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. There is no need to plan for extra resources, update operating systems, or install frameworks. The provider is essentially your system administrator.

Serverless 243

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 243

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

While the benefits of multicloud environments are crucial to agency success, they introduce complexity and overwhelming data volumes that are impossible for humans to manage alone. In contrast, observability enables teams to understand a system’s internal state by analyzing the data it generates, including logs, metrics, and traces.

Infrastructure 207

Infrastructure Efficiency Government Transportation 207

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. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Operating system Linux is the most common operating system for high-performance MySQL servers.

Performance 127

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 127

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development. Data encryption can be achieved with advanced security plugins like pgcrypto which are available for free.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. A reduced throughput could generally indicate that the server gets fewer queries.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Whether it’s your TV, audio system, digital home assistant, or refrigerator chances are those devices run an operating system such as Android allowing you access to the device’s features through apps. Crashes sometimes happen because of a specific combination of hardware, software and the environment (e.g.,

Mobile 191

Mobile Media Hardware Network 191

Percona

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

You need to ensure that you are backing up all the data. Or did you shut down a project that no longer needs to be part of the backup procedure, at least after rigorous data archiving? Check the versions of database connectors, programming languages, and proceed all the way down to the operating system.

Database 91

Database Open Source Hardware Operating System 91

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

AWS Lambda enables organizations to access many types of functions from AWS’ cloud-based services, such as: Data processing, to execute code based on triggers, system states, or user actions. Real-time stream processing to perform live activity tracking, data cleansing, metrics generation, and more. Data entering a stream.

Lambda 179

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 179

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., In this paper we explore the implications microservices have across the cloud system stack. Hardware implications. Operating system and network implications. ASPLOS’19.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) , can offer infrastructure with five-nines availability by deploying in multiple availability zones and replicating data between regions. Complicating the situation further, increasingly connected services are pushing more data processing to the edge. Automate IT operations.

Infrastructure 181

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 181

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. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. Without further ado, let’s start with the OS settings. For example: $ /opt/mongodb/4.0.6/bin/mongos

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. But to determine root causes, logs must be analyzed. What is log analytics?

Analytics 207

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 207

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to effectively monitor and manage data is of paramount importance. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception. This ensures each Redis® instance optimally uses the in-memory data store and aligns with the operating system’s efficiency.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

These days, “Data is king,” and a lot more. Data powers everything, and unlike coal and coal combustion, data and databases aren’t going away. Any organization that uses personal and other sensitive data must have a firm, proven plan for business continuity in the event of a disaster or cyberattack.

Database 89

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 89

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. What is a message queue?

Monitoring 198

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 198

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. What is a message queue?

Monitoring 197

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 197

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As a result, teams must verify their data first because the triggering condition could be based on discovered data that is stale. With the proliferation of infrastructure-as-code tools, operations teams can: Deploy, configure, or tear down workloads into an instance in real-time.

Infrastructure 171

Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps 171

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 10, 2019

…software operating on persistent data structures requires "global" pointers that remain valid after a process terminates, while hardware requires that a diverse set of devices all have the same mappings they need for bulk transfers to and from memory, and that they be able to do so for a potentially heterogeneous memory system.

Hardware 52

Hardware Virtualization Operating System Programming 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. An orchestration platform needs to expose data about its internal states and activities in the form of logs, events, metrics, or transaction traces. Observability.

Open Source 300

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 300

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Considerations for setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform. Google was among the pioneers that created “web scale” architectures to analyze the massive data sets that resulted from “crawling” the web that gave birth to Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, and NoSQL databases. Back in the days of Web 1.0,

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

In general, cloud application security involves authentication and access control, data encryption, identity and user management, and vulnerability management. Combining cloud application security and observability data into a unified analytics platform is beneficial for organizations to improve their overall application security posture.

Cloud 175

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 175

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 20, 2018

In this post, I argue that software and data interoperability, a hallmark of the modern computer ecosystem, is at the core of several widespread security problems. An alternate approach is to tie data and potentially software to specific physical instances of a digital system. Individualizing digital systems.

Hardware 47

Hardware Operating System Architecture Software 47

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

During compatibility testing of an application, we check the compatibility of the application with multiple devices, hardware, software versions, network, operating systems, and browsers, etc. Operating System. The iOS app should work well on the networks of different bandwidths, speeds, data transfer rates, etc.

Testing 84

Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

If the container running on the core next to your container suddenly decides to fetch a lot of data from the RAM, it will inevitably result in more cache misses for you (and hence a potential performance degradation). Linux to the rescue?

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

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. The data in the above definition could also include instructions.

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Key areas include: Configuration parameter tuning : This tuning involves altering variables such as memory allocation, disk I/O settings, and concurrent connections based on specific hardware and requirements. Slow queries and data retrieval can lead to frustrating delays that impact the user experience. Nobody has time for that!

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

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 next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc. However there were teams doing very different things on AWS, and they each built their own platform layer.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A three-tier system is a software application architecture that consists of a presentation layer, application layer, and data, or core, layer. The benefit of this system is that each tier runs independently from the other tiers, so they can be updated or scaled without impacting the other tiers. Three-Tier. Multi-Tier.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

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 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

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

Testsigma

MAY 3, 2021

From operating systems to versions to hardware specs, mobile devices stand unique even after being billions in number. But testing this is essential too because data communication over the network cannot be eliminated by putting all the files into the device storage.

Mobile 77

Mobile Testing Operating System Hardware 77

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This helps to minimise locking allowing multiple sessions to access the same data at the same time. On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute. Database interfaces in C. So lets take a look at how this would work in practice.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

This metric is interesting because we don’t always have the luxury of parallelizing every application we run, and our operating systems almost always process each call (e.g., This post is about a secondary performance characteristic — sustained memory bandwidth for a single thread running on a single core.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 97

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

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

To ensure data integrity for our customers who are running SQL Server, it is important that I/O environments provide appropriate functionality. Atomicity A transaction must be an atomic unit of work; either all of its data modifications are performed or none of them are performed.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Let’s look at how the workloads behave when running on an identical system We ran both sysbench and HammerDB on a system with: Processors: Two Intel Xeon 8360Y processor sockets (36 Core/72 Threads per socket). Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 on identical hardware, with identical settings, but at different load levels.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54