O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Rather than buying racks and racks of servers that need to handle the maximum potential traffic and be idle most of the time, it seems that serverless’ method of paying by compute is proving to be beneficial to the bottom lines of organizations. The third stand-out issue was “no server maintenance.” 1 reported benefit.

Serverless 88

Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88

SQL Performance

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Sorts use storage (memory and perhaps disk if they spill) so they do have a facility capable of storing rows between loop iterations. The Sort operator’s rewind behaviour may seem strange, but it has been this way from (at least) SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2019 inclusive (as well as Azure SQL Database). Sort Rewinds.

Servers 106

Servers Cache Azure Performance 106

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

— Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) 3 March, 2019. This includes CDNs, proxy servers, and the like. Once the 60 seconds is up, the browser will head back to the server to revalidate the file. It means ‘do no t serve a copy from cache until you’ve revalidated it with the server and the server said you can use the cached copy’.

Cache 264

Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

SQL Server will ship Azure SQL Database Edge: [link]. With the announcement I can tell you more about one of the things we have been working on; SQL Server running on IoT Edge and Developer machines in under 500MB of memory. The effort focuses attention on memory usage and disk space requirements of SQL Server. Description.

IoT 61

IoT Servers Development Cache 61

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 7, 2019

As this open source database continues to pull new users from expensive commercial database management systems like Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server, organizations are adopting new approaches and evolving their own to maintain the exceptional performance of their SQL deployments. autovacuum may have trouble keeping up on a busy server.

Strategy 182

Strategy Cloud Java Open Source 182

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. It would be nice if SQL Server could push the aggregation down into the scan and just return distinct values from the column store directly.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

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. Long FMP usually indicates JavaScript blocking the main thread, but could be related to back-end/server issues as well.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

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. pg_repack – reorganizes tables online to reclaim storage. In fact, PostgreSQL is so popular, 11.5%

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

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

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

In general terms, to achieve HA in PostgreSQL, there must be: Redundancy: To ensure data redundancy and provide continuous performance when a primary server fails, multiple copies of the database reside in replica servers. When the primary server fails, a standby server takes over as the new primary.

Availability 81

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 81

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

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. PostgreSQL has powerful and advanced features, including asynchronous replication, full-text searches of the database, and native support for JSON-style storage, key-value storage, and XML.

Open Source 76

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 76

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

OCTOBER 22, 2019

2019-10-22T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-10-22T13:06:35+00:00. According to HTTP Archive : The median size of a desktop website in 2019 is 1939.5 The median size of a mobile website in 2019 is 1745.0 Instead, you can integrate your existing image server (on your web host) or external storage service (like S3) with ImageKit.

Mobile 62

Mobile Media Website Storage 62

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

replacing Paxos with Raft), or they could be shims over external storage systems. A minimal Loglet needs to provide totally ordered, durable storage via the shared log API. In Facebook’s implementation of NativeLoglet, seal simply sets a bit on a quorum of servers. Reconfiguration.

Virtualization 126

Virtualization Latency Storage Systems 126

Percona

JULY 15, 2023

Let’s test the following equivalent query: mysql> SELECT AVG(price) FROM products WHERE create_time BETWEEN '2019-10-01' AND '2019-11-01'; + + | AVG(price) | + + | 202.982582 | + + mysql> EXPLAIN SELECT AVG(price) FROM products WHERE create_time BETWEEN '2019-10-01' AND '2019-11-01'G 1.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization Speed Database Efficiency 76

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 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. The basic tier provides up to 5 DTUs with standard storage. vCore Pricing Tier. GB per vCore. HyperScale Database.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We look forward to providing you with even better articles, news and information in 2019. As 2018 moves into 2019, let’s take a quick look back at some of the most popular posts on the blog this year. So I started a couple of instances to test Percona Server for MySQL under this CPU. Fsync Performance on Storage Devices.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I happen to be using SQL Server 2019 CU16 but the details I’ll describe haven’t materially changed since partition level lock escalation was added to SQL Server 2008. The SQL Server lock manager keeps track of the number of locks held by the current transaction. Testing environment. This seems like an oversight.

Database 98

Database Storage Testing Servers 98

Percona

JULY 3, 2023

However, a rule of thumb is that the size of the table should exceed the physical memory of the database server. The exact point at which a table will benefit from partitioning depends on the application.

Storage 80

Storage Database Performance Open Source 80

CSS - Tricks

JULY 18, 2019

That could potentially save a ton of server requests and precious bytes when waiting for a page to load. No more wondering how much storage is left on your server! Hey it doesn't hurt there is a 20% discount right now with DISCOUNT20 until July 31st, 2019. You get an unlimited amount of space to store anything you need.

Performance 41

Performance Storage Speed Servers 41

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

Event objects are not typical log events ; they are produced by the API Server and not included in the logs produced by the cluster. 2019 CNCF Survey , complexity (38%) and monitoring (32%) are ranking among the top 5 challenges in using, deploying, and managing containers. .

Infrastructure 199

Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Metrics 199

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 26, 2020

This week we’ll be looking at a selection of papers from the 2019 edition of the ACM Symposium of Cloud Computing ( SoCC ). Second, Reverb enables speculative bug fix analysis … Third, Reverb supports wide-area debugging for applications whose server-side components use event-driven architectures. The problem.

Programming 86

Programming Servers Network Latency 86

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

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

2019-10-29T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-10-29T13:36:09+00:00. Here’s what Google suggests: PageSpeed Insights demonstrates how much storage and bandwidth websites stand to save with WebP. Some of these methods let you dictate how your server delivers images based on the restraints of your visitors’ browsers. Suzanne Scacca.

Website 72

Website Speed Cache Google 72

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The downside to the latter is that, in SQL Server 2017, you cannot run this online… but you will be able to in 2019. ( DROP_EXISTING = ON , DATA_COMPRESSION = COLUMNSTORE_ARCHIVE ON PARTITIONS ( 1 TO 7 ) , DATA_COMPRESSION = COLUMNSTORE ON PARTITIONS ( 8 ) -- in 2019, CCI can be ONLINE = ON as well. )

Speed 113

Speed Processing Servers Storage 113

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

SQL Server has a cost-based optimizer that uses knowledge about the various tables involved in a query to produce what it decides is the most optimal plan in the time available to it during compilation. Whether the page is dirty or not (a dirty page has changes on it that haven’t yet been written back to durable storage). ) ; GO.

Efficiency 54

Efficiency Servers Database Cache 54

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 Three different 5G phones are used, including a ZTE Axon10 Pro with powerful communication (SDX 50 5G modem) and compute (Qualcomm Snapdragon TM855) capabilities together with 256GB of storage. km university campus.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2021

When you enable one of the two forms of versioning, SQL Server uses a mechanism called versioning to preserve pre-change versions of a record in the version store in tempdb. This special-purpose storage is made up of append-only allocation units and is only used for version store operations.

Database 56

Database Storage Availability Servers 56

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2019

2019-08-23T13:30:59+02:00. 2019-08-23T13:06:42+00:00. The idea presented here is now to load only so many bytes of a progressive JPEG from the server that you can quickly get an impression of the image content. With Ajax, however, this is possible, provided that the server delivering the image supports HTTP Range Requests.

Network 103

Network Servers Programming Code 103

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Never mind the likelihood for this to happen in practice in SQL Server; if I run the query again, theoretically, the row with id 2 could be assigned with row number 3 and the row with id 11 could be assigned with row number 2. So apparently the window order clause is mandatory for the ROW_NUMBER function in SQL Server.

Servers 104

Servers C++ Storage Performance 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. Jack Lenox.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

Given the increasing importance of open source and the widespread use of HammerDB, the TPC adopted HammerDB in 2019 and now hosts the project on GitHub. As a result, HammerDB was able to scale beyond other database workload applications. Adoption by the TPC. Usage and industry adoption. Supported Databases.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

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