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? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This technique facilitates validation on multiple fronts.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2020

Eight years ago I wrote _Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud_ (aka the "sysperf" book) on the performance of computing systems, and this year I'm excited to be releasing the second edition. A year ago I announced [BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability].

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DZone

JANUARY 19, 2024

In the dynamic world of online services, the concept of site reliability engineering (SRE) has risen as a pivotal discipline, ensuring that large-scale systems maintain their performance and reliability.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

This article will cover many areas that database administrators need to be aware of in order to properly license, recover, and tune a Reporting Services installation. Unlike the system database tempdb, ReportServerTempDB is not recreated at startup. Tuning Options. Tuning SSRS is much like any other application.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

This step lets you fine-tune your query to identify all matching data points, ensuring a thorough and accurate retrieval process. Once the data in Grail that matches the run query is returned, a second authorized user reviews the results in terms of volume (the number of log records, volume, data residency, and the number of systems).

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

With an automatic observability platform, teams can receive alerts when the system has burned through the impact tolerance. Testing using synthetic monitoring enables firms to fine-tune the parameters of individual tests. The best way to avoid falling behind on impact tolerances is to act early using automated warnings.

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DZone

JANUARY 23, 2021

If you need to dynamically trace Linux process system calls, you might first consider strace. So are there any tools that excel at tracing system calls in a production environment? This blog post introduces perf and traceloop, two commonly used command-line tools, to help you trace system calls in a production environment.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 7, 2020

Systems performance is an effective discipline for performance analysis and tuning, and can help you find performance wins for your applications and the kernel. I've heard many companies use my [Systems Performance] book as recommended or required reading for new engineers (thank you), and this is an updated talk on the topic.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 7, 2020

Systems performance is an effective discipline for performance analysis and tuning, and can help you find performance wins for your applications and the kernel. I've heard many companies use my [Systems Performance] book as recommended or required reading for new engineers (thank you), and this is an updated talk on the topic.

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Systems Performance Benchmarking Tuning 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

Tune in to learn how innovation can help government agencies gain control of open source security, manage risk, and secure the next generation of technology. Establish a proactive process to keep your products and systems as up-to-date as possible. Stephen Magill of Sonatype joins the podcast to ease concerns. Stay up to date.

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Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. It’s low because certain machines and operating systems do not support higher values.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, both public and private organizations need to stay focused on making sure their digital systems are secure. Stay tuned for more updates.

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DZone

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Metadata synchronization (sync) is a core feature in Alluxio that keeps files and directories consistent with their source of truth in under-storage systems, thus making it simple for users to reason the data retrieved from Alluxio. Meanwhile, understanding the internal process is important in order to tune the performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Operational automation–including but not limited to, auto diagnosis, auto remediation, auto configuration, auto tuning, auto scaling, auto debugging, and auto testing–is key to the success of modern data platforms. We have also noted a great potential for further improvement by model tuning (see the section of Rollout in Production).

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

They’re really focusing on hardware and software systems together,” Dunkin said. There are too many interconnections between our systems. Tune in to the full episode for more insights from Ann Dunkin. The DOE has designated a national lab to implement security by design and improve understanding. Dunkin said.

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Energy Strategy Government Hardware 209

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. 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.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. 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.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2023

He urges developers and users to thoughtfully deploy these technologies and ensure that the proper regulations and safety features are embedded into the systems. Tune in to the full episode for more insights from Scharre on AI. Want to learn more about how generative AI is affecting productivity and software innovation?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 30, 2024

But if you don’t take the time to train the workforce in the programs or the systems you’re bringing online, you lose that effectiveness. Tune in to the full episode for more insights from Patrick Johnson, director of the DoD’s Cyber Workforce Management Directorate.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Specifically, we considered how to strike the right balance between embracing these advancements and safeguarding systems, data, and users. Agencies] are moving more sensitive data sets and systems into cloud environments because people are working remotely,” Nodurft said. Nodurft is the executive director of the Washington, D.C.

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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. In fact, more than half of organizations use Kubernetes in production. ” And for the latest news from Perform, check out our guide.

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Percona

AUGUST 10, 2018

In fact, you should not set it to OFF in a production system unless you are 100% sure about what you are doing and its implications. This may help tune your table level autovacuum settings appropriately. Tuning Autovacuum in PostgreSQL. How do we identify the tables that need their autovacuum settings tuned ? .

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Percona

JANUARY 3, 2019

Please join Percona’s Senior Software Engineer, Ibrar Ahmed as he presents his High-Performance PostgreSQL, Tuning and Optimization Guide on Friday, January, 4th, at 8:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 11:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any workload. Register Now.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2023

Now, shutting down systems daily helps the agency focus its cloud initiatives and save costs. Tune in to the full episode to learn more about the UK Home Office’s cloud journey and how Dimitris navigates this large-scale environment to deliver essential services efficiently. It also helps reduce the agency’s carbon footprint.

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Efficiency Social Media Artificial Intelligence Cloud 186

Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2020

Eight years ago I wrote _Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud_ (aka the "sysperf" book) on the performance of computing systems, and this year I'm excited to be releasing the second edition. A year ago I announced [BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability].

Systems 52

Systems Cloud Performance Tuning 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2020

Eight years ago I wrote _Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud_ (aka the "sysperf" book) on the performance of computing systems, and this year I'm excited to be releasing the second edition. A year ago I announced [BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability].

Systems 52

Systems Cloud Performance Tuning 52

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

While automating IT practices can save administrators a lot of time, without AIOps, the system is only as intelligent as the humans who program it. Expect to spend time fine-tuning automation scripts as you find the right balance between automated and manual processing. Monitoring automation is ongoing. Batch process automation.

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Artificial Intelligence Tuning Strategy Big Data 182

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. For example, imagine your system had 10 gigabytes of free memory at the last reporting iteration and now only has 8 gigabytes.

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Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 172

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2023

“It’s kind of wild that we expect more transparency from a nonbiodegradable snack than we do from the software that runs our organizations, our critical infrastructure, and our national security systems.” Tune in to the full episode for more insights from CISA senior advisor and strategist, Allan Friedman. SBOM is one of them.”

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Government Software Software Tuning 175

Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

Syslog is the go-to protocol that delivers infrastructure administrators, network engineers, and security team logs that tell them all they need to know about their systems’ delivery, performance, availability, and security. Syslog is a protocol with clear specifications that require a dedicated syslog server.

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Open Source Infrastructure Network Government 193

Dynatrace

MARCH 8, 2021

Do you keep an eye on the support of distributions and versions of operating systems within your environment? With this information, you can find answers to questions such as: Which operating systems and versions does Dynatrace support? Which operating systems and versions does Dynatrace support? What about ActiveGates?

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SQL Shack

JUNE 25, 2021

Introduction SQL Server allocates some memory from the operating system, and this is because it is designed to do all read and modification operations in memory instead of on disk. In this article, we will focus on one major SQL Server performance issue that we may experience during heavy data insertion in a table. The […].

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DZone

MAY 1, 2020

Observability is the ability to understand the internal state of your system by looking at what is happening externally. In a software system, in order to acquire observability, we mainly implement the following aspects: logging, metrics, and tracing. This is mainly due to the added complexity of working with a distributed system.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2024

DevOps tools , security response systems , search technologies, and more have all benefited from AI technology’s progress. More transparency means a better understanding of the technology being used, better troubleshooting, and more opportunities to fine-tune an organization’s tools.

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Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Government Technology 206

Percona

APRIL 14, 2023

Here are a few ways you can scale down and save: Audit your systems: Auditing your system for unused servers and eliminating those servers can reduce your cloud spend. Maximize the value of existing tools, systems, and services: Take an inventory of what you have, and make sure you’re getting the most out of your resources.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

For instance, consider how fine-tuned failure rate detection can provide insights for comprehensive understanding. Please refer to How to fine-tune failure detection (dynatrace.com) for further information. Every problem identified through Dynatrace Davis® AI indicates an issue with potential user impact.

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