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.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

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. You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

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

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

With the state of cloud computing constantly evolving, open source software (OSS) offers a collaborative and efficient approach that is fast replacing proprietary-only code bases. Most functions in cloud-native applications are things all applications must also do. Why use open source software? Drives a culture of innovation.

Open Source 196

Open Source Software Software Development 196

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

This is because AWS Lambda provides a relatively low barrier for entry into cloud computing without the need to pursue a whole lift-and-shift operation right away. This means that there is no need to provision or manage servers (or even containers). These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension.

Lambda 226

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 226

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

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

This is because AWS Lambda provides a relatively low barrier for entry into cloud computing without the need to pursue a whole lift-and-shift operation right away. This means that there is no need to provision or manage servers (or even containers). These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension.

Lambda 188

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 188

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. In a two socket server, that equates to 128 physical cores and 256 threads in a single box.

Internet 192

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 192

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Modern servers operate with terabytes of RAM, and by default, processors work with virtual memory address translation for each 4KB page. Please check out the Why Linux HugePages are Super Important for Database Servers: A Case with PostgreSQL blog post for more information.

C++ 94

C++ Virtualization Benchmarking Database 94

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

With the state of cloud computing constantly evolving, open source software (OSS) offers a collaborative and efficient approach that is fast replacing proprietary-only code bases. Most functions in cloud-native applications are things many other applications must also do. Why use open source software? Drives a culture of innovation.

Open Source 130

Open Source Software Software Development 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

With the state of cloud computing constantly evolving, open source software (OSS) offers a collaborative and efficient approach that is fast replacing proprietary-only code bases. Most functions in cloud-native applications are things many other applications must also do. Why use open source software? Drives a culture of innovation.

Open Source 130

Open Source Software Software Development 130

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Some servers may need a few GBs of RAM, while others may need hundreds of GBs or even terabytes of RAM. Benchmark before you decide.

Performance 122

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 122

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was founded to bring standards to database benchmarking, and the history of the TPC can be found here.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

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

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. Load balancing : Requests are evenly distributed across multiple database servers, ensuring the system remains operational even if one server fails.

Availability 104

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Whereas many open source software offerings — like the community version of MySQL — use the GNU General Public License ( GPL ), MongoDB has been under the GNU Affero General Public License ( AGPL ) and more recently under the Server Side Public License ( SSPL ), introduced by MongoDB itself.

Open Source 79

Open Source Programming Database Servers 79

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In these blogs, we dove deep into how the frameworks work, their setup requirements, pros and cons, and how they performed in standby server tests, primary server tests and network isolation tests (split brain scenario) to help you determine the best framework to improve the uptime for your PostgreSQL-powered applications.

Availability 187

Availability Azure AWS DevOps 187

High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

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.

AWS 170

AWS Performance Efficiency Scalability 170

High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. This was followed by a greatly expanded second edition with some additional chapters by Rich Pettit.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., Seer is an online system that observes the behaviour of cloud applications (using the DeathStarBench microservices for the evaluation) and predicts when QoS violations may be about to occur. ASPLOS’19.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

The $47,500 licensing costs for Oracle Enterprise Edition is only for one CPU core, that ultimately has to be multiplied with the actual number of cores on the physical server. Cloud Deployments. Can be deployed on any cloud provider, with a variety of PostgreSQL hosting solutions available. . $104,310.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Download our eBook, “ Enterprise Guide to Cloud Databases ” to help you make more informed decisions and avoid costly mistakes as you develop and execute your cloud strategy.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Load balancing and replication: Scaling the database system horizontally by distributing the workload across multiple servers using techniques like connection pooling, read replicas, or implementing a primary-replica replication setup. In addition, staying up-to-date on PostgreSQL releases and improvements can also help.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! 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. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

Back-end servers. For Fedora, one person requested: "Meta and/or Netflix should provide infrastructure for a side repository in which the change can be tested and benchmarked and the code size measured." I spent years as a cloud customer where I couldn't access many HW-level things.) Sure, compile without frame pointers.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The HammerDB TPROC-C workload by design intended as CPU and memory intensive workload derived from TPC-C – so that we get to benchmark at maximum CPU performance at a much smaller database footprint. Even with superior I/O performance today the I/O configuration required on-premise or in the cloud remains costly.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

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. If you are paying too much for cloud-based storage and IOPs, make sure you evaluate MyRocks as it has super compression capabilities and is IO efficient.

Storage 55

Storage Cache C++ Virtualization 55

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

For example, in a server cluster, multiple servers are used to host the same application so that if one server fails, the application can continue to run on the other servers. Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

Availability 76

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 76

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In this post we will review the most important Linux settings to adjust for performance tuning and optimization of a MySQL database server. We’ll note how some of the Linux parameter settings used OS tuning may vary according to different system types: physical, virtual or cloud. A Look at MyRocks Performance. Top 10 Most Commented.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Cloud provider hypervisor changes (for cloud guests) 1. I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Note that there are potentially four layers of overhead for Meltdown/Spectre, this is just one. They are: 1. Intel microcode updates 1.

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking. These services often check from various geographic locations to keep an eye on network routes to your server and will send you alerts via email and txt if your website is down. Web Performance Benchmarking. Uptime Monitoring. Real User Monitoring.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! 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. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Bottlenecks can occur, for example, if you have a sudden surge in traffic that your servers are not equipped to handle. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55