Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. They maintain fault tolerance and redundancy by replicating this information throughout various nodes in the system.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

Organizations hit this cloud operations wall when replacing static virtual machines with dynamic container orchestration and expanding to multicloud environments. While modern cloud systems simplify tasks — such as deploying apps and provisioning new hardware and servers — cloud environments can be surprisingly complex.

Cloud 171

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 171

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

Availability 107

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 107

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The purpose of infrastructure as code is to enable developers or operations teams to automatically manage, monitor, and provision resources, rather than manually configure discrete hardware devices and operating systems. Infrastructure as code is sometimes referred to as programmable or software-defined infrastructure. Register now!

Infrastructure 167

Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps 167

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. This was a weird problem to think about: Time itself had now become a resource and target of performance analysis. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The answer to this challenge is service virtualization, which allows simulating real services during testing without actual access. Cloud and virtualization triggered appearance dynamic, auto-scaling architectures, which significantly impact getting and analyzing feedback. Traditionally monitoring was on the system level.

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

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.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

While we understand it’s virtually impossible to achieve a linear increase in throughput as the number of vCPUs grow, a near-linear increase is attainable. to a larger AWS instance size, from m5.4xl (16 vCPUs) to m5.12xl (48 vCPUs). The workload of GS2 is computationally heavy where CPU is the limiting resource.

Hardware 363

Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

## References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

There are three common mechanisms to access remote memory: modifying applications, modifying virtual memory, and hardware-level cache coherence support. About CXL hardware availability with academia. Also, besides the hardware, we see the software ecosystem starts to appear (e.g., Using emulation (e.g.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

It was also a virtual machine that lacked low-level hardware profiling capabilities, so I wasn't able to do cycle analysis to confirm that the 10% was entirely frame pointer-based. and we may have been flying close to the edge of hardware cache warmth, where adding a bit more instructions caused a big drop.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Nowadays, hardware and software are designed to conduct eye-tracking studies for marketing , UX , psychological and medical research , gaming , and several other use cases. Another area that has been showing huge potential is eye-tracking in the context of virtual reality. Source: Nielsen Norman Group ) ( Large preview ).

Mobile 111

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The data shows a scripted automated workload running a number of back to back tests each time with an increasing number of virtual users. Database information and performance schemas The best approach for database performance analysis is to take a top-down approach. The other ports shows the HammerDB Virtual Users.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to overcome these issues, the concept of paging and segmentation was introduced, where physical address space and virtual address space were designed. Here, virtual(logical) to physical address translation is much easier as segment tables store adequate information. A detailed description of these concepts is below.

Programming 83

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 83

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. 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. there cannot be high availability.

Availability 83

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 83

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

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The core idea is to continuously monitor all aspects of the business, actively interpret the observations using advanced data analysis – including ML – and integrate the learnings into appropriate actions that improve business outcomes. It was a surprise to me too when that penny dropped. What do these notebooks use instead?

Government 95

Government Software Engineering Storage Database 95

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. This was a weird problem to think about: Time itself had now become a resource and target of performance analysis. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] , Jul 2008 [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] , 2010 [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. This was a weird problem to think about: Time itself had now become a resource and target of performance analysis. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The scripts can be uploaded into the LoadView platform and replayed by a virtually unlimited number of simultaneous users, giving you actual performance from real browsers. You can also export all HTTP related data in CSV format for analysis using any tool you choose.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace is suited for this kind of analysis: decomposing metrics into distributions or per-event logs, and creating new metrics for visibility into blind spots. bpftrace uses BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter), an in-kernel execution engine that processes a virtual instruction set. hardware Hardware counter-based instrumentation.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

halt (); Some sort of very early exception handler; better to sit busy in an infinite loop than run off and destroy hardware or corrupt data, I suppose. Jann Horn gets back to me first: Can you use QEMU to look at the hardware frame (which contains values pushed by the hardware in response to the page fault) in early_idt_handler_common?

C++ 67

C++ Hardware Code Virtualization 67

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You cannot virtualize everything…yet. Software services still require physical devices and hardware for them to function. Root-cause analysis and source of the incident. Change management is the process of determining how changes will affect the service deployment and/or consider the effects on the business itself.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). My rock solid experience with Ubuntu is on an LTS release. ## Crash Dump Analysis It can be done.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Our audience is particularly strong in the software (20% of respondents), computer hardware (4%), and computer security (2%) industries—over 25% of the total. As Figure 3 shows, the percentage of men and women respondents who saw no change was virtually identical (18%). Correspondingly, more men saw their salaries increase.

Azure 145

Azure Social Media Programming AWS 145

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the simplest case, you have a growing workload, and you optimize it to run more efficiently so that you don’t need to buy or rent additional hardware, so your carbon footprint stays the same, but the carbon per transaction or operation is going down.

Energy 52

Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

It covers these key areas: Technology & Dependency Analysis. Resource consumption & traffic analysis. While most of our cloud & platform partners have their own dependency analysis tooling, most of them focus on basic dependency detection based on network connection analysis between hosts.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Now in development in WebKit after years of radio silence, WebXR APIs provide Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality input and scene information to web applications. is access to hardware devices. This allows customisation and use of specialised features without custom, proprietary software for niche hardware. Shape Detection.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Randon ASCII

APRIL 14, 2020

I tried to tap the control key (virtual key code 162) once a second until the password input field appeared. Is a second or more of busy waiting really the only way to get my hardware going? Normally when doing wait analysis like this I spend a lot of time worrying about why a thread is waiting, and what stopped it from being readied.

Programming 89

Programming Processing Systems Hardware 89

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Take the example of industrial manufacturing: in prototyping, drafts for technologically complex products are no longer physically produced; rather, their characteristics can be tested in a purely virtual fashion at every location across the globe by using simulations. The German startup SimScale makes use of this trend.

Artificial Intelligence 79

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Logistics AWS 79

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. Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) was the focus of the QZFS paper which used this new hardware device to speed up file system compression.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

Essentially, you can assign a thread to a specific virtual CPU. assigning to a specific CPU) is a manageable resource, represented by the concept of “virtual CPU” as a term that includes CPU cores, hyperthreads, hardware threads, and so forth. MySQL determines, at startup, how many virtual CPUs are available.

Tuning 45

Tuning Virtualization Testing Servers 45

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

AI users say that AI programming (66%) and data analysis (59%) are the most needed skills. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. Data analysis showed a similar pattern: 70% total; 32% using AI, 38% experimenting with it.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. Over the years this product has grown into a complete data platform including Reporting Services, Analysis Services, Integration Services, more tools, Replication, R Services, and much more. . · So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20 on my Windows NT 3.1 It would scare you).

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40