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., It’s a pretty impressive effort to pull together and make available in open source (not yet available as I write this) such a suite, and I’m sure explains much of the long list of 24 authors on this paper.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

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. Too many fine-grained services leading to network and communication overhead.

Cache 195

Cache Architecture Database Government 195

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). This becomes really important for cache solutions like Redis™. Startup Hosting Credits.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

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. error_log: Specifies the location of the MySQL error log.

Performance 108

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections. only to find that the resource they’re requesting isn’t in that PoP ’s cache. This is exactly what we did at BBC iPlayer last year: The newly-available Server-Timing header can be added to any response. View full size/quality (533KB).

Latency 269

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

On-screen information for users: The information which is required by the user should be available on the application screen itself. Hardware error. We focus on software so much that we forget about the hardware failures. If the hardware gets disconnected or stops working then we cannot expect correct output from the software.

Software 82

Software Software Testing Hardware 82

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Types of DBMS DBMS can be classified into hierarchical, network, relational, and object-oriented types. Data distribution encompasses the storage and arrangement of data across multiple computers or sites, thereby improving scalability by facilitating the management of larger data volumes and augmenting the processing resources available.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

ChatGPT: The InnoDB buffer pool is used by MySQL to cache frequently accessed data in memory. Since your dataset is 100 GB and you have 500 GB of RAM, you can allocate a significant portion of the available memory to the InnoDB buffer pool. So this answer was inaccurate and evasive. 16) and monitoring the server’s performance.

Social Media 124

Social Media Database Servers Cache 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) The caching use case may be the most familiar, but in fact it’s not the primary purpose of the ephemeral storage service. joins) during query processing.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Gen 5 is the primary hardware option now for most regions since Gen 4 is aging out. Hyperscale achieves high performance from each compute node having SSD-based caches which helps minimize the network round trips to fetch data. New Hardware Configuration for Provisioned Compute Tier. GB per vCore. Conclusion.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz). The maximum physical layer bit-rate for the 5G network is 1200.98 The short answer is no.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

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 source code to the library may not be available.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

There’s another emerging option that we didn’t talk about there: the use of far-memory , memory attached to the network that can be remotely accessed without mediation by a local processor. Processor caches can help to hide local accesses too, but not remote accesses. It’s not all straightforward though.

Design 80

Design Cache Hardware Scalability 80

The Morning Paper

APRIL 14, 2019

The paper sets out what we can do in software given today’s hardware, and along the way also highlights areas where cooperation from hardware will be needed in the future. There are also stateless interconnects including buses and on-chip networks. Microarchitectural channels. Threat scenarios. IPC) input and output channels.

Hardware 44

Hardware Cache Latency Speed 44

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. The information it captures is, however, available going back somewhat further, providing a fuller picture of the trend lines of engine completeness. Count of APIs available from JavaScript by Web Confluence.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This removes the burden of purchasing and maintaining your hardware, storage and networking infrastructure, while still giving you a very familiar experience with Windows and SQL Server itself. BTW, the "i" in the Standard_E64is_v3 naming means that the instance is isolated to hardware dedicated to a single customer.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X 25.84 - Total 21.04

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

When a QoS violation is predicted to occur and a culprit microservice located, Seer uses a lower level tracing infrastructure with hardware monitoring primitives to identify the reason behind the QoS violation. E.g., in memcached there are five main internal stages, each of which has a hardware or software queue associated with it.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” This contains updated and new material that reflects the latest C++ standards and compilers, with a focus to using modern C++11/14/17 effectively on modern hardware and memory architectures. On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.”

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

Hosted on commodity clusters or cloud infrastructures, IMDGs harness the power of distributed computing to deliver scalable storage capacity and access throughput, along with integrated high availability. Looking beyond distributed caching, it’s their ability to perform data-parallel analysis that gives IMDGs such exciting capabilities.

Scalability 40

Scalability Cache Airlines Healthcare 40

ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

Hosted on commodity clusters or cloud infrastructures, IMDGs harness the power of distributed computing to deliver scalable storage capacity and access throughput, along with integrated high availability. Looking beyond distributed caching, it’s their ability to perform data-parallel analysis that gives IMDGs such exciting capabilities.

Scalability 40

Scalability Cache Airlines Healthcare 40

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Could it be Analyzing efficient stream processing on modern hardware ? I don’t think so in this case, but this paper will take you down into the nitty-gritty of getting the best out of modern processors and networks, with up to two orders of magnitude single node throughput gains to be had. What’s their secret???

Blockchain 46

Blockchain Hardware Google Analytics 46

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well. Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. This cache is often supported by a battery-powered backup facility.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Plus a service worker that caches all static assets and serves them for repeat views, along with cached versions of articles that a reader has already visited. The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. Sharing is caring caching. For example, balance utilisation across all data centers, or optimise for network latency.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

This example instrumented one of many thousands of available events. hardware Hardware counter-based instrumentation. There are also two modes visible, one between 1 and 2 milliseconds, and another between 8 and 16 milliseconds: this sounds like cache hits and cache misses. software Kernel software-based events.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Besides this, each product has some transient information like in-stock availability that is a subject of frequent updates (every 5 minutes or so). It is important that this style of navigation assumes high interactivity – each selection leads to recomputing of all available facets, their cardinalities, and products in a result set.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Historically, NoSQL paid a lot of attention to tradeoffs between consistency, fault-tolerance and performance to serve geographically distributed systems, low-latency or highly available applications. A database should accommodate itself to different data distributions, cluster topologies and hardware configurations. Data Placement.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Any DOM or UI created in JS is not available for use until the script runs. The median user is on a slow network. Global Ground-Truth. Where to start?

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

John McCalpin

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Each of these accumulators must use a different register name, and there are only 16 SIMD register names available. I have been unable to find any other register-blocking scheme that has enough accumulators, fits in the available registers, and requires less than 2 loads per cycle. So that was a lot of detail — what is the point?

Cache 40

Cache C++ Latency Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. Reduce Network Requests. Large preview ).

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

This is crucial due to mobile devices requiring additional optimizations because they typically have less powerful hardware and a slower network connection when compared to desktop devices. Image Processing Service We offer an image processing service that is fully integrated into our existing network. Mbps ( Opensignal ).

Speed 52

Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Lazy-load offscreen images (reduce network contention for key resources). For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS. Device Pixel Ratio (DPR) represents how a CSS pixel is translated to physical pixels on a hardware screen. Large preview ).

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145