Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

Windows: Windows Server 2008. Windows: Windows Server 1809. Linux: Google Container-Optimized OS 73 LTS. A host group defined manually in the local ruxitagentproc.conf file is merged with the standalone config from the server, thereby ensuring that the host group is never ignored. Windows: Windows 7 and 8.1

Java 118

Java Operating System Infrastructure Monitoring 118

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. Note that my predictions in this talk may be wrong, but they should be thought-provoking.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. That's about 24 hours from now!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process. What is MariaDB?

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

As data centers and volumes of servers have grown, so has the overall amount of electricity consumed around the world. Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. CPU Utilization and Power Consumption (Source: Blackburn 2008).

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

As data centers and volumes of servers have grown, so has the overall amount of electricity consumed around the world. Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. CPU Utilization and Power Consumption (Source: Blackburn 2008).

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

As data centers and volumes of servers have grown, so has the overall amount of electricity consumed around the world. Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. CPU Utilization and Power Consumption (Source: Blackburn 2008).

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Wikipedia states that in a 2008 report, open-source projects were able to save over USD 60 billion for the customers. The next step is to find the contribution page (which is just a Google search) and submit our contribution to the team. Reach out to our Discord server if you’d like some help! Join Discord.

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Open Source Code Software Software 52

Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

I immediately saw that CcmExec.exe (part of Microsoft’s System Management Server ) had 508,000 handles open, which is both a lot and also amazingly close to my zombie count. A Windows kernel file buffer bug from Server 2008 R2 to Windows 10. Handle leak in Google internal tool due to old version of psutil.

Processing 72

Processing Programming Code Cache 72

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

This time I’m trying to find the news keywords of the year using all reddit comments: basically I’m calculating the most frequently used new words for the specific year (algorithm based on an article about finding trending topics using Google Books n-grams data ). webkit','twitter','teacher','android','itunes'] ? ?

Database 40

Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 40

High Scalability

JUNE 27, 2019

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Or, considering adding a new database to your application and want to see which combinations are most popular?

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Open Source Database Cloud Strategy 196

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

And if I switch tabs to view a paper from 2008, then a song from 2008 could start up. To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98