Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

Energy data can be obtained from power delivery systems in datacenters or from intelligent plugs or power strips. At the instance level, many CPU and system architectures have direct access to power consumption metrics. There are also control plane overheads, shared storage volumes and supporting services to instrument.

Energy 52

Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. Although there are still a few very exciting AWS news updates to happen this year. The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012. Comments ().

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I had to setup a week of talks by all the relevant product teams, with a hundred or so of the most experienced systems engineers from all over the world as an audience. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. He hasn’t changed. So many global friendships were made that continue to today.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I don’t need more bandwidth for video conferences or movies, but I would like to be able to download operating system updates and other large items in seconds rather than minutes. What would the world look like if all of our storage was in the cloud, and access to that storage was so fast we didn’t care? Mike Loukides.

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Table 1: Movie and File Size Examples Initial Architecture A simplified view of our initial cloud video processing pipeline is illustrated in the following diagram. Lastly, the packager kicks in, adding a system layer to the asset, making it ready to be consumed by the clients.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Keeping progressive enhancement as the guiding principle of your front-end architecture and deployment is a safe bet. You could examine your framework candidates and the proposed architecture, and study how most solutions out there perform, e.g. with server-side rendering or client-side rendering, on average.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104