High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. No, I don’t think that is because AWS is earning a 355x margin on DynamoDB!

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Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Effective application development requires speed and specificity. Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Dynatrace news. What is FaaS?

Development 256

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 256

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This growth was spurred by mobile ecosystems with Android and iOS operating systems, where ARM has a unique advantage in energy efficiency while offering high performance. Huge performance leaps in recent years The top priority is often performance, where ARM resources have improved significantly.

Efficiency 271

Efficiency Architecture Energy Monitoring 271

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Buckets are similar to folders, a physical storage location. Debug-level logs, which also generate high volumes and have a shorter lifespan or value period than other logs, could similarly benefit from dedicated storage. This improves query speeds and reduces related costs for all other teams and apps.

Artificial Intelligence 266

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Metrics Storage 266

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. The Greenplum Architecture. Greenplum Advantages. Major Use Cases. Query Optimization. over Greenplum 5.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The ProRes codec family provides great editing performance and image quality. From chunk encoding to assembly and packaging, the result of each previous processing step must be uploaded to cloud storage and then downloaded by the next processing step. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency.

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Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. What is workload in cloud computing?

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

With today’s high expectations for the speed and availability of applications, you need a deep understanding of real user experiences to make the best business decisions. Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring ensures that your application is available and performs well from anywhere in the world to meet your SLAs. Virginia (AWS) ?,

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Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 259

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

It provides significant advantages that include: Offering scalability to support business expansion Speeding up the execution of business plans Stimulating innovation throughout the company Boosting organizational flexibility, enabling quick adaptation to changing market conditions and competitive pressures.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. For storage, FIO is generally used.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Driving this growth is the increasing adoption of hyperscale cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) and containerized microservices running on Kubernetes. With the help of log monitoring software, teams can collect information and trigger alerts if something happens that affects system performance and health. billion in 2020 to $4.1

Analytics 214

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 214

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

So many default to Amazon RDS, when MySQL performs exceptionally well on Azure Cloud. In this post, we outline the best way to host MySQL on Azure , including managed solutions, instance types, high availability replication, backup, and disk types to use to optimize your cloud database performance. MySQL DBaaS vs. Self-Managed MySQL.

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Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

All Things Distributed

JULY 19, 2012

High Performance I/O Instances for Amazon EC2. AWS customers are bringing their most demanding workloads onto the cloud. These include the likes of high performance computation, for which we introduced the Cluster Compute and Cluster GPU instance types. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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Cloud Performance AWS Virtualization 129

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

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Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Percona

JULY 24, 2023

PBM) introduced a GA version of incremental physical backups , which can greatly impact both the recovery time and the cost of backup (considering storage and data transfer cost). In short, for larger datasets, there is a very distinctive speed improvement in recovery. In the previous minor release, Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.1.0 (PBM)

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Availability Open Source Strategy Storage 74

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. There are several popular cloud-based platforms for web development and deployment, such as AWS , Azure , and Google Cloud Platform.

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Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

PBM is a fully-supported community backup tool capable of performing cluster-side consistent backups in MongoDB for replica sets and sharded clusters. The speed of backup also depends on allocated IOPS and type of storage since lots of read/writes would be happening during this process. Records backup progress logging.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

At Amazon we have hundreds of teams using machine learning and by making use of the Machine Learning Service we can significantly speed up the time they use to bring their technologies into production. Details on the AWS Blog. AWS has been offering a range of storage solutions: objects, block storage, databases, archiving, etc.

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Lambda Cloud IoT AWS 122

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Given the simplicity and economic appeal of FaaS, it is interesting to explore designs that preserve the autoscaling and operational benefits of current offerings, while adding performant, cost-efficient and consistent shared state and communication. Cross-function communication should work at wire speed. Evaluation.

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Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While speeding up development processes and reducing complexity does make the lives of Kubernetes operators easier, the inherent abstraction and automation can lead to new types of errors that are difficult to find, troubleshoot, and prevent. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host.

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Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 162

Testsigma

AUGUST 23, 2021

The digital market growth, Agile, DevOps, all are pushing organizations to adopt cloud-based solutions at a lightning speed. Want to access and perform automation testing on the go? So the testing is performed according to the in-depth analysis of the user base, geographies, devices used, etc. e.g. AWS Macie.

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Cloud Testing AWS Testing Tools 74

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In AWS’ quest to enable the best data storage options for engineers, we have built several innovative database solutions like Amazon RDS, Amazon RDS for Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift. QuickSight is a cloud-native BI service built from the ground up to address the big data challenges around speed, complexity, and cost.

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Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 137

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

This is where your performance goes. A typical example of modern "microservices-inspired" Java application would function along these lines: Netflix : We observed during experimentation that RAM random read latencies were rarely higher than 1 microsecond whereas typical SSD random read speeds are between 100–500 microseconds.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Though the AWS Cloud gives you access to the storage and processing power required for ML, the process for building, training, and deploying ML models has unique challenges that often block successful use of this powerful new technology. At AWS, we believe in giving choices, so Amazon SageMaker removes that problem.

Tuning 94

Tuning AWS Scalability Infrastructure 94

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. As with any database, developers and DBAs working with MongoDB should look at how to optimize the performance of their database, especially nowadays with cloud services, where each byte processed, transmitted, and stored costs money.

Database 78

Database Servers Storage Strategy 78

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

PostgreSQL Cluster One coordinator node citus-coord-01 Three worker nodes citus1 citus2 citus3 Hardware AWS Instance Ubuntu Server 20.04, SSD volume type 64-bit (x86) c5.xlarge In order to speed up the benchmark indexes must be added. Repeating the benchmark once again demonstrates that performance has degraded somewhat.

Database 102

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 102

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started This offers not just an audit train but an “audit trail on steroids.”‍A

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52