Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Effective application development requires speed and specificity. The FaaS model of cloud computing debuted in 2014 with startups like hook.io. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources. Increased availability. Dynatrace news. But how does FaaS fit in?

Development 250

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 250

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds. It's all a bit confusing, and I wrote about this in 2014: [Xen Modes]. I'd expect between 0.1% The first was c3.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

If there is a newer file available on the server, we definitely want to download it. We’ve talked a lot so far about revalidation: the process of the browser making the trip back to the server to check whether a fresher file might be available. a CDN), to always serve the freshest possible copy, and not to persist anything to storage.

Cache 264

Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. These VMs are not available in all regions, so you will want to check the availability in the Azure region that you are interested in using. The L3 cache size is 64MB. Memory (GiB).

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds. It's all a bit confusing, and I wrote about this in 2014: [Xen Modes]. I'd expect between 0.1% The first was c3.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. This machine has four i7 CPUs (hyperthreaded to 8) with a base speed of 2.4GHz. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance. Having a wide range of tools available is generally speaking a good thing when tuning queries.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86