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., In this paper we explore the implications microservices have across the cloud system stack. Hardware implications. Operating system and network implications.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your app runs in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the provider secures the infrastructure, while you’re responsible for security measures within applications and configurations. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications?

Cloud 177

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 177

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The first version of AWS Lambda was built using Linux containers. All of the existing approaches we just examined involve trade-offs that AWS didn’t want to make.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. For example, if you are buying the latest Amazon memory-optimized EC2 instance (R7iz), the AWS page ( [link] ) tells us the following: Up to 3.9 4.22 %usr 38.40

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

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. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product. He hasn’t changed.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

Infrastructure as a Service is the term used for those cloud-based solutions that provide complete infrastructure to the users including all the overheads, hardware, and networking facilities. As a user, you just need to pay for the services, install low-level requirements and set up the networking. Source: Twitter. Sign up Now.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. If something fails, there should be another way for the system to succeed.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. If something fails, there should be another way for the system to succeed.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

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. AWS for builds. What operating systems do you use?

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52