HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. HammerDB has always used stored procedures as a design decision because the original benchmark was implemented as close as possible to the example workload in the TPC-C specification that uses stored procedures. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 19, 2023

With the increasing frequency of cyberattacks, it is imperative to institute a set of cybersecurity best practices that safeguard your organization’s data and privacy. Vulnerability management Vulnerability management is the process of identifying, prioritizing, rectifying, and reporting software vulnerabilities.

Best Practices 198

Best Practices Benchmarking Speed Infrastructure 198

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 30, 2018

These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Accurate benchmarking rewards engineering investment that actually improves performance, but, unfortunately, inaccurate benchmarking is more common. If the benchmark reported 20k ops/sec, you should ask: why not 40k ops/sec?

Benchmarking 54

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 54

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2022

But as more organizations adopt DevOps methodologies and release software faster, they are finding that they need a strategy to evolve and automate their release validation practices. Developers use release validation as an internal consistency mechanism to validate individual releases before collecting data for the next release.

DevOps 198

DevOps Benchmarking Cloud Monitoring 198

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

As more organizations respond to the pressure to release better software faster, there is an increasing need to build quality gates into every stage of BizDevOps processes , from early development to deployment. Dynatrace news. What are quality gates? Using quality gates for measurable impacts. The value of fixing issues up-front.

Benchmarking 173

Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 173

Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Configuring Grafana For our purposes, the Grafana datasource used in this PoC is also the Postgres data cluster that is generating the data to be monitored. It collects various statistics data such as query statistics, query plan, SQL comments, and other performance insights. And yes, it even works in PostgreSQL.

Benchmarking 120

Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 120

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Site reliability engineering seeks to bridge the gap between developers and operations teams, embedding reliability and resiliency into each stage of the software development lifecycle. Service-level objectives (SLOs) are key to the SRE role; they are agreed-upon performance benchmarks that represent the health of an application or service.

Artificial Intelligence 217

Artificial Intelligence Benchmarking DevOps Engineering 217

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

In today’s complex, data-driven world, many security vulnerabilities and attacks can jeopardize an organization’s data. To ensure the safety of their customers, employees, and business data, organizations must have a strategy to protect against zero-day vulnerabilities. Application logs are a good data source for this method.

Java 179

Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 179

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It becomes more manageable and efficient by isolating logs and data to a dedicated mount. We performed a standard benchmarking test using the sysbench tool to compare the performance of a DLV instance vs a standard RDS MySQL instance, as shared in the following section. Are DLVs effective for your RDS instance? Get in touch

AWS 94

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 94

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. So over at Phoronix some database benchmarks were published showing PostgreSQL 12 Performance With AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Benchmarks .

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Data loading patterns are an essential part of your application as they will determine which parts of your application are directly usable by visitors. But isn’t waiting for the data the point?

Performance 127

Performance Cache Servers Social Media 127

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 29, 2018

These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Accurate benchmarking rewards engineering investment that actually improves performance, but, unfortunately, inaccurate benchmarking is more common. If the benchmark reported 20k ops/sec, you should ask: why not 40k ops/sec?

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 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., 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

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

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key metrics like throughput, request latency, and memory utilization are essential for assessing Redis health, with tools like the MONITOR command and Redis-benchmark for latency and throughput analysis and MEMORY USAGE/STATS commands for evaluating memory. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2021

With the increasing adoption of agile software development, DevOps , progressive continuous delivery, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, many companies are aiming to deliver better software faster and more safely while keeping up with customer demands. What are quality gates? Shift left your SRE practices.

Cloud 235

Cloud DevOps Benchmarking Speed 235

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

APM solutions track key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. It explains that APM tools “allow users to monitor and track the performance of particular software or web applications to identify and solve any performance issues that may arise. APM solutions: A primer.

Artificial Intelligence 223

Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Infrastructure Cloud 223

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

For evidence, I refer you to the research that we recently published in which 62% of CISOs told us that container runtime environments have negatively impacted their ability to detect and manage software vulnerabilities. Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications.

Open Source 239

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 239

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Today’s IT infrastructures combine on-premise data centers, servers, and mainframes with highly dynamic multi-cloud environments, with microservices running in containers, spanning multiple clouds and hybrid infrastructure. AI-assistance: Use AI to detect anomalies and benchmark your system. What is infrastructure monitoring? .

Infrastructure 189

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 189

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

Software testing is the process of finding bugs or discrepancies in a software. Even though the job of a software tester is to catch errors committed by developers, software testers themselves are not immune to errors. Testing with Similar Kind of Test Data. Introduction. Few Common Testing Mistakes.

Software 85

Software Software Testing Open Source 85

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Teams can gain this understanding through topology mapping , with telemetry data from request traces, and understanding how the frontend ties to backend functions. Security should be an integral part of each stage of the software delivery lifecycle, from development to monitoring in real time.

Architecture 220

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 220

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. Cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) , can offer infrastructure with five-nines availability by deploying in multiple availability zones and replicating data between regions. Gather observability data from all digital touchpoints.

Infrastructure 173

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 173

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the digital age, data management has transformed from locally hosted servers to cloud solutions. Traditional self-managed ones give organizations full control over their database infrastructure, such as picking the software and scaling it up.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Kubernetes has emerged as go to container orchestration platform for data engineering teams. In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. Organisations are already using Kubernetes for a variety of workloads [1] [2] and data workloads are up next. better cluster resource utilization.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

Tasktop

JULY 19, 2021

“As tech giants and startups disrupt every market, those who master large-scale software delivery will define the economic landscape of the 21st century, just as the masters of mass production defined the landscape in the 20th” Dr. Mik Kersten, CEO and founder Tasktop, author of Project to Product. billion a year in assets being squandered).

Software 52

Software Software DevOps Benchmarking 52

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 16, 2020

Synthesizing data structure transformations from input-output examples , Feser et al., ” Never mind, because the ideas in the paper are still very connected to a question I’m fascinated by at the moment: “how will we be developing software systems over this coming decade?” PLDI’15. High-level approach.

Programming 56

Programming Benchmarking Testing Systems 56

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2022

Indeed, according to recent Uptime Institute data, outages have become far more expensive over the past several years. With an observability platform powered by contextual software intelligence, organizations can gather data on incidents in real-time and proactively. Incident management to avoid outages.

Benchmarking 163

Benchmarking Efficiency DevOps Tuning 163

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. Benchmarking the target Two of the more popular database benchmarks for MySQL are HammerDB and sysbench. We used the first processor socket for the MySQL database and the second socket for the benchmark (sysbench or HammerDB).

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

3 billion : Tesla's yearly spend on gigafactories; 18,000 : GDPR data breach notifications since May; 30 : happy birthday Morris Worm!; vijaypande 's "When Software Eats Bio." matei_zaharia : Since we opened #DAWNBench deep learning benchmark rolling submissions, there have been some cool entires.

Internet 192

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 192

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. Fault tolerance aims for zero downtime and data loss. Data replication : Data is continually copied from one database to another to ensure that the system remains operational even if one database fails.

Availability 104

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent deployment and life-cycle management are already widely considered to be industry benchmarks for reliability and efficiency. We’re now allowing for even easier OneAgent rollout by freeing up the /opt mount point from any runtime data that’s produced by OneAgents. Dynatrace news.

Best Practices 185

Best Practices Storage Java Benchmarking 185

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

This covers everything from tech specs and what you expect from the service to security, how you’ll handle data, and how services will be managed. Hosting either on-premises or with third-party data center providers and deciding whether management services should be conducted internally or outsourced.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Key Takeaways A cloud workload encompasses any application or service running on a cloud infrastructure, facilitating tasks ranging from basic functions to advanced data analysis with the help of resources like databases, collaboration tools, and disaster recovery systems. This applies to both virtual machines and container-based deployments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130