The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Our approach differs substantially by (1) providing economic incentives for data to be contributed and integrated into existing schemas, (2) offering a SQL interface instead of graph based approaches, (3) including the computational and storage infrastructure in the architectural vision. Coordinators that don’t want to pay contractors?

Blockchain 94

Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

This post is about PostgreSQL, but most of the problems also apply to other database systems. The more indexes, the more the requirement of memory for effective caching. Indexes need more cache than tables Due to random writes and reads, indexes need more pages to be in the cache.

Tuning 125

Tuning Cache Storage Database 125

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

These guidelines work well for a wide range of applications, though the optimal settings, of course, depend on the workload. Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Benchmark before you decide.

Performance 124

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

The Green Web Foundation maintains an ever-growing database of web hosts who are either wholly powered by renewable energy or are at least committed to being carbon neutral. An obvious metric here is CPU usage, but memory usage and other forms of data storage also play their part. These include data transfer (i.e.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. HA is sometimes confused with “fault tolerance.”

Availability 107

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 107

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

The main reason behind this is that MySQL is a relational database system (RDBMS), and any data that is going to be written in it must respect the RDBMS rules. This, of course, is unless I can organize my products by country as well, which is a bit unusual nowadays but not impossible. The POC Why this POC?

Traffic 123

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 123

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. In this article I’m trying to provide more or less systematic description of techniques related to distributed operations in NoSQL databases. Data Placement. System Coordination. Read/Write latency.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

MongoDB Community Edition software might set the stage for achieving your high-volume database goals, but you quickly learn that its features fall short of your enterprise needs. The popularity of MongoDB MongoDB has emerged as a popular database platform. 5 among all database management systems and No. It ranks No.

Open Source 75

Open Source Database Scalability Software 75

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

Lambda 98

Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

SQL Performance

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Its raison d’être is to cache result rows from a plan subtree, then replay those rows on subsequent iterations if any correlated loop parameters are unchanged. Table-valued functions use a table variable, which can be used to cache and replay results in suitable circumstances. Spools are the least costly way to cache partial results.

Servers 106

Servers Cache Azure Performance 106

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage.

Speed 121

Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The motivation is not that inference will perform better inside the database, but that the database is the best place to take advantage of enterprise features (transactions, security, auditing, HA, and so on). These pipelines are stored directly in the database. There are limitations to this model of course.

Processing 72

Processing Hardware Database Azure 72

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. Oh, you mean a cache? Yes, a bit like those 2nd-level caches we were talking about earlier, e.g. Ehcache from 2003 onwards.

Cache 79

Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

n0derunner

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

It is very common to have large resource-hungry databases separated across nodes using anti-affinity rules. As with traditional storage, applications are writing to a shared storage environment which is necessary to support VM movement. The idea here is to simulate the two main storage workloads of a DB. 100% write.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Benchmarking Testing Performance 40

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 26, 2020

These systems however adopt a cloud-based, centralised architecture that does not include any "edge computing" component – they typically assum an external, independent data ingestion pipeline that directs edge streams to cloud storage endpoints such as Kafka or Event Hubs.

Cloud 104

Cloud Big Data Latency Architecture 104

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

Technology 151

Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When you codify infrastructure, you can integrate it with DevOps pipelines to automate various tasks like server provisioning, database scale, and security audits. Whether you're scaling storage solutions like S3 buckets, compute resources like EKS clusters, or content delivery mechanisms via CDNs, Terraform offers a streamlined approach.Â

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. The L3 cache size is 64MB. Both of these Intel processors are special bespoke models that are not in the Intel ARK database. The L3 cache size is 64MB. Azure Lsv2 Details.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When you codify infrastructure, you can integrate it with DevOps pipelines to automate various tasks like server provisioning, database scale, and security audits. Whether you're scaling storage solutions like S3 buckets, compute resources like EKS clusters, or content delivery mechanisms via CDNs, Terraform offers a streamlined approach.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. An extension to Service Workers that enables browsers to present users with cached content when offline. It of course is personally frustrating to not be able to deliver these improvement for developers who wish to reach iOS users — which is all developers.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. Not as much as we'd like, of course, but the worldwide baseline has changed enormously. There are differences, of course, but not where it counts. The Moto G4 , for example.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. Sean Larkin has a free course on Webpack: The Core Concepts and Jeffrey Way has released a fantastic free course on Webpack for everyone. Use progressive enhancement as a default.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Of course, your data might show that your customers are not on these devices, but perhaps they simply don’t show up in your analytics because your service is inaccessible to them due to slow performance. Sean Learkin has a free course on Webpack: The Core Concepts and Jeffrey Way has released a fantastic free course on Webpack for everyone.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104