HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Also, note in passing that we include a COMMIT statement in this procedure because one is included in the example code in TPC-C specification. The data shows a scripted automated workload running a number of back to back tests each time with an increasing number of virtual users. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X performance advantage.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

EPU: Emotion Processing Unit is designed by Emoshape , as the MCU microchip design to enable a true emotional response in AI, robots and consumer electronic devices as a result of a virtually unlimited cognitive process. HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

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. Each HammerDB virtual user is assigned a “home warehouse” at the start of the workload and which remains fixed. and 8.0.32 HammerDB 4.5 to 8.0.32.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Nick Desaulniers

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Before booting a compiled Linux kernel image on actual hardware, it can save us time and potential headache to do a quick boot in a virtual machine like QEMU. 1.144949 ] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC ( i440FX + PIIX, 1996 ) , BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 Typically, when we modify a program, we’d like to run it to verify our changes.

C++ 56

C++ Hardware Virtualization Systems 56

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The example shows a TPROC-C workload running with 4 Active Virtual Users. The events are colour coded and indexed in the graph to the wait event groups. For full performance details, grab the Metrics tab and pull it out of the HammerDB window to expand. Drag out Metrics tab. Workload running. Metrics view for benchmark.

Metrics 62

Metrics Benchmarking C++ Database 62

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Serverless computing can be a huge benefit to organizations that don’t have the necessary resources or teams to manage physical resources, like servers/hardware, and all the maintenance and licensing that goes along with that, allowing them to focus on developing their code and applications. Benefits of a Serverless Model. Scalability.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

SQL Performance

JULY 3, 2019

If the sleeping session has an open transaction, it is always related to code and not SQL Server. The timeout is not SQL Server related, it is set by the.NET client and the CommandTimeout property, so that too is code related and not SQL Engine related behavior. The transaction being held open can be explained by a couple of things.

Servers 64

Servers Hardware Code Virtualization 64

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

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Nowadays, hardware and software are designed to conduct eye-tracking studies for marketing , UX , psychological and medical research , gaming , and several other use cases. Another area that has been showing huge potential is eye-tracking in the context of virtual reality. Source: Nielsen Norman Group ) ( Large preview ).

Mobile 111

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

Web standards are best defined as guidelines developed by the World Wide Web Consortium W3C to promote consistency in design code which makes up a web page. Bottom-up design: The code was developed in full view of everyone who was interested. Anyone and everyone was encouraged to participate and experiment together.

Internet 56

Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

It was created by Alastair Robertson, a talented UK-based developer who has previously won various coding competitions. bpftrace uses BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter), an in-kernel execution engine that processes a virtual instruction set. hardware Hardware counter-based instrumentation. software Kernel software-based events.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

According to the article “ When Women Stopped Coding “, the percent of women in Computer Science 30 years ago was nearly twice what it is now. Virtualization, for instance, was being addressed by IBM in the 1960s. We believed existing hardware and OS protocols protected the processor.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47

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

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

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Here are the three big directional bets that align with the three main areas cited by the authors: We will train in the cloud , where its possible to take advantage of managed infrastructure well suited to large amounts of data, spiky resource usage, and access to the latest hardware. It was a surprise to me too when that penny dropped.

Government 95

Government Software Engineering Storage Database 95

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 243

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 243

The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2015

Virtual data centers, real-time algorithmic pricing, and new media are simply larger versions of that same phenomenon. Production isn't what it used to be. A century ago, production was king: demand outstripped supply in economies with emerging consumer classes, which gave power to producers.

Software 40

Software Software Innovation Hardware 40

Nick Desaulniers

MAY 30, 2016

Simultaneously, they’re all right, but they’re also all wrong (and need a lesson about portable C code). This post is more about considerations when porting older code to newer machines, not about porting newer code to run on older machines. When I run that code on my x86-64 OSX machine, I get the following output: 1.

C++ 59

C++ Programming Code Hardware 59

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Because container as a service doesn’t rely on a single code language or code stack, it’s platform agnostic. The emergence of Docker and other container services enabled companies to transport code quickly and easily. Instead, enterprises manage individual containers on virtual machines (VMs). CaaS vs. PaaS.

Serverless 218

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 218

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

Apart from library code, maybe your application doesn't have frame pointers either, in which case everything is broken. Only in extreme circumstances does the cost (in processor time and I-cache footprint) translate to a tangible benefit - circumstances which usually resort to hand-coded assembly anyway.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

More precisely, we’ll discuss: Why using the Linux shell can be very powerful when working with plain text (including code); Why using the dreaded Arch Linux; The advantage of a tiling window manager; How to have a great terminal experience with URxvt, tmux, and tmuxp; Why Vim can become your best friend. But first, a bit of theory.

Development 98

Development Energy Programming Efficiency 98

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

They use the same hardware, APIs, tools, and management controls for both the public and private clouds. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost : This offering provides pre-configured hardware and software for customers to run native AWS computing, networking, and services on-premises in a cloud-native manner.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 182

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable. It uses many possible geo-location attributes extracted from device fingerprint including country, state, city, zip-code, latitude, and longitude.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Function as a service is a cloud computing model that runs code in small modular pieces, or microservices. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. What is FaaS? FaaS enables developers to create and run a single function in the cloud using a serverless compute model.

Development 250

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 250

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. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), there cannot be high availability.

Availability 80

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 80

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. The broken Java stacks turned out to be beneficial: They helped group together the os::javaTimeMillis() calls which otherwise might have have been scattered on top of different Java code paths, appearing as thin stacks everywhere. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

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. Developers can easily share and access code and other resources regardless of their location.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. The higher percentage of users that are experimenting may reflect OpenAI’s addition of Advanced Data Analysis (formerly Code Interpreter) to ChatGPT’s repertoire of beta features.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. Behind the scenes we are running our actual setup code (which uses Windows Installer) but using a configuration file with predefined settings and putting a simple UI over the execution. Go install it”. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20 on my Windows NT 3.1

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

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

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

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

halt (); Some sort of very early exception handler; better to sit busy in an infinite loop than run off and destroy hardware or corrupt data, I suppose. Jann Horn gets back to me first: Can you use QEMU to look at the hardware frame (which contains values pushed by the hardware in response to the page fault) in early_idt_handler_common?

C++ 67

C++ Hardware Code Virtualization 67

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. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

Availability 111

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Before all was said and done, all of these people and more helped with various activities: · Eugene, Mike, Slava, Scott, Peter, Steve and others doing code reviews on my SQL Server and Host Extension changes. · Red Hat, SUSE, HPE, Intel helping and confirming Linux behaviors and making file system code changes. product: Virtual Disk.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Instead of diving in arguing about specific points (which I partly did in my earlier post – start from The Future of Performance Testing if you are interested), I decided to talk to people who monetize on these “myths” So here is a virtual interview with Guillaume Betaillouloux , co-founder and Performance Director of OctoPerf.

Open Source 223

Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User. We could use processes, however given we may want to create hundreds or thousands of virtual users multithreading is the best approach to implement a Virtual User. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. The Python GIL. Tcl Multithreading in parallel.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67