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

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Growth is still strong for such a large topic, but usage slowed in 2018 (+13%) and cooled significantly in 2019, growing by just 7%. But sustained interest in cloud migrations—usage was up almost 10% in 2019, on top of 30% in 2018—gets at another important emerging trend. ML + AI are up, but passions have cooled. Security is surging.

Software Architecture 132

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 132

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 (..)

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

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. It encompasses private clouds, the IaaS cloud—also host to virtual private clouds (VPC)—and the PaaS and SaaS clouds. Amazon and AWS Ascendant.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. 2018-11-08T12:30:30+01:00. But since this article is about connecting an application running on the server with AWS S3, we don’t consider this solution. Leonardo Losoviz. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

AWS 44

AWS Servers Storage Cloud 44

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. Retailers like JCPenny are taking full advantage of users’ smartphone cameras to add new functionality to their mobile apps such as virtual dressing rooms.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

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. lightweight virtualization for Serverless Computing”.

Lambda 40

Lambda Serverless AWS Blockchain 40

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

2018: MongoDB announces that it is moving from GNU AGPLv3 licensing to the Service Side Public License (SSPL). MongoDB Enterprise editions and MongoDB Atlas — which integrates with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — are not free. Is MongoDB free for commercial use?

Open Source 82

Open Source Programming Database Servers 82

Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2019

It originated as Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF), an in-kernel execution engine that processes a virtual instruction set, and has been extended (aka eBPF) for providing a safe way to extend kernel functionality. I'm also grateful that my fiancée, Deirdré Straughan, could find the time outside of her AWS job to do technical copy-edit.

Systems 40

Systems Performance Education Technology 40

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

How will AI adopters react when the cost of renting infrastructure from AWS, Microsoft, or Google rises? AI users also need to expect incorrect answers and to be equipped to check virtually all the output that an AI produces. We haven’t found the source, though in 2018, Gartner wrote that 85% of AI projects “deliver erroneous outcomes.”

Open Source 106

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

All Things Distributed

MAY 21, 2018

In the first step we might reach this goal by combining the fastest mobility services through a digital platform; in the next, it might be a task fulfilled by Virtual Reality. At the end of 2018, voice (input) will have already significantly changed the way we develop devices and apps. A voice command creates a lot more productivity.

Artificial Intelligence 76

Artificial Intelligence Technology Technology IoT 76

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Brotli is widely supported, and many CDNs support it ( Akamai , Netlify Edge , AWS , KeyCDN , Fastly (currently only as a pass-through), Cloudflare , CDN77 ) and you can enable Brotli even on CDNs that don’t support it yet (with a service worker). In 2018, the Alliance of Open Media has released a new promising video format called AV1.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145