The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Its goal is to assign running processes to time slices of the CPU in a “fair” way. The idea CFS operates by very frequently (every few microseconds) applying a set of heuristics which encapsulate a general concept of best practices around CPU hardware use. So why mess with it?

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. This plays a crucial role in supervising the replication process.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. Disk space usage Monitor the disk space usage of MySQL data files, log files, and temporary files.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments. Chapter 8 covers the issues around imprecision and probability and shows how we need to design systems, interactions, and processes that prevent mistakes — especially avoiding catastrophe when mistaken taps are made.

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Mobile Design Best Practices Website 87

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As businesses and applications increasingly rely on MySQL databases to manage their critical data, ensuring data reliability and availability becomes paramount. MySQL itself does not provide the capability for taking file system snapshots but it is available using third-party solutions such as LVM or ZFS. Why Do MySQL Backups Matter?

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 81

KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

Maybe the best phrase to describe web standards is a set of standardized "best practices" for building websites. While the following list is not exhaustive, these best practices consist primarily of the following three things: Recommendations published by W3C. Standards published by ECMA International.

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Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Here are the three big directional bets that align with the three main areas cited by the authors: We will train in the cloud , where its possible to take advantage of managed infrastructure well suited to large amounts of data, spiky resource usage, and access to the latest hardware.

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Government Software Engineering Storage Database 95

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available.

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The censorship and monitoring of internet have evolved from anti-virus-like and firewall software to hardware security patches for all devices that uses internet. One can only download apps using the manufacturer’s downloader software, where VPN installers and other banned apps are not available for installation. IP Blocking.

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Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. How does high availability work?

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 112

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

You just need to hit the URL and launch the application on the available browser on your phone. It also allows users to access a website for which native application is not available. There are so many different devices readily available in the market today to view a website. Best Practices For Mobile Website Testing.

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

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

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Response times, quality, and availability are critical factors that need to be assessed before pushing applications into production. LoadView – Best Practices and Process. LoadView, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing.

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Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

When it comes to access to their applications, users demand instant, reliable, and secure interactions — and that means databases must be highly available. With database high availability (HA), services are largely uninterrupted, and end users are largely satisfied. The obvious answer is this: To achieve high availability.

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Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 102

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. Sharding is a preferred approach for database systems facing substantial growth and needing high availability.

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Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 75

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Data Pipeline A data pipeline is a software that ingests data from multiple sources, transforms it and finally makes it available to internal or external products. Depending on frameworks, data processing units (a.k.a A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. Generally speaking, data pipelines are leaky by nature.

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Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements. there cannot be high availability.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 87

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier. Evaluating your hardware requirements is another vital aspect of resource allocation.

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 97

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

In addition to using Edmodo to engage students in classroom activities, teachers all over the world build profile pages on Edmodo, which they use to discover and share content, meet and stay in contact with other educators, and best practices and top resources. The best part was that the entire process was what I call Ã?hands

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Innovation AWS Education Network 146

VoltDB

MAY 2, 2017

This allows the customer to use the existing five servers in a new configuration that trades off some level of high availability redundancy for disaster recovery and geographic redundancy. While this may not provide the level of HA necessary for a production application, some customers ask for the mixed cluster size feature (available in v6.2)

Hardware 40

Hardware Database Servers Tuning 40

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The same default deployment approach applies to all future updates, too—the experience can best be described as “fully SaaSified.” Easier rollout thanks to log storage best practices. Easier rollout thanks to log storage best practices. Advanced customization of OneAgent deployments made easy.

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Best Practices Storage Java Benchmarking 193

HammerDB

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This limitation is at the database level rather than the hardware level, nevertheless with up to date hardware (from mid-2018) PostgreSQL on a 2 socket system can be expected to deliver more than 2M PostgreSQL TPM and 1M NOPM with the HammerDB TPC-C test. . CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0. cpupower idle-info.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. For the more adventurous/technical, the top (table of processes) command provides similar metrics on most Unix-like operating systems such as macOS and Ubuntu. These include data transfer (i.e.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. We have several YouTube Tutorials and blog posts available that show how you can use Dynatrace RUM data for Web Performance & User Experience Optimization. Impressive results I have to say!

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Cache Architecture Database Government 195

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

One such challenge has been the emergence of marginal defect-driven faults that are difficult to address solely using best practices in manufacturing test and screening. An example of a specification is the correct operation of the hardware of a microprocessor. Each fault has a root cause.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Kubernetes can be complex, which is why we offer comprehensive training that equips you and your team with the expertise and skills to manage database configurations, implement industry best practices, and carry out efficient backup and recovery procedures. In essence, it establishes permissions within a Kubernetes cluster.

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Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 108

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

Let’s write a script that allows us to measure performance, a11y, best practices, and provide us with an SEO score. There are performance score, a11y score, best practices score, SEO score. title, value: report.categories['best-practices'].score, title, value: report.categories['best-practices'].score,

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Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 98

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

We looked at a couple of papers that had pre-prints available last week, today we’ll be looking at one of the most anticipated papers of this year’s crop: Amazon’s Firecracker. for block IO, process scheduling and memory management, and the TUN/TAP virtual network interfaces). Integrating Firecracker into AWS.

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Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

As with any database, developers and DBAs working with MongoDB should look at how to optimize the performance of their database, especially nowadays with cloud services, where each byte processed, transmitted, and stored costs money. It provides redundancy and data availability for your data.

Database 83

Database Servers Storage Strategy 83

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This means that multiple partitions can be processed simultaneously, making better use of available hardware resources and further enhancing query performance. Special considerations are needed to ensure these processes still work seamlessly after partitioning.

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Checking those available: $ cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource. But I'm not completely sure.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There seems to be broad agreement that hyperautomation is the combination of Robotic Process Automation with AI. We’ll see it in the processing of the thousands of documents businesses handle every day. We can certainly apply the slogan to many, if not all, clerical tasks–and even to the automation process itself.

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Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

JavaScript is a massive CPU hog, so this is concerning, especially if your users are on older devices with less processing power. (If You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). Here are some tips and best practices to help on that journey.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Nevertheless in this blog sometimes we do publish performance data to highlight best practices or potential configuration pitfalls and although we’ve mentioned this one before it is worth dedicating an entire post to it as this issue seems to appear numerous times running database workloads on Linux. (Yes

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Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63