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

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This dual-path approach leverages Kafkas capability for low-latency streaming and Icebergs efficient management of large-scale, immutable datasets, ensuring both real-time responsiveness and comprehensive historical data availability. million impression events globally every second, with each event approximately 1.2KB in size.

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Tuning Latency Efficiency Storage 166

DZone

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Factors like read and write speed, latency, and data distribution methods are essential. But if your application primarily revolves around batch processing of large datasets, then focusing on write speed could mislead your selection process. Yet, they are often evaluated in isolation, removed from the business context.

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Database Latency Speed Metrics 278

Scalegrid

APRIL 23, 2021

Both Redis and Memcached are: NoSQL in-memory data structures Written in C Open source Used to speed up applications Support sub-millisecond latency In 2014, Salvatore wrote an excellent StackOverflow post on […]. Memcached, on the other hand, was created in 2003 by Brad Fitzpatrick.

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Open Source Latency C++ Speed 264

DZone

JULY 2, 2024

Speed and scalability are significant issues today, at least in the application landscape. We compare throughput, operations per second, and latency under different loads, namely the P90 and P99 percentiles. However, the question arises of choosing the best one.

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Scalability Performance Benchmarking Games 264

DZone

JUNE 22, 2023

The goal is to help developers, technical managers, and business owners understand the importance of API performance optimization and how they can improve the speed, scalability, and reliability of their APIs. API performance optimization is the process of improving the speed, scalability, and reliability of APIs.

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Scalability Design Best Practices Performance 245

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing systems, designed for continuous, low-latency processing, demand swift recovery mechanisms to tolerate and mitigate failures effectively. This significantly increases event latency. Spark Structured Streaming can also provide consistent fault recovery for applications where latency is not a critical requirement.

Engineering 245

Engineering Tuning Latency Open Source 245

DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Caching is the process of storing frequently accessed data or resources in a temporary storage location, such as memory or disk, to improve retrieval speed and reduce the need for repetitive processing.

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Cache Scalability Performance Latency 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

The Akamas vision is that only an autonomous optimization approach powered by AI can effectively enable performance engineers, SREs, and architects to identify the best configurations that ensure maximum service performance and resilience, at the lowest possible cost and at business speed. below 500ms) and error rates (e.g. lower than 2%.).

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Latency Tuning Efficiency AWS 246

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

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. Thats where network latency comes in, or network round trip time (RTT) if we look at the time it takes to send data to a server and receive a response in the browser.

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Servers Latency Cache Website 78

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

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. The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections. Last mile latency deals with the disproportionate complexity toward the terminus of a connection.

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Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 270

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

SREs use Service-Level Indicators (SLI) to see the complete picture of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across various systems, especially revenue-critical systems. Thus, Site Reliability Guardian supports DevOps and SREs in speeding up release delivery and improving release quality.

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DevOps Latency Traffic Best Practices 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

As organizations digitally transform, they’re also accelerating the speed of software delivery. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time. Both latency and response time are critical to ensure reliability. Latency primarily focuses on the time spent in transit.

Latency 245

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 245

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure. Reads and writes to your Primary, and even reads from Slave-1 will work at SSD speed. Amazon RDS.

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AWS Latency Performance Performance Testing 183

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

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Cloud-native environments bring speed and agility to software development and operations (DevOps) practices. But with that speed and agility comes new complications and complexity, all while maintaining performance and reliability with less than 1% down-time per year. Reduced latency. SRE as an application of DevOps. Efficiency.

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DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google 268

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

By monitoring metrics such as error rates, response times, and network latency, developers can identify trends and potential issues, so they don’t become critical. Load time and network latency metrics. Minimizing the number of network requests that your app makes can improve performance by reducing latency and improving load times.

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Best Practices Mobile Metrics Performance 246

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed. At the lowest level, SLIs provide a view of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across systems. However, cloud complexity has made software delivery challenging.

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Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 246

CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

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. TCP, Packets, and Round Trips. The point I’m driving at here is that it’s not just about file-size, it’s about TCP, packets, and round trips.

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Latency Servers Website Speed 302

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. It’s right there in the name!

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Speed Google Website Metrics 117

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

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. For example: All subfolders of the /opt directory are mounted as local, low latency, high-throughput drives, with relatively low storage capacity. Customizable location of large runtime files.

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Storage Latency Operating System Network 227

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.” SRE drives a “shift left” mindset.

Engineering 264

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 264

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? I've shared many posts about superpower observability tools, but often humble hacking is just as effective. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Establishing clear, consistent, and effective quality gates that are automatically validated at each phase of the delivery pipeline is essential for improving software quality and speeding up delivery. Automating quality gates creates reliable checks and balances and speeds up the process by avoiding manual intervention.

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Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A data lakehouse features the flexibility and cost-efficiency of a data lake with the contextual and high-speed querying capabilities of a data warehouse. Data lakehouses ingest large structured and unstructured data volumes at a very high speed in their raw, native form. Data lakehouses deliver the query response with minimal latency.

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Artificial Intelligence Storage Analytics Government 246

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency. Figure 3: Video Processing with Index and Virtual Assembly Using virtual assembly greatly improves the latency performance of the ProRes 422 HQ proxy generation by removing one round trip of cloud downloading and cloud uploading by the physical assembler.

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Cloud Media Storage Cache 242

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Dynomite is a Netflix open source wrapper around Redis that provides a few additional features like auto-sharding and cross-region replication, and it provided Pushy with low latency and easy record expiry, both of which are critical for Pushy’s workload. As Pushy’s portfolio grew, we experienced some pain points with Dynomite.

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Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Without distributed tracing, pinpointing the cause of increased latency could take hours or even days. This empowers application teams to gain fast and relevant insights effortlessly, as Dynatrace provides logs in context, with all essential details and unique insights at speed.

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Performance Architecture Innovation Latency 290

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2025

This means that youre able to handle sudden traffic surges without the hassle of resource monitoring and without compromising on speed. This means that you can reduce latency and speed up your content delivery times , regardless of where your customers are based.

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Traffic Website Design Cache 86

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.” SRE drives a “shift left” mindset.

Engineering 245

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 245

Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

Observability can identify the baseline user experience and allow teams to improve it by optimizing page load times or reducing latency. Full-stack observability helps DevOps teams quickly identify potential issues in the CI/CD pipeline , fixing problems with greater speed and confidence. Why full-stack observability matters.

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DevOps Innovation Infrastructure Cloud 303

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

For example, data collected on load actions can include navigation start, request start, and speed index metrics. Providing insight into the service latency to help developers identify poorly performing code. Real user monitoring collects data on a variety of metrics. Want to learn more? Link RUM business objectives to technical goals.

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Monitoring Mobile Latency Best Practices 245

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Site Reliability Guardian helps automate release validation based on SLOs and important signals that define the expected behavior of your applications in terms of availability, performance errors, throughput, latency, etc. A study by Amazon found that increasing page load time by just 100 milliseconds costs 1% in sales.

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AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 305

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). connectivity, access, user count, latency) of geographic regions.

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Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 244

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Measuring application performance is increasingly important because as organizations digitally transform, they’re also accelerating the speed of software delivery. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time. Both latency and response time are critical to ensure reliability.

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Traffic Website Latency Virtualization 173

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. What's changed ?

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Storage Performance AWS Cloud 199