All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. That database engine is now known as Amazon Aurora and launched in 2014 for MySQL and in 2016 for PostgreSQL.

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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. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. Andrew Park and Sebastien de Larquier Tooling Up for Efficiency: DIY Solutions @ Netflix. Networking. tcp_tw_reuse = 1 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range

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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. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. Andrew Park and Sebastien de Larquier Tooling Up for Efficiency: DIY Solutions @ Netflix. Networking. tcp_tw_reuse = 1 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] , Nov 2011 [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] , Feb 2012 [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] , 2013 [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” These are all astonishing tools for making our limited capacity for attention more efficient. The market was maturing.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the next post we’ll look at the detailed analysis of how a team at Etsy handled a particular incident on December 4th 2014, to see what we can learn from it. Why is this even a thing? Perhaps it seems obvious that incident management is hard. Simultaneous scanning – trying out several hypotheses at the same time.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. This is very efficient, as confirmed by the elapsed time of 13ms (all of which is CPU time). The structure of a b-tree index makes finding the next highest value very efficient — there is no need to scan through the duplicates. Test Environment.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

Compared with Google Pixel 1, the HDR photography is accelerated by 5x and the power efficiency increased by 10x. In 2014, Google’s Project Tango deployed Myriad1 to construct 3D indoor maps. NPU: Neural Network Processing Unit (NPU) has become a general name of AI chip rather than a brand name of a company.

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Via various optimization techniques, such as advanced query optimization, efficient indexing, and fast data processing, MariaDB can deliver excellent performance even when running heavy workloads. Efficient data processing and indexing, making it optimal for executing queries and handling large datasets. GA 31 March 2014 10.0.10

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2018

When it comes to CSS, there are always new tools being introduced to help us transform styles in a more fast and efficient manner. And in total, there have been 21,757,724 downloads between Dec 31 2014 and Jun 28 2016. PostCSS has definitely become very among developers over the past 12 months.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2021

Whether it’s the speed and quality of innovation for IT, automation and efficiency for DevOps, or enhancement and consistency of user experiences, Dynatrace makes it easy. Dynatrace was spun off from Compuware following the privatization of Compuware in December 2014. Before 2015, Dynatrace was listed as Compuware.

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Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

tl;dr: I don’t want C++ to limit what I can express efficiently. Efficiency. The rules that are not efficient enough to implement in the compiler will always be relegated to optional standalone tools. Then I can still use fully modern C++… just nicer. Portability. Not all rules are supported by all vendors.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Moving away from the use of dedicated instances that were constrained in quantity, we tapped into Netflix’s internal trough created due to autoscaling microservices, leading to significant improvements in computation elasticity as well as resource utilization efficiency.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2021

Whether it’s the speed and quality of innovation for IT, automation and efficiency for DevOps, or enhancement and consistency of user experiences, Dynatrace makes it easy. Dynatrace was spun off from Compuware following the privatization of Compuware in December 2014. Before 2015, Dynatrace was listed as Compuware.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Since Kubernetes emerged in 2014, it has become a popular solution for scaling, managing, and automating the deployments of containerized applications in distributed environments. This virtualization makes it possible to efficiently deploy and securely run a container independently of the hosting infrastructure.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Paravirtualization**: The hypervisor provides efficient hypercalls, and the guest OS uses drivers and kernel modifications to call these hypercalls. Enter paravirtualization, originally introduced in Xen, where the guest has been modified to be aware of the hypervisor and to make efficient hypercalls.

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

To overcome the challenges of efficiently managing such deployments at a massive scale , they invent ed a platform to enable container orchestration, known as Borg, which has been Google’s secret weapon for a decade until, in 2014 when ?

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

To overcome the challenges of efficiently managing such deployments at a massive scale , they invent ed a platform to enable container orchestration, known as Borg, which has been Google’s secret weapon for a decade until, in 2014 when ?

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This was a project I created in 2014 to help Microsoft SQL Server support process incoming XEvent files, including the ability to merge XEvent files from multiple servers such as replication or high availability XEvent capture.

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Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

2014) added support for JSONB data type. JSONB supports indexing the JSON data, and is very efficient at parsing and querying the JSON data. More details are provided below. Wave 2: PostgreSQL 9.4 JSONB stands for “JSON Binary” or “JSON better” depending on whom you ask.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Delayed three years ( Chrome 40, November 2014 vs. Safari 11.1, A subset ( element.animate() ) has enabled developers to more easily create high-performance visual effects with lower risk of visual stuttering in Chrome and Firefox since 2014. Critical in adapting web content to mobile, particularly regarding multi-touch gestures.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Paravirtualization**: The hypervisor provides efficient hypercalls, and the guest OS uses drivers and kernel modifications to call these hypercalls. Enter paravirtualization, originally introduced in Xen, where the guest has been modified to be aware of the hypervisor and to make efficient hypercalls.

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Winning in this race requires that we become much more customer oriented, much more efficient in all of our operations, and at the same time shift our culture towards more lean and experimental. Telenor Connexion. Telenor Connexion is a part of one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications companies, Telenor.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

Usage of Virtual DOM allows efficient rendering where only certain part of webpage is rerendered speeding up performance. VueJS can be used to create Single Page Apps efficiently with fewer resources evident from its tiny package size. It efficiently separated business and user interface allowing ample flexibility for changes.

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Virtualization Website Speed Mobile 64

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

So around the end of 2014, the engineering team started to explore moving towards a microservices architecture using containers. Amazon ECS is fully managed and provides operational efficiency allowing engineering resources to just focus on developing and deploying applications; there are no clusters to manage or scale.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

The thinking was that by owning the supply chain from raw materials to retail outlets, a firm had direct control over its entire cost structure, making it better able to squeeze efficiencies out of it and being less susceptible to supply shocks.

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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 ). Circa 2014, I was working with a big Japanese automotive brand in Australia. However, it is important to note that JAMstack can serve both static as well as dynamic content.

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 23, 2019

Bloom filters present a space- and time-efficient alternative when a simple bitmap is infeasible due to space requirements. Complex bitmaps have supported multiple join columns and all batch mode data types since SQL Server 2014. This decompression can be performed efficiently using SIMD instructions, but it is still extra work.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 15, 2019

In 2014, we discussed 4 of the top MongoDB GUIs: MongoVue, MongoHub, RockMongo, and Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo), and again in 2016: MongoDB Compass, Robo 3T, Studio 3T, and MongoBooster. This feature is perfect for someone who is not as familiar or efficient in using MongoDB syntax. The Best Mongo GUI’s of 2014.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

This is mentioned briefly in the WWDC 2014 presentation “ Platforms State of the Union ”, around 01:21:56.). Here is the list of QoS values from highest to lowest priority: Quality-of-service values of queue sorted by performance and energy efficiency ( Large preview ).

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Although a beta version was released in 2014, the first stable release of Kubernetes was just made available in September 2018. The master server uses what’s called a declarative plan to run applications most efficiently using the available infrastructure.

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Virtualization Open Source Network Architecture 47

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. . - **perf**: since 2009, this started as a PMC profiler but can do tracing now as well, usually in a dump-and-post-process style. It's the official profiler.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

SQL Server 2014 SP2 and later produce runtime (“actual”) execution plans that can include elapsed time and CPU usage for each execution plan operator (see KB3170113 and this blog post by Pedro Lopes). Batch operators are implemented so that multiple threads can work efficiently on a single shared structure (e.g. hash table).

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Servers Tuning Architecture Processing 95

SQL Performance

APRIL 23, 2019

SQL Server 2014 added the ability to perform parallel batch-mode grouped aggregation within a single Hash Match Aggregate operator. All column segments within a row group must be implicitly sorted the same way so SQL Server can efficiently reconstruct complete rows from the column segments.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

However, there are a number of other important applications: Manufacturer-sponsored discounts can fall into this category because a retailer is not concerned about the cost of the incentives (covered by the manufacturer), only about efficient targeting. Simchi-Levi, 2014. Fano, 2002. Johnson, B.H.A. Kleinberg, C. Papadimitriou, P.

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Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

However, ClickHouse is super efficient for timeseries and provides “sharding” out of the box (scalability beyond one node). Although such databases can be very efficient with counts and averages, some queries will be slow or simply non existent. Inserts are efficient for bulk inserts only. created_utc?? ?

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