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. This was followed by a greatly expanded second edition with some additional chapters by Rich Pettit.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 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 85

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 85

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. Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

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

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Transforming an application from monolith to microservices-based architecture can be daunting, and knowing where to start can be difficult. Because monolithic applications combine database, client-side interfaces, and server-side application elements in a single executable, they’re difficult to understand, even for their own administrators.

Architecture 237

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 237

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. Podjarny presents a series of increasingly larger-scope solutions to each issue, including client-side techniques and RESS (Responsive + Server Side).

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

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

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. However, these must be set up outside the PostgreSQL system, while PgBouncer can offload this to the PostgreSQL server. Throughput Benchmark.

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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. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. Science & Engineering. The Bloundhound SSC project. -

AWS 68

AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage 68

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

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

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. MS SQL Server/Linux and Windows. Programming Languages. When you download the source code for HammerDB you can see that the programming language it is written in is called TCL.

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? Sysbench ran on a third server, which I’ll refer to as the application server (APP).

Tuning 133

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 133

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Why RPC is “faster” It’s tempting to simply write a micro-benchmark test where we issue 1000 requests to a server over HTTP and then repeat the same test with asynchronous messages. But to be fair, we also have to process the messages on the server before we can consider the messaging case to be complete.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Latency Servers Systems 97

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Requests are evenly distributed across multiple database servers, ensuring the system remains operational even if one server fails. Automated failover : To keep the database operational and minimize downtime, it automatically switches to a backup server if the primary server fails.

Availability 104

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

matei_zaharia : Since we opened #DAWNBench deep learning benchmark rolling submissions, there have been some cool entires. In a two socket server, that equates to 128 physical cores and 256 threads in a single box. That central chip ties together the 7nm CPU chiplets, creating a massively scalable architecture.

Internet 192

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 192

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

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. Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

Availability 77

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 77

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the digital age, data management has transformed from locally hosted servers to cloud solutions. What’s more, their platform delivers improved workload efficiency through backup automation along with performance-optimizing tools specific for various types of databases as well as continuous monitoring & benchmarking capabilities.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., A typical architecture diagram for one of these services looks like this: Suitably armed with a set of benchmark microservices applications, the investigation can begin! ASPLOS’19.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

This means that there is no need to provision or manage servers (or even containers). So, a well architected Lambda architecture can save a lot of costs. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. Lambda handles all of the following for you: Load balancing. Auto scaling. Failure retries.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 226

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

This will be clearly visible in PostgreSQL performance benchmarks as a “ Sawtooth wave ” pattern observed by Vadim in his tests: As we can see, the throughput suddenly drops after every checkpoint due to heavy WAL writing and gradually picks up until the next checkpoint. But this comes with a considerable performance implication.

Database 114

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 114

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

This means that there is no need to provision or manage servers (or even containers). So, a well-architected Lambda architecture can save a lot of costs. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. Lambda handles all of the following for you: Load balancing. Auto scaling. Failure retries.

Lambda 188

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 188

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. Despite all of this, Intel is not going to lose their entire server processor business any time soon. So, what has changed my mind?

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

HammerDB

MAY 26, 2022

If you are not already familiar with the programming languages that HammerDB uses, then this earlier post serves as an ideal introduction to what makes up the highest performing GIL free database benchmarking application. For Db2 either the server or client can be installed, for example v11.5.7_linuxx64_server_dec.tar.gz.

C++ 113

C++ Database Open Source Servers 113

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) Deployment Aurora’s Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) deployment offers remarkably high availability and fault tolerance by automatically replicating data across multiple availability zones using its distributed storage architecture to eliminate single points of failure. Learn more here!

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Another factor is at play that would require additional PMCs to analyze, however, this target is an m4.16xl where PMCs are restricted to the architectural set. In more detail: ## 1.

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Two of them are particularly gnarly: fine-tuning rules to perfection and managing a WAF over a multi-CDN architecture. Configuring and Maintaining WAF on a Multi-CDN‍Multi-CDN architectures, the double-edged swords. A horde of compromised computers overwhelms a server, rendering it incapable of handling legitimate requests.In

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

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). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The per-core power budget is similarly constrained for servers. Server processors have a power budget around 170W, but they also have more cores per die in order to compete on throughput. So does this mean the current generation of out-of-order architecture is approaching fundamental limits in ST performance?

Architecture 67

Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 67

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2018

Let’s examine the TPC-C Benchmark from this point of view, or more specifically its implementation in Sysbench. The illustrations below are taken from Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) while running this benchmark. Analyzing read/write workload by counts. Analyzing Read/Write Workload by Response Time.

Benchmarking 46

Benchmarking Database Operating System Architecture 46

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

While this abundance of dashboards and information is by no means unique to Netflix, it certainly holds true within our microservices architecture. A span: Represents a unit of work, such as a network call from one service to another (a client/server relationship) or a purely internal action (e.g., starting and finishing a method).

Latency 296

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Distributing accounts across the infrastructure is an architectural decision, as a given account often has similar usage patterns, languages, and sizes for their Lambda functions. When we set out to create the new Lambda extension, we benchmarked other dedicated Lambda monitoring solutions that were already on the market. What’s next.

Lambda 224

Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 224

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Two of them are particularly gnarly: fine-tuning rules to perfection and managing a WAF over a multi-CDN architecture. Configuring and Maintaining WAF on a Multi-CDN‍Multi-CDN architectures, the double-edged swords. A horde of compromised computers overwhelms a server, rendering it incapable of handling legitimate requests.In

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When designing an architecture, many components need to be considered before deciding on the best solution. The Proxy in architectures involving MySQL/Percona Server for MySQL/Percona XtraDB Cluster is a crucial element for the scalability of the cluster, no matter if using K8s or not.

Games 118

Games Latency Traffic Cache 118

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Another factor is at play that would require additional PMCs to analyze, however, this target is an m4.16xl where PMCs are restricted to the architectural set. In more detail: ## 1.

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 40