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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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. For example, when running tests, the state of the device will change from “available for testing” to “in test.” In this blog post, we will focus on the latter feature set.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Vertical scaling is also often discussed, which involves increasing the resources of a single server, which can have limitations in hardware capabilities and become costly as demands grow. The sharding architecture consists of several components: Shard Servers : Shard servers are individual nodes within the sharded cluster.

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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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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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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Today’s paper choice is a wonderful example of pushing the state of the art on a single server. When used in prevention mode (IPS), this all has to happen inline over incoming traffic to block any traffic with suspicious signatures. This makes the whole system latency sensitive. The target FPGA for Pigasus has 16MB of BRAM.

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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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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Downtime due to SPOFs can also be attributed to bottlenecks from architectures designed for applications instead of databases. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges.

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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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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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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here are some examples: In the e-commerce sector, websites such as Amazon and Flipkart employ DBMS to oversee extensive customer databases, monitor sales orders, track returns, and manage faulty products. Practical Applications of DBMS DBMS finds practical applications in various fields.

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Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

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. Here’s what the final architecture looked like. An asset generation request contains a recipe. Let’s take a look at the internals of the Asset Management Service.

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VoltDB

APRIL 25, 2024

Organizations that use private cellular networks don’t have to worry about running into performance issues during peak traffic periods. As a result, businesses can optimize network settings, prioritize traffic, and implement protocols that align with their requirements and use cases.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

There are high hopes for 5G , for example unlocking new applications in UHD streaming and VR, and machine-to-machine communication in IoT. Our analysis suggests that the wireline paths, upper-layer protocols, computing and radio hardward architecture need to co-evolve with 5G to form an ecosystem, in order to fully unleash its potential.

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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.

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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. Terabyte of wasted traffic.

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Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

The below diagram shows an example of a MySQL replication environment. Below is an example architecture for Group Replication. For example, the exact same INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statements are executed by the replica. When a problem is detected, these tools automatically redirect traffic to a standby replica.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Serverless computing can be a huge benefit to organizations that don’t have the necessary resources or teams to manage physical resources, like servers/hardware, and all the maintenance and licensing that goes along with that, allowing them to focus on developing their code and applications. Benefits of a Serverless Model.

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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

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

This paper is all about the design of efficient data structures for far-memory, which turns out to have consequences reaching all the way down to the hardware. To manage the scalability of notifications the subscribers of the hardware primitives are compute nodes, and a software layer on each compute node demultiplexes incoming notifications.

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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. The cloud system can perform processing steps (e.g.,

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

s use of DynamoDB, which is an extreme example of how DynamoDBâ??s 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.

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Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Architecture An explanatory description of Amazon Aurora’s architecture can be found in Vadim’s post written a few years ago.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. When available, it can use hardware level performance counters.

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Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. Here are some great examples from different industries each with unique use cases. In addition, its robust architecture supports ten times as many scientists, all working simultaneously.

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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. Cloud-Based Test Automation Tools Example.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

If you’re interested in a high-level overview of Lighthouse architecture, read this guide from the official repository. It’s time to come to terms that your customers aren’t using the same powerful hardware as you. An excellent substitute for using a real device is to use Chrome DevTools hardware emulation mode.

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The Moto G4 , for example. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. But the hardware future is not evenly distributed, and web workloads aren't heavily parallel.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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, on a 128GB memory host, this can allow up to 38.4GB of dirty pages. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available. The background ratio won’t kick in until 12.8GB.

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

We switched to storing our game data in DynamoDB, which alleviated our scaling problems while also freeing us from the burden of managing all the underlying hardware and software. s use of DynamoDB is a particularly extreme (and impressive) example of how DynamoDBâ??s DynamoDB came along at just the right time. DynamoDBâ??s

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Games Scalability AWS Database 142

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

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer.

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Large Seasonal Peaks – Our largest community supports TurboTax where the peak traffic during February or April is often 100s of times greater than a quiet day in June. Troy: The initial architecture was based on MySQL– weve continued with use of SQL but are now leveraging RDS. And how about you Troy?

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Innovation AWS Education Network 146

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Defining The Environment Choosing a framework, baseline performance cost, Webpack, dependencies, CDN, front-end architecture, CSR, SSR, CSR + SSR, static rendering, prerendering, PRPL pattern. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Rather than focusing on full page loading time (via onLoad and DOMContentLoaded timings, for example), prioritize page loading as perceived by your customers. What does it mean? Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

One way or another, rather than focusing on full page loading time (via onLoad and DOMContentLoaded timings, for example), prioritize page loading as perceived by your customers. For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Large preview ).

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