Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. Traditionally, teams achieve this high level of uptime using a combination of high-capacity hardware, system redundancy, and failover models.

Infrastructure 176

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 176

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

Cloud 118

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 118

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Understanding Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Cloud computing has revolutionized the IT industry, offering a host of advantages including cost-effectiveness, increased agility, and access to cutting-edge hardware. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

The investment continues—we’re anticipating an upcoming release of the AWS Graviton2 processor , which has already been announced to be significantly more powerful than its predecessor. We understand the dependencies between the mainframe, data center, and cloud, including all application components and even end-user experience.

Java 132

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 132

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

takes place in Amazon Web Services (AWS), whereas everything that happens afterwards (i.e., Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites. are you logged in? what plan do you have? what do you want to watch?)

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper. Total Cost of Ownership. s a summary chart of the TCO analysis.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We can leverage high performance VMs in AWS to generate the assets. However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires. First, asset generation is CPU intensive and bursty.

Engineering 165

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

those resources now belong to cloud providers, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and others. Traffic refers to how much demand is being placed on your system, which depending on the service, is typically HTTP requests per second. If there are many cold starts, this could impact user experience.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important step in our commitment to increase the flexibility for AWS customers to use the choice of operating system, programming language, development tools and database software that meet their application requirements.

Cloud 115

Cloud Development AWS Servers 115

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the simplest case, you have a growing workload, and you optimize it to run more efficiently so that you don’t need to buy or rent additional hardware, so your carbon footprint stays the same, but the carbon per transaction or operation is going down. they are never really idle. I’ve written before about how to tune out retry storms.

Energy 52

Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation 52

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. Vikings fight zombies.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. And while it’s easy to say “spin up more AWS servers”, you’re only adding to your cloud provider bill. If increasing hardware is the “work harder” answer to header bidding, then “work smarter” is the better option.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. And while it’s easy to say “spin up more AWS servers”, you’re only adding to your cloud provider bill. If increasing hardware is the “work harder” answer to header bidding, then “work smarter” is the better option.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). I often get to meet, discuss, and learn from innovators how they are using AWS to deliver transformative applications to their users, customers and partners. Troy: We moved our service from internal servers to AWS.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. Vikings fight zombies.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

SQL Performance

JANUARY 22, 2020

In addition to having the fixed costs of hardware resources for Azure VM, SQL Database, or AWS EC2 or RDS, there is an added cost for network traffic to and from the cloud that is tacked on to the billing for each month.

Servers 55

Servers Azure Hardware Network 55

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

Infrastructure as a Service is the term used for those cloud-based solutions that provide complete infrastructure to the users including all the overheads, hardware, and networking facilities. SaaS does not need you to manage hardware or other requirements such as OS and middleware. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Sign up Now.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. Public sector.

AWS 124

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this role, I am leading a global team that works closely with our strategic partners such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Pivotal, Red Hat and others. Resource consumption & traffic analysis. What is the network traffic going to be between services we migrate and those that have to stay in the current data center?

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones. They could freak out after a small drop in traffic caused by customers deciding to watch the Superbowl on TV and take an action before it is needed.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones. They could freak out after a small drop in traffic caused by customers deciding to watch the Superbowl on TV and take an action before it is needed.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

This allows MongoDB to scale horizontally, handling large datasets and high traffic loads. This is because the setting has no use in modern PCIe/NVMe devices. Replication and sharding are good options to consider when your MongoDB database becomes slow.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). But there's another factor at play: jobs are also migrating from both Solaris and Linux to cloud jobs instead, specifically AWS.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Given that AWS is a pioneer in building and operating these services world-wide, these lessons have been of crucial importance to our business. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS. In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records. By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. Comments (). DynamoDB came along at just the right time.

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer. History of NoSQL at Amazon â??

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As I mentioned, we live in a world where massive volumes of data are being generated, every day, from connected devices, websites, mobile apps, and customer applications running on top of AWS infrastructure. As a native offering from AWS, QuickSight comes deeply integrated with AWS data sources such as Amazon Redshift, RDS, and S3.

Analytics 152

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152