Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. All these contribute significantly towards ensuring smooth functioning.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. What is a distributed storage backend? SOSP’19.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. This technique facilitates validation on multiple fronts.

Traffic 339

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 339

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This includes how quickly the application loads, how much load it is putting on the device, how much storage is being used, and how frequently it crashes. User demographics , such as app version, operating system, location, and device type, can help tailor an app to better meet users’ needs and preferences. Issue remediation.

Best Practices 194

Best Practices Mobile Metrics Performance 194

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. These workflows also utilize Davis® , the Dynatrace causal AI engine, and all your observability and security data across all platforms, in context, at scale, and in real-time.

AWS 243

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 243

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. This KPI is also directly related to Query Performance and helps improve it.

Performance 106

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Replay tools log data from users’ interactions with your website or application, including the pages they looked at, how long they stayed, and what they clicked on while they were there. These tools pull this data to recreate anonymized versions of user sessions that your team can watch back on demand. Improved analytic context.

Mobile 243

Mobile Website Analytics Cache 243

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

When a new node joins the cluster, SST is performed to receive the data from DONOR to the JOINER. JOINER uses PXB to stream the data directory from DONOR. Percona XtraBackup copies the InnoDB data files. Percona XtraBackup copies the InnoDB data files. ibd2sdi data/test/t1.ibd ibd2sdi data/test/t1.ibd

Cache 87

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 87

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Configure the PostgreSQL hostname by editing configuration files and restarting the server, with secure storage of connection details to enhance security. or localhost would suffice when making connection attempts to establish access for data manipulation of the server’s database information via programs such as SQL Shell.

Database 130

Database Servers Storage Network 130

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Traditionally records in a database were stored as such: the data in a row was stored together for easy and fast retrieval. Combined with the rise of data warehouse workloads, where there is often significant redundancy in the values stored in columns, and database models based on column oriented storage took off.

Storage 87

Storage Hardware Cache C++ 87

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness. An unoptimized indexing strategy can impede data insertion and retrieval operations.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

PMM2 uses VictoriaMetrics (VM) as its metrics storage engine. VictoriaMetrics maintains an in-memory cache for mapping active time series into internal series IDs. 25 Bytes, or you should plan storage roughly between 500 GB – one TB for a default 30 day retention period.

Monitoring 101

Monitoring Scalability Cache Database 101

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Let’s take a closer look and clear up any confusion about what it is, the telemetry data it covers, and the benefits it can provide. Loosely defined, observability is the ability to understand what’s happening inside a system from the knowledge of the external data it produces, which are usually logs, metrics, and traces.

Open Source 216

Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation 216

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., On the other hand we have good old-fashioned native apps that you install on your operating system (a dying breed? The primary issue with cloud apps (the SaaS model) is ownership of the data. See e.g. Brendan Burns’ recent tweet ).

Cloud 83

Cloud Software Software Internet 83

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

There’s a broad set of choices including where you store the data, whether you run your own DBMS nodes or use a service, the kinds of instance types to go for if you do run your own, and so forth. We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. This system has been designed to supplement and succeed the existing Hadoop-based system that had too high latency of data processing and too high maintenance costs.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

SQL Server According to Bob

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Note: We received feedback that there was some confusion on us calling this functionality “tail of the log caching” because our documentation and prior history has referred to the tail of the log as the portion of the hardened log that has not been backed up. Block storage is what you think of today as disk access.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Media Storage 40

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe.

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. Hardware optimization : You need to ensure that the CPU, memory, and storage components meet the performance requirements of the database workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

From Distributed Caches to Real-Time Digital Twins. Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. For more than two decades, the answer to this challenge has proven to be a technology called in-memory computing.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

From Distributed Caches to Real-Time Digital Twins. Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. For more than two decades, the answer to this challenge has proven to be a technology called in-memory computing.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Some vendors have just bolted on individual capabilities which often leads to six data silos. PostgreSQL & Elastic for data storage. REDIS for caching. MaaSS for Business: Data per SaaS-Tenant. The Business teams therefore built a set of dashboards that contain the data they want to see.

AWS 127

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

The Morning Paper

MARCH 10, 2020

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. This benchmark can synthetically generate more precise key-value queries that represent the reads and writes of key-value stores to the underlying storage system.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Storage Cache Open Source 59

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Nx is an open-source build framework that helps you architect, test, and build at any scale — integrating seamlessly with modern technologies and libraries, while providing a robust command-line interface (CLI), caching, and dependency management. Nx uses distributed graph-based task execution and computation caching to speed up tasks.

Cache 109

Cache Servers Code Storage 109

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The Web provides decentralised publishing and direct access to unstructured data ( searching / querying that data has turned out to be a pretty centralised affair in practice though). AnyLog wants to do for structured (relational) data what the Web has done for unstructured data, with coordinators playing the role of search engines.

Blockchain 94

Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Systems that make extensive use of caching almost all report a significant reduction in the cost of their database tier.

Cloud 117

Cloud Cache AWS Storage 117

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

A typical backing store for a web application contains data for many users. The application makes queries on behalf of an authenticated user, but it is up to the application itself to make sure that the user only sees data they are entitled to see. Towards multiverse databases Marzoev et al., HotOS’19.

Database 90

Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am pretty sure some if not all of these papers deserved to be elected to the hall of fame of best papers in distributed systems. Feb 11 - A Survey of Rollback-Recovery Protocols in Message-Passing Systems , E. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

n0derunner

MAY 6, 2019

A 2007 paper, that still has lots to say on the subject of benchmarking storage and filesystems. A Nine year study of filesystem and storage benchmarking Download. Use a mix of macro and micro benchmarks Understand what you are testing, cached results are fine – as long as that is what you had intended.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Storage Cache Testing 40

Randon ASCII

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

The fact that this shows up as CPU time suggests that the reads were all hitting in the system cache and the CPU time was the kernel overhead (note ntoskrnl.exe on the first sampled call stack) of grabbing data from the cache. Remember that these are calls to the operating system – kernel calls.

Latency 79

Latency Cache Programming Operating System 79

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Web scraping can be used to harvest marketing data, such as identifying good keywords for advertising campaigns, identifying trending topics for blog posts, or identifying influencers in important blogs and news sites. These services vary considerably in their capabilities and the depth of data that is collected. More after jump!

Website 89

Website Analytics Google Cache 89