Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Percona Community

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Tech that makes our databases perform better. In this blog post we’re going to see those technologies at work to give us awesome block storage performance with flexibility and simple operations. It’s a new generation in storage software, designed for super high speed low latency NVMe devices.

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Storage Latency Speed Database 52

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

DZone

JULY 10, 2019

In addition, compute and storage are increasingly being separated causing larger latencies for queries. Alluxio is leveraged as compute-side virtual storage to improve performance. But to get the best performance, like any technology stack, you need to follow the best practices. A Note on Data Locality.

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Best Practices Latency Storage Tuning 138

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks?

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., Three different 5G phones are used, including a ZTE Axon10 Pro with powerful communication (SDX 50 5G modem) and compute (Qualcomm Snapdragon TM855) capabilities together with 256GB of storage. SIGCOMM’20.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Storage mount points in a system might be larger or smaller, local or remote, with high or low latency, and various speeds. Sometimes these locations landed on mount points which, due to capacity, availability, or access constraints, weren’t well suited for large runtime storage. See details below.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure. The primary goal of ITOps is to provide a high-performing, consistent IT environment. Performance. What does IT operations do?

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Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 195

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage. Caching Schemes.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 127

Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

Data-bearing members face a higher risk of encountering issues caused by rollbacks, compared to others who utilize different storage methods. Therefore, companies must carefully consider key performance metrics and methodologies to stay relevant and successful in timely and trend-oriented markets.

Database 130

Database Network Servers Monitoring 130

SQL Shack

JULY 10, 2019

Introduction In-memory technologies are one of the greatest ways to improve performance and combat contention in computing today. By removing disk-based storage and the challenge of copying data in and out of memory, query speeds in SQL Server can be improved by orders of magnitude.

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Servers Latency Storage Speed 79

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. The client MWW combines these estimates with an estimate of the input/output transmission time (latency) to find the worker with the minimum overall execution latency. The opencv app has the largest state (4.6

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

Incoming data is saved into data storage (historian database or log store) for query by operational managers who must attempt to find the highest priority issues that require their attention. The best they can usually do in real-time using general purpose tools is to filter and look for patterns of interest.

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IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

So the PAUSE instruction is an optimization over NOP when a thread is waiting to acquire a lock and is particularly important in spin-locks on x86 CPUs for power and performance. ” and “as the PAUSE latency has been increased significantly, workloads that are sensitive to PAUSE latency will suffer some performance loss.”

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis and Memcached both provide high performance with sub-millisecond response times. Choosing between Redis and Memcached hinges on specific application requirements.

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Buckle up as we delve into the world of Redis® monitoring, exploring the most important Redis® metrics, discussing essential tools, and even peering into the future of Redis® performance management. Key Takeaways Redis® monitoring is essential for safeguarding performance, reliability, and security.

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Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

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Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 124

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. There are further requirements for high performance in the following: Telecom: vEPC or 5G Core. In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget.

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Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. There are further requirements for high performance in the following: Telecom: vEPC or 5G Core. In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To fix this, Cloudinary offers a better option: using transformation g_faces will have an AI identify the faces in the image, and perform the cropping around these: Transformation. Indeed, reducing the size of the images is exceptionally important in order to improve the performance of the site.

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Website Social Media Media Design 106

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. As organizations digitally transform, they’re also accelerating the speed of software delivery. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time.

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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 171

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Teams can build on these SLO examples to improve application performance and reliability. 54% deploy updates every two hours or less, and 20% deploy updates every minute or less.

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. HPC and Amazon EC2.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The ProRes codec family provides great editing performance and image quality. From chunk encoding to assembly and packaging, the result of each previous processing step must be uploaded to cloud storage and then downloaded by the next processing step. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency.

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Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Storage reduction alone results in significant cost savings, and we can save more data in the same space. Block compression can improve performance by allowing data to be read and written in smaller chunks.

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 105

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A data lakehouse features the flexibility and cost-efficiency of a data lake with the contextual and high-speed querying capabilities of a data warehouse. Data warehouses offer a single storage repository for structured data and provide a source of truth for organizations. What is a data lakehouse? How does a data lakehouse work?

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Artificial Intelligence Storage Analytics Government 202

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. What's changed ?

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Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

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. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines.

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. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

It provides significant advantages that include: Offering scalability to support business expansion Speeding up the execution of business plans Stimulating innovation throughout the company Boosting organizational flexibility, enabling quick adaptation to changing market conditions and competitive pressures.

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Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. What is workload in cloud computing?

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

When a new leader is elected it loads all data from external storage. In that scenario, the system would need to deal with the data propagation latency directly, for example, by use of timeouts or client-originated update tracking mechanisms. Active data includes jobs and tasks that are currently running.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

PBM is a fully-supported community backup tool capable of performing cluster-side consistent backups in MongoDB for replica sets and sharded clusters. The speed of backup also depends on allocated IOPS and type of storage since lots of read/writes would be happening during this process. Records backup progress logging.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage.

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