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

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Container security is the practice of applying security tools, processes, and policies to protect container-based workloads. Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. 1] And unfortunately, open-source software is often fraught with security vulnerabilities.

Open Source 258

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 258

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

ScyllaDB is an open-source distributed NoSQL data store, reimplemented from the popular Apache Cassandra database. ScyllaDB offers significantly lower latency which allows you to process a high volume of data with minimal delay. In fact, according to ScyllaDB’s performance benchmark report, their 99.9

Big Data 187

Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It is better to consider refactoring as part of the application transformation process before migrating, if possible. Many organizations also find it useful to use an open source observability tool, such as OpenTelemetry. Use SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs as performance benchmarks for newly migrated microservices.

Architecture 241

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 241

Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

As an open source database, it’s a highly popular choice for enterprise applications looking to modernize their infrastructure and reduce their total cost of ownership, along with startup and developer applications looking for a powerful, flexible and cost-effective database to work with. PostgreSQL Benchmark Setup. Throughput.

Database 230

Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Developed using guidance from the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA) and expanding on formulas from the open source project Cloud Carbon Footprint , Carbon Impact measures and reports the IT carbon footprint of all Dynatrace-monitored hosts across an organization’s entire hybrid and multicloud environment in a single interface.

Energy 242

Energy Cloud Airlines Strategy 242

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

About the cluster Following a step-by-step process, the objective is to create a four-node cluster consisting of: PostgreSQL version 15 Citus extension (I’ll be using version 11, but there are newer ones available.) In order to speed up the benchmark indexes must be added. psql pgbench <<_eof1_ qecho adding node citus3.

Database 103

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 103

Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This simplifies debugging and analysis processes by enabling users to execute the same query. A script executing a benchmarking run: #!/bin/bash Capture Actual Parameters in the Queries : pg_stat_monitor allows you to choose if you want to see queries with placeholders for parameters or actual parameter data.

Benchmarking 121

Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 121

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

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

The unstoppable rise of open source databases. One database in particular is causing a huge dent in Oracle’s market share – open source PostgreSQL. See how open source PostgreSQL Community version costs compare to Oracle Standard Edition and Oracle Enterprise Edition. What’s causing this massive shift?

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Sure, database migration is complex, particularly when you’re looking to migrate from a proprietary database to an open source one. This is particularly true when you’re migrating to an open source database that those on your staff may or may not be intimately familiar with.

Database 82

Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 82

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

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Redis Revealed: An Overview Redis, a renowned open-source, in-memory remote dictionary server, stands out for its diverse data structures and advanced features. Memcached Explained: The Simplicity of Caching Alternatively, Memcached, a high-performance, open-source caching solution, prides itself on its simplicity.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. Complicating the situation further, increasingly connected services are pushing more data processing to the edge. Gartner estimates that less than half of enterprise-generated data is now created and processed in data centers or the cloud.

Infrastructure 191

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 191

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

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. The process started with manual pull of member account information that was part of the session.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Crafting Your Multi-Cloud Blueprint Formulating a comprehensive multi-cloud framework is an intricate process that requires a business’s specific requirements, choosing suitable cloud services, and optimizing for performance and affordability. Getting security right in a multi-cloud setup means doing a few key things.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Failover mechanisms The primary purpose of failover — the automatic process of switching from a failed or offline database server to a standby or backup server — is to ensure user access and functionality of databases without interruption, even if there is a hardware or software failure.

Availability 106

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 106

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

GHz 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) Up to 20% higher compute performance than z1d instances Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) We can also verify these capabilities by running some simple benchmarks on the different subsystems.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The kubectl-flame container has the hostPID option enabled, and this provides visibility of the underlying Kubernetes node process ID namespace to collect system events from running processes on the host. In the following example, we’ll see how to manually run perf on a mysqld process inside a Kubernetes pod.

Code 108

Code Tuning C++ Benchmarking 108

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance. Percona Monitoring and Management is a best-of-breed open source database monitoring solution.

Performance 103

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 103

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

To illustrate this, I ran the Sysbench-TPCC synthetic benchmark against two different GCP instances running a freshly installed Percona Server for MySQL version 8.0.31 Percona Monitoring and Management is a best-of-breed open source database monitoring solution. Oh, and the InnoDB flush method ( innodb_flush_method ) as well.

Tuning 135

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 135

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

A node completes the SST process faster and joins the PXC cluster quickly. Benchmarks xtrabackup –prepare on backup directory of other sizes like 10K, 50K, 100K, and 250K tables. The time taken for a new node to join the PXC Cluster is also significantly reduced as the SST process will complete faster.

Cache 85

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 85

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Additionally both commercial and open source tools based on the specifications also continued to use TPC-C and TPC-H to describe these workloads. In the days before highly performant SSDs and persistent memory, database benchmarks had a significant challenge in comparing performance due to the available I/O performance.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

Percona

JULY 19, 2023

How would you integrate some new fancy processing library into MySQL without having to recreate the complexities in pure SQL? The first file is for cmake which informs the overall build process that it should include, and compile our plugin. $ Look for part two, where we benchmark ULID in MySQL! mkdir ~/percona-server-8.0.32-24/plugin/ulid/

C++ 80

C++ Servers Benchmarking Best Practices 80

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. However, it is crucial that the benchmarking application does not have inherent bottlenecks that artificially limits the scalability of the database. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Partners across the globe leverage Netflix device certification process on a continual basis to ensure that quality products and experiences are delivered to their customers. The certification process involves the verification of partner’s implementation of features provided by the Netflix SDK.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

Compression: Compression is the process of restructuring the data by changing its encoding in order to store it in fewer bytes. ProxySQL: It is a feature-rich open-source MySQL proxy solution, that allows query routing for the most common MySQL architectures (PXC/Galera, Replication, Group Replication, etc.). ibd -rw-r --.

Open Source 86

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 86

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization is an ongoing process involving monitoring, benchmarking, and adjustments to maintain high-performing PostgreSQL databases. Throughput: The throughput of an application is directly influenced by the speed at which the database can process and serve queries.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

This will be clearly visible in PostgreSQL performance benchmarks as a “ Sawtooth wave ” pattern observed by Vadim in his tests: As we can see, the throughput suddenly drops after every checkpoint due to heavy WAL writing and gradually picks up until the next checkpoint. But this comes with a considerable performance implication.

Database 116

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 116

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

As datasets continue to grow in size, the amount of RAM required to store and process these datasets also increases. Benchmark before you decide. But also larger log files mean that the recovery process will be slower in case of a crash. Transparent huge pages (THP) disabled. Refer to innodb_redo_log_capacity below.

Performance 124

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 124

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Throughout this post I've used examples from our public Industry Benchmarks dashboard , which I'd encourage you to check out so that you can explore these metrics on your own. Google Lighthouse is an open-source tool that checks your page against rules for Performance, PWA, Accessibility, Best Practice, and SEO. Is it loading?

Performance 133

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 133

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

Software testing is the process of finding bugs or discrepancies in a software. It is a process put in place to check that an application, set to be released in the market for users, has a minimum number of errors. It’s not about open source vs paid, it’s more about how much it solves your problem. Introduction.

Software 85

Software Software Testing Open Source 85

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

HammerDB

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The TPROC-C workload is derived from the TPC-C workload , the primary metric for TPC-C is called tpmC, the number of new order transactions processed per minute. the stored procedures have been updated to use bulk processing features. Although a similar metric to tpmC it is not considered to be directly comparable. and earlier. <benchmark>

C++ 52

C++ Benchmarking Metrics Database 52