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 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 05 March 2012 02:01 PM. AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world. We continuously apply all our innovative skills to the design of datacenters, servers, storage, network, etc.

AWS 110

AWS Innovation Scalability Cache 110

SQL Performance

MAY 1, 2019

The summary rows for heap tables without indexes are the same in both documents (no changes for SQL Server 2016): An explicit TABLOCK hint is not the only way to meet the requirement for table-level locking. The inputs to this calculation are: The version of SQL Server. The estimated number of rows leading into the Insert operator.

Servers 47

Servers Database Testing Performance 47

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

Internally DBCC CHECK* uses a page scanning coordinator design (MultiObjectScanner.) SQL Server 2016 changes the internal design to (CheckScanner), applying no lock semantics and a design similar to those used with In-Memory Optimized (Hekaton) objects, allowing DBCC operations to scale far better than previous releases.

Hardware 40

Hardware Cache Servers Software Engineering 40

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB â??

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. low-end Androids have finally caught up to the iPhone 5 from 2012. The Moto G4 , for example.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

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. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

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. In a recent customer engagement, the application needed to load 10M objects into each server of the IMDG’s cluster to make full use of high-end servers with 60GB memory capacity.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

In a partitioned massively parallel database system, the storage format and sorting algorithm may not be optimized for that operation as we are reading multiple partitions in parallel. At the same time, it was not originally designed that way. blockade','arizona'] ? ? protests','occupy','romney','weiner','protesters'] ? ?

Database 40

Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 40