The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs Tan et al., use the TPC-H benchmark to assess Redshift, Redshift Spectrum, Athena, Presto, Hive, and Vertica to find out what works best and the trade-offs involved. in the TPC-H Benchmark Standard for details of the queries). VLDB’19. System initialisation time.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

For more information, read our guide on how data lakehouse architectures store data insights in context. Additionally, software analytics enhances the digital customer experience by enabling faster service for high-quality offerings. The post What is software automation?

Software 189

Software Software Analytics Big Data 189

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2022

While this may work for monolithic applications or environments with infrequent releases, this simply does not scale for today’s modern cloud-native environments that are based on microservices-based architectures where new releases occur more frequently from days to hours to minutes. Automating release validation.

DevOps 210

DevOps Benchmarking Cloud Monitoring 210

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

AI-assistance: Use AI to detect anomalies and benchmark your system. Cloud-native architectures: Support for containers and serverless, including open standard like OpenTelementary, Prometheus, StatsD and Telegraf. This will allow your IT team to focus on what matters – proactive action, innovation, and business results.

Infrastructure 202

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 202

Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

More than half (51%) of SREs say they dedicate significant time to influencing architectural design decisions to improve reliability. SREs must be free to challenge accepted norms and set new benchmarks for innovation-led design and engineering practices. A shift to SRE-driven engineering takes hold.

DevOps 147

DevOps Innovation Engineering Benchmarking 147

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Adopting Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) makes transitioning to a multi-cloud architecture more efficient, allowing streamlined setup processes. Establishing clear service-level agreements is key as they outline specific responsibilities and performance benchmarks expected from cloud service providers during disaster recovery scenarios.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

InfoQ

JANUARY 12, 2021

In this article, we’ll briefly outline the use-case for a library like Donkey and present our benchmarks. Donkey is the product of the quest for a highly performant Clojure HTTP stack aimed to scale at the rapid pace of growth we have been experiencing at AppsFlyer, and save us computing costs. By Yaron Elyashiv.

Benchmarking 118

Benchmarking Performance Design Network 118

HammerDB

MAY 24, 2019

HammerDB has increased dramatically in popularity and use and has been identified as the industry default for database benchmarking illustrating both the popularity of open source and TPC based benchmarks. The first step towards this goal is the recently announced move of the HammerDB source code to the TPC-Council GitHub repository.

Code 48

Code Benchmarking Open Source Website 48

High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. Bridgecrew is the cloud security platform for developers. Stateful JavaScript Apps. Generous free tier.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. Bridgecrew is the cloud security platform for developers. Stateful JavaScript Apps. Generous free tier.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. Bridgecrew is the cloud security platform for developers. Stateful JavaScript Apps. Generous free tier.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. Bridgecrew is the cloud security platform for developers. Stateful JavaScript Apps. Generous free tier.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Common Websocket Architecture. In a common WebSocket architecture, the Front-end application will connect to a WebSocket API, an event bus, or a database. Event Sourcing Architecture. No one likes a white blank screen, especially your users.

Cache 125

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Capability integrity prevents direct in-memory manipulation of architectural capability encodings. At hardware reset the boot code is granted maximally permissive architectural capabilities. For a macro-benchmark PostgreSQL’s initdb tool was used. This enables all legacy loads and stores via the DDC to be eliminated.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Transforming an application from monolith to microservices-based architecture can be daunting, and knowing where to start can be difficult. Unsurprisingly, organizations are breaking away from monolithic architectures and moving toward event-driven microservices. Migration is time-consuming and involved. create a microservice; 2.

Architecture 233

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 233

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. Experiment with different neural network architectures.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Information Architecture. In her book, Lara Hogan helps you approach projects with page speed in mind, showing you how to test and benchmark which design choices are most critical. This book from 2002 is a brilliant must read: site architecture, security, reliability, and their impact on performance. Designing for Performance.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Performance Website 75

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2020

In the past, monolith architectures could only be implemented with big bang deployments which result in a slow pace of innovation and significant downtime. Using the Davis assistant for comparison and benchmarking. From big bang to progressive deployments. My session will cover various options, such as: Tagging different deployments.

Performance 35

Performance Benchmarking Innovation DevOps 35

Speed Curve

MARCH 23, 2016

The new SpeedCurve architecture allows you to access all the granularity of WebPageTest via our user interface. You can also distribute checks more flexibly across your sites and the competitors you are benchmarking.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Speed Network Website 40

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. However, Redis, with its single-threaded architecture, may encounter bottlenecks with large numbers of concurrent connections.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

It ranks the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers based on their performance as measured by the Linpack benchmark. The performance, R max , is measured by the Linpack benchmark with 64-bit floating point arithmetic. You may have heard of the Top500 list. The development of performance roughly follows an exponential growth.

Energy 40

Energy Benchmarking Efficiency Website 40

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2023

In the second approach, we show that a relatively simple, supervised sequential model (bidirectional LSTM or GRU) that uses rich, pretrained shot-level embeddings can outperform the current state-of-the-art baselines on our internal benchmarks. Figure 1: a scene consists of a sequence of shots.

Benchmarking 253

Benchmarking C++ Availability Programming 253

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A recent performance benchmark completed by Intel and BlueData using the BigBench benchmarking kit has shown that the performance ratios for container-based Hadoop workloads on BlueData EPIC are equal to and in some cases, better than bare-metal Hadoop [7]. Performance.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 petaflops, which is 0.8% of peak capacity.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

There are a couple of blog posts from Yves that describe and benchmark MySQL compression: Compression Options in MySQL (Part 1) Compression Options in MySQL (Part 2) Archive or purge old or non-used data: Some companies have to retain data for multiple years either for compliance or for business requirements.

Open Source 87

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 87

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. ASPLOS’19.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

In addition, such custom systems could only be benchmarked once they were deployed, so by the time multiple layers of management had each added a 50% safety margin to the initial SWAG , it was not unusual to see them running at 10% of capacity (but 150% of the lucky hardware salesman’s annual quota).

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

In our previous posts in this series, we spoke at length about using PgBouncer and Pgpool-II , the connection pool architecture and pros and cons of leveraging one for your PostgreSQL deployment. All of the PostgreSQL benchmark tests were run under the following conditions: Initialized pgbench using a scale factor of 100.

Benchmarking 246

Benchmarking Database Performance Testing Availability 246

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

There was an excellent first benchmarking report of the Cluster GPU Instances by the folks at Cycle Computing - " A Couple More Nails in the Coffin of the Private Compute Cluster " The Top500 supercomputer list. The Cluster Compute and the Cluster GPU Instances are now supported by Amazon Elastic Map Reduce.

AWS 68

AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage 68

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language. One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking. Most of us, as we spend years in our jobs — tend to be proficient in at least one of these.

Java 207

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

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

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

In addition, such custom systems could only be benchmarked once they were deployed, so by the time multiple layers of management had each added a 50% safety margin to the initial SWAG , it was not unusual to see them running at 10% of capacity (but 150% of the lucky hardware salesman’s annual quota).

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This guide to HammerDB concepts and architectures is aimed at helping you understand how HammerDB is built and how it can be extended and modified. It should now be clear that HammerDB is a simple and modular application yet extremely powerful and high performance because of the multi-threaded architecture and design.

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

Daniel Lemire

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

I believe that all optimizing C/C++ compilers know how to pull this trick and it is generally beneficial irrespective of the processor’s architecture. We also published our benchmarks for research purposes. I make my benchmarking code available. The idea is not novel and goes back to at least 1973 (Jacobsohn).

C++ 279

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Testing 279

Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

ScaleGrid for PostgreSQL is architectured to leverage-high performance SSD disks on DigitalOcean, and is finely tuned and optimized to achieve the best performance on DigitalOcean infrastructure. PostgreSQL Benchmark Setup. Benchmark Tool. PostgreSQL Version. Scaling Factor. Query Mode. Number of Clients. Number of Threads.

Database 230

Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The focus of most published research in architecture is on applications implemented in high-performance, “ close-to-the-metal” languages essentially developed before computers got fast. I suggest it’s long past time to move beyond C and SPEC benchmarks and our exclusive focus on “metal” languages.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108