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Optimising for High Latency Environments

CSS Wizardry

This gives fascinating insights into the network topography of our visitors, and how much we might be impacted by high latency regions. Round-trip-time (RTT) is basically a measure of latency—how long did it take to get from one endpoint to another and back again? What is RTT? RTT isn’t a you-thing, it’s a them-thing.

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CDNs: Speed Up Performance by Reducing Latency

DZone

Welcome back to this series all about file uploads for the web. In the previous posts, we covered things we had to do to upload files on the front end, things we had to do on the back end, and optimizing costs by moving file uploads to object storage.

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What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Dynatrace

These metrics are latency, traffic, errors, and saturation, all of which must be key considerations when curating user experience. Below is a sample SRG dashboard for these signals: Latency Latency refers to the amount of time that data takes to transfer from one point to another within a system. Start a 15-day free trial today.

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Latency vs. Throughput: Navigating the Digital Highway

VoltDB

In this fast-paced ecosystem, two vital elements determine the efficiency of this traffic: latency and throughput. LATENCY: THE WAITING GAME Latency is like the time you spend waiting in line at your local coffee shop. All these moments combined represent latency – the time it takes for your order to reach your hands.

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Balancing Low Latency, High Availability, and Cloud Choice

VoltDB

Balancing Low Latency, High Availability and Cloud Choice Cloud hosting is no longer just an option — it’s now, in many cases, the default choice. Long-tail latency spikes would break a lot of if not most time-sensitive use cases, like IoT device control. But the cloud computing market, having grown to a whopping $483.9

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Bandwidth or Latency: When to Optimise for Which

CSS Wizardry

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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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

Plotted on the same horizontal axis of 1.6s, the waterfalls speak for themselves: 201ms of cumulative latency; 109ms of cumulative download. 4,362ms of cumulative latency; 240ms of cumulative download. When we talk about downloading files, we—generally speaking—have two things to consider: latency and bandwidth. It gets worse.

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