Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

October 2, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Hosting on Azure for Redis™ service. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

Azure 100

Azure Availability Open Source Virtualization 100

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

October 2, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Redis on Azure service. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

Azure 37

Azure Cloud Open Source Virtualization 37

SQL Performance

APRIL 10, 2019

I posted a suggestion to improve SQL Server by adding support for RPR in T-SQL , but I was quite limited in the space that I had to provide the feedback. The input is a table or table expression, and the output is a virtual table. STOCK1 2019-02-12 150.00 STOCK1 2019-02-13 151.00 STOCK1 2019-02-14 148.00

C++ 73

C++ Servers Virtualization Code 73

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. After the file is uploaded to a server on step 1, the file must be available to whichever server handles the request for steps 2 and 3, which may or may not be the same one for step 1.

AWS 44

AWS Servers Storage Cloud 44

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

2019-03-28T10:30:39+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Because server technology is rarely understood by the people who own websites, it’s easy for them to mistakenly think they can save money there. You build an amazing website that aims to do exactly what your client wanted, but the server technology is holding it back.

Website 48

Website Servers Design Traffic 48

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Virtual consensus in Delos , Balakrishnan et al. While ultimately this new system should be able to take advantage of the latest advances in consensus for improved performance, that’s not realistic given a 6-9 month in-production target. We propose the novel abstraction of a virtual shared log (or VirtualLog). Reconfiguration.

Virtualization 126

Virtualization Latency Storage Systems 126

High Scalability

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This Redis management solution allows startups up to enterprise-level organizations automate their Redis operations on Microsoft Azure dedicated cloud servers, alongside their other open source database deployments, including MongoDB , MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Azure 23

Azure Cloud Open Source Cache 23

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2. Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Here is a roundup of front end web development trends to keep an eye on in 2019. Frontend Frameworks If you’re not using a frontend framework like React, Vue.js, or Angular to help build your projects, then 2019 is a good year to start. It can be used to decouple your frontend from your backend and improve server efficiency.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

Percona

JULY 15, 2023

While indexes enhance query performance by reducing the need for full-table scans, some things need consideration: Choosing Appropriate Columns : Optimal column selection for indexing holds significance. Balancing Index Size and Query Performance : The size of an index impacts its performance; larger indexes may slow down query processing.

Virtualization 77

Virtualization Speed Database Efficiency 77

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The transaction log contains virtual log files, which contain log blocks, which store the actual log records. Virtual Log Files. The transaction log is split up into sections called virtual log files , commonly just called VLFs. Due to this problem, in SQL Server 2014 the algorithm changed for auto-growth of the log file.

Architecture 53

Architecture Servers Virtualization Database 53

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Azure is a large and growing cloud computing ecosystem that empowers its users to access databases, launch virtual servers, create websites or mobile applications, run a Kubernetes cluster, and train machine learning models, to name a few examples. Consider using virtual machines or specialized frameworks for these types of tasks.

Azure 137

Azure Serverless IoT Lambda 137

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Kubernetes (aka K8s) is an open-source platform used to run and manage containerized applications and services on clusters of physical or virtual machines across on-premises, public, private, and hybrid clouds. This virtualization makes it possible to efficiently deploy and securely run a container independently of the hosting infrastructure.

Virtualization 133

Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 133

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. These AMD EPYC processors have a number of advantages for SQL Server workloads, as I will explain in this article. Since then, Microsoft has changed the naming of this series to Lsv2.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was founded to bring standards to database benchmarking, and the history of the TPC can be found here. What is HammerDB? Why HammerDB was developed.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

Having released this functionality in an Preview Release back in September 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of our Citrix monitoring extension. This extends Dynatrace visibility into Citrix user experience and Citrix platform performance. Dynatrace Extension: SAP ABAP platform performance.

Latency 36

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 36

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Before delving into details about code-splitting, let’s quickly remind ourselves what makes JavaScript so impactful on overall performance. Performance Costs. Adrian Bece. 2022-02-02T10:30:00+00:00.

Code 89

Code Performance Network Website 89

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

A container (or a pod) running on a node may eat up all the available CPU or memory and affect all other pods on the node, degrading performance (or worse) and preventing any new workload to be scheduled on the node. When Kubernetes perform autoscaling (up/down) and on what. By default, containers run with unbounded limits.

Infrastructure 198

Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Metrics 198

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. It enables businesses and organizations to meet uptime and service level objectives, protect business-critical data, and maintain performant databases. The same changes made in the primary database are made in the replicas.

Availability 83

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 83

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

On August 7, 2019, AMD finally unveiled their new 7nm EPYC 7002 Series of server processors, formerly code-named "Rome" at the AMD EPYC Horizon Event in San Francisco. This is the second generation EPYC server processor that uses the same Zen 2 architecture as the AMD Ryzen 3000 Series desktop processors.

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. As is exactly the same with PostgreSQL for system choice a 2 socket system is optimal for MySQL OLTP performance. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 3.80

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you time time?

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Rigor

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Reading time 4 min The CPDoS attack that was discovered in October 2019 and the corresponding attention paid to it within the technology sphere brought to light an issue many of us overlook: the boundaries of our web applications have expanded, and that has increased the number of systems and services that must be monitored and secured.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Performance Cache Ecommerce 40

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Software Developers got to use JavaScript CLI tools to create the back-end part of web applications or server-side. allows creating web application’s server-side or back-end components. is a server-side, open-source, JavaScript runtime environment that allows developers to write JavaScript on the client and the server-side.

Open Source 52

Open Source Virtualization Programming Servers 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

2019-09-26T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-09-26T11:02:12+00:00. This flexible approach is well-established and widely-adopted by back-end and server architects. Technically, we have to split our existing application into microservices virtually. Frankenstein Migration: Framework-Agnostic Approach (Part 1). Denys Mishunov.

Architecture 74

Architecture Virtualization Servers Technology 74

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Speaking of Android OS, in 2019, there were around 2.5 You need strong and reliable servers to manage mobile devices and execute test scripts. These servers should be able to collect the requests by Dev and QA teams, process and execute these requests, as well as deliver the results & reports to the respective stakeholders.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Hardware DevOps 52

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Many of the newer features we have in SQL Server were initially launched in Azure SQL Database, including (but not limited to) Always Encrypted, Dynamic Data Masking, Row Level Security, and Query Store. There is a lot of awesome technology involved with Hyperscale in how it is architected to use SSD-based caches and page servers.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In the summer of 2019, British Airways faced a technical issue on its website. Considering this requirement and the website load, enterprises generally set up multiple servers and machines that can talk to each other through a network. This includes the design principles, server communications or data transfers and storage.

Testing 52

Testing Website Small Business Internet 52

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

However, choice mainly depends on numerous factors like project timeline, framework performance, learning curve, and team size. Performance. Like React, Vue features two-way binding, uses components and a virtual DOM. Vue vs React: Performance. Both Vue and React libraries have excellent performance. and Vue.js

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Scalability Google 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145