Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. The Greenplum Architecture.

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DZone

APRIL 26, 2022

Modern CPU and GPU cores use single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) execution units to achieve higher performance and power efficiency. The underlying SIMD hardware is exposed via instructions such as SSE, AVX, AVX2, AVX-512, and those in the Intel® Xe Architecture Gen12 ISA.

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Hardware Architecture Efficiency Code 130

Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

Additionally, blind spots in cloud architecture are making it increasingly difficult for organizations to balance application performance with a robust security posture. Whether multicloud or hybrid , public or private, cloud-native architecture offers flexibility and agility to help organizations deliver software faster.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Best Practices DevOps 218

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

This operational data could be gathered from live running infrastructures using software agents, hypervisors, or network logs, for example. In addition to improved IT operational efficiency at a lower cost, ITOA also enhances digital experience monitoring for increased customer engagement and satisfaction.

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Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 178

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Real-world examples like Spotify’s multi-cloud strategy for cost reduction and performance, and Netflix’s hybrid cloud setup for efficient content streaming and creation, illustrate the practical applications of each model. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

IaC, or software intelligence as code , codifies and manages IT infrastructure in software, rather than in hardware. According to a Gartner report, “By 2023, 60% of organizations will use infrastructure automation tools as part of their DevOps toolchains, improving application deployment efficiency by 25%.”.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Dynatrace news. billion in 2020 to $4.1 What are logs?

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Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 198

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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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. Some common examples include: A request through API Gateway or Amplify. Dynatrace news.

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cdemi

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Let's talk about the elephant in the room; Serverless doesn't really mean that there are no Software or Hardware servers. Serverless is currently a hot topic in many modern architectural patterns. Cost - Serverless Computing is more cost-efficient than having a fixed quantity of servers. Advantages. So, how do I Serverless?

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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. Andrew Chien rightfully raises awareness of the challenges of reducing operational carbon.

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Energy Architecture Hardware Metrics 98

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. The main benefits of serverless architecture are cost savings and scalability.

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Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Examples of traditional natural monopolies are dams, railroads, power plants, water supply, and sewer services. You can even go old school and use non cloud-native architectures. For example, AWS created Nitro. It has been done.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Reducing performance and architectural issues in their backend system gave them a 99% performance improvement! A highly distributed architecture like this has a lot of potential for performance and architectural hotspots.

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Cache Architecture Database Government 190

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. Programmers continue to write applications in them, and they continue to evolve: the just approved C++20 standard is the latest example.

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C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Like any move, a cloud migration requires a lot of planning and preparation, but it also has the potential to transform the scope, scale, and efficiency of how you deliver value to your customers. This can fundamentally transform how they work, make processes more efficient, and improve the overall customer experience. Here are three.

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Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 158

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

An example of a specification is the correct operation of the hardware of a microprocessor. For example, high energy particles tend to produce transient faults, whereas defects can cause intermittent or permanent faults. An example protection technique that can provide this capability is an Error Correcting Code (ECC).

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Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. A History of Architecture Support for Security. The figure above provides a timeline of architectural support for practical defenses, as found in commercial products.

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Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

APU: Accelerated Processing Unit is the AMD’s Fusion architecture that integrates both CPU and GPU on the same die. They introduced the architecture of coarse grain reconfigurable array (CGRA) for statically scheduled data flow computing in HOTCHIPS’17 and its software stack of compiler and linker in ICCAD’17. TFLOPS FP-64, 14.8

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But with the complexity that comes with digital transformation and cloud-native architecture, teams need a way to make sure applications can withstand the “chaos” of production. Dynatrace news. Testing for mishaps you can predict is essential. Chaos engineers ask why. Boosts business outcomes.

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 214

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

It’s a nice building with good architecture! What does this example have to do with software development and video encoding? 264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. Netflix headquarters circa 2014. The facilities are modern, spacious and scalable.

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This abstraction allows the compute team to influence the reliability, efficiency, and operability of the fleet via the scheduler. Titus internally employs a cellular bulkhead architecture for scalability, so the fleet is composed of multiple cells. We do this for reliability, scalability, and efficiency reasons.

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Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

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. It’s essential to select an appropriate shard key to ensure even data distribution and efficient querying.

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Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 71

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Ok, so maybe that is an oversimplified example, but you get the point. Gone are the days of monolithic architecture. Today, there are a variety of architectures and systems in use. Today, there are a variety of architectures and systems in use. Blockchain is a good example of this. Onto the next project.

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Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis® monitoring is essential for any tech professional. This ensures each Redis® instance optimally uses the in-memory data store and aligns with the operating system’s efficiency.

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Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Improving the efficiency with which we can coordinate work across a collection of units (see the Universal Scalability Law ). Today’s paper choice is a wonderful example of pushing the state of the art on a single server. FPGAs are chosen because they are both energy efficient and available on SmartNICs). Introducing Pigasus.

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Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

By Aditya Mavlankar, Jan De C**k¹, Cyril Concolato, Kyle Swanson, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron TL; DR We need an alternative to JPEG that a) is widely supported, b) has better compression efficiency and c) has a wider feature set. Shown below are screenshots of the Netflix app on iOS as an example. 264, a.k.a. 264, a.k.a.

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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. As an illustrative example, let’s consider a toy instance of 16 hyperthreads.

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Here are the bombshell paragraphs: Our datacenter applications seek ever more CPU-efficient and lower-latency communication, which Pony Express delivers. Rather than reimplement TCP/IP or refactor an existing transport, we started Pony Express from scratch to innovate on more efficient interfaces, architecture, and protocol.

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Here is an example from the paper that will now be legal: template <typename. If you want to do efficient linear algebra, you don’t want to write your own code by hand; that would be slow. And at the “bottom” implementation layer, it uses a value-based implementation which is more efficient to implement. values) -> T.[0]

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C++ Lambda Network Programming 115

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. For example, consider a database system that is distributed across a data center, or even across data centers. These two, yet again, are each useful in different circumstances.

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Systems Hardware Storage Architecture 47

The Morning Paper

MAY 19, 2019

The focus of optimization hence will completely shift to efficiently handling RPCs at the endpoints as soon as they are delivered from the network. At one extreme we have a ‘16 x 1’ architecture with 16 queues each with one associated processing unit. RPCValet balances incoming RPC requests among the multiple cores of a server.

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Latency Hardware Network Architecture 80

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. For example, a value of ‘2’ can be represented by a signal that is low until time 2 and then high from then on. One efficient way of doing that in analog hardware is the use of current-starved inverters.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this blog post, we will review key topics to consider for managing large datasets more efficiently in MySQL. Redundant indexes: It is known that accessing rows by fetching an index is more efficient than through a table scan in most cases. You can use one of our tools pt-duplicate-key-checker to detect the duplicate keys.

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Open Source Storage Database Big Data 85

VoltDB

APRIL 25, 2024

With reduced congestion and latency, users experience faster, more reliable connectivity — even as they move outside across a corporate campus — which enhances efficiency and productivity within an organization while improving user experiences for customer-facing applications.

Network 52

Network IoT Wireless Infrastructure 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. Organizations working with the UK government to build new digital services, for example, are required to meet standards defined in their Greening Government ICT and Digital Services Strategy. Accreditation. Large preview ).

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Strategy Development Energy Website 126

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.

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Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58