Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

ITOps refers to the process of acquiring, designing, deploying, configuring, and maintaining equipment and services that support an organization’s desired business outcomes. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

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Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 208

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” Every VFX studio has a slightly different architecture and workflow, and a one-size-fits-all solution often isn’t enough to bridge the gap.

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Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 282

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Editor’s Note: This post was submitted as a rebuttal to Andrew Chien’s July 24 SIGARCH Blog Post ) The recent post “ Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem ” by Prof. Unlike Prof. Chien’s Arguments Against Embodied Carbon Prof. Therefore, the $1.4B

Energy 98

Energy Architecture Hardware Metrics 98

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. Redundancy provides backups and safeguards against data loss in case of hardware failures. there cannot be high availability.

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Availability Hardware Open Source Database 77

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

PWAs are designed to work offline, be fast, and provide a seamless user experience across different devices. Motion UI Motion UI is a design trend involving animation and other interactive elements to create a more dynamic and engaging user experience. They thus adapt to the user's browser, screen size, and device specifications.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

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. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

It was initially designed to mitigate the limitations of file management systems, including slow operations, inadequate security, and substantial data redundancy. It comprises a collection of interrelated data and a set of software tools that aid in the access, processing, and management of data.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. there cannot be high availability.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 82

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. For example: Read/Write tickets WiredTiger uses tickets to control the number of read / write operations simultaneously processed by the storage engine. The report focuses on MySQL, but it is valid for MongoDB as well.

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover key insights and strategic advice in our article, designed to steer you toward the best cloud solution that fits your company’s priorities. Like ScaleGrid’s offerings for multi-cloud architecture compatibility, its solutions are well-suited for use within a single cloud provider or a hybrid cloud setup as well.

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Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. The world is still changing, so Google published a new edition: The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines, Third Edition.

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Design Education Google Internet 54

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Before designing a solution it’s important to understand the main product requirements for such a feature: The content needs to be new, relevant, and regional (not all countries have the same catalogue). To support the demands of our stakeholders we designed a Domain Specific Language (DSL) that we call an asset generation recipe.

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Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. You can even go old school and use non cloud-native architectures. Nitro is a revolutionary combination of purpose-built hardware and software designed to provide performance and security. You can switch between clouds with effort. It has been done.

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Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

PostgreSQL Cluster One coordinator node citus-coord-01 Three worker nodes citus1 citus2 citus3 Hardware AWS Instance Ubuntu Server 20.04, SSD volume type 64-bit (x86) c5.xlarge A future blog will continue my exploration into Citus by scaling out pgbench into other architectures. Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Today!

Database 102

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 102

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The expectation was that with each order or two of magnitude, we would need to revisit and revise the architecture to make sure we could address the issues of scale. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. Primitives not frameworks. your resource usage.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. It also supports auto-scaling of compute and storage resources, dynamically adjusting capacity based on chosen utilization thresholds to optimize performance and costs.

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

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

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This is the first post in a series of posts on different approaches to systems security especially as they apply to hardware and architectural security. Naively securing this system would require a large amount of trust; “guns and guards”, trusted personnel, and trusted software and hardware.

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Systems Hardware Storage Healthcare 47

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

The basic tier provides up to 5 DTUs with standard storage. The standard tier supports from 10 up to 3000 DTUs with standard storage and the premium tier supports 125 up to 4000 DTUs with premium storage, which is orders of magnitude faster than standard storage. vCore Pricing Tier. GB per vCore. HyperScale Database.

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Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

It comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic. While integrating AI and machine learning into cloud-native architectures, there’s an increasing demand from users for AI to be open and collaborative. You mentioned ‘More Simple Kubernetes’?

Cloud 77

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 77

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To address these challenges, architects must design robust and scalable MongoDB databases and adopt appropriate sharding strategies that can efficiently handle increasing workloads while ensuring continuous availability. 2) Hardware limitations Disk and memory are inexpensive nowadays.

Best Practices 70

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 70

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. After working with DynamoDB for only three days, they had already managed to go from the design phase to a fully production-ready deployment that could handle the biggest advertising event of the year.

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Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In 2018, we anticipate that ETL will either lose relevance or the ETL process will disintegrate and be consumed by new data architectures. Unified data management architecture. Delta implements the unified data management layer by extending the Amazon S3 object storage for ACID transactions and automatic data indexing.

Big Data 49

Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

Make sure you design the data types correctly while planning for the future growth of the table. It can help us to save costs on storage and backup times. MyRocks: MyRocks is a storage engine developed by Facebook and made open source. It was developed for optimizing data storage and access for big data sets.

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Open Source Storage Database Big Data 85

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. Different hardware architectures (CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, …) offer different performance and cost trade-offs.

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

Tech News Gather

JULY 19, 2023

Otherwise, you may not be able to locate enough appropriate hardware and end up having to often switch between different programs. Automation and Remote Control It should come as no surprise that these two features are crucial to a well-designed smart home app. Connect the architectural pieces of your program using secure gateways.

Wireless 52

Wireless IoT Development Internet 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. As a consequence, the vast majority of the papers in the past has usually focused on conventional X86 or GPU-accelerated architectures.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The best part is that we are also significantly expanding the free tier many of you already enjoy by increasing the storage to 25 GB and throughput to 200 million requests per month. We designed DynamoDB to operate with at least 99.999% availability. NoSQL and Scale. Expanding the freedom to invent.

Availability 145

Availability Performance Scalability AWS 145

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

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

The goal is to produce a low-energy hardware classifier for embedded applications doing local processing of sensor data. Race logic has four primary operations that are easy to implement in hardware: MAX, MIN, ADD-CONSTANT, and INHIBIT. One efficient way of doing that in analog hardware is the use of current-starved inverters.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. In particular, we built this system on top of Oracle Coherence and designed our own data structures and indexes. In particular, we built this system on top of Oracle Coherence and designed our own data structures and indexes.

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Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

There is a potential benefit in reusing the hardware in place for video compression/decompression. Image decoding in hardware may not be a primary motivator, given the peculiarities of OS dependent UI composition, and architectural implications of moving uncompressed image pixels around.

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Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 20, 2018

same instruction set architecture, same operating system, etc.). Looking at current hardware and software security research, however, we are seeing a number of technologies that are being developed that limit this type of broad interoperability. Individualizing digital systems. The cloud system can perform processing steps (e.g.,

Hardware 47

Hardware Operating System Architecture Software 47

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.”

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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40