The Morning Paper

APRIL 4, 2019

Ginseng: keeping secrets in registers when you distrust the operating system Yun & Zhong et al., Suppose you did go to the extreme length of establishing an unconditional root of trust for your system, even then, unless every subsequent piece of code you load is also fully trusted (e.g., NDSS’19.

Operating System 43

Operating System Systems Wireless Transportation 43

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. If you don’t have insight into the software and services that operate your business, you can’t efficiently run your business. Dynatrace news.

Infrastructure 206

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 206

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

These containers are software packages that include all the relevant dependencies needed to run software on any system. Instead, enterprises manage individual containers on virtual machines (VMs). Container-based software isn’t tied to a platform or operating system, so IT teams can move or reconfigure processes easily.

Serverless 221

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 221

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

To make this possible, the application code should be instrumented with telemetry data for deep insights, including: Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time. Traces help find the flow of a request through a distributed system. Dynatrace VMware and virtualization documentation .

Analytics 246

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 246

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host.

Virtualization 162

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 162

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work.

Monitoring 205

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 205

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work.

Monitoring 205

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 205

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

EM gives visibility into the user device and performance from the endpoint to provide information on CPU, memory, operating systems, storage, security, networks, and whether software is up to date. PC, smartphone, server) or virtual (virtual machines, cloud gateways). Endpoints can be physical (i.e.,

Monitoring 209

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 209

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time . Traces help find the flow of a request through a distributed system . To provide actionable answers monitoring systems store, baseline, and analyze telemetry data. Dynatrace VMware and virtualization documentation .

Analytics 135

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 135

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

But for the uninitiated, on-premise testing is a form of testing where testers perform tests on local machines, systems, or devices set up at an office. They’re free to plan their upgrades or operational maintenance without involving any third-party businesses. As the name suggests, it happens on-premise. Lollipop and 6.0

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. PLOS’19.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am pretty sure some if not all of these papers deserved to be elected to the hall of fame of best papers in distributed systems. Feb 11 - A Survey of Rollback-Recovery Protocols in Message-Passing Systems , E. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Organizations are taking advantage of having managed backups, lots of built-in security features, an uptime SLA of 99.99%, and an always up-to-date environment where they are no longer responsible for patching SQL Server or the operating system. One size does not always fit all. Managed Instance provides two tiers for performance.

Azure 63

Azure Performance Storage Latency 63

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Build evolvable systems. But we couldn’t adopt the old style approach of upgrading systems through a maintenance outage, as many businesses around the world are relying on our platform for 24/7 availability. We needed to build systems that embrace failure as a natural occurrence even if we did not know what the failure might be.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems. An important concept was to simulate database users called Virtual Users in parallel (rather than concurrently) to accurately simulate a real database workload with multiple users running from separate systems.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

The usual technique for modeling fuzzy systems is Monte Carlo analysis, which computes with distributions rather than precise values. Energy data can be obtained from power delivery systems in datacenters or from intelligent plugs or power strips. At the one minute granularity security concerns are minimized.

Energy 52

Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

Kubernetes has taken over the container management world and beyond , to become what some say the operating system or the new Linux of the cloud. But they are highly valuable for the platform operations , as they ’re typically one of the first things you look at when something goes wrong with the workload.

Infrastructure 201

Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Metrics 201

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability: “In database systems , durability is the ACID property which guarantees transactions that have committed will survive permanently. For example, if a flight booking reports that a seat has successfully been booked, then the seat will remain booked even if the system crashes.” – [link]. The Back Story.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

About 20 percent would return a set of rows, but still operate on only a single table. The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes. ASPLOS’19. code is not given access to excessive capabilities.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

Also it is interesting to note that the impact of this change was not observed in other databases or other MySQL storage engines such as MyRocks the only noticeable impact with HammerDB workloads occurred in MySQL with InnoDB where in the source code ut0ut.cc So to test I took a system with Skylake CPUs and all storage on a P4800X SSD.

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work. Virtual Memory. File System. Storage I/O. Fortunately, it was videoed for those who missed it. schedtool –B PID.

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work. Virtual Memory. File System. Storage I/O. Fortunately, it was videoed for those who missed it. schedtool –B PID.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

We must make our software infrastructure more secure against the rise in cyberattacks (such as on power grids, hospitals, and banks), and safer against accidental failures with the increased use of software in life-critical systems (such as autonomous vehicles and autonomous weapons). The C++ community has not done so.

C++ 139

C++ Programming Code Java 139

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Your version control system triggers continuous integration pipeline. As we are dealing with Docker images, I assume you have downloaded and installed Docker for your operating system. For other operating systems please see detailed documentation on how to install kubectl. I use Docker for Mac. VirtualBox.

Development 49

Development Operating System Virtualization Code 49

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Without limiting the rights under copyright, no part of this document may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), or for any purpose, without the express written permission of Microsoft Corporation.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I don’t need more bandwidth for video conferences or movies, but I would like to be able to download operating system updates and other large items in seconds rather than minutes. But that’s also a problem that 5G vendors could solve; virtual LANs ( VLANs ) are hardly a new concept.

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. USENIX ATC is a top-tier venue with a broad range of systems research papers from both industry and academia. Heterogeneous ISA.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

For example, the IMDG must be able to efficiently create millions of objects in each server to make use of its huge storage capacity. These are areas in which we have invested heavily to take advantage of 10 Gbps (and faster) networks and to handle intermittent network delays inherent in virtual server infrastructures.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40