All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

AWS 67

AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage 67

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Database as a Service (DBaaS) providers are an alternative option that acts almost like going on a cruise ship: quick provisioning is facilitated by them, while scalability, support services, and flexibility benefit from pay-as-you-go models. They also come with some drawbacks—high costs and resources needed for successful management.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

Specifically, we will dive into the architecture that powers search capabilities for studio applications at Netflix. In summary, this model was a tightly-coupled application-to-data architecture, where machine learning algos were mixed with the backend and UI/UX software code stack.

Media 291

Media Innovation Energy Architecture 291

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

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc. Aurora Features High Performance and Scalability Amazon Aurora has gained widespread recognition for its exceptional performance and scalability, making it an ideal solution for handling demanding workloads.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

It also supports the flexibility and scalability of the database infrastructure. When planning your database HA architecture, the size of your company is a great place to start to assess your needs. This architecture spans data centers to add more layers of availability to the database cluster.

Availability 107

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 107

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. . This is to be expected and is due to the limitations of the scalability of the storage engine.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’ll also look at the differences, as it’s important to know what architecture(s) will help you best meet your unique requirements for maximizing data assets and achieving continuous uptime. Architecture for fault-tolerant systems Fault-tolerant information systems are designed to offer 100% availability.

Availability 79

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 79

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

This is the second generation EPYC server processor that uses the same Zen 2 architecture as the AMD Ryzen 3000 Series desktop processors. The initial reviews and benchmarks for these processors have been very impressive: AMD EPYC 7002 Series Rome Delivers a Knockout. AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked.

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2018

Because recognizing if the workload is read intensive or write intensive will impact your hardware choices, database configuration as well as what techniques you can apply for performance optimization and scalability. Let’s examine the TPC-C Benchmark from this point of view, or more specifically its implementation in Sysbench.

Benchmarking 47

Benchmarking Database Operating System Architecture 47

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). First, we looked at the overall architecture of the replica design.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

For example, the IMDG must be able to efficiently create millions of objects in each server to make use of its huge storage capacity. We have spent a great deal of time at ScaleOut Software re-architecting our in-memory data grid (IMDG)’s code base to make best use of many cores and large memory. Testing Scale-Up Performance.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. Still, after all these years, keeping progressive enhancement as the guiding principle of your front-end architecture and deployment is a safe bet. Consider using PRPL pattern and app shell architecture. Baseline performance cost matters.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Defining The Environment Choosing a framework, baseline performance cost, Webpack, dependencies, CDN, front-end architecture, CSR, SSR, CSR + SSR, static rendering, prerendering, PRPL pattern. Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. compared to early 2015. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145