Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are on [slideshare] or as a [PDF]: I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Watch “ The three-headed dog: Architecture, process, structure “ Modern machine learning architectures: Data and hardware and platform, oh my. Brian Sletten takes a deep dive into the intersection of data, models, hardware, language, architecture, and machine learning systems.

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Software Architecture Architecture Software Software 53

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2020

As part of the instructions, you can also make sure that your machine meets the system and hardware requirements for setting up a private Synthetic location. As you might already know, starting with Dynatrace version 1.193, Windows Server 2019 is supported. What’s next. In the near future, you can also expect support for: Ubuntu 18.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We’ve been covering papers from VLDB 2019 for the last three weeks, and next week it will be time to mix things up again. I really do want to cover this one at some point, along with Implementation of cluster-wide logical clock and causal consistency in MongoDB from SIGMOD 2019. What’s their secret???

Blockchain 46

Blockchain Hardware Google Analytics 46

Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? 2019 Top Databases Used. So, which databases are most popular in 2019? just three months ago in our 2019 Database Trends – SQL vs. NoSQL, Top Databases, Single vs. Multiple Database Use report.

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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. Oracle support for hardware and software packages is typically available at 22% of their licensing fees. In fact, PostgreSQL is so popular, 11.5%

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2019-01-07T12:00:13+00:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Parsing and executing times vary significantly depending on the hardware of a device. Vitaly Friedman.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

” Despite many challenges, when the project concluded in 2019, the team had the confidence and experience to migrate anything to the cloud. While modern cloud systems simplify tasks — such as deploying apps and provisioning new hardware and servers — cloud environments can be surprisingly complex.

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Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 177

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

” Willing also offered a shout-out to the CircuitPython and Mu projects, asking, “Who doesn’t love hardware, blinking LEDs, sensors, and using Mu, a user-friendly editor that is fantastic for adults and kids?” 2019 brought another surprise when Oracle moved Java SE to a subscription-based model. ” Java.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Intel and Netflix announced their collaboration on a software video encoder implementation called SVT-AV1 on April 8, 2019. 264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. When you are building an encoder, sometimes you need to start with a clean slate too.

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Brendan Gregg

MAY 1, 2022

My dream is to turn computer performance analysis into a science, one where we can completely understand the performance of everything: of applications, libraries, kernels, hypervisors, firmware, and hardware. You never know a company (or person) until you see them on their worst day.

Wireless 52

Wireless Hardware Open Source Cloud 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2019

Starting with version 1.170, hardware updates are applied automatically when services are restarted. Audit logs are available on individual nodes at DATASTORE_PATH/log/server. Cluster event audit logs are available as of Dynatrace Managed version 1.170. See audit log example below: audit.cluster.event.log. restart.

Hardware 103

Hardware Traffic Servers Monitoring 103

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Krste Asanovic from UC Berkeley kicked off the main program sharing his experience on “ Rejuvenating Computer Architecture Research with Open-Source Hardware ”. He ended the keynote with a call to action for open hardware and tools to start the next wave of computing innovation. This year’s MICRO had three inspiring keynote talks.

Hardware 18

Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

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 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

This follow-up post revisits the question for SQL Server 2019, using a larger number of rows. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance. The parallel column store aggregate push down result of 57 million rows processed in 7ms (using 40ms of CPU) is remarkable, especially considering the hardware.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 10, 2019

HotStorage 2019. Both abstractions must be implemented in a way that is efficient using existing hardware. The hardware perspective. At the hardware level we want to able to move data into, out of , and around memory, without consideration for persistence and reference lifetimes. Application requirements. Object spaces.

Hardware 52

Hardware Virtualization Operating System Programming 52

Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 9, 2022

So right from the beginning, I’m happy to spend some time getting back up to speed and developing some of my ideas around new hardware capabilities. One is general technology advice on the state of the art in development practices, along the lines of the Cloud for CEOs booklet I published for AWS in 2019.

IoT 52

IoT Best Practices AWS Media 52

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Gen 5 is the primary hardware option now for most regions since Gen 4 is aging out. Microsoft took that idea and built a new compute tier called Azure SQL Database serverless, which became generally available in November 2019. New Hardware Configuration for Provisioned Compute Tier. GB per vCore.

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Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Ross Mcilroy : we now believe that speculative vulnerabilities on today's hardware defeat all language-enforced confidentiality with no known comprehensive software mitigations, as we have discovered that untrusted code can construct a universal read gadget to read all memory in the same address space through side-channels.

Internet 39

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 39

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. USENIX ATC is a top-tier venue with a broad range of systems research papers from both industry and academia. Heterogeneous ISA.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. These factors meant that often when looking for database performance information, the results for a particular combination of software and hardware were not available. What is HammerDB? Why HammerDB was developed.

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Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

India has been the epicentre of smartphone growth in recent years, owing to the sheer size of its market and an accelerating shift away from feature phones which made up the majority of Indian mobile devices until as late as 2019. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. So what did $150USD fetch in 2019? " package.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 4, 2019

By replacing branch-heavy algorithms with neural networks, the DBMS can profit from these hardware trends.". @copyconstruct : "GPUs will increase 1000× in performance by 2025, whereas Moore’s law for CPUs essentially is dead. billion user's names, addresses, naughty/nice statuses, and the times they are asleep in their homes.

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Healthcare 29

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

rc3-custom #1 SMP Mon Aug 12 14:07:33 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Welcome to Ubuntu 19.04 (GNU/Linux 5.3.0-rc3-custom hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00 hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00 current CPU frequency: Unable to call hardware current CPU frequency: 1.00 hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00

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Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Speaking of Android OS, in 2019, there were around 2.5 Once you have chosen your target devices, consider the architectural aspect of your hardware. New devices will launch more rigorously in the near future and you would always find yourself struggling to keep your hardware up to the minute. billion devices.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Hardware DevOps 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 (..)

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run. Can you afford the necessary hardware, software, and operational costs of maintaining a PostgreSQL HA solution? there cannot be high availability.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

From outright misstatements about a competitor's security, to claims that performance differences in hardware show Safari is faster, to [geographic brinksmanship](/2022/02/minimum-standards/), the confident bluster hasn't gone down particularly well.

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Energy Games Engineering Design 79

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

They are run on SQL Server 2019 CU9 , on a laptop with 8 cores, and 16GB of memory allocated to the SQL Server 2019 instance. This uses hardware, typically a crystal oscillator, that produces ticks at a very high constant rate regardless of processor speed, power settings, or anything of that nature. Batch Mode Serial Execution.

Servers 95

Servers Tuning Architecture Processing 95

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

For VR, this is a journey that is already one-third complete and expected to be finished by the end of 2019. If the solution works as envisioned, Telenor Connexion can easily deploy it to production and scale as needed without an investment in hardware. Our AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region is open for business now.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 long latency and high power consumption) entail long-term co-evolution of 5G with the legacy Internet infrastructure and radio/computing hardware. km university campus. Some of these problems (e.g.

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Tech News Gather

JULY 19, 2023

There’s no denying that the Web of Things community has gone crazy over matter since its release late in 2019. Otherwise, you may not be able to locate enough appropriate hardware and end up having to often switch between different programs. The global home automation market is projected to grow from $72.30 in forecast period.

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Wireless IoT Development Internet 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. Theory (A) is most likely based on the frame widths in the flame graph. But I'm not completely sure.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

USENIX Security Symposium 2019. Experiments are conducted in an RF shielded environment using the XPlane 11 flight simulator (which qualifies for FAA-certified flight training hours when used at appropriate frame rates), a commercial aviation grade handheld navigation receiver, and a laptop with software-defined radio hardware (USRP B210s).

Wireless 91

Wireless Systems Airlines Hardware 91

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Having released this functionality in an Early Adopter Release with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174 back in August 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux.

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