Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This allows teams to sidestep much of the cost and time associated with managing hardware, platforms, and operating systems on-premises, while also gaining the flexibility to scale rapidly and efficiently. Every time the trigger executes, the function runs on an available resource. This creates latency when they need to restart.

Serverless 241

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 241

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Checking those available: $ cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Here are the bombshell paragraphs: Our datacenter applications seek ever more CPU-efficient and lower-latency communication, which Pony Express delivers. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand. When under/over provisioning is not a concern, this can deliver very low latency. Emphasis mine).

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Gen 5 is the primary hardware option now for most regions since Gen 4 is aging out. Microsoft took that idea and built a new compute tier called Azure SQL Database serverless, which became generally available in November 2019. New Hardware Configuration for Provisioned Compute Tier. GB per vCore. Conclusion.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X 25.84 - Total 21.04

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

This boils down to a single digit µs latency toleration in the tail for far memory, and in addition to security and privacy concerns, rules out remote memory solutions. Zswap is readily available and runs as a swap device in the Linux kernel. ML-based auto-tuning. Google use zswap to implement their far memory tier. Evaluation.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

The Morning Paper

MARCH 17, 2020

One thing they all had in common is an evaluation using some kind of simulation of the expected behaviour of NVDIMMs, because the real thing wasn’t yet available. The Optane DIMM is the first scalable, commercially available NVDIMM. The read latency for Optane is 2x-3x higher than DRAM. But now it is!

Scalability 59

Scalability Latency Cache Media 59

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

cpupower frequency-info analyzing CPU 0: driver: intel_pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0 maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00 hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT).

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Each of the two vector units can issue one FMA instruction per cycle, assuming that there are enough independent accumulators to tolerate the 6-cycle dependent-operation latency. This is an uninspiring fraction of peak performance that would normally suggest significant inefficiencies in either the hardware or software.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. Example 1: ​​ Hardware failure (CPU board) Battery backup on the caching controller maintained the data. Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. driver: intel_pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 . maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. . hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 3.80 innodb_read_only=0.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

The data shape will dictate capacity planning, tuning of the backbone, and scalability analysis for individual components. A message-oriented implementation requires an efficient messaging backbone that facilitates the exchange of data in a reliable and secure way with the lowest latency possible. At least once? At most once?

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

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 102

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 102

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Various defragmentation ​​ utilities ​​ are ​​ available ​​ on the market today. ​​ Extended Data: ​​ “incorrect checksum (expected:​​ ## ; actual:​​ ## )” Contact your hardware manufacture for assistance.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

Multicore processors have huge amounts of available DRAM bandwidth – maybe it does not even make sense for a single core to try to use that much? To understand what is happening here, we need to understand the way memory bandwidth interacts with memory latency and the concurrency (parallelism) of memory accesses. Stay tuned!

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 97