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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 Types of Performance Testing

CSS Wizardry

Things always always feel fast when we’re developing because, more often than not, we’re working on high-spec machines on dedicated networks, and also serving from localhost which removes the bulk of the latency and bandwidth issues that a real user would suffer. Unfortunately, most issues do not get captured at this point. Who: Engineers.

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Current status, needs, and challenges in Heterogeneous and Composable Memory from the HCM workshop (HPCA’23)

ACM Sigarch

To understand the current status, needs, and challenges in HCM, the first workshop for Heterogeneous and Composable Memory was held with HPCA’23 on Feb 26, 2023. This article lays out the ideas and discussions shared at the workshop. Figure 2: Latency characteristics of memory technologies (source: Maruf et al.,

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Meet Hydrogen: A React Framework For Dynamic, Contextual And Personalized E-Commerce

Smashing Magazine

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. Jump to the workshop ?. (vf, Ilya Grigorik. 2021-11-08T14:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-08T19:34:34+00:00. Online, and live.

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5 Steps to Accelerate your Cloud Migration with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

For a recent technical workshop I did with one of our strategic cloud partners, I created a deck that aims to answer exactly this question. Remember: This is a critical aspect as you do not want to migrate a service and suddenly introduce high latency or costs to a system that you forgot about having a dependency with!

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Percentiles don’t work: Analyzing the distribution of response times for web services

Adrian Cockcroft

The mean and percentile measurements hide this structure, but the rest of this post will show how the structure can be measured and analyzed so that you can figure out a useful model of your system, understand what is driving the long tail of latencies and come up with better SLAs and measures of capacity.

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As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

All Things Distributed

This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. The Region will be in the heart of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, and we're aiming to have it ready by early 2019. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally.

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