Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1% small (thanks @cperciva ). ## 3.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

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. Modern network performance and availability. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Zswap is readily available and runs as a swap device in the Linux kernel. Using zswap means that no new hardware solutions are required, enabling rapid deployment across clusters. Evaluation.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. The information it captures is, however, available going back somewhat further, providing a fuller picture of the trend lines of engine completeness. Count of APIs available from JavaScript by Web Confluence.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The product is not released yet, at least at the time of writing, but they have started to shape which features (and there are a lot of them ) will be available in which editions. I wrote about this in a post entitled, " A Big Deal : SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1." Accelerated Database Recovery is in Standard Edition.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Nowadays, hardware and software are designed to conduct eye-tracking studies for marketing , UX , psychological and medical research , gaming , and several other use cases. However, the price of eye-tracking used to be much higher than heatmaps, as measuring users’ gaze required special hardware to be used in-lab.

Mobile 111

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

On multi-core machines – which is the majority of the hardware nowadays – and in the cloud, we have multiple cores available for use. Multiple queries run at the same time will be using different threads and will utilize more than one CPU core. With faster disks (i.e. AWS Aurora (based on MySQL 5.6) sec). /* another run */.

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Cache C++ AWS Airlines 47

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. Today we are introducing the new Basic Installer experience for SQL Server 2016 Express , SQL Server 2016 Developer , and SQL Server 2016 Evaluation Editions. Go install it”. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20 on my Windows NT 3.1 It would scare you).

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Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Before Safari 15, Apple only delivered two substantial releases per year, a pattern that had been stable since 2016: New features were teased at WWDC in the early summer They landed in a Fall dot-oh release with the new iOS version A second set of feature updates would trickle out as part of a Spring point-one update.

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1% small (thanks @cperciva ). ## 3.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

SQL Server According to Bob

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Back in June, Bob Dorr gave you the thinking behind why SQL Server 2016 It Just Runs Faster due to changes in our SQL Server and NUMA configurations. Bob blogged about a new SQL Server 2016 feature called Auto Soft NUMA. First, we see a message like this (Note: We made a fix in 2016 SP1 because this used to say 8 logical processors).

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Servers Virtualization Scalability Hardware 45

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

In 2016, Apache Spark introduced Structured Streaming , a new streaming engine based on the SparkSQL abstractions and runtime optimizations. It enables unbounded scalability as more commodity or specialized hardware can be seamlessly added to existing clusters. In the same year, Apache Flink announced streaming SQL support.

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Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

John McCalpin

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

In the latest (October 2016) revision of Intel’s Instruction Extensions Programming Reference , Intel has disclosed a fairly dramatic departure from these “traditional” approaches. Each of these accumulators must use a different register name, and there are only 16 SIMD register names available. Implications?

Cache 40

Cache C++ Latency Hardware 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

If our example document wasn’t reliant on JavaScript to construct the <my-app> custom element, the contents of the document would likely be interactive as soon as enough CSS and content was available to render meaningfully. Any DOM or UI created in JS is not available for use until the script runs. 400Kbps transfer.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Linux may need similar utilities to control various hardware cache installations. Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on. You should always validate the Fua capabilities with your device and hardware vendor. Fua = Forced Unit Access. Fua is the standard used to issue an I/O write command in stable data storage.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick. Note : You also may want to investigate Google’s PageSpeed Module , available for both Apache and Nginx.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. With this launch, AWS now provides 60 Availability Zones, with another 12 zones and four Regions expected to come online by 2020 in Bahrain, Cape Town, Hong Kong, and Milan.

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