Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

At Percona, we observe a growing trend among companies utilizing Kubernetes as a means to offer services to their teams, fostering expedited software delivery and driving business growth. It comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic.

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Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 77

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

While it’s sadly premature to say that the survey took place at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic (though we can all hope), it took place at a time when restrictions were loosening: we were starting to go out in public, have parties, and in some cases even attend in-person conferences. We’re not sure what that means. Salaries by Industry.

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Azure Social Media Programming AWS 145

Dynatrace

MARCH 23, 2020

A decade ago, while working for a large hosting provider, I led a team that was thrown into turmoil over the purchasing of server and storage hardware in preparation for a multi-million dollar super-bowl ad campaign. I gave an early glimpse of the Google integration last month at our annual Perform user conference in Las Vegas.

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Google Engineering Metrics Hardware 195

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This included SysAdmin magazine, which contained articles from various experts including Amy Rich, and a couple of advertisements: One was to submit your own articles to the magazine for publication (by writing to the editor, Rikki Endsley) and another was to attend USENIX conferences in the US and learn directly from the experts!

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 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.

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Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM. What about security?

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Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In his recent Smashing Conference talk, green software expert Asim Hussain mentioned that the biggest shift he is seeing is as a result of regulation — or the threat of regulation. Another great bit of advice from Asim’s talk from Smashing Conference was on branding. Hardware And E-Waste. Regulation.

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Strategy Development Energy Website 123

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. At hardware reset the boot code is granted maximally permissive architectural capabilities.

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C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Software as a Service’ (SaaS) basically are centrally managed systems with multiple tenants/instances. – Cloud. – Agile.

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Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Earlier this month I spent a week at the OpenStack conference. But once you realize that there are, in fact, several OpenStack conferences happening at the same time and place, it makes more sense. Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” This contains updated and new material that reflects the latest C++ standards and compilers, with a focus to using modern C++11/14/17 effectively on modern hardware and memory architectures. On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.”

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Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL backups play a pivotal role in safeguarding the integrity of your data, providing defense against various unforeseen calamities, hardware malfunctions, data loss, corruption, and inadvertent deletions. Shlomi Noach told me at a previous Percona Live conference “you have not taken a backup until you have verified that backup.”

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 78

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. At other times, the PC’s response is to push the paper to another conference. We believed existing hardware and OS protocols protected the processor.

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Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Earlier this month I spent a week at the OpenStack conference. But once you realize that there are, in fact, several OpenStack conferences happening at the same time and place, it makes more sense. Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Software-based clocksources could fix those issues and provide accurate monotonically-increasing time. Theory (A) is most likely based on the frame widths in the flame graph.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

PDC

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

In such scenarios, scalability or scaling is widely used to indicate the ability of hardware and software to deliver greater computational power when the amount of resources is increased. In this post we focus on software scalability and discuss two common types of scaling. AFIPS Conference Proceedings. (30): References.

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Scalability Programming Government Hardware 65

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. was just released.

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Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

Sutter's Mill

APRIL 6, 2011

Here’s my talk’s description as it appears on the conference website: AFDS Keynote: “Heterogeneous Parallelism at Microsoft”. You can expect the above keynote to be, well, keynote-y… oriented toward software product features and of course AMD’s hardware, with plenty of forward-looking industry vision style material.

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Development Hardware C++ Games 40

Sutter's Mill

MAY 28, 2012

Mainstream hardware – many kinds of parallelism: What’s the relationship among multi-core CPUs, hardware threads , SIMD vector units (Intel SSE and AVX , ARM Neon ), and GPGPU (general-purpose computation on GPUs, which I covered at C++ and Beyond 2011 )? This will be a broad and deep dive. Asheville is going to be blast. I can’t wait.

C++ 40

C++ Hardware Best Practices Tuning 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Software-based clocksources could fix those issues and provide accurate monotonically-increasing time. Theory (A) is most likely based on the frame widths in the flame graph.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

” Distracted in a conference grand ballroom, above what might be the largest mall in the world or at least Bangkok, a blank QEMU session has me seriously questioning my life choices. 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.

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C++ Hardware Code Virtualization 67

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In the same way that we have moved from a few big software releases a year to continuous delivery of many small changes, we need to move from annual disaster recover tests or suffering when things actually break, to continuously tested resilience. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

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Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Dr. Damon McDougall gave a short presentation on this study at the IXPUG 2018 Fall Conference ( pdf ) — I originally wrote these notes to help organize my thoughts as we were preparing the IXPUG presentation, and later decided that the extra details contained here are interesting enough for me to post it. cmpl $1000000000, %eax.

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Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In the same way that we have moved from a few big software releases a year to continuous delivery of many small changes, we need to move from annual disaster recover tests or suffering when things actually break, to continuously tested resilience. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

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Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Software-based clocksources could fix those issues and provide accurate monotonically-increasing time. Theory (A) is most likely based on the frame widths in the flame graph.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). They use third-party software like Docker or Kubernetes to simplify their administration. People rarely create them manually.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

The reasons why are quite complex, and I’ve written several academic papers on the topic, as well as talked about it in a conference. Additionally, when sending data from our user-space software (say, browsers and web servers), we need to pass this data to the OS kernel , which then uses TCP or UDP to actually put it on the network.

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