Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

” This acts as a step to ensure durability by recovering lost data from the same journal files in case of crashes, power, and hardware failures between the checkpoints (see below) Here’s what the process looks like. Journal, on the one hand, is an append-only operation in a journal file, AKA transaction log file present on disk.

Hardware 85

Hardware C++ Storage Cache 85

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 5, 2022

However, that assumes he or she is available and has time to talk. Without it, sending an email over a long distance would require the immediate availability of every node on the routing network to forward each message. For all its virtues, message queuing presents some challenges from an observability perspective.

Monitoring 205

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 205

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

However, that assumes he or she is available and has time to talk. Without it, sending an email over a long distance would require the immediate availability of every node on the routing network to forward each message. For all its virtues, message queuing presents some challenges from an observability perspective.

Monitoring 204

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 204

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 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity. By implementing data abstraction techniques, these challenges can be addressed more effectively.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. I’d even use it to manage datacenter failover or failover for other cloud vendors, as what you really need is a highly available control plane that is totally independent of your own failure modes.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

On-premises data centers invest in higher capacity servers since they provide more flexibility in the long run, while the procurement price of hardware is only one of many cost factors. That trend will likely continue as Kubernetes security awareness further rises and a new class of security solutions becomes available.

Open Source 346

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 346

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. Configuration testing is performed to discover the optimum combinations of software and hardware specifications that allow the system to work without flaws. Types of Configuration Testing.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

Dynatrace is thrilled to announce the General Availability of support for both the 2.x With Azure Functions, engineers don’t have to worry about provisioning and maintaining underlying hardware; they simply upload their code, and it’s up and running seconds later. Instantly see why a request is slow.

Serverless 239

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 239

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To achieve optimal tracking results it is important to choose wisely among available tools like Prometheus or Grafana, which offer deeper insights into understanding your Redis® instances for better performance optimization. Or even having limitations when trying vertical/horizontal scalability while ensuring availability at all times.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

Strap yourself in; here is a non-exhaustive list presented in no particular order: Latency: As above, we’re counting a trip out to and a return trip from the server. Rather, your TTFB represents any number of the items present above. But what else is TTFB? View full size/quality (533KB). View full size/quality (419KB).

Latency 269

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Understanding Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Cloud computing has revolutionized the IT industry, offering a host of advantages including cost-effectiveness, increased agility, and access to cutting-edge hardware. Challenges of Multi-Cloud Although multi-cloud has its benefits, it also presents some obstacles. But what do these entail?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

. “The team did a two-part attack on that, where we rapidly added more physical infrastructure, but also expanded the Citrix environment into all five CSP regions that we had available to us in the government clouds from Azure and AWS,” Catanoso explains. “We used Dynatrace to monitor that large increase in servers.

Cloud 181

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 181

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

However, building and utilizing HCM presents challenges, including interconnecting various memory technologies (e.g., There are three common mechanisms to access remote memory: modifying applications, modifying virtual memory, and hardware-level cache coherence support. About CXL hardware availability with academia.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

AV1 playback on TV platforms relies on hardware solutions, which generally take longer to be deployed. Throughout 2020 the industry made impressive progress on AV1 hardware solutions. While software decoders enable AV1 playback for more powerful devices, a majority of Netflix members enjoy their favorite shows on TVs.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits you need while spending less, based on the recommendations presented by Dani Guzmán Burgos, our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Tech Lead, on this webinar (now available on demand) hosted in November last year. These color-coded states on panels are available in PMM 2.32.0

Cloud 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. 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.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. I won’t cover all the features but show just enough that you’ll want to see more of what you can learn to accomplish for yourself.

Database 102

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 102

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

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. The second placement looks better as each CPU is given its own L1/L2 caches, and we make better use of the two L3 caches available.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

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.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

Dynatrace is thrilled to announce the General Availability of support for both the 2.x With Azure Functions, engineers don’t have to worry about provisioning and maintaining underlying hardware; they simply upload their code, and it’s up and running seconds later. Instantly see why a request is slow.

Serverless 143

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 143

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

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. A commonly recommended value for the buffer pool size is between 50% to 75% of the available memory. 16) and monitoring the server’s performance.

Social Media 119

Social Media Database Servers Cache 119

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

An example of a specification is the correct operation of the hardware of a microprocessor. An SDC is the worst possible outcome of a fault, as it can have an arbitrary impact on the correctness of software running on the hardware. The figure below presents a historical retrospective of the soft error problem as a timeline.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

These software errors are usually uncovered during functionality testing, mostly can be present as: Difficult/ confusing functionality: If the user is unable to understand or perform a function on the application, then it should change. Hardware error. We focus on software so much that we forget about the hardware failures.

Software 82

Software Software Testing Hardware 82

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens. Another group from Stanford presented another NPU, which is a mixed-signal CNN processor that used analog computing to implement binary neural network (BNN). Comprehensive lists are available here and here. .

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

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!

Cache 201

Cache Database Architecture Government 201

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Resource allocation: Personnel, hardware, time, and money The migration to open source requires careful allocation (and knowledge) of the resources available to you. Evaluating your hardware requirements is another vital aspect of resource allocation. Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.)

Open Source 89

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 89

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

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. Blockchain is a good example of this. There is no single server or machine that takes care of the workload.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

It’s important to note that recommended throughput levels may vary depending on factors such as operating system type, network bandwidth availability, and hardware quality. In addition, distributed data is a key factor in high availability. A reduced throughput could generally indicate that the server gets fewer queries.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

In both cases, the OS will task the browser team to heavily prioritise integrations with the latest OS and hardware features at the expense of more broadly useful capabilities — e.g. shipping "notch" CSS and "force touch" events while neglecting Push. ↩︎ Modern-day Mozilla presents a puzzle within this model.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

HotOS’19 is presenting me with something of a problem as there are so many interesting looking papers in the proceedings this year it’s going to be hard to cover them all! Different hardware architectures (CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, …) offer different performance and cost trade-offs. HotOS’19.

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

The approach was influential in the design of the SQL Sentry performance dashboard, which presents waits flanked by queues (key resource metrics) to deliver a comprehensive view of server performance. Detailed query-level waits are available on demand via integrated Plan Explorer. Most Queries Don't Wait. of Total Wait Time.

Tuning 115

Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

I was drawn in by the headline results here: This paper presents an analysis of how Linux’s performance has evolved over the past seven years… To our surprise, the study shows that the performance of many core operations has worsened or fluctuated significantly over the years. SOSP’19. Measuring the kernel. Headline results.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

Inside the memory, they can be allocated any available space. When a program leaves the memory, space becomes available; however, the OS may or may not be able to allocate vacant memory space to another program or process as it has some issues. At present, this is in the development phase.

Programming 81

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 81

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Presenting The Case For Sustainability. Being able to present a business case, and demonstrate that the benefits outweigh the costs, will help justify focusing resources in the area of sustainability. Other factors to consider include workload, resources (including financial), and the availability of team members.

Strategy 123

Strategy Development Energy Website 123