The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

OCTOBER 29, 2019

AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments. ScaleGrid offers a compelling alternative to hosting MySQL on AWS that offers better performance, more control, and no cloud vendor lock-in and the same price as Amazon RDS.

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AWS Latency Performance Open Source 133

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In this post, we break down ScyllaDB cloud vs. on-premise deployments, most popular cloud providers, SQL and NoSQL databases used with ScyllaDB, most time-consuming management tasks, and why you should use ScyllaDB vs. Cassandra. ScyllaDB Cloud vs. ScyllaDB On-Premises. Most Popular Cloud Providers for ScyllaDB.

Big Data 187

Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

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! ASPLOS’19.

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Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

DZone

MARCH 31, 2020

The true power of cloud computing lies in the way it can be optimized for maximum performance and efficiency. While it wasn’t always possible to run an efficient environment while maximizing performance with on-premise servers and data centers, cloud clusters are particularly flexible in this respect.

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AWS Performance Efficiency Scalability 170

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But as more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies and distribute workloads among multicloud environments, that goal seems harder to attain. In fact, a recent survey found that many cloud applications are vulnerable to outages , despite growing confidence in cloud platforms and services.

Infrastructure 188

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 188

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs Tan et al., If you’re moving an OLAP workload to the cloud (AWS in the context of this paper), what DBMS setup should you go with? We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. matei_zaharia : Since we opened #DAWNBench deep learning benchmark rolling submissions, there have been some cool entires. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it.

Internet 192

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 192

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Scalegrid

JUNE 9, 2020

DigitalOcean instance costs are also over 28% less expensive than AWS, and over 26% less than Azure, providing significant savings for companies who are struggling in this global climate.

Availability 227

Availability Open Source Benchmarking Database 227

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

In this free PostgreSQL Trends Report , we break down PostgreSQL hosting use across public cloud vs. private cloud vs. hybrid cloud, most popular cloud providers, migration trends, database combinations with Postgres, and why PostgreSQL is preferred over popular RDBMS alternatives.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Now that's a cloud! Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. The largest structure ever found in the early universe.

Internet 123

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 6. Aftermath I provided details to AWS and Canonical, and then moved onto the other performance issues as part of the migration.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. There are many times we get asked why some cloud instance performed poorly for their database application and almost always turned out to be some configuration error.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2019

Synthetic clickpath monitors are a great way to automatically monitor and benchmark business-critical workflows 24/7. If you’re using locations from different cloud providers and need to differentiate between them, you can use the cloudPlatform property. location.cloudPlatform "AWS") {. Dynatrace news. Contact forms.

Monitoring 164

Monitoring Retail Benchmarking Tuning 164

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 petaflops, which is 0.8% of peak capacity.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 31, 2019

If you need help setting up high availability for your PostgreSQL clusters, check out our fully Managed PostgreSQL on AWS , PostgreSQL on Azure , and PostgreSQL Enterprise solutions to automate your database management in the cloud an on-premise.

Availability 187

Availability Azure AWS DevOps 187

Percona

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The use case is the TPC-C benchmark but executed not on a high-end server but on a lower-spec virtual machine that is I/O limited like for example, with AWS EBS volumes. The storage device has performance characteristics pretty similar to an AWS gp2 EBS volume of about 330 GB in size. Conclusion.

Storage 55

Storage Cache C++ Virtualization 55

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The use of a cheaper EBS Elastic volume instead of an SSD instance store was an attractive option because AWS allows dynamic increase in EBS volume size without re-provisioning the EC2 node. This allowed us to increase total storage capacity without adding a new Cassandra node to the existing cluster.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

The company also releases MongoDB Atlas, promoting it as the most cost-effective way to run MongoDB in the Cloud. Some might say this marked the beginning of MongoDB’s “cloud push” escalation.) Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.)

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 79

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. Aftermath I provided details to AWS and Canonical, and then moved onto the other performance issues as part of the migration.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there is one question regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily : When should I use Aurora and when RDS MySQL ? We’ll note how some of the Linux parameter settings used OS tuning may vary according to different system types: physical, virtual or cloud.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 7. Aftermath I provided details to AWS and Canonical, and then moved onto the other performance issues as part of the migration.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Here are some the links I shared this week on twitter and facebook : Cloud Computing. There were blog posts by Jeff Barr The Cluster GPU Instance and James Hamilton HPC in the Cloud with GPGPUs , as well as my background posting: Expanding the Cloud - Adding the Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances.

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AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage 68

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

In the prototype implementation, policies are expressed in a language similar to Google Cloud Firestore security rules. A Piazza-style class forum discussion application with 1M posts, 1,000 classes, and a privacy policy allowing TAs to see anonymous posts is used as the basis for benchmarking. Expressing privacy policies.

Database 90

Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

People often ask me if developing for the cloud is any different from developing on-premises software. Verifying benchmark claims. The biggest difference between developing for the cloud and developing on-premises software is that in the cloud, you have much better access to how your customers are using your services.

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Cloud Benchmarking Performance AWS 135

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

In addition, such custom systems could only be benchmarked once they were deployed, so by the time multiple layers of management had each added a 50% safety margin to the initial SWAG , it was not unusual to see them running at 10% of capacity (but 150% of the lucky hardware salesman’s annual quota). The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

In addition, such custom systems could only be benchmarked once they were deployed, so by the time multiple layers of management had each added a 50% safety margin to the initial SWAG , it was not unusual to see them running at 10% of capacity (but 150% of the lucky hardware salesman’s annual quota). The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2019

With Dynatrace Synthetic you can deliver clean-room performance benchmark and availability monitoring for your business. Today, we’re happy to announce that we’re expanding to all the availability zones that are provided by your cloud regions. Dynatrace news. What’s next .

Scalability 20

Scalability Traffic Benchmarking Monitoring 20

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Our only option was to roll up our sleeves and build basic cloud file system components such as object store ourselves. Migration to cloud. Cloud Platform. Google cloud.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

n0derunner

MAY 27, 2022

The performance compares very well with hosted cloud database instances using the same class of processor (db.r5.4xlarge in the figure below). tl;dr A Nutanix cluster can persist a replicated write across two nodes in around 250 uSec which is critical for single-threaded DB write workloads.

Performance 52

Performance Metrics Database Cloud 52

High Scalability

DECEMBER 3, 2019

By having appropriate indexes on your MySQL tables, you can greatly enhance the performance of SELECT queries. But, did you know that adding indexes to your tables in itself is an expensive operation, and may take a long time to complete depending on the size of your tables?

Best Practices 21

Best Practices Performance Systems Processing 21

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. Brotli is widely supported, and many CDNs support it ( Akamai , AWS , KeyCDN , Fastly , Cloudlare , CDN77 ) and you can enable Brotli even on CDNs that don’t support it yet (with a service worker). kernels and later ( thanks, Yoav! ).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. Also check DNS Performance comparison and Cloud Peformance Comparison. Plus, it’s even supported on Fastly’s edge cloud. Andy Davies did a similar research for HTTP/2 prioritization across browsers, CDNs and Cloud Hosting Services.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145