Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. html [60s checklist]: /Articles/Netflix_Linux_Perf_Analysis_60s.pdf [re:Invent talk]: [link] [recommendation]: [link] [Nitro]: /blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtualization-2017.html

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability is a cornerstone of any database system and starting with SQL Server 2017 on Linux Cumulative Update 6 (CU6), SQL Server on Linux enables “Forced Flush” behavior as described in this article , improving durability on non-Fua optimized systems. “Be Linux may need similar utilities to control various hardware cache installations.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. In this blog post, we will talk about MongoDB sharding and walk through the main reasons why you should start a cluster (independent of the approach you have chosen). 2) Hardware limitations Disk and memory are inexpensive nowadays.

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy. Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run. Failover is essential to minimizing downtime.

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Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Check out this blog to learn how to avoid disaster! This means that multiple partitions can be processed simultaneously, making better use of available hardware resources and further enhancing query performance. So, What is MySQL Partitioning?

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Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

On multi-core machines – which is the majority of the hardware nowadays – and in the cloud, we have multiple cores available for use. The queries are similar to those I’ve used in older blog posts comparing MySQL and Apache Spark performance ( [link] ). With faster disks (i.e. AWS Aurora (based on MySQL 5.6)

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. html [60s checklist]: /Articles/Netflix_Linux_Perf_Analysis_60s.pdf [re:Invent talk]: [link] [recommendation]: [link] [Nitro]: /blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtualization-2017.html

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The size of the release was expected in some corners, owing to the torrent of WebKit blog posts over the last few weeks: Jan. A 2017 attempt to revive it was shot down in 2018 by Apple engineers without evidence or data. 31st : Web Share changes Feb. 6th : Form participation for Web Components Feb. 13th : Declarative Shadow DOM Feb.

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ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel prize in Economics for his work on Behavioral Economics. Hardware engineers design and implement solutions in RTL, while software engineers attempt to solve the problem either at the OS or application level. We believed existing hardware and OS protocols protected the processor.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. The blog you're reading loads over a single connection in ~1.2 So what did $650, give or take, buy in late 2017 or early 2018? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

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Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

This blog was originally published in February 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Failover ensures that if the primary MySQL server becomes unavailable due to hardware failure or another issue, the system seamlessly switches to a standby replica. One approach is the implementation of failover mechanisms.

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Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

I wrote a blog in 2016 that discussed the need for businesses to flip the traditional monitoring investment pyramid on its head. Instead of focusing on hardware and infrastructure first, technical teams should first ensure that they first have visibility on the thing that drives the business: their customer experience.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

WebGL 2 launched for other platforms on Chrome and Firefox in 2017. is access to hardware devices. This allows customisation and use of specialised features without custom, proprietary software for niche hardware. Some commenters appear to confuse unlike hardware for differences in software. Shape Detection.

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Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 28, 2017

they launched in October 2017, and were founded by people with experience at Nest (thermostats) and August (locks). While it’s still new to the market, I thought it was worth a try, so over the last few weeks I installed it, and thought it was still novel enough to be worth writing up as a blog post.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

By Fabio Kung , Sargun Dhillon , Andrew Spyker , Kyle , Rob Gulewich, Nabil Schear , Andrew Leung , Daniel Muino, and Manas Alekar As previously discussed on the Netflix Tech Blog, Titus is the Netflix container orchestration system. Road to Implementation We began work to enable user namespaces in early 2017.

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