The Morning Paper

MARCH 10, 2020

Characterizing, modeling, and benchmarking RocksDB key-value workloads at Facebook , Cao et al., Or in the case of key-value stores, what you benchmark. So if you want to design a system that will offer good real-world performance, it’s really useful to have benchmarks that accurately represent real-world workloads.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Storage Cache Open Source 59

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

JANUARY 4, 2024

Traditional analytics and AI systems rely on statistical models to correlate events with possible causes. It removes much of the guesswork of untangling complex system issues and establishes with certainty why a problem occurred. That’s where causal AI can help. Causal AI is particularly effective in observability. Timeliness.

Government 197

Government Analytics Benchmarking Storage 197

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking. In Byteland they have a very strange monetary system.

Java 207

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Organizations should adopt comprehensive practices that encompass a wide range of potential vulnerabilities and apply them across all their IT systems. By incorporating automated vulnerability scans within the software development lifecycle (SDLC), developers can expedite the release of innovative software features.

Best Practices 205

Best Practices Benchmarking Speed Infrastructure 205

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. ” Usually when benchmark results are surprising it is a major hint that something could be misconfigured and that certainly seems the case here, so what could it be? rc3-custom x86_64).

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. And now, execute the benchmark: -- execute the following on the coordinator node pgbench -c 20 -j 3 -T 60 -P 3 pgbench The results are not pretty.

Database 107

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 107

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Application modernization centers on bringing monolithic, on-premises applications — which IT teams usually update and maintain with waterfall development processes — into cloud architecture and release patterns. Document and benchmark existing applications, processes, and services. Why should organizations modernize applications?

Strategy 223

Strategy Benchmarking Serverless Infrastructure 223

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

Software automation enables digital supply chain stakeholders — such as digital operations, DevSecOps, ITOps, and CloudOps teams — to orchestrate resources across the software development lifecycle to bring innovative, high-quality products and services to market faster. What is software analytics? Applications and microservices monitoring.

Software 184

Software Software Analytics Big Data 184

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

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. To properly secure applications, developers need to discover and eliminate these vulnerabilities. However, to be secure, containers must be properly isolated from each other and from the host system itself. Network scanners.

Open Source 247

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 247

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

We implemented a batch processing system for users to submit their requests and wait for the system to generate the output. This limited pilot system greatly reduced the time spent by our users to manually analyze the content. Maintaining disparate systems posed a challenge. Processing took several hours to complete.

Media 291

Media Innovation Energy Architecture 291

Alex Podelko

APRIL 18, 2021

These two papers provide many more insights: Automated system performance testing at MongoDB , DBTest 2020 [ Video ]. The Use of Change Point Detection to Identify Software Performance Regressions in a Continuous Integration System , ICPE 2020 [ Video ]. The MongoDB Podcast, Ep. Both events would be on April 19, 2021.

Performance Testing 182

Performance Testing Performance Testing Education 182

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Microservices applications comprise independent services that teams develop, deploy, and maintain separately. However, the distributed system of a microservices architecture comes with its own cost: increased application complexity and convoluted testing. Understand the monolith Monolithic applications take work to understand.

Architecture 228

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 228

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2021

As organizations aim for faster delivery of value to their customers, the frequency of releases inevitably increases, which introduces risks and uncertainty into production systems—unless automated tests and quality gates can be leveraged to provide confidence. What are quality gates? What’s next.

Cloud 239

Cloud DevOps Benchmarking Speed 239

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

JULY 29, 2020

However, these must be set up outside the PostgreSQL system, while PgBouncer can offload this to the PostgreSQL server. So, we pitted the two connection poolers head-to-head, using the standard pgbench tool, to see which one provides better transactions per second throughput through a benchmark test. Throughput Benchmark.

Benchmarking 246

Benchmarking Database Performance Testing Availability 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Malicious attackers have gotten increasingly better at identifying vulnerabilities and launching zero-day attacks to exploit these weak points in IT systems. A zero-day exploit is a technique an attacker uses to take advantage of an organization’s vulnerability and gain access to its systems.

Java 185

Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 185

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut Barham & Isard, HotOS’19. In this paper we argue that systems for numerical computing are stuck in a local basin of performance and programmability. We saw one such example at the top of this piece: support for named dimensions.

Systems 87

Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

SRE is becoming an essential discipline in organizations that use DevOps (the combination of development and operations) and agile methodologies. SREs improve the reliability of production systems, and reducing mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) is their top priority. SRE adoption is growing, yet gaps remain.

DevOps 147

DevOps Innovation Engineering Benchmarking 147

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems. Why HammerDB was developed. 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

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Sometimes developers only care about speed. Why RPC is “faster” It’s tempting to simply write a micro-benchmark test where we issue 1000 requests to a server over HTTP and then repeat the same test with asynchronous messages. But that’s just a micro-benchmark and doesn’t tell you the whole story.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Latency Servers Systems 97

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

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Despite its advantages, Redis’s versatility can introduce complexities, potentially challenging developers familiar with simpler solutions such as Memcached. High data availability is achieved.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Fine-grained, secure and efficient data provenance on blockchain systems Ruan et al., That’s hard to do in today’s blockchain systems for two reasons: Provenance can only be determined by querying and replaying all on-chain transactions, which is inefficient and an offline activity. VLDB’19. Or on nothing at all.

Blockchain 55

Blockchain Efficiency Systems Storage 55

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

Learning to tell the difference is helpful for browser project managers and engineers, but also working web developers who struggle to develop theories of change for affecting browser teams. This developer-enabling flywheel aims to liberate computing from any single OS, supporting an ephemeral services model of computing.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

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

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

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

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Deploying a multi-cloud environment involves a concerted effort in planning, negotiation with vendors, skill development, and understanding the advanced use cases of a multi-cloud approach for tailored industry solutions and compliance. Ready to take your database management to the next level with ScaleGrid’s cutting-edge solutions?

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The focus of most published research in architecture is on applications implemented in high-performance, “ close-to-the-metal” languages essentially developed before computers got fast. I suggest it’s long past time to move beyond C and SPEC benchmarks and our exclusive focus on “metal” languages.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Furthermore, as hardware and compiler optimisations rapidly evolve, it is challenging even for a knowledgeable developer to keep up. The authors develop a tool called FPSpy which they use to monitor the floating point operations of existing scientific applications. PARSEC is a set of benchmarks for multi-threaded programs.

Benchmarking 101

Benchmarking Hardware Programming Code 101

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This model offers hassle-free database management as well as access to an extensive suite of services that reduce developer workloads and enhance security while providing operational agility. The great thing about this is that it provides companies with an unprecedented level of freedom when configuring their system.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. However, not all user monitoring systems are created equal. In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. RUM generates a lot of data. Synthetic monitoring drawbacks.

Best Practices 172

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 172