Optimizing resource configurations

• US 8,549,531 B2
• Filed: 09/13/2012
• Issued: 10/01/2013
• 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): Coleman, Eric
• Application Number:
  US13/615,175
• Publication Number:
  US 20130007273A1
• Time in Patent Office: 383 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 718/104
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5061 Partitioning or combining of resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/823 Prediction of resource usage
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/83 based on usage prediction

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 a set of resources. The processing device uses the processed performance metric information to determine a resource configuration to be associated with the set of resources. In making such a determination, the processing device can assess performance metric information collected and associated with subsequent requests corresponding to the content associated with the set of resources and using each of a variety of alternative resource configurations. The processing device may also consider a number of factors. Aspects of systems and methods for generating recommendations to use a particular resource configuration to process a subsequent request corresponding to the content associated with the set of resources are also provided.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

at least one computing device having specific executable instructions stored in an associated memory and operative to;

identify one or more resource configurations to be utilized in conjunction with processing a request associated with a set of resources, wherein the set of resources corresponds to an original resource and any embedded resources associated with content requested by a client computing device;

for individual resource configurations;

cause an initiation of a request corresponding to the set of resources, wherein the request is associated with the resource configuration; and

obtain performance data related to processing of the request using the resource configuration; and

dynamically determine a recommended resource configuration to be associated with the set of resources based on the performance data.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein at least one of the one or more resource configurations comprises configuration information corresponding to an order of requesting the set of resources.

3. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein at least one of the one or more resource configurations comprises configuration information corresponding to an allocation of domains to be associated with the set of resources.

4. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein at least one of the one or more resource configurations comprises a consolidation configuration identifying one or more sets of the set of resources to be consolidated.

5. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein at least one of the one or more resource configurations comprises configuration information corresponding to utilizing one or more network-based service providers to host or process at least a portion of the content on behalf of a content provider or enable transmission of at least a portion of the content.

6. A system comprising:

at least one computing device having specific executable instructions stored in an associated memory and operative to;

obtain, from a client computing device, performance data associated with processing a first resource request, wherein the first resource request corresponds to a set of resources, and wherein the set of resources corresponds to an original resource and any embedded resources associated with content requested by the client computing device; and

dynamically identify one or more resource configurations to be utilized in conjunction with processing a subsequent request corresponding to the content associated with the set of resources, wherein the one or more resource configurations to be utilized in conjunction with processing the subsequent request are different from a resource configuration utilized in conjunction with processing the first resource request.

7. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein dynamically identifying one or more resource configurations to be utilized in conjunction with the subsequent request is based on the obtained performance data.

8. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein at least one of the one or more resource configurations comprises configuration information corresponding to an order of requesting the set of resources.

9. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein at least one of the one or more resource configurations comprises configuration information corresponding to an allocation of domains to be associated with the set of resources.

10. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein at least one of the one or more resource configurations comprises a consolidation configuration identifying one or more sets of the resources to be consolidated.

11. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein at least one of the one or more resource configurations comprises configuration information corresponding to utilizing one or more network-based service providers to host or process at least a portion of the content on behalf of a content provider or enable transmission of at least a portion of the content.

12. A computer-implemented method comprising:

identifying, by a computing device configured with specific executable instructions, one or more resource configurations to be utilized in conjunction with processing a request for content from a client computing device, wherein the content comprises two or more embedded resources;

for individual resource configurations;

causing an initiation of a request associated with the resource configuration; and

obtaining performance data related to processing the request using the resource configuration; and

dynamically determining a recommended resource configuration to be associated with the two or more embedded resources based on the performance data.

13. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein causing an initiation of a request for content associated with the resource configuration comprises causing an initiation of a request for at least a portion of the two or more embedded resources corresponding to the content.

14. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein causing an initiation of a request associated with the resource configuration comprises causing an initiation of a request for the two or more embedded resources corresponding to the content.

15. The method as recited in claim 12 further comprising generating a recommendation to use the determined resource configuration to process a subsequent request corresponding to the content comprising the two or more embedded resources.

16. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein at least one of the one or more resource configurations comprises configuration information corresponding to an order of requesting at least a portion of the two or more embedded resources.

17. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein at least one of the one or more resource configurations comprises configuration information corresponding to an allocation of domains to be associated with at least a portion of the two or more embedded resources.

18. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein at least one of the one or more resource configurations comprises a consolidation configuration identifying one or more sets of two or more embedded resources to be consolidated.

19. A system comprising:

at least one computing device having specific executable instructions stored in an associated memory and operative to;

identify one or more resource configurations to be utilized in conjunction with processing a request for content from a client computing device, wherein the content comprises two or more embedded resources;

for individual resource configurations;

cause an initiation of a request associated with the resource configuration; and

obtain performance data related to processing the request using the resource configuration; and

dynamically determine a recommended resource configuration to be associated with the two or more embedded resources based on the performance data.

20. The system as recited in claim 19, wherein causing an initiation of a request for content associated with the resource configuration comprises causing an initiation of a request for at least a portion of the two or more embedded resources corresponding to the content.

21. The system as recited in claim 19, wherein causing an initiation of a request associated with the resource configuration comprises causing an initiation of a request for the two or more embedded resources corresponding to the content.

22. The system as recited in claim 19, wherein the at least one computing device is further operable to generate a recommendation to use the determined resource configuration to process a subsequent request corresponding to the content comprising the two or more embedded resources.

23. The system as recited in claim 19, wherein at least one of the one or more resource configurations comprises configuration information corresponding to an order of requesting at least a portion of the two or more embedded resources.

24. The system as recited in claim 19, wherein at least one of the one or more resource configurations comprises configuration information corresponding to an allocation of domains to be associated with at least a portion of the two or more embedded resources.

25. The system as recited in claim 19, wherein at least one of the one or more resource configurations comprises a consolidation configuration identifying one or more sets of two or more embedded resources to be consolidated.