Monitoring domain allocation performance

• US 7,930,393 B1
• Filed: 09/29/2008
• Issued: 04/19/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Baumback, Mark S., Bettis, David William, Jenkins, Jonathan A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran; Philip B
• Application Number:
  US12/240,863
• Time in Patent Office: 932 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224, 709/223, 709/203, 709/226
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3495 for systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/86 Event-based monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/875 Monitoring of systems including the internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/06 Generation of reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0876 Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level

Abstract

Systems and methods for monitoring the performance associated with fulfilling resource requests and determining optimizations for improving such performance are provided. A processing device obtains and processes performance metric information associated with processing a request corresponding to two or more embedded resources. The processing device uses the processed performance metric information to determine an allocation of one or more domains to be associated with the two or more embedded resources. In some embodiments, in making such a determination, the processing device assesses performance metric information collected and associated with subsequent requests for the two or more embedded resources using each of a variety of alternative allocations of domains associated with the two or more embedded resources. The processing device may also consider a number of factors, including domain selection criteria obtained from an original content provider. Aspects of systems and methods for generating recommendations to use a particular allocation of domains to process a subsequent request corresponding to the two or more embedded resources are also provided.

Claims

1. A system for monitoring performance associated with processing a resource request, the system comprising:

a client computing component associated with a client computing device, wherein the client computing component is operable to determine a first set of performance data associated with processing a resource request, wherein the resource request corresponds to two or more embedded resources;

a performance measurement component associated with the client computing device, wherein the performance measurement component is operable to determine a second set of performance data associated with processing the resource request; and

a processing component operable to;

obtain, from the client computing component, the first set of performance data associated with processing the resource request;

obtain, from the performance measurement component, the second set of performance data associated with processing the resource request;

identify one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with a subsequent resource request as a function of both bandwidth and a threshold number of simultaneous connections for initiating requests to a single domain, wherein the subsequent resource request corresponds to the two or more embedded resources;

for each set of domains in the one or more sets of domains;

associate, for each embedded resource of the two or more embedded resources, a domain from the set of domains from which the associated embedded resource will be requested;

cause an initiation of the subsequent resource request associated with the set of domains; and

obtain, from the client computing component and the performance measurement component performance data related to processing of the subsequent resource request using the set of domains; and

dynamically determine a recommended allocation of domains to be associated with the two or more embedded resources based on the first and second sets of performance data and the performance data related to processing the subsequent resource request using each of the one or more sets of domains.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the processing component is further operable to generate code for the two or more embedded resources to be processed using the determined allocation of domains.

3. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein dynamically determining a recommended allocation of domains, by the processing component, is a function of bandwidth.

4. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein dynamically determining a recommended allocation of domains, by the processing component, is a function of a threshold number of simultaneous connections to a single domain by the client computing component.

5. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein dynamically determining a recommended allocation of domains, by the processing component, is based on domain selection criteria.

6. The system as recited in claim 5, wherein the domain selection criteria includes quality of service information.

7. The system as recited in claim 5, wherein the domain selection criteria includes cost information associated with processing the subsequent resource request.

8. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the processing component is further operable to obtain domain selection criteria from the content provider.

9. A method comprising:

under control of one or more configured computer systems, identifying one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with processing a request corresponding to two or more embedded resources;

for each set of domains in the one or more sets of domains;

associating, for each embedded resource of the two or more embedded resources, a domain from the set of domains from which the associated embedded resource will be requested;

causing an initiation of a request corresponding to the two or more embedded resources, wherein the request is associated with the set of domains; and

obtaining performance data related to processing of the request using the set of domains; and

dynamically determining a recommended allocation of domains to be associated with the two or more embedded resources based on the performance data.

10. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein obtaining performance data related to processing of the request using each of the one or more sets of domains comprises:

obtaining, from a client computing component, performance data associated with a record identifier, wherein the performance data is associated with processing the request;

obtaining, from a performance measurement component, performance data associated with a record identifier, wherein the performance data is associated with processing the request and includes timing information as to the receipt of the first and last bytes of data for each embedded resource associated with the request; and

associating the performance data from the client computing component and the performance measurement component using the record identifier.

11. The method as recited in claim 9 further comprising generating a recommendation to use the determined allocation of domains to process a subsequent request corresponding to the two or more embedded resources.

12. The method as recited in claim 9 further comprising generating code for the two or more embedded resources to be processed using the determined allocation of domains.

13. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein identifying one or more sets of domains is a function of bandwidth.

14. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein identifying one or more sets of domains is a function of a threshold number of simultaneous connections to a single domain.

15. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein identifying one or more sets of domains is a function of two or more of the group comprising:

a number of embedded resources corresponding to the request, a size associated with each of the embedded resources corresponding to the request, a bandwidth, a threshold number of simultaneous connections for initiating requests to a single domain, a total number of simultaneous connections regardless of domain, and an order of requesting the two or more embedded resources.

16. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein dynamically determining a recommended allocation of domains is a function of bandwidth.

17. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein dynamically determining a recommended allocation of domains is a function of a threshold number of simultaneous connections to a single domain.

18. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein dynamically determining a recommended allocation of domains is a function of an order of requesting the two or more embedded resources.

19. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein dynamically determining a recommended allocation of domains is a function of two or more of the group comprising:

a number of embedded resources corresponding to the request, a size associated with each of the embedded resources corresponding to the request, a bandwidth, a threshold number of simultaneous connections for initiating requests to a single domain, a total number of simultaneous connections regardless of domain, and an order of requesting the two or more embedded resources.

20. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein dynamically determining a recommended allocation of domains is further based on domain selection criteria.

21. The method as recited in claim 20, wherein the domain selection criteria includes quality of service information.

22. The method as recited in claim 20, wherein the domain selection criteria includes cost information associated with processing the request.

23. The method as recited in claim 9 further comprising obtaining, from a content provider, domain selection criteria.

24. The method as recited in claim 23, wherein dynamically determining a set of domains is further based on the domain selection criteria provided by the content provider.

25. A method comprising:

under control of one or more configured computer systems, obtaining, from a client computing device, performance data associated with processing a first resource request, wherein the first resource request corresponds to two or more embedded resources;

dynamically identifying one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with processing a subsequent request corresponding to the two or more embedded resources, wherein the one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with processing the subsequent request are different from one or more sets of domains utilized in conjunction with processing the first resource request;

for each set of domains in the one or more sets of domains, causing an initiation of the subsequent request corresponding to the two or more embedded resources, wherein the subsequent request is associated with the set of domains; and

dynamically determining a recommended allocation of domains to be associated with the two or more embedded resources based on the performance data associated with processing the subsequent request using each of the identified one or more sets of domains.

26. The method as recited in claim 25, wherein obtaining performance data associated with processing the requested resource comprises:

obtaining, from a client computing component, performance data associated with a record identifier, wherein the performance data is associated with processing the resource request;

obtaining, from a performance measurement component, performance data associated with a record identifier, wherein the performance data is associated with processing the resource request and includes timing information as to the receipt of the first and last bytes of data for each embedded resource associated with the request; and

associating the performance data from the client computing component and the performance measurement component using the record identifier.

27. The method as recited in claim 25, wherein dynamically identifying one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with the subsequent request is based on the obtained performance data.

28. The method as recited in claim 25, wherein dynamically identifying one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with the subsequent request comprises processing the obtained performance data and dynamically identifying one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with the subsequent request if the processed performance data fails to meet a predetermined level of performance.

29. The method as recited in claim 25, wherein dynamically identifying one or more sets of domains is a function of bandwidth.

30. The method as recited in claim 25, wherein dynamically identifying one or more sets of domains is a function of a threshold number of simultaneous connections to a single domain.

31. The method as recited in claim 25, wherein dynamically identifying one or more sets of domains is a function of two or more of the group comprising:

a number of embedded resources corresponding to the request, a size associated with each of the embedded resources corresponding to the request, a bandwidth, a threshold number of simultaneous connections to a single domain, a total number of simultaneous connections regardless of domain, and an order of requesting the two or more embedded resources.

32. The method as recited in claim 25, wherein dynamically identifying one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with the subsequent request is based on domain selection criteria.

33. The method as recited in claim 32, wherein the domain selection criteria includes quality of service information.

34. The method as recited in claim 32, wherein the domain selection criteria includes cost information associated with processing the subsequent request.

35. The method as recited in claim 25 further comprising obtaining, from the content provider, domain selection criteria, wherein dynamically identifying one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with the subsequent request is based on the obtained domain selection criteria.

36. The method as recited in claim 25 further comprising:

for each set of domains in the one or more sets of domains;

associating, for each embedded resource of the two or more embedded resources, a domain from the set of domains from which the associated embedded resource will be requested.

37. The method as recited in claim 36, wherein associating, for each embedded resource of the two or more embedded resources, a domain from the set of domains from which the associated embedded resource will be requested comprises translating a resource identifier corresponding to each of the two or more embedded resources such that requests for the two or more embedded resources are directed to the associated domain.

38. The method as recited in claim 25 further comprising providing a recommendation for processing a further subsequent resource request based on a comparison of the performance data associated with processing the first resource request with the performance data associated with processing the subsequent request using each of the identified one or more sets of domains, wherein the further subsequent resource request corresponds to the two or more embedded resources.

39. The method as recited in claim 25, wherein dynamically determining a recommended allocation of domains is further based on the performance data associated with processing the first resource request.

40. The method as recited in claim 25, wherein dynamically determining a recommended allocation of domains is a function of bandwidth.

41. The method as recited in claim 25, wherein dynamically determining a recommended allocation of domains is a function of a threshold number of simultaneous connections to a single domain.

42. The method as recited in claim 25, wherein dynamically determining a recommended allocation of domains is a function of an order of requesting the two or more embedded resources.

43. The method as recited in claim 25, wherein dynamically determining a recommended allocation of domains is a function of two or more of the group comprising:

a number of embedded resources corresponding to the request, a size associated with each of the embedded resources corresponding to the request, a bandwidth, a threshold number of simultaneous connections for initiating requests to a single domain, a total number of simultaneous connections regardless of domain, and an order of requesting the two or more embedded resources.

44. The method as recited in claim 25, wherein dynamically determining a recommended allocation of domains is further based on domain selection criteria.

45. The method as recited in claim 44, wherein the domain selection criteria includes quality of service information.

46. The method as recited in claim 44, wherein the domain selection criteria includes cost information associated with processing the subsequent request.