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An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations

The Morning Paper

For the rest of us, if you really need that extra performance (maybe what you get out-of-the-box or with minimal tuning is good enough for your use case) then you can upgrade hardware and/or pay for a commercial license of a tuned distributed (RHEL). and is a key building block of containerization technologies. Measuring the kernel.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I also learned a lot about how to work directly with customers, when to shut up and let the sales guy drive the conversation, and generally how technology sales works. Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched.

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Why MySQL Could Be Slow With Large Tables

Percona

While the technologies have evolved and matured enough, there are still some people thinking that MySQL is only for small projects or that it can’t perform well with large tables. With hardware being more powerful and cheaper, and the technology evolving, now it is easier than ever to manage large tables in MySQL.

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Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices

The Morning Paper

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. When available, it can use hardware level performance counters.

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10 tips for migrating from monolith to microservices

Dynatrace

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. However, there can be drawbacks to using too many different languages and technologies.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

It was also a virtual machine that lacked low-level hardware profiling capabilities, so I wasn't able to do cycle analysis to confirm that the 10% was entirely frame pointer-based. We may get there with future technologies I'll cover later. The actual overhead depends on your workload. Just to name a couple of languages.

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An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems

The Morning Paper

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! Hardware implications.