High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. They also do live system design discussions every week. Apply here.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. They also do live system design discussions every week. Apply here.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. They also do live system design discussions every week. Apply here.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. They also do live system design discussions every week. Apply here.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

It’s important to ensure the bells and whistles of any software-as-a-service (SaaS) they offer can support where you aim to take your business, keeping your strategy tight and on track. Adopting Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) makes transitioning to a multi-cloud architecture more efficient, allowing streamlined setup processes.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

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

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. The basic question here is whether it is practical to support a large-scale C-language software stack with strong pointer-based protection… with only modest changes to existing C code-bases and with reasonable performance cost.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Developing software is becoming easier as frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular become the go-to solution for creating even the simplest applications. Common Websocket Architecture. Event Sourcing Architecture. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Cache 125

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

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. 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 224

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 224

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2020

As a part of the “ Release better software faster ” breakout track at Perform Las Vegas 2020 , I’ll be presenting a session concentrating on deployment models and how to reduce risk and iterate faster. Using the Davis assistant for comparison and benchmarking. Dynatrace news. From big bang to progressive deployments. Customer story.

Performance 35

Performance Benchmarking Innovation DevOps 35

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Over last few years, we have seen several attempts to run data workload in the containers especially distributed big data frameworks like Apache Hadoop, Apache Storm [3] , and Apache Spark [4] [5] without any software modifications. Obviously, containerized data workloads have their own challenges. optimised container networking and security.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

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

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 89

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 89

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

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language.

Java 207

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

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. It has now been worked out in a paper to appear in Software: Practice and Experience called Faster Remainder by Direct Computation. I make my benchmarking code available.

C++ 279

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Testing 279

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

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

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

Software testing is the process of finding bugs or discrepancies in a software. Even though the job of a software tester is to catch errors committed by developers, software testers themselves are not immune to errors. Introduction. Few Common Testing Mistakes. Starting without a Defined Scope of Testing. Happy Testing!

Software 85

Software Software Testing Open Source 85

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

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

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

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. They also need a way to track all the services running on their distributed architectures, from multicloud environments to the edge. But is five nines availability attainable? Each decimal point closer to 100 equals higher uptime. What is always-on infrastructure?

Infrastructure 176

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 176

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. This architecture spans data centers to add more layers of availability to the database cluster.

Availability 109

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 109

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

vijaypande 's "When Software Eats Bio." matei_zaharia : Since we opened #DAWNBench deep learning benchmark rolling submissions, there have been some cool entires. That central chip ties together the 7nm CPU chiplets, creating a massively scalable architecture. From wet lab problems to dry lab ones.

Internet 192

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 192

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Traditional self-managed ones give organizations full control over their database infrastructure, such as picking the software and scaling it up. These databases require significant time commitment along with necessary technical skills plus hardware & software costs, all of which are without dedicated team assistance.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

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 80

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 80

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. If you did such a benchmark, here’s an incomplete picture you might end up with: Graph of microbenchmark showing RPC is faster than messaging.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Latency Servers Systems 97

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

This is not a problem for PostgreSQL alone; every database software needs to deal with this problem. Configured checkpoint frequency, the chance of checkpoints triggered by WAL generation, storage performance, acceptable CPU overhead, type of CPU architecture, and many other factors.

Database 118

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 118

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

Nonetheless, operating Lambda functions comes with its own unique challenges and—especially when used within enterprise stacks—the operational requirements are the same as for any other piece of software. So, a well architected Lambda architecture can save a lot of costs. Top enterprise use-cases for AWS Lambda.

Lambda 214

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 214

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

Nonetheless, operating Lambda functions comes with its own unique challenges and—especially when used within enterprise stacks—the operational requirements are the same as for any other piece of software. So, a well-architected Lambda architecture can save a lot of costs. Top enterprise use-cases for AWS Lambda.

Lambda 176

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 176

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Doing extensive benchmarks will be the subject of a future blog post. In any case, you should benchmark both RDS MySQL and Aurora before taking the decision to migrate.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

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. Telltale provides Edgar with latency benchmarks that indicate if the individual trace’s latency is abnormal for this given service. Is this an anomaly or are we dealing with a pattern?

Latency 296

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

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. Attackers discover a previously unknown vulnerability in a software or system.

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

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.

Benchmarking 47

Benchmarking Database Operating System Architecture 47

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. Let's dive deep into these challenges.‍1. That's where Bot Detection comes in.

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40