Cache, Network, Operating System and Virtualization

Azure Virtual Machines for SQL Server Usage

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This removes the burden of purchasing and maintaining your hardware, storage and networking infrastructure, while still giving you a very familiar experience with Windows and SQL Server itself. You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario.

Azure

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage

What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Handling Large Volumes of Data Distributed storage systems employ the technique of data sharding or partitioning to handle immense quantities of information. By breaking up large datasets into more manageable pieces, each segment can be assigned to various network nodes for storage and management purposes.

Storage

Storage Systems Big Data Azure

How to Assess MySQL Performance

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

Performance

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage

The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Bar-Yam, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity. May 28 - Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems , Friedemann Mattern, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, North-Holland (1989) , p. Jul - 13 Hints for Computer Systems Design Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp.

Operating System

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability

AppFabric Caching: Retry Later

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

Also, load-balancing after membership changes must be both multi-threaded and pipelined to drive the network at maximum bandwidth. Given all this, we thought it would be a good opportunity to see how we are doing relative to the competition, and in particular, relative to Microsoft’s AppFabric caching for Windows on-premise servers.

Cache

Cache Servers Network Design

MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

Best Practices

Best Practices Design Tuning Database

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Type 2: Full Real-User Monitoring (RUM) If CrUX offers one flavor of real-user data, then we can consider “full real-user data” to be another flavor that provides even more in the way individual experiences, such as specific network requests made by the page. The accuracy of observed data depends on how the test environment is set up.

Speed

Speed Google Website Metrics

A persistent problem: managing pointers in NVM

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. The beauty of persistent memory is that we can use memory layouts for persistent data (with some considerations for volatile caches etc.

Hardware

Hardware Programming Media Storage

Time protection: the missing OS abstraction

The Morning Paper

APRIL 14, 2019

Microarchitectural state of interest includes data and instruction caches, TLBs, branch predictors, instruction- and data-prefetcher state machines, and DRAM row buffers. There are also stateless interconnects including buses and on-chip networks. So these on-core caches must be flushed on a domain switch.

Hardware

Hardware Cache Latency Speed

SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well. Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. This cache is often supported by a battery-powered backup facility.

Servers

Servers Cache Media Hardware

Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The following table breaks down the various processing (including download) and uploading phases within an assembler and packager instance operating on large media files. It is worth pointing out that cloud processing is always subject to variable network conditions. For write operations, those challenges do not apply.

Cloud

Cloud Media Storage Cache

SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Time of Last Access The time of last access is a caching algorithm that enables cache entries to be ordered by their access times. aspx ) and Sparse Files ( [link] f ault.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/sparse_files.asp

Servers

Servers Cache Database Media

The Winds of Architecture Changes at the USENIX ATC 2019

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Alongside more traditional sessions such as Real-World Deployed Systems and Big Data Programming Frameworks, there were many papers focusing on emerging hardware architectures, including embedded multi-accelerator SoCs, in-network and in-storage computing, FPGAs, GPUs, and low-power devices. Heterogeneous ISA. Final words.

Architecture

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage

A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet

Internet Internet AWS Performance

Local Development Environment for Kubernetes using Minikube

Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

As we are dealing with Docker images, I assume you have downloaded and installed Docker for your operating system. You will require VirtualBox (or a similar VM driver such as xhyve driver or VMware Fusion depending on your operating system) which enables Minikube to run a single-node Kubernetes cluster inside a VM.

Development

Development Operating System Virtualization Code

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