Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. This not only enhances performance but also enables you to make more efficient use of your hardware resources, potentially resulting in cost savings on infrastructure.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

using Compute Express Link or CXL), organizing memory components for optimal performance, adapting system software traditionally designed for homogeneous memory systems, and developing memory abstractions and programming constructs for HCM management. About CXL hardware availability with academia. Using emulation (e.g.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

It comprises a collection of interrelated data and a set of software tools that aid in the access, processing, and management of data. A DBMS, or Database Management System, is software used to store, retrieve, and manipulate data, serving as an interface between users and the database. What is the main advantage of using a database?

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

DZone

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

CPU consumption in Unix/Linux operating systems are studied using 8 different metrics: User CPU time , System CPU time , nice CPU time , Idle CPU time , Waiting CPU time , Hardware Interrupt CPU time , Software Interrupt CPU time , and Stolen CPU time. In this article, let's study ‘nice CPU time’. What Is ‘nice’ CPU Time?

Operating System 133

Operating System Hardware Metrics Systems 133

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index. query cache: Disable (query_cache_size: 0, query_cache_type:OFF) innodb_adaptive_hash_index: Check adaptive hash index usage to determine its efficiency.

Performance 107

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 107

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. By default, HammerDB is designed to take advantage of database system caching mechanisms such as buffer caches, query caches, or statement caches. and 8.0.32 HammerDB 4.5 Concurrency at 80 VU’s 1.00

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

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. The storage backend is the software module directly managing the storage device attached to physical machines.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. software Kernel software-based events. hardware Hardware counter-based instrumentation. Originally posted at https:/opensource.com/article/19/8/introduction-bpftrace. SYNOPSIS biolatency.bt

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

When a QoS violation is predicted to occur and a culprit microservice located, Seer uses a lower level tracing infrastructure with hardware monitoring primitives to identify the reason behind the QoS violation. E.g., in memcached there are five main internal stages, each of which has a hardware or software queue associated with it.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

KeyCDN

JANUARY 23, 2020

These acronyms, which stand for real user monitoring and application performance monitoring, are software monitoring processes essential to measuring and evaluating applications in many different areas. Teams can measure the performance of all application dependencies, including databases, web services, caching, and more.

Strategy 72

Strategy Metrics Monitoring Servers 72

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Hardware engineers design and implement solutions in RTL, while software engineers attempt to solve the problem either at the OS or application level. Architects were always aware of the impact speculative execution has on the performance of microarchitectural structures from branch predictors to caches.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

To explain this example in more detail: The profiler periodically interrupts software execution, and for those disconnected stacks it happens to be the execution of the kernel software ("vfs*", "ext*", etc.). It shouldn't be 10%, unless it's cache effects. These partial stacks get grouped together on the left.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

More importantly, if this works out well, this could lead to a radical improvement in performance by leveraging hardware trends such as GPUs and TPUs. They demonstrated that neural nets based learned index outperforms cache-optimized B-Tree index by up to 70% in speed while saving an order-of-magnitude in memory. Learned indexes.

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The censorship and monitoring of internet have evolved from anti-virus-like and firewall software to hardware security patches for all devices that uses internet. One can only download apps using the manufacturer’s downloader software, where VPN installers and other banned apps are not available for installation. IP Blocking.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Randon ASCII

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

I apologize for this title because there are many things that can make modern software slow. Blindly applying one explanation without a bit of investigation is the software equivalent of a cargo cult. That said, this post describes one example of why modern software can be painfully slow. Is there some RuntimeBroker caching?

Software 130

Software Software Cache Hardware 130

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The Solution: Distributed Caching. A widely used technology called distributed caching meets this need by storing frequently accessed data in memory on a server farm instead of within a database. It’s not enough simply to lash together a set of servers hosting a collection of in-memory caches.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

Ryan Stonecipher – Principle SQL Server Software Engineer. On the same hardware/machine repeat steps 1 thru 3 using an instance of SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.0 Note: You may need to execute the dbcc a second time so buffer cache is hot, eliminating I/O sub-system variants. DEMO – It Just Runs: DBCC CheckDB.

Hardware 40

Hardware Cache Servers Software Engineering 40

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The Solution: Distributed Caching. A widely used technology called distributed caching meets this need by storing frequently accessed data in memory on a server farm instead of within a database. It’s not enough simply to lash together a set of servers hosting a collection of in-memory caches.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 52

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To monitor Redis® instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold. They may even help develop personalized web analytics software as well as leverage Hashes, Bitmaps, or Streams from Redis Data Types into a wider scope of applications such as analytic operations.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” It supports the industry’s most widely used software applications?—?via Additionally, Conductor supports render management systems?—?including

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Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 282

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

Artists like to work at places where they can create groundbreaking entertainment instead of worrying about getting access to the software or source files they need. They need specialized hardware, access to petabytes of images, and digital content creation applications with controlled licenses. How did we get here?

Entertainment 306

Entertainment Storage Hardware Open Source 306

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

Both of these problems can be avoided by wrapping your widgets in a SafeArea widget, which is a particular kind of padding widget which makes sure your widgets fall into a place where they can actually be displayed without anything impeding the users’ ability to see them, be it a hardware or software constraint. In React Native.

Storage 93

Storage Mobile Website Java 93

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

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., The paper examines the implications of microservices at the hardware, OS and networking stack, cluster management, and application framework levels, as well as the impact of tail latency.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Hardware considerations The first thing we have to consider here is the resources that the underlying host provides to the database. Global caches like the InnoDB buffer pool and MyISAM key cache and session-level caches like the sort buffer, join buffer, random read buffer, etc. Do these queries use more caches?

Traffic 90

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 90

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The HammerDB name.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Serverless architecture offers several benefits for enterprises. Simplicity. The first benefit is simplicity. Data Store.

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Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 280

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2021

Cache Merril. When people have an idea for a piece of software or an app, they tend to be pretty energized about getting it to market as quickly as possible. It’s exciting to create an app or piece of software no one’s ever imagined or built before. As software developers, we’re usually right there with them.

Technology 139

Technology Technology Development Strategy 139

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system. FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING is the Win32, CreateFile API flags and attributes setting to bypass file system cache. FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING is the Win32, CreateFile API flags and attributes setting to bypass file system cache.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

This paper is all about the design of efficient data structures for far-memory, which turns out to have consequences reaching all the way down to the hardware. A far memory data structure has: far data in far memory, containing the core content of the data structure data caches at clients algorithms for operations. Refreshable vectors.

Design 80

Design Cache Hardware Scalability 80

The Morning Paper

APRIL 2, 2019

Establishing software root of trust unconditionally Gligor & Woo, NDSS’19. In this context it means there are no external dependencies on e.g. secrets, trusted hardware modules, or special instructions (e.g. Disabling caches, virtual memory, and the TLB (this can be done verifiably as shown in theorem 6 in section IV.E).

Software 40

Software Software Programming Hardware 40

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.

Availability 111

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

An extension to Service Workers that enables browsers to present users with cached content when offline. is access to hardware devices. Provides safe access to USB devices from the web, enabling new classes of applications in the browser from education to software development and debugging. Content Indexing. PWA App Shortcuts.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Morning Paper

APRIL 14, 2019

The paper sets out what we can do in software given today’s hardware, and along the way also highlights areas where cooperation from hardware will be needed in the future. cache) can be partitioned across domains; for those that are instead time-multiplexed, we have to flush them during domain switches. Threat scenarios.

Hardware 44

Hardware Cache Latency Speed 44

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Are caches large enough for this code? There’s some work on hardware proposals for these systems, like Zhu et al., We as a community should lead the way in developing systems (at the hardware and software levels) that will make them run faster. Is there room for accelerators? MICRO 15 , Gope et al.,

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108