Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. Otherwise we wouldn’t see so many commercial tools built on the top of open source including BlazeMeter (it is ironic that the article is posted on the BlazeMeter site), Flood, and OctoPerf.

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Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Picture by Adrian — Ka’anapali sunset 2023 There’s been a lot of discussion about platforms recently, I talked about why I think it’s a current hot meme on the WTF Podcast with Charles Humble recently, and Sam Newman just wrote a blog post “ Don’t call it a platform ”.

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Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources. How an observability platform eases message queue monitoring appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Message queue software options to consider.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 200

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources. How an observability platform eases message queue monitoring appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Message queue software options to consider.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 199

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

This is where Lambda comes in: Developers can deploy programs with no concern for the underlying hardware, connecting to services in the broader ecosystem, creating APIs, preparing data, or sending push notifications directly in the cloud, to list just a few examples. appeared first on Dynatrace blog. How does AWS Lambda work?

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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. In this blog, we will explore various MySQL KPIs that are basic and essential to track using monitoring tools like PMM.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 104

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are on [slideshare] or as a [PDF]: I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Brendan Gregg

MAY 1, 2022

My dream is to turn computer performance analysis into a science, one where we can completely understand the performance of everything: of applications, libraries, kernels, hypervisors, firmware, and hardware. Intel has historically been a top contributor to the Linux kernel, and supports countless other projects.

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Wireless Hardware Open Source Cloud 52

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

Disclaimer : This blog post is meant to show a less-known problem but is not meant to be a serious benchmark. The percentage in degradation will vary depending on many factors {hardware, workload, number of tables, configuration, etc.}. Setup The setup consists of creating 10K tables with sysbench and adding 20 FKs to 20 tables.

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Cache Hardware Servers Benchmarking 101

Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

Mocking Component Behavior Useful in IoT & Embedded Software Testing Can also reduce (or eliminate) actual hardware/component need Test Reporting Generating summary report/email. If you are new to no-code tools, you can check out Testsigma which is a popular open-source no-code tool Testsigma. Get Testsigma Open Source.

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Testing Open Source IoT Programming 95

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. hardware support for malware detection/prevention).

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Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

16 years ago, our founder Peter Zaitsev covered this topic and some of the points described there are still valid, and we will cover more on this blog. In this blog post, we will review key topics to consider for managing large datasets more efficiently in MySQL. 1 mysql mysql 704M Dec 30 02:28 employees.ibd -rw-r --.

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Open Source Storage Database Big Data 87

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

As Uwe Friedrichsen discusses in his blog post ChatGPT Already Knows , the value of detailed knowledge used to be high, but is now being commoditized. Final thoughts… this blog post took me a week to finish writing, and it’s already out of date.

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Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. Since we are posting this blog on the HammerDB blog site, we will not describe the HammerDB workload in this blog. MySQL has thousands of other settings and is beyond the scope of this blog.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

It is safe, fast, compatible, open-source, and easy to learn. During compatibility testing of an application, we check the compatibility of the application with multiple devices, hardware, software versions, network, operating systems, and browsers, etc. present on the device without undergoing any application crash or hanging.

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Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

So, I decided to gather information and write a detailed blog about this issue. In this blog, I will also cover a scenario that causes “segmentation fault.” However, this blog is written from the database perspective; hence, I would not prefer to dive into those scenarios as they are very high-level programming concepts.

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Programming C++ Database Virtualization 83

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Breaking that assumption allowed Ceph to introduce a new storage backend called BlueStore with much better performance and predictability, and the ability to support the changing storage hardware landscape. Readers of this blog properly have a pretty good idea what ‘efficient transactions’ and ‘fast metadata operations’ are all about.

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Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. In this blog post, we will delve into the world of PostgreSQL performance tuning and establish some basic guidelines for setting database parameters to enhance the performance of your PostgreSQL database, based on the workload.

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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In this blog, we’ll focus on the elements of database backup and disaster recovery, and we’ll introduce proven solutions for maintaining business continuity, even amid otherwise dire circumstances. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. So let’s discuss some options that are open source.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 87

Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2019

The regression test plan must include below pointers: Purpose of testing Test strategy Features to be tested Resource Requirement Hardware Requirement Software Requirement Test schedule Change request Entry / Exit criteria Entry criteria for when to start testing Exit criteria for when to stop testing Tools. It is an open-source tool.

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Testing Hardware Testing Tools Strategy 53

Dynatrace

JUNE 3, 2019

As the UFO is an Open Hardware & Open Source project , we’ve had people create their own UFOs in order to visualize stage or progress within their organization. Getting Started with the UFO and its API (Blog). Dynatrace UFO GitHub Page. Order your own UFO via Dynatrace.com. Thanks Roman.

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Hardware DevOps Open Source Mobile 31

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Container technology is very powerful as small teams can develop and package their application on laptops and then deploy it anywhere into staging or production environments without having to worry about dependencies, configurations, OS, hardware, and so on. appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Here the overlap with Kubernetes begins.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 302

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Open Source.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Krste Asanovic from UC Berkeley kicked off the main program sharing his experience on “ Rejuvenating Computer Architecture Research with Open-Source Hardware ”. He ended the keynote with a call to action for open hardware and tools to start the next wave of computing innovation.

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Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. Many of the new open source models are much smaller and not as resource intensive but still deliver good results (especially when trained for a specific application). Open source models are a large and diverse group. Perhaps not yet.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

This blog article will examine shared attributes of high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). We’ll wrap it up by suggesting high availability open source solutions, and we’ll introduce you to support options for ensuring continuous high performance from your systems. What does high availability mean?

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Availability Hardware Open Source Database 78

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

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Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 124

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

IaC, or software intelligence as code , codifies and manages IT infrastructure in software, rather than in hardware. GitOps is a framework of practices that manage infrastructure and application configurations using Git, an open-source version control system. Increased adoption of Infrastructure as code (IaC).

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Serverless Infrastructure Innovation DevOps 265

Percona

JUNE 26, 2023

We need to identify whether it was deleted manually by mistake or was due to hardware failure. In case of hardware failure, first, we need to fix the hardware issue or migrate our database to new hardware and then perform a restore, as mentioned below. Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Today!

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Hardware C++ Database Open Source 74

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 107

Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

In this blog post, we will dive deep into WiredTiger’s Logging and Checkpoint mechanism. ” This acts as a step to ensure durability by recovering lost data from the same journal files in case of crashes, power, and hardware failures between the checkpoints (see below) Here’s what the process looks like.

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Hardware C++ Storage Cache 87

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

Open source databases provide great foundations for high availability — without the pitfalls of vendor lock-in that can come with proprietary software. However, open source software doesn’t typically include built-in HA solutions. They’re proven and ready-to-go.

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Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 95

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In these modern environments, every hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure component and every container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. Open-source solutions, such as OpenTelemetry , provide a de facto standard for collecting telemetry data in cloud settings.

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Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Therefore, DBAs must take a piecemeal approach to achieve HA with PostgreSQL, bringing together open source extensions and tools from multiple sources. there cannot be high availability.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 83

Percona

JANUARY 4, 2024

This blog discusses general tablespaces and explores their functionalities, benefits, and practical usage, along with illustrative examples. Dedicated storage for critical data: Create a separate general tablespace with RAID or DRBD configuration for critical tables, ensuring maximum redundancy and protection against hardware failures.

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Storage Engineering Database Hardware 87

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

As the subject of this blog post suggests, this all comes down to proper capacity planning. Hardware considerations The first thing we have to consider here is the resources that the underlying host provides to the database. Percona Monitoring and Management is a best-of-breed open source database monitoring solution.

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Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 88