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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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure. The primary goal of ITOps is to provide a high-performing, consistent IT environment. Performance. What does IT operations do?

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

This enables AIOps teams to better predict performance and security issues and improve overall IT operations. In addition to improved IT operational efficiency at a lower cost, ITOA also enhances digital experience monitoring for increased customer engagement and satisfaction. How does IT operations analytics work? Define core metrics.

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Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 188

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

To get a better understanding of AWS serverless, we’ll first explore the basics of serverless architectures, review AWS serverless offerings, and explore common use cases. Serverless architecture: A primer. Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

ScaleGrid’s comprehensive solutions provide automated efficiency and cost reduction while offering tailored features such as predictive analytics for businesses of all sizes. This includes being able to select the right hardware options for the job, enforcing desired safety measures, and having access to a variety of database software.

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Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. In a monitoring scenario, you typically preconfigure dashboards that are meant to alert you to performance issues you expect to see later.

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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

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. or “How will performance be accurate if the machine is not physical?” Hardware was outdated. Fixed hardware is a single point of failure – even when we had redundant machines.

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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. Optimized system performance. Dynatrace news. What are logs?

Analytics 209

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 209

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications.

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Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

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. How does high availability work? Redundancy is also critical for disaster recovery.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Digital Performance: 99% reduction in Response Time, from 18.2s Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Dynatrace Real User Monitoring (RUM) captures very detailed user behavior, as well as experience and performance information, about every user on your applications.

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Cache Architecture Database Government 198

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. Dynatrace news. What is AWS Lambda? How does AWS Lambda work?

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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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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. Key Takeaways Redis® monitoring is essential for safeguarding performance, reliability, and security.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

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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. Disadvantages.

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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. Chaos testing enriches the organization’s intelligence about how software performs under stress and how to make it more resilient.

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 225

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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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 93

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 93

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. To be clear, these languages were not designed to be fast or space-efficient, but for ease of use. As Leiserson et al.

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C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

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 ). In fact, whatever module of Snort you try to offload to a hypothetical infinitely fast accelerator, you can never get close to the performance targets of Pigasus. The target FPGA for Pigasus has 16MB of BRAM.

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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

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.

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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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Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Scalability is a significant concern, as databases must handle growing data volumes and user demands while maintaining peak performance. Horizontal scaling enhances performance and capacity as the workload is shared across multiple machines, reducing the risk of a single point of failure.

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Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 75

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

APRIL 17, 2019

It’s a nice building with good architecture! Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies. 264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware.

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ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

An example of a specification is the correct operation of the hardware of a microprocessor. An SDC is the worst possible outcome of a fault, as it can have an arbitrary impact on the correctness of software running on the hardware. Background A fault is a condition that causes the inability to meet a specification. core lock-stepping).

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John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

Bandwidth, performance analysis has two recurring themes: How fast should this code (or “simple” variations on this code) run on this hardware? If I am analyzing (apparent) performance shortfalls, how can I distinguish between cause and effect ? The MPI runtime library. in ways that are seldom transparent.

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Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

Percona

JUNE 30, 2023

IT teams must ensure high availability, scalability, and security, all while ensuring that their PostgreSQL clusters perform optimally. Architecture Operator SDK is now used to build and package the Operator. This can be useful if you plan to migrate to new hardware or need to test the new topology.

Availability 98

Availability Open Source Azure Hardware 98

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The all-in-one Dynatrace platform delivers precise answers about the performance of your applications, their underlying infrastructure, and the experience of your end users. This enables organizations to innovate faster, collaborate more efficiently, and deliver more value with dramatically less effort. Stop searching, find answers.

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Monitoring Systems Infrastructure Cloud 146

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. CFS is widely used and therefore well tested and Linux machines around the world run with reasonable performance.

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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

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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