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

OCTOBER 2, 2019

October 2, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Redis on Azure service. Redis Cloud Gets Easier with Fully Managed Hosting on Microsoft Azure Click To Tweet. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

Azure 37

Azure Cloud Open Source Virtualization 37

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

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

By analyzing real-time data, AI-based models can: Adjust the allocation of resources in response to demand Boost business performance Reduce unnecessary expenditures Lead to significant cost savings Improve scalability Operational Efficiency through Automation Automation is a significant way AI enhances cloud operations.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. You haven’t detected that there’s a shortage of disk space on the virtualization host (or its shared storage).

Virtualization 160

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 160

Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2019

If you hadn’t already heard the news, the entire Dynatrace team is immensely proud to once again been positioned as a Leader in the Gartner 2019 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM). In a sea of virtualized layers of abstraction, shared services, and dependencies, the cloud has become increasingly complex.

Innovation 132

Innovation Virtualization Cloud Azure 132

High Scalability

OCTOBER 3, 2019

ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Redis on Azure service.

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Azure Cloud Open Source Cache 23

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

So many default to Amazon RDS, when MySQL performs exceptionally well on Azure Cloud. While Microsoft Azure does offer a managed solution, Azure Database, the solution has some major limitations you should know about before migrating your MySQL deployments. The Best Way to Host MySQL on Azure Cloud Click To Tweet.

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Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

For such workloads, shared-nothing architectures beget high cost, inflexibility, poor performance, and inefficiency, which hurts production applications and cluster deployments. Customer data is persisted in S3 (or the equivalent services when running on Azure or GCP), and compute is handled in EC2 instances. Workload characteristics.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

This part of the actual SSPL language speaks volumes: If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version available to third parties as a service, you must make the Service Source Code available via network download to everyone at no charge, under the terms of this License. ” Nothing nefarious there.

Open Source 83

Open Source Programming Database Servers 83

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

As organizations adopt microservices architecture with cloud-native technologies such as Microsoft Azure , many quickly notice an increase in operational complexity. To guide organizations through their cloud migrations, Microsoft developed the Azure Well-Architected Framework. What is the Azure Well-Architected Framework?

Azure 184

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 184

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One initial, easy step to moving your SQL Server on-premises workloads to the cloud is using Azure VMs to run your SQL Server workloads in an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) scenario. One important choice you will still have to make is what type and size of Azure virtual machine you want to use for your existing SQL Server workload.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

While investigating some performance mysteries in Chrome I discovered that Microsoft had parallelized how they zero memory, and in some cases this was making it a lot slower. I’d been testing on a virtual machine in a data center that I had access to, purely because this machine has an internet connection that runs at over 2 Gbps.

Cache 105

Cache Energy Google Processing 105

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

If a cyber network agent has observed an unusual pattern of failed login attempts, it needs to alert downstream network nodes (servers and routers) to block the kill chain in a potential attack. The list goes on. The Limitations of Today’s Streaming Analytics. A New Approach: Real-Time Device Tracking.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By breaking up large datasets into more manageable pieces, each segment can be assigned to various network nodes for storage and management purposes. These systems safeguard against the risk of data loss due to hardware failure or network issues by spreading data across multiple nodes.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

When delving into the networking aspect of a hybrid cloud deployment, complexities arise due to the requirement of linking or expanding existing on-premises network architectures into the cloud sphere. Tailoring resource allocation efficiently ensures faster application performance in alignment with organizational demands.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

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. This applies to both virtual machines and container-based deployments. What is workload in cloud computing?

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

More organizations are adopting a hybrid IT environment, with data center and virtualized components. Therefore, they need an environment that offers scalable computing, storage, and networking. Instead of treating storage, server, compute, and network functions as separate entities, HCI virtualizes these resources.

Infrastructure 197

Infrastructure Storage Virtualization Network 197

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

Five available hybrid cloud platforms from the top public cloud providers include the following: Azure Stack : Consumers can access different Azure cloud services from their own data center and build applications for Azure cloud. Support virtual machines and containers. Optimize critical applications’ performance.

Infrastructure 179

Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 179

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's database-as-a-service offering that provides a tremendous amount of flexibility. Microsoft is continually working on improving their products and Azure SQL Database is no different. Microsoft is continually working on improving their products and Azure SQL Database is no different.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

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. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management.

Development 247

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 247

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

Similarly, integrations for Azure and VMware are available to help you monitor your infrastructure both in the cloud and on-premises. Dynatrace VMware and virtualization documentation . When using autoscaling-mechanisms and having a lot of application containers, tracing requests through the network is a challenging task.

Analytics 237

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 237

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Kubernetes (aka K8s) is an open-source platform used to run and manage containerized applications and services on clusters of physical or virtual machines across on-premises, public, private, and hybrid clouds. This virtualization makes it possible to efficiently deploy and securely run a container independently of the hosting infrastructure.

Virtualization 132

Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 132

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A new generation of automated solutions — designed to provide end-to-end observability of assets, applications, and performance across legacy and cloud systems — make that job easier, says Federal Chief Technology Officer Willie Hicks at Dynatrace. Observability means taking application performance management (APM) to the next level.

Cloud 169

Cloud Monitoring Network Azure 169

Dynatrace

JULY 10, 2019

With this approach, you can add any relevant metric(s) from your process to Dynatrace, and then chart it, alert on it, or correlate it with your process’ performance. With insights from Dynatrace into network latency and utilization of your cloud resources, you can design your scaling mechanisms and save on costly CPU hours.

Java 136

Java Best Practices Metrics Azure 136

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

The installer will also provide the options to perform a full ‘Custom’ installation, or to ‘Download Media’ only as the download button above provides. So the initial time to run this all depends on your network speed. If you run the Installer again, we use what I call “smart download” technology.

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

These packages, known as container images, are immutable and because they abstract the environment on which they run, they ’re portable and can be moved from one environment to another , regardless of what platform it’s running on, i.e. a physical or virtual machine, on-premise, data center , or in the public cloud. .

Google 132

Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 132

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

These packages, known as container images, are immutable and because they abstract the environment on which they run, they ’re portable and can be moved from one environment to another , regardless of what platform it’s running on, i.e. a physical or virtual machine, on-premise, data center , or in the public cloud. .

Google 130

Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 130

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Note: It makes sense to use S3 as the cloud object storage solution only if we also use Amazon’s service for virtual servers on the cloud, EC2 , for running the application. Otherwise, our site will suffer an overhead from data traveling among different companies’ networks. Creating The Bucket.

AWS 44

AWS Servers Storage Cloud 44

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

Similar ly, integrations for Azure and VMware are available to help you monitor your infrastructure both in the cloud and on-premises. . Dynatrace VMware and virtualization documentation . When using autoscaling-mechanisms and having a lot of application containers, tracing requests through the network is a challenging task.

Analytics 134

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 134

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) is the practice of tracking key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Practitioners use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. Application performance management.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

there’s a Python library for virtually anything a developer or data scientist might need to do. The most popular CM tools are DevOps focused, and, like DevOps itself, they’re declining: usage in the CM topic dropped significantly (-18%) in 2019, as did virtually all CM tools. Interestingly, R itself continues to decline.

Software Architecture 134

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 134

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. But most Azure and GCP users also use AWS; the reverse isn’t necessarily true. network engineer, at >2%) and management positions (IT manager, at close to 3%; operations manager at >1%). Role of survey respondents.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

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 Hold that thought. Migrating isn't as simple as 'copy-paste'.‍Even

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This means that with Terraform, you can manage resources across multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and more, using a single tool.‍A Terraform's declarative nature makes this adaptation straightforward.‍Consider an example where a company is running multiple virtual machines (VMs) on a cloud provider.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40