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. These storage nodes collaborate to manage and disseminate the data across numerous servers spanning multiple data centers.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Percona

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Whenever you install your favorite MySQL server on a freshly created Ubuntu instance, you start by updating the configuration for MySQL, such as configuring buffer pool, changing the default datadir director, and disabling one of the most outstanding features – query cache. It’s a nice thing to do, but first things first.

Servers 109

Servers Best Practices Database Open Source 109

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To monitor Redis® instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold. This ensures each Redis® instance optimally uses the in-memory data store and aligns with the operating system’s efficiency.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

Netflix is always looking for security, ergonomic, or efficiency improvements, and this extends to authorization tools. A cleanup process to prune stale relationships from the database. The community’s excitement and interest became apparent through comments, reactions, and conversations on the SpiceDB Discord server.

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Cache Google Open Source Systems 249

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Every unnecessary bit of JavaScript code you bundle and serve will be more code the client has to load and process. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. Client Side Rendering, Server Side Rendering And Jamstack.

Performance 127

Performance Cache Servers Social Media 127

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These are unchanging entities, served straight off the server, pre-generated, and devoid of server-side processing. They cache static content and enable lightning-fast delivery around the globe.This symbiosis reduces server load, boosts loading times, and ensures efficient content distribution.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers. This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Let’s get started. Serverless architecture: A primer. AWS serverless offerings.

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Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 269

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. However, simply deploying a monitoring tool is not enough; you need to know which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor to gain insights into your MySQL server’s health and performance.

Performance 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

The data is internally inconsistent because the server concurrently modifies the data files while they are being copied. The changes done by an uncommitted transaction can be flushed or written to the redo log by the server. Initializing a DD engine and the cache adds complexity and other server dependencies.

Cache 85

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 85

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. Let’s explore these benefits in more detail.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These are unchanging entities, served straight off the server, pre-generated, and devoid of server-side processing. They cache static content and enable lightning-fast delivery around the globe.This symbiosis reduces server load, boosts loading times, and ensures efficient content distribution.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. An origin typically refers to a data center where the content of a request resides and is processed. Turbocharge Your Content Delivery With CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer!

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

However, achieving a good LCP score is often a multi-faceted process that involves optimizing several stages of loading and rendering. Time To First Byte (TTFB) This is the time it takes for the first piece of information from the server to reach the user’s browser. Here’s a breakdown of the moving pieces.

Performance 75

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

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. It represents either an IP address or domain name of the server, where one can find those databases located. Do check your configuration accordingly, however.

Database 130

Database Servers Storage Network 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Missing Cache Settings – Make sure you cache resources that don’t change often on the browser or use a CDN. Impacting Server-Side Requests: Dynatrace allows you to drill into your server-side requests to understand why your business logic is executing slow or fails. Missing retry and failover implementations.

Cache 190

Cache Architecture Database Government 190

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL server performance can sometimes be perplexing, and if you’ve ever wondered about the role of triggers in influencing your MySQL server’s memory allocation, this post is for you. Scope of Data : Row-level triggers work with individual row data, making them suitable for tasks that require row-level processing.

Cache 60

Cache Database Games Healthcare 60

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

While this information is often encrypted with public key cryptography, the CDN servers hold the private key, allowing them to decrypt incoming requests, process them, and route them to the origin. TLS certificates are typically installed and managed on the CDN's edge servers.

Strategy 52

Strategy Cache Best Practices Website 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. It’s a static file, and CDN can cache it, enabling quick delivery to various locations. The same movie file is served to millions of users worldwide.

Cache 52

Cache Traffic Games Network 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Just like how a traffic cop ensures cars flow smoothly at an intersection, a Load Balancer makes sure data moves efficiently across the network. That’s where rules come in.

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Performance efficiency. Figure 1 – Individual Host pages show performance metrics, problem history, event history, and related processes for each host. Right-sizing is an iterative process where you adjust the size of your resource to optimize for cost. Performance Efficiency. Missing caching layers.

Azure 178

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 178

SQL Performance

AUGUST 23, 2019

In traditional row-mode execution plans, SQL Server may introduce a Bitmap operator as part of performing early semi join reduction before a parallel hash or merge join. There have been major improvements since the first appearance of the batch mode execution engine in SQL Server 2012. Background. The Query Optimizer. Bitmap Choice.

Servers 75

Servers Engineering Efficiency Retail 75

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

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Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

SQL Performance

MARCH 22, 2022

Both target performance and efficiency for workloads frequently submitting simple statements. In this first part, after a quick introduction, I look at the effects of simple parameterization on the plan cache. It's almost always better to explicitly parameterize statements, rather than relying on the server to do it. Users AS U.

Cache 61

Cache Servers Database Code 61

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Unfortunately, this topic is more of an art than a science, given that there is really no foolproof algorithm or approach that can tell you exactly where you might hit a bottleneck with server performance. Global memory caches are static in size as they are defined solely by the configuration of the database itself.

Traffic 88

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 88

Percona

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Although MyRocks is very efficient for writes, I chose a more generic workload that will provide a different MyRocks use case. The use case is the TPC-C benchmark but executed not on a high-end server but on a lower-spec virtual machine that is I/O limited like for example, with AWS EBS volumes. InnoDB and MyRocks dataset sizes.

Storage 55

Storage Cache C++ Virtualization 55

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

It is the most stable, scalable, and secure open-source MySQL distribution, with two download options: one based on Percona Server for MySQL and one based on Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona Distribution for MySQL (Percona Server for MySQL-based variation) 8.0.32 It is based on Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.32-24.

Open Source 77

Open Source Servers Scalability Cache 77

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A WordPress website comprises many parts, including web servers and their settings, different plugins, and themes. Many factors affect the speed of your WordPress website; some of them are: Your web host Server-side optimizations (PHP version, compression, caching, etc.) So let's discuss the process one step at a time.

Cache 52

Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). In the Efficiency space, our data teams focus on transparency and optimization.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

This slowdown may be mitigated in Windows 11 but in the latest Windows Server editions – where it matters most – this bug is alive and well. Downloads go through the cache, the cache is saved to disk, and saves to disk are slowed by (some) anti-virus software. By “a lot” of processors I mean probably 96 or more. Case closed.

Cache 105

Cache Energy Google Processing 105

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. It’s a static file, and CDN can cache it, enabling quick delivery to various locations. The same movie file is served to millions of users worldwide.

Cache 40

Cache Traffic Games Network 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

While this information is often encrypted with public key cryptography, the CDN servers hold the private key, allowing them to decrypt incoming requests, process them, and route them to the origin. TLS certificates are typically installed and managed on the CDN's edge servers.

Strategy 40

Strategy Cache Best Practices Website 40

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Factor VI in the 12-factor app manifesto , “Execute the app as one or more stateless processes,” to be dropped and replaced with “Execute the app as one or more stateful processes.” session state that you want to survive an application process crash), and to keep the application server/services layer stateless.

Cache 79

Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI. The Not-so-good In the arduous process of breaking a monolith, you might get a sharp shard or two flung at you. This meant that data that was static (e.g.

Latency 233

Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

This is the process of turning HTML, CSS and JavaScript into a fully fleshed out, interactive website. It begins with retrieving the HTML from the server and converting this into the Document Object Model (DOM). This process can be “blocked” if it has to wait for resources to load before it runs. KB to 11.2 That’s a win!

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

SQL Performance

JUNE 8, 2022

When the parser allows simple parameterization to continue, SQL Server® increments the Auto-Param Attempts/sec counter of the SQL Statistics object. Let’s now continue following the compilation process noting the effects on simple parameterization as we go. Let’s look at the plan cache: SELECT. Let’s look at an example.

Cache 54

Cache Servers Database Processing 54

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

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).

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Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98