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. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

But with the benefits also come concerns about observability, and how to monitor and manage ever-expanding cloud software stacks. As a bonus, operations staff never needs to update operating systems or hardware, because AWS manages servers with no stoppage of application functionality. The Amazon Web Services ecosystem.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 178

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.

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.”

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Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

This makes the whole system latency sensitive. So we need low latency, but we also need very high throughput: A recurring theme in IDS/IPS literature is the gap between the workloads they need to handle and the capabilities of existing hardware/software implementations. The target FPGA for Pigasus has 16MB of BRAM.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

using Compute Express Link or CXL), organizing memory components for optimal performance, adapting system software traditionally designed for homogeneous memory systems, and developing memory abstractions and programming constructs for HCM management. Figure 2: Latency characteristics of memory technologies (source: Maruf et al.,

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

Software-defined far memory in warehouse-scale computers Lagar-Cavilla et al., This boils down to a single digit µs latency toleration in the tail for far memory, and in addition to security and privacy concerns, rules out remote memory solutions. Zswap is readily available and runs as a swap device in the Linux kernel.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

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 163

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 163

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. Maintaining high availability Kubernetes also makes it easier for applications to scale in response to changing workloads to maintain high availability. have adopted Kubernetes.

Efficiency 105

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 105

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s been clear for a while that software designed explicitly for the data center environment will increasingly want/need to make different design trade-offs to e.g. general-purpose systems software that you might install on your own machines. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand. Enter Google!

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

The Morning Paper

MAY 19, 2019

Last week we learned about the [increased tail-latency sensitivity of microservices based applications with high RPC fan-outs. Seer uses estimates of queue depths to mitigate latency spikes on the order of 10-100ms, in conjunction with a cluster manager. So what we have here is a glimpse of the limits for low-latency RPCs under load.

Latency 80

Latency Hardware Network Architecture 80

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In these modern environments, every hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure component and every container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. The architects and developers who create the software must design it to be observed.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. HTTP monitoring allows you to test availability and performance from around the world. If that is available, then a positive response is received. Network latency.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A three-tier system is a software application architecture that consists of a presentation layer, application layer, and data, or core, layer. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently. This also includes latency, or the time it takes for data or a request to get through a network.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

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 106

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. What are the common performance issues in MySQL databases?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

The core algorithms (chain-replication, Paxos-based consensus) aren’t the stars of the show here, instead the paper focuses on how these algorithms are deployed, and the software engineering practices behind the creation of a mission-critical production system employing them. A guiding principle.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

cpupower frequency-info analyzing CPU 0: driver: intel_pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0 maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00 hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00

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Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. For example, iostat(1), or a monitoring agent, may tell you your average disk latency, but not the distribution of this latency. This example instrumented one of many thousands of available events.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. in total.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers. Site reliability engineers bridge the gap between operations and software developers. What are Some Common SRE Responsibilities?

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

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

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. Even when we do flush caches, the latency of flushing can itself be used as a channel! Microarchitectural channels. Threat scenarios. Threat scenarios.

Hardware 44

Hardware Cache Latency Speed 44

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Simply knowing the different forms of performance testing that we have available to us, and where they sit in the product development process, makes it much easier for businesses to adopt a performance strategy and keep on top of things. Each have their own time, place, purpose, focus, and audience.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Strategy 172

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.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. 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. Going forward, I'll produce both as top-line guidance. In the U.S., This nets out to 2.32

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

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. on end-to-end latency) and less than 0.15% on throughput.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. Two failure modes we focus on are a service becoming slower (increase in response latency) or a service failing outright (returning errors). Defining and running experiments.

Latency 77

Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc. What is Amazon RDS?

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

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. 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

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. Latency: 0.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance Hardware 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Note that for all tests, we used the local loopback address and port to provide the lowest possible network latency between client and server and also so we don’t have any concerns about bandwidth limitations. Use the performance metrics available in the database first before looking at data further down in the stack.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Software services still require physical devices and hardware for them to function. This helps to improve efficiency and ensures that information is consistent, up-to-date, and available. Knowing when and where an error, downtime, or application latency occurs is a critical factor in limiting the impact to users and customers.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Each of the two vector units can issue one FMA instruction per cycle, assuming that there are enough independent accumulators to tolerate the 6-cycle dependent-operation latency. This is an uninspiring fraction of peak performance that would normally suggest significant inefficiencies in either the hardware or software.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In the same way that we have moved from a few big software releases a year to continuous delivery of many small changes, we need to move from annual disaster recover tests or suffering when things actually break, to continuously tested resilience. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In the same way that we have moved from a few big software releases a year to continuous delivery of many small changes, we need to move from annual disaster recover tests or suffering when things actually break, to continuously tested resilience. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53