.0

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Open Source Metrics Java Latency 279

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.

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Cache Latency Traffic Systems 233

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. There are now many more applications, tools, and infrastructure variables that impact an application’s performance and availability.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

An AI observability strategy—which monitors IT system performance and costs—may help organizations achieve that balance. AI performs frequent data transfers. AI observability is the use of artificial intelligence to capture the performance and cost details generated by various systems in an IT environment.

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