High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud vs. Hybrid Cloud. So what makes PostgreSQL so special, and how is it being used today?

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

Infrastructure 193

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 193

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? use the TPC-H benchmark to assess Redshift, Redshift Spectrum, Athena, Presto, Hive, and Vertica to find out what works best and the trade-offs involved.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

Site reliability engineering (SRE) continues to gain popularity as organizations embrace hybrid cloud strategies and IT automation at scale. SREs improve the reliability of production systems, and reducing mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) is their top priority. Dynatrace news. MTTR reduction remains top of the list for SREs.

DevOps 147

DevOps Innovation Engineering Benchmarking 147

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes and OpenShift, help organizations accelerate innovation and drive agility. Compared to intrusion detection systems (IDS/IPS), WAFs are focused on the application traffic. Dynatrace news. In today’s world, the speed of innovation is key to business success.

Traffic 229

Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 229

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Here’s a brief primer on APM and how it has changed for cloud-native environments, and some tips on what to look for in modern APM solutions. Organizations use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. .” APM solutions: A primer.

Artificial Intelligence 227

Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Infrastructure Cloud 227

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

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments. As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure.

AWS 183

AWS Latency Performance Benchmarking 183

High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

If you have experience in hosting and with the WordPress stack, have worked with Ubuntu or Debian-based systems, and cutting-edge technologies, such Ansible and LXC, you should definitely check us out and apply here ! has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. InterviewCamp.io

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to join its research panel. If you have experience in hosting and with the WordPress stack, have worked with Ubuntu or Debian-based systems, and cutting-edge technologies, such Ansible and LXC, you should definitely check us out and apply here ! Who's Hiring?

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to join its research panel. If you have experience in hosting and with the WordPress stack, have worked with Ubuntu or Debian-based systems, and cutting-edge technologies, such Ansible and LXC, you should definitely check us out and apply here ! Who's Hiring?

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to join its research panel. If you have experience in hosting and with the WordPress stack, have worked with Ubuntu or Debian-based systems, and cutting-edge technologies, such Ansible and LXC, you should definitely check us out and apply here ! Who's Hiring?

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

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

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

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

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. PostgreSQL performance optimization is an ongoing process involving monitoring, benchmarking, and adjustments to maintain high-performing PostgreSQL databases.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Apica

APRIL 11, 2023

Businesses today use automation for everything from payroll to report generation, and they often turn to a robotic process automation (RPA) system to help. RPA Features to Look For While your systems utilize various operating systems, you probably use Windows to interface with most.

IoT 52

IoT Benchmarking Scalability Network 52

Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

An example of a flame graph can be found below: Each box is a function in the stack, and wider boxes mean more time the system was busy on CPU on these functions. Kubernetes limitations In Linux, by default, performance system events can’t be collected by unprivileged users.

Code 106

Code Tuning C++ Benchmarking 106

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

cloud based usage led to the development of a HammerDB HTTP based web service interface with output data stored in a SQLite database repository. The most popular interface to HammerDB is using the GUI, however demand for running HammerDB workloads in environments without GUI interfaces led to the development of the CLI.

Virtualization 70

Virtualization Benchmarking C++ Database 70

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. The company also releases MongoDB Atlas, promoting it as the most cost-effective way to run MongoDB in the Cloud.

Open Source 81

Open Source Programming Database Servers 81

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the digital age, data management has transformed from locally hosted servers to cloud solutions. The choice of self-managed cloud databases vs DBaaS is a common debate among those who are looking for the best option that will cater to their particular needs.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

What is workload in cloud computing? 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. The environments, which were previously isolated, are now working seamlessly under central control.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

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

Testsigma

JANUARY 12, 2021

This list guides you on the areas to test, the browsers, versions, operating systems to consider, the benchmarks to meet, as well as time and budget allocation. You need a variety of devices to track and audit the application behavior when browsers are running on different operating systems. Infrastructure.

Website 65

Website Benchmarking Operating System Testing Tools 65

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. How can IT teams deliver system availability under peak loads that will satisfy customers?

Infrastructure 177

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 177

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

In the prototype implementation, policies are expressed in a language similar to Google Cloud Firestore security rules. Specifically, scalable, parallel streaming dataflow computing systems now support partially-stateful and dynamically-changing dataflows. Expressing privacy policies. It runs to about 2,000 lines of Rust.

Database 90

Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

HammerDB

JULY 8, 2019

It is not intended for the web service to replace the GUI or CLI environments that still prove the most popular way to run HammerDB, however the aim is to provide an additional way that HammerDB can be integrated into tests in in cloud environments particular.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Virtualization C++ Database 40

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Telcos and Fortune 500 corporations used to spend years defining custom systems, down to the last cable. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Limits of a lift-and-shift approach A traditional lift-and-shift approach, where teams migrate a monolithic application directly onto hardware hosted in the cloud, may seem like the logical first step toward application transformation. In fact, it can be difficult to make code changes that won’t disrupt the entire system.

Architecture 225

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 225

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.

Cloud 135

Cloud Benchmarking Performance AWS 135

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We’ll note how some of the Linux parameter settings used OS tuning may vary according to different system types: physical, virtual or cloud. In this benchmark, I discovered some interesting discrepancies in performance between AMD and Intel CPUs when running under systemd. A Look at MyRocks Performance. Top 10 Most Commented.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

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., Systems built with lots of microservices have different operational characteristics to those built from a small number of monoliths, we’d like to study and better understand those differences.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Telcos and Fortune 500 corporations used to spend years defining custom systems, down to the last cable. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40