The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Orbital edge computing: nanosatellite constellations as a new class of computer system , Denby & Lucia, ASPLOS’20. Only space system architects don’t call it request-response, they call it a ‘ bent-pipe architecture.’. Nanosatellite systems have a GSD of around 3.0m/px. Satellites are changing! Physical constraints.

Systems 125

Systems Latency Architecture Energy 125

DZone

MAY 1, 2023

It is a transversal component that applies to all the tech areas and architecture layers such as operating systems, data platforms, backend, frontend, and other components. Caches are very useful software components that all engineers must know.

Cache 141

Cache Strategy Latency Operating System 141

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

GenAI is prone to erratic behavior due to unforeseen data scenarios or underlying system issues. Figure 1: Sample RAG architecture While this approach significantly improves the response quality of GenAI applications, it also introduces new challenges.

Cache 213

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 213

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Every organization’s goal is to keep its systems available and resilient to support business demands. Lastly, error budgets, as the difference between a current state and the target, represent the maximum amount of time a system can fail per the contractual agreement without repercussions. Example 1: Architecture boundaries.

Automotive 278

Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 278

Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

As organizations continue to modernize their technology stacks, many turn to Kubernetes , an open source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. You can ask for the best configuration to reduce latency or improve the user experience.” It’s not just a cost-reduction tool.

Engineering 235

Engineering DevOps Operating System Open Source 235

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

SLOG: serializable, low-latency, geo-replicated transactions Ren et al., SLOG is another research system motivated by the needs of the application developer (aka, user!). Building correct applications is much easier when the system provides strict serializability guarantees. VLDB’19. Multi-home transactions.

Latency 70

Latency Processing Benchmarking Systems 70

Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

The following figure shows the high-level architecture where any load testing solution (e.g. The optimization goal was to improve the application efficiency, that is to improve the ratio between service throughput and cloud costs while not increasing the application latency (e.g. below 500ms) and error rates (e.g. lower than 2%.).

Latency 213

Latency Tuning Efficiency AWS 213

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. However, Redis, with its single-threaded architecture, may encounter bottlenecks with large numbers of concurrent connections.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report found that over 60% of system outages resulted in at least $100,000 in total losses, up from 39% in 2019. Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed. Make SLOs realistic.

Best Practices 230

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 230

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis® monitoring is essential for any tech professional. Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

As more organizations embrace microservices-based architecture to deliver goods and services digitally, maintaining customer satisfaction has become exponentially more challenging. Latency is the time that it takes a request to be served. Define SLOs for each service. Reliability. This is what Dynatrace captures as response time.

Software 273

Software Software Benchmarking Latency 273

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

Engineers want their alerting system to be realtime, reliable, and actionable. A few years ago, we were paged by our SRE team due to our Metrics Alerting System falling behind — critical application health alerts reached engineers 45 minutes late! In other words, false positives are bad but false negatives are the absolute worst!

Storage 288

Storage Cache Metrics Database 288

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Understanding Hybrid Cloud Strategy A hybrid cloud merges the capabilities of public and private clouds into a singular, coherent system. The architecture usually integrates several private, public, and on-premises infrastructures. We will examine each of these elements in more detail.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. Within this paradigm, it is possible to run entire architectures without touching a traditional virtual server, either locally or in the cloud. What is serverless computing?

Serverless 245

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 245

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. SRE applies DevOps principles to developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.

Engineering 260

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 260

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

If system failures occur, teams must resolve them quickly and resolutely. Maximizing a strong foundation of IT infrastructure performance and security means effectively utilizing all the data that these systems produce to drive risk management processes and decision-making. Automate stress-testing and regulatory reporting requirements.

Analytics 210

Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology 210

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 17, 2019

On modern Linux systems, the difference in overhead between forking a process and creating a thread is much lesser than it used to be. Moving to a multithreaded architecture will require extensive rewrites. The PostgreSQL Architecture | Source. The Connection Pool Architecture.

Architecture 200

Architecture Database Latency Servers 200

Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

I don’t advocate “Serverless Only”, and I recommended that if you need sustained high traffic, low latency and higher efficiency, then you should re-implement your rapid prototype as a continuously running autoscaled container, as part of a larger serverless event driven architecture, which is what they did.

Serverless 145

Serverless Lambda Best Practices Traffic 145

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. Storing frequently accessed data in faster storage, usually in-memory caching, improves data retrieval speed and overall system performance. Beyond

AWS 257

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 257

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. I won’t cover all the features but show just enough that you’ll want to see more of what you can learn to accomplish for yourself.

Database 105

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 105

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Here are two renderings of the same Gmail inbox in different architectural styles: one based on Ajax, and the other on "basic" HTML : The Ajax version of Gmail loads 4.8MiB of resources, including 3.8MiB of JavaScript to load an inbox containing two messages. The system is ready to receive input. A Battle Between Two Teams #.

Performance 104

Performance Latency Architecture Network 104

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. Login & Authentication: Systems that verify user credentials and maintain session-specific data.Â

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. Login & Authentication: Systems that verify user credentials and maintain session-specific data.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

ACM Sigarch

MARCH 18, 2019

Computer systems, from the Internet-of-Things devices to datacenters, are complex and optimizing them can enhance capability and save money. Developing simulators, however, is time-consuming and requires a great deal of infrastructure development regarding a prospective system. Answered in Part 2.). Bottleneck Analysis.

Systems 60

Systems Latency Performance Analytics 60

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. Dynatrace news. But what is observability? Why is it important, and what can it actually help organizations achieve? What is observability?

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Complex information systems fail in unexpected ways. Observability gives developers and system operators real-time awareness of a highly distributed system’s current state based on the data it generates. With observability, teams can understand what part of a system is performing poorly and how to correct the problem.

Artificial Intelligence 186

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps 186

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. SRE applies DevOps principles to developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.

Engineering 184

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 184

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs Tan et al., We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems. Each systems begins from a cold start unless explicitly stated otherwise in the results. VLDB’19. Key findings.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Organizations are depending more and more on distributed architectures to provide application services. Logging provides additional data but is typically viewed in isolation of a broader system context. Monitoring is capturing and displaying data, whereas observability can discern system health by analyzing its inputs and outputs.

Monitoring 230

Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability 230

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

Architecture. The streaming data store makes the system extensible to support other use-cases (e.g. System Components. The system will comprise of several micro-services each performing a separate task. Sending and receiving messages from other users. High Level Design. Fetching User Feed. Optimization.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence 211

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 211

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Cloud-based application architectures commonly leverage microservices. High latency or lack of responses. You receive an alert message from Dynatrace (your infrastructure observability hub) letting you know that the average response latency of all deployed APIs has tripled. Soaring number of active connections.

Infrastructure 194

Infrastructure Latency Metrics Analytics 194

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. The recently announced CXL3.0

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

cdemi

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Serverless is currently a hot topic in many modern architectural patterns. Serverless systems are still in their infancy. Serverless systems are still in their infancy. There will be many advances in the field over the coming years and it will be fascinating to see how they fit into our architectural toolkit. Advantages.

Serverless 64

Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 64

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase. In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase. In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform. Fault Tolerance If the underlying KafkaConsumer crashes due to ephemeral system or network events, it should be automatically restarted. million elements.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213