High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

lowrykoz : Stolen from a co-worker "Every company has a test environment. During our testing using the storage optimized EC2 instances (I3.2xlarge) we noticed that we were able to perform over 200K IOPS of 1K byte items thus meeting our throughput goals with latency rarely exceeding 1 millisecond. This is where your performance goes.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

High Scalability

JULY 6, 2018

tyingq : This is why AWS and Azure continue to gain market share in cloud, while Google remains relativity stagnant, despite (in many cases) superior technology. Their sales staff is arrogant and has no idea how to sell into F500 type companies.

Internet 110

Internet Internet Scalability Google 110

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. We’ve had nearly 4 million visits to the blog in 2018: thank you! As 2018 moves into 2019, let’s take a quick look back at some of the most popular posts on the blog this year. And making lists. Top 10 Most Read.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

High Scalability

AUGUST 3, 2018

David Rosenthal : The margins on AWS, averaging 24.75% over the last twelve quarters, are what enables Amazon to run the US retail business averaging under 3% margin and the international business averaging -3.7% “Many companies will halt their blockchain tests this year. margin over the same period. ” Tullis : The U.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

1072-aws (xxx) 12/18/2018 _x86_64_ (16 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 5.03 Smaller File Test For further confirmation, I collected the same outputs for a 32 Gbyte file upload. 1072-aws (xxx) 12/19/2018 _x86_64_ (16 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 12.25

Cache 105

Cache C++ AWS Latency 105

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The first version of AWS Lambda was built using Linux containers. All of the existing approaches we just examined involve trade-offs that AWS didn’t want to make.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

We’re kicking off 2018 with a bang and a donut. We’ve been busy preparing all-new faster test agents and they’re now available for you to switch to – at no extra cost! Go to your Settings to switch to faster test agents. All our agents now run on much faster AWS C4.Large Faster agents.

Testing 40

Testing AWS Metrics Mobile 40

Percona

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

For our testing we decided to capture all the SELECT queries that were hitting our Amazon Aurora instance, mainly because we had a sysbench OLTP read only workload and that wouldn’t really have a lot of slow queries. 2018-09-03.09 > mysql-slowquery.log.2018-09-03.09 2018-09-03.09 2018-09-03.09 user time, 2.5s

C++ 42

C++ AWS Open Source Testing 42

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 7, 2018

So another AWS re:Invent has come and gone and . We spent most of our time chatting to various folk about what they are doing with AWS now, and where they hope to proceed in 2019. AWS, for many organizations, is becoming the core, trusted, platform of how they work. To receive the email version please subscribe here.

Lambda 40

Lambda Serverless AWS Blockchain 40

The Morning Paper

APRIL 7, 2019

You might also want to look at git-secrets which does this for AWS keys, and is extensible with additional patterns. I.e., they are not test keys. In one case, we found what we believe to be AWS credentials for a major website relied upon by millions of college applications in the United States, possibly leaked by a contractor.

Google 76

Google AWS Website Government 76

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. But most Azure and GCP users also use AWS; the reverse isn’t necessarily true. Amazon and AWS Ascendant. If Microsoft and Google really are coming on strong, they aren’t dislodging Amazon and AWS. Serverless Stagnant.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Serverless Applications Managing your own server is so 2018. Major cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud all support serverless services. Also, now that virtual reality is relatively cheap to produce and access, expect more things like road-testing apps from vehicle manufactures.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Unexpected outcomes, security, safety, fairness and bias, and privacy are the biggest risks for which adopters are testing. How will AI adopters react when the cost of renting infrastructure from AWS, Microsoft, or Google rises? Any attempt at automating customer service needs to be very carefully tested and debugged.

Open Source 106

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

Percona

JULY 2, 2023

This blog was originally written in September 2018 and was updated in June 2023. Backup Testing and Validation: To ensure backups are reliable and can be efficiently used for recovery, DBAs regularly perform backup testing and validation. In setting up our demonstration system, we use pg_basebackup and continuous archiving.

Strategy 52

Strategy Database Storage Open Source 52

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

1072-aws (xxx) 12/18/2018 _x86_64_ (16 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 5.03 Smaller File Test For further confirmation, I collected the same outputs for a 32 Gbyte file upload. 1072-aws (xxx) 12/19/2018 _x86_64_ (16 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 12.25

Cache 40

Cache C++ AWS Systems 40

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Let’s take a look at two key indicators from our 2018 Dynatrace ACM Survey: MTTI (Mean Time to Innovate): How long does it take to push a new feature that is fully tested, ready to go to production, until end-users receive it? We’ll go over how to integrate Dynatrace with your load & performance testing tools (e.g.

DevOps 38

DevOps Software Software Best Practices 38

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

AWS Aurora (based on MySQL 5.6) I will compare AWS Aurora with MySQL (Percona Server) 5.6 Test data and versions. For my test, I need to choose: Aurora instance type and comparison. SSD) we can’t utilize the full potential of IOPS with just one thread. running on an EC2 instance of the same class.

Cache 46

Cache C++ AWS Airlines 46

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. And if you are using CI to test the budgets, you need to make sure your tested environment matches CrUX if you used CrUX for setting the target ( thanks Patrick Meenan! ). Now you have something measurable to test against.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Alternatively, you can also use Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Now you have something measurable to test against.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Testing And Monitoring Auditing workflow, proxy browsers, 404 page, GDPR cookie consent prompts, performance diagnostics CSS, accessibility. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Now you have something measurable to test against. Quick Wins. Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145