Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. They’re free to plan their upgrades or operational maintenance without involving any third-party businesses. This may require virtual and physical storage spaces, data centers, etc.

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. I’d even use it to manage datacenter failover or failover for other cloud vendors, as what you really need is a highly available control plane that is totally independent of your own failure modes.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Attestation—Providing systems the means to attest or verify the integrity of their components. hardware support for malware detection/prevention).

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems. The workload also outputted the data from the Virtual Users by simulating individual terminals.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

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. There are many times we get asked why some cloud instance performed poorly for their database application and almost always turned out to be some configuration error.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Once you have chosen your target devices, consider the architectural aspect of your hardware. The obvious takeaway of embracing automation testing for mobile apps is that you simultaneously test a wide range of devices, operating systems, and network types. Why Does Cloud Testing Make Sense? Device Infrastructure.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Hardware DevOps 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

With the rapid advancements in web application technologies, programming languages, cloud computing services, microservices, hybrid environments, etc., monitoring distributed systems becomes much more difficult to carry out and manage. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

KeyCDN

JANUARY 23, 2020

A wide range of users with different operating systems, browsers, hardware configurations and other variables provides a wide sample size that helps developers discover as many issues as possible. This helps developers decide when to increase server disk space and power or whether or not using a virtual cloud server is optimal.

Strategy 72

Strategy Metrics Monitoring Servers 72

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds. LoadView, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

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. The paper focuses on two key use cases: A confined component running in its own security domain, connected to the rest of the system by explicit (e.g. .

Hardware 44

Hardware Cache Latency Speed 44

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

As the chart shows because we know that both HammerDB and the implementation of the TPC-C workload scales then we can determine that with this particular database engine both the software and hardware scales as well. If you only test your own application (and if you have more than one application which one will you use for benchmarking?)

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Load averages are an industry-critical metric – my company spends millions auto-scaling cloud instances based on them and other metrics – but on Linux there's some mystery around them. They can be also useful when a single value of demand is desired, such as for a cloud auto scaling rule. I've never seen an explanation.

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. USENIX ATC is a top-tier venue with a broad range of systems research papers from both industry and academia.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Failures are a given and everything will eventually fail over time: from routers to hard disks, from operating systems to memory units corrupting TCP packets, from transient errors to permanent failures. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. Primitives not frameworks.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144