Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. FaaS vs. monolithic architectures. Monolithic architectures were commonplace with legacy, on-premises software solutions. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources.

Development 253

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 253

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. SOSP’19. Enter Google!

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

This operational data could be gathered from live running infrastructures using software agents, hypervisors, or network logs, for example. Additionally, ITOA gathers and processes information from applications, services, networks, operating systems, and cloud infrastructure hardware logs in real time.

Analytics 190

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 190

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. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), there cannot be high availability.

Availability 83

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 83

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

Incorporating cloud application security practices is an effective way for organizations to avoid application security risks, ensure a smoothly running software development lifecycle (SDLC), and establish an overall strong security posture. However, open source software is often a vector for security vulnerabilities.

Cloud 179

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 179

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 112

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 112

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., A typical architecture diagram for one of these services looks like this: Suitably armed with a set of benchmark microservices applications, the investigation can begin! Hardware implications.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

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. A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device.

Analytics 211

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 211

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As businesses take steps to innovate faster, software development quality—and application security—have moved front and center. According to GitLab’s 2021 Global DevSecOps Survey , 36% of respondents develop software using DevSecOps, compared with only 27% in 2020. It does so by creating repeatable, automated software-driven processes.

Serverless 267

Serverless Infrastructure Innovation DevOps 267

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

photo taken by Adrian Cockcroft A year ago I did a talk at re:Invent called Architecture Trends and Topics for 2021 , so I thought it was worth seeing how they played out and updating them for the coming year. There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin. They also need a way to track all the services running on their distributed architectures, from multicloud environments to the edge. But disparate tools also bring disparate points of view.

Infrastructure 185

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 185

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. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior. Dynatrace news. Chaos engineers ask why.

Engineering 228

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 228

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

Computer architecture is an important and exciting field of computer science, which enables many other fields (eg. For those of us who pursued computer architecture as a career, this is well understood. In most curriculums, undergrad students do not have much exposure to computer architecture. Why is that? Lack of Exposure.

Architecture 74

Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74

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. Software failure: Software applications can become vulnerable, or they can crash altogether.

Database 92

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 92

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

From the software perspective, Linux players like RedHat, Ubuntu, and SUSE have already entered this market with fully supported enterprise versions of Linux for ARM. Other distributions like Debian and Fedora are available as well, in addition to other software like VMware, NGINX, Docker, and, of course, Java.

Java 133

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 133

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. PostgreSQL software supports synchronous streaming replication, asynchronous streaming replication, and logical replication.

Availability 88

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 88

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. Gone are the days of monolithic architecture. These systems can include physical servers, containers, virtual machines, or even a device, or node, that connects and communicates with the network.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

By Benson Ma , Alok Ahuja Introduction At Netflix, hundreds of different device types, from streaming sticks to smart TVs, are tested every day through automation to ensure that new software releases continue to deliver the quality of the Netflix experience that our customers enjoy. In this blog post, we will focus on the latter feature set.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In all these cases, prior to being delivered through our content delivery network Open Connect , our award-winning TV shows, movies and documentaries like The Crown need to be packaged to enable crucial features for our members. Multimedia standards like ISOBMFF, CMAF and CENC go hand in hand with open source software implementations.

Technology 181

Technology Technology Open Source Media 181

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

An IDS/IPS monitors network flows and matches incoming packets (or more strictly, Protocol Data Units, PDUs) against a set of rules. Regular expression matching is well studied, but state of the art hardware algorithms don’t reach the performance and memory targets needed for Pigasus. IDS/IPS requirements. Introducing Pigasus.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

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.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

According to IEEE Std 829-1998, Software Testing is defined as “the process of analyzing a software item to detect the differences between existing and required conditions (i.e. defects) and evaluating the features of the software items.” Testing Techniques. ” In Dynamic Testing, the code is executed.

Software 69

Software Software Testing Scalability 69

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

But with the benefits also come concerns about observability, and how to monitor and manage ever-expanding cloud software stacks. You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests. Organizations are realizing the cost savings and management benefits of serverless automation.

Lambda 181

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 181

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

It comprises a collection of interrelated data and a set of software tools that aid in the access, processing, and management of data. Types of DBMS DBMS can be classified into hierarchical, network, relational, and object-oriented types. It provides tools for organizing and retrieving data efficiently.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

The Morning Paper

MAY 19, 2019

The net result of rapid advancements in the networking world is that inter-tier communications latency will approach the fundamental lower bound of speed-of-light propagation in the foreseeable future. At one extreme we have a ‘16 x 1’ architecture with 16 queues each with one associated processing unit. Introducing RPCValet.

Latency 80

Latency Hardware Network Architecture 80

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. Kubernetes manages and orchestrates these containers, handling tasks such as deployment, scaling, load balancing, and networking. Just consider the sheer number of people who stream Netflix every night!

Efficiency 106

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 106

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. Taking protective measures like these now could protect both your data and hardware from future harm down the line. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little. Reduced cost.

Cloud 167

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 167

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. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

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. Hubs The hub would be the primary data collector and manager for a network of remote monitoring smart devices. Connect the architectural pieces of your program using secure gateways.

Wireless 52

Wireless IoT Development Internet 52

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Instead, you want a library that is tuned for your target hardware architecture and ready for par_unseq vectorized algorithms, for blazing speed. SG4 (Networking) continued working on updating the networking proposal for std::execution senders and receivers. This is that library.

C++ 107

C++ Lambda Network Programming 107

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.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Modern software systems at scale are incredibly complex ever changing environments. This paper describes Gandalf, the software deployment monitor in production at Microsoft Azure for the past eighteen months plus. Gandalf: an intelligent, end-to-end analytics service for safe deployment in cloud-scale infrastructure , Li et al.,

Analytics 68

Analytics Infrastructure Cloud Hardware 68

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

New topics range from additional workloads like video streaming, machine learning, and public cloud to specialized silicon accelerators, storage and network building blocks, and a revised discussion of data center power and cooling, and uptime.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

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.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45