SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One initial, easy step to moving your SQL Server on-premises workloads to the cloud is using Azure VMs to run your SQL Server workloads in an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) scenario. You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Where you decide to host your cloud databases is a huge decision. You have to choose your hosting model, a cloud provider, and then your primary and standby regions to deploy to. What is ScaleGrid’s Bring Your Own Cloud Plan? Here are the databases and cloud providers supported through each model: Supported Databases.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines.

Serverless 242

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 242

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Modern, cloud-native computing is impossible to separate from containers and Kubernetes adoption. As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

Open Source 340

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 340

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Container as a service is a cloud-based service that allows companies to manage and deploy containers at scale. Container environments enable enterprises to quickly deploy and develop cloud-native applications that can run anywhere. This, in turn, drove the creation of cloud-based services that further automated this function.

Serverless 216

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 216

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

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

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management.

Development 247

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 247

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. Cloud-based development and deployment One of the main advantages of cloud-based development and deployment is scalability.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Some of the most important elements include: No single point of failure (SPOF): You must eliminate any SPOF in the database environment, including any potential for an SPOF in physical or virtual hardware. Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

Availability 82

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 82

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. Load balancing : Requests are evenly distributed across multiple database servers, ensuring the system remains operational even if one server fails.

Availability 112

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 112

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

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. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. It involves setting up a data center that meets security compliances and other factors like physical components, virtual elements, storage management, physical infrastructure, etc.

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Memory disaggregation separates memory pools from traditional server boxes, enabling more flexible resource allocation and potentially reducing costs. There are three common mechanisms to access remote memory: modifying applications, modifying virtual memory, and hardware-level cache coherence support. Using emulation (e.g.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

– Cloud. Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. To get full advantage of cloud, such cloud-specific features as auto-scaling should be implemented. System’s configuration is not given anymore and often can’t be easily mapped to hardware. – Agile.

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. These factors meant that often when looking for database performance information, the results for a particular combination of software and hardware were not available. What is HammerDB? Why HammerDB was developed.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Do you have a web server? Is the web server running? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? With the rapid advancements in web application technologies, programming languages, cloud computing services, microservices, hybrid environments, etc., Do you have a database? Peer-to-Peer.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

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. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. 30.14% in the middle of the flame graph.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

It was also a virtual machine that lacked low-level hardware profiling capabilities, so I wasn't able to do cycle analysis to confirm that the 10% was entirely frame pointer-based. Back-end servers. I spent years as a cloud customer where I couldn't access many HW-level things.) Just to name a couple of languages.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Sharding in MongoDB is a technique used to distribute a database horizontally across multiple nodes or servers, known as “shards.” Sharding enables horizontal scaling, where more servers or nodes are added to the cluster to handle increasing data and user demands. Learn more: View our webinar on How to Scale with MongoDB.

Best Practices 75

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 75

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The data shows a scripted automated workload running a number of back to back tests each time with an increasing number of virtual users. Using MariaDB and analysing performance at a workload of 80 Virtual Users the first place we can look at is the information schema user_statistics to quantify the difference in the database traffic.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Once you have chosen your target devices, consider the architectural aspect of your hardware. You need strong and reliable servers to manage mobile devices and execute test scripts. In the case of weak Wi-Fi points, you would struggle with timeouts or slow server responses. Why Does Cloud Testing Make Sense?

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Hardware DevOps 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Well, to start, serverless, or serverless computing , doesn’t really mean there aren’t servers involved, because there are, rather it refers to the fact that the responsibility of having to manage, scale, provision, maintain, etc., Benefits of a Serverless Model. No more having to worry about maintenance, patching, or scaling.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

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

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Across the board, the topics cloud migration, application modernization, breaking the monolith or hybrid cloud re-platforming have been a center point in many of our discussions with our joint enterprise customers. If you can answer all these questions fine – if not: get your own Dynatrace Trial and start installing OneAgents.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This is basically the position of the major cloud providers, they will all take care of it for you by 2030 or so. The carbon footprint of a large rack mounted server is order-of-magnitude a ton of carbon a year. You trust your suppliers to solve the problem for you, but that could take a long time.

Energy 52

Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation 52

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud extends on-premises compute with all the power of AWS, making it elastic, scalable and highly reliable.

Storage 115

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 115

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

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

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

A series of GET requests from an in-house server can’t possibly replicate what actually happens when a website sees a sudden increase in users from all over the world. Thanks to cloud-based virtual servers, LoadView can send traffic to your site or application from around the world. First up is a summary.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. Even with superior I/O performance today the I/O configuration required on-premise or in the cloud remains costly. Instead all of the client servers are connecting to the TP monitor.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Providing complete and usable third-party solutions is non-trivial (otherwise the cloud vendors would already have done it). " Training in the cloud and the need for much better governance are both pretty uncontroversial directions. ." But model inference migrating into the DBMS is a bolder prediction.

Government 95

Government Software Engineering Storage Database 95