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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

Performance

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

offer letter logo (2014). flame graphs (2014). eBPF tools (2014-2019). I joined Netflix in 2014, a company at the forefront of cloud computing with an attractive [work culture]. Apart from developing tools, much of my time has been spent helping teams with performance issues and evaluations. PMC analysis (2017).

Java

Java Cloud Cache AWS

USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance

Performance Network Cache Metrics

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

offer letter logo (2014) flame graphs (2014) eBPF tools (2014-2019) PMC analysis (2017) my pandemic-abandoned desk (2020); office wall I joined Netflix in 2014, a company at the forefront of cloud computing with an attractive work culture. It was the most challenging job among those I interviewed for. Thank you.

Java

Java Cache Cloud AWS

AMD EPYC Processors in Azure Virtual Machines

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. The L3 cache size is 64MB. The AMD EPYC 7551 processor has slightly lower single-threaded CPU performance when compared to the older 2.3 The L3 cache size is 64MB.

Azure

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking

Minimal Logging with INSERT…SELECT into Empty Clustered Tables

SQL Performance

MAY 16, 2019

Achieving minimal logging using INSERT.SELECT into an empty clustered index target is not quite as simple as described in the Data Performance Loading Guide. The Data Loading Performance Guide contains a high-level summary of the conditions required for minimal logging into clustered tables: This post is concerned with the top row only.

Cache

Cache Servers Testing Storage

Content Management Systems of the Future: Headless, JAMstack, ADN and Functions at the Edge

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

They often get blindsided by vendor’s pitch and end-up making decision based on some fancy demos (see my post from 2014 on Adobe AEM ). Alternatively, you can upload output directory to cloud object/blob storage such as Amazon S3 or Azure Blob Storage and serve your site from there. Eventually, we decided to move them to Jekyll.

Systems

Systems Cache Website Network

MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

MariaDB retains compatibility with MySQL, offers support for different programming languages, including Python, PHP, Java, and Perl, and works with all major open source storage engines such as MyRocks, Aria, and InnoDB. Elevate your MariaDB environment with Percona Support for MariaDB. Contact us to learn more!

Open Source

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability

SQL 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: DBCC Scales 7x Better

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

. ‘It Just Runs Faster’ – Out of the box SQL Server 2016 DBCC provides you better performance, scale while shrinking your maintenance window(s.). The DBCC CheckDB demonstration loads a table and demonstrates the performance improvement. 32GB RAM, 4 Core Hyper-threaded enabled 2.8Ghz, SSD Storage. SQL Server.

Hardware

Hardware Cache Servers Software Engineering

Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Steve & Tim's Close-up Magic.

Media

Media Games Education Engineering

Minimal Logging with INSERT…SELECT and Fast Load Context

SQL Performance

MAY 29, 2019

It can be activated from SQL Server 2008 to 2014 inclusive using documented trace flag 610. For more background, see the Data Performance Loading Guide and the Tiger Team notes on the behaviour changes for SQL Server 2016. GO. -- Clear the plan cache. GO. -- Clear the plan cache. Fast Load Context. NULL , -- Partition ID.

Cache

Cache Testing Servers Code

Batch Mode Bitmaps in SQL Server

SQL Performance

AUGUST 23, 2019

In traditional row-mode execution plans, SQL Server may introduce a Bitmap operator as part of performing early semi join reduction before a parallel hash or merge join. The SQL Server batch mode implementation of a Bloom filter is optimized for modern CPU cache architectures and is known internally as a complex bitmap. Background.

Servers

Servers Engineering Efficiency Retail

Viewing and Sorting XEvents Efficiently (Code Samples) – XEProfiler

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and storing the events in a table requires reading the events, streaming to table storage followed by an order by event sequence query. if (null ! . // Do we need to start the read-ahead to suck data into file system cache if (iCookie > -1) { tReadAhead.Start(iCookie); } }. ”); }.

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Efficiency Code Servers Cache

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