Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

I’ve been speaking to customers over the last few months about our new cloud architecture for Synthetic testing locations and their confusion is clear. When we wanted to add a location, we had to ship hardware and get someone to install that hardware in a rack with power and network. Hardware was outdated. Sound easy?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. With an on-prem data center, the organization bears the burden of securing the physical infrastructure and its digital assets. What is cloud migration?

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. We have several YouTube Tutorials and blog posts available that show how you can use Dynatrace RUM data for Web Performance & User Experience Optimization. Here are two I would start with: Web Performance Optimization with Dynatrace.

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Cache Architecture Database Government 190

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

These days, “Data is king,” and a lot more. Data powers everything, and unlike coal and coal combustion, data and databases aren’t going away. Any organization that uses personal and other sensitive data must have a firm, proven plan for business continuity in the event of a disaster or cyberattack.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Scalability is a significant concern, as databases must handle growing data volumes and user demands while maintaining peak performance. ” Each shard manages a portion of the data, forming a sharded cluster, which enables MongoDB to handle large datasets and high user concurrency effectively.

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Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 71

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. It enables businesses and organizations to meet uptime and service level objectives, protect business-critical data, and maintain performant databases. Failover is essential to minimizing downtime.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 82

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands. It distributes the load among containers and nodes automatically, ensuring that your application can handle any spike in traffic without the need for manual intervention from an IT staff.

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Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 99

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

The Linux ARM platform —the Linux kernel ported to ARM processor–based machines—is becoming a tempting, cost-effective solution for building microservice-oriented data centers. We anticipate massive growth in the popularity of this architecture in the coming quarters, driven additionally by companies’ push for cost reductions.

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Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 132

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box Aguilera et al., Last time out we looked at some of the trade-offs between RInKs and LInKs , and the advantages of local in-memory data structures. For many data center applications this looks to me like it could be a compelling future choice. HotOS’19.

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Design Cache Hardware Scalability 80

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

An IDS/IPS monitors network flows and matches incoming packets (or more strictly, Protocol Data Units, PDUs) against a set of rules. When used in prevention mode (IPS), this all has to happen inline over incoming traffic to block any traffic with suspicious signatures. IDS/IPS requirements. Introducing Pigasus.

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Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Understanding Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Cloud computing has revolutionized the IT industry, offering a host of advantages including cost-effectiveness, increased agility, and access to cutting-edge hardware. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail?

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Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available. For example: $ /opt/mongodb/4.0.6/bin/mongos

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

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. There’s some work on hardware proposals for these systems, like Zhu et al., Despite their age, these languages are far from dead!

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C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

VoltDB

APRIL 25, 2024

To move as fast as they can at scale while protecting mission-critical data, more and more organizations are investing in private 5G networks, also known as private cellular networks or just “private 5G” (not to be confused with virtual private networks, which are something totally different). In an age where the average data breach sets U.S.

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Network IoT Wireless Infrastructure 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Gone are the days of monolithic architecture. When we think of a system’s architecture, the first thing that may pop into your mind is the traditional client-server system, where a server was the shared resource among many different devices and machines, like printers, computes, clients, etc. Multi-Tier. Concurrency. Heterogeneity.

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Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. Linux to the rescue?

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. We had the online personalization microservices platform that I’ve discussed a lot, there was a separate platform for data science, another one for movie encoding, and another for corporate IT.

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Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 20, 2018

In this post, I argue that software and data interoperability, a hallmark of the modern computer ecosystem, is at the core of several widespread security problems. An alternate approach is to tie data and potentially software to specific physical instances of a digital system. Interoperability. Individualizing digital systems.

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Hardware Operating System Architecture Software 47

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., When a QoS violation is predicted to occur and a culprit microservice located, Seer uses a lower level tracing infrastructure with hardware monitoring primitives to identify the reason behind the QoS violation.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

As is expected to be common during the roll-out and transition phase of 5G, this network adopts the NSA (Non-Standalone Access) deployment model whereby the 5G radio is used for the data plane, but the control plane relies on existing 4G. Does 5G improve the end-user experience for applications (web browsing, and 4K+ video streaming)?

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

MySQL replication is a process in which data from a primary MySQL database is copied and sent to one or more secondary databases, known as replicas. Setting Up MySQL Replication – Step by Step: Backup Data: Before starting, create a backup of your primary database to prevent data loss during setup.

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Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires. It is a mid-tier service that emits a custom JSON data structure that contains fields that are consumed by the UI. Here’s what the final architecture looked like.

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Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. Comments ().

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AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to Dr. Bandwidth, performance analysis has two recurring themes: How fast should this code (or “simple” variations on this code) run on this hardware? The user environment defines the mapping of MPI ranks to hardware resources (cores, sockets, nodes). The MPI runtime library. in ways that are seldom transparent.

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Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. Vikings fight zombies.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Automated Backups and Point-in-Time Recovery Aurora provides automated backup and point-in-time recovery, simplifying backup management and data protection.

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. Terabyte of wasted traffic. Hardware And E-Waste. But there are plenty of actions we can take that reduce our environmental impact and reduce costs (or increase revenue) at the same time. On the Fact Sheets page, we can save approx.

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Strategy Development Energy Website 126

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Before Jio's disruptive pricing and aggressive rollout, data services in India were among the most expensive in the world relative to income and heavily reliant on 3G outside wealthier "tier 1" cities. In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. Vikings fight zombies.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Google wrote: Faster sites don’t just improve user experience; recent data shows that improving site speed also reduces operating costs. If you’re interested in a high-level overview of Lighthouse architecture, read this guide from the official repository. How Lighthouse calculates the Performance Score. Estimated Input Latency.

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

These sensors create massive amounts of geological data. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. It makes use of the Eagle Genomics platform running on AWS, resulting in that Unilever’s digital data program now processes genetic sequences twenty times faster—without incurring higher compute costs.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

Infrastructure as a Service is the term used for those cloud-based solutions that provide complete infrastructure to the users including all the overheads, hardware, and networking facilities. SaaS does not need you to manage hardware or other requirements such as OS and middleware. Source: Smart Data Collective. is a bad idea.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions.

Availability 30

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 30

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Basic navigation and window management features to (e.g.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions.

Availability 25

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 25