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.

Systems 47

Systems Hardware Storage Healthcare 47

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. It can help us to save costs on storage and backup times.

Open Source 90

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 90

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] Nov 2011 - [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] Feb 2012 - [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] 2013 - [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

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

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.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] , Nov 2011 [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] , Feb 2012 [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] , 2013 [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

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.

Serverless 276

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 276

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. What is Hybrid Cloud?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The technical program, put together by program chairs Tor Aamodt and Reetuparna Das , showcased key innovations across a wide range of computer architecture topics, from domain-specific accelerators to in/near-memory computing and from security to quantum computing. . This year’s MICRO had three inspiring keynote talks.

Hardware 18

Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

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 90

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 90

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.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

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.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These nodes and edges require a good amount of compute and storage which is typically distributed across a large number servers either running in the cloud or your own data center. A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

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.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The pipelines can be stateful and the engine’s middleware should provide a persistent storage to enable state checkpointing. The engine should be compact and efficient, so one can deploy it in multiple datacenters on small clusters. Efficient lineage tracking is not a trivial problem. Interoperability with Hadoop. Pipelining.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

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?

Analytics 205

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 205

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

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. There's a huge short-term and long-term efficiency of services that depends on the successful coordination of cloud services and infrastructure. It has been done. I don't think so.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

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.

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.

Availability 110

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. In this blog, we will answer all of these important questions and provide a general overview comparing the two database services, Aurora vs RDS.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. To make this process work more efficiently and ensure a smooth failover, it is important to have the same hardware configuration on all the nodes of the replica set. MongoDB is popular with developers as it is easy to get started with.

Database 81

Database Servers Storage Strategy 81

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.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

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.

Best Practices 73

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 73

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. This rapid adoption has allowed us to benefit from the scale economies inherent in our architecture. Indexed Storage costs : We are lowering the price of indexed storage by 75%.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

From the business logic point of view, this was a pretty typical eCommerce service for hierarchical and faceted navigation, although not without peculiarities, but high performance requirements led us to the quite advanced architecture and technical design. Deployment Schema and High-Level Architecture.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

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

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. High-Efficiency Video Coding ( HEVC ) is the successor of H.264, 264, a.k.a.

Code 212

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

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

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Fast forward a decade, and both the software and hardware situations have changed dramatically. Don't like the consequences?

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Building general purpose architectures has always been hard; there are often so many conflicting requirements that you cannot derive an architecture that will serve all, so we have often ended up focusing on one side of the requirements that allow you to serve that area really well. From CPU to GPU. General Purpose GPU programming.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

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.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage. SQL Server defines stable media as storage that can survive system restart or common failure. Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

This architectural pattern was a response to the scaling challenges that had challenged Amazon.com through its first 5 years, when direct database access was one of the major bottlenecks in scaling and operating the business. Most importantly, direct database access to the data from outside its respective service is not allowed.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

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

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

One distinct trend is a belief that a JavaScript framework and Single-Page Architecture (SPA) is a must for PWA development. Contended, over-subscribed cells can make “fast” networks brutally slow, transport variance can make TCP much less efficient , and the bursty nature of web traffic works against us.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68