HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. However, there can be a lack of understanding of the benefits that stored procedures bring or if you have a benchmarking tool or database that doesn’t support stored procedures, then you have nothing to compare against.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways AI integration in cloud computing increases operational efficiency by automating processes, optimizing resource allocation, and improving scalability, leading to cost savings and allowing IT teams to concentrate on strategic initiatives. Discover how AI is reshaping the cloud and what this means for the future of technology.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The challenge, then, is to be able to ingest and process these events in a scalable manner, i.e., scaling with the number of devices, which will be the focus of this blog post. As such, we can see that the traffic load on the Device Management Platform’s control plane is very dynamic over time.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands. In essence, it establishes permissions within a Kubernetes cluster.

Efficiency 105

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 105

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL performance tuning offers several significant advantages for effective database management and optimization. Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. In the realm of cloud-based business operations, there is an increasing dependence on complex information processing patterns. What is workload in cloud computing?

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. SOSP’19.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At its core, a distributed storage system comprises three main components: a controller for managing the system’s operations, an internal datastore where information is held, and databases geared towards ensuring scalability, partitioning capabilities, and high availability for all types of data.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 106

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These are unchanging entities, served straight off the server, pre-generated, and devoid of server-side processing. This means that subsequent requests for the same content can be served directly from the cache, eliminating the need for additional server-side processing. This is where Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) come into play.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to providing visibility for core Azure services like virtual machines, load balancers, databases, and application services, we’re happy to announce support for the following 10 new Azure services, with many more to come soon: Virtual Machines (classic ones). Azure Traffic Manager. Azure Batch. Azure DB for PostgreSQL.

Azure 146

Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 146

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Why are MongoDB database backups important? Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. How do I choose which one to use?

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. The process started with manual pull of member account information that was part of the session.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. At the time of insert ops, no other queries or DML ops were running in the database. Storage reduction alone results in significant cost savings, and we can save more data in the same space.

Storage 111

Storage Network Open Source Latency 111

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These are unchanging entities, served straight off the server, pre-generated, and devoid of server-side processing. This means that subsequent requests for the same content can be served directly from the cache, eliminating the need for additional server-side processing. This is where Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) come into play.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

There is no way to model how much more traffic you can send to that system before it exceeds it’s SLA. Every opportunity for delay due to more work than the best case or more time waiting than the best case increases the latency and they all add up and create a long tail. Mu is the mean of each component, the latency.

Lambda 98

Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

A request will be sent from the client-side and an HTTP check waits on the server port to get the message, process it, and then send back the response. Network latency. Database connectivity. Processing and generating the response. Network Latency. Network latency can be affected due to. Connection time.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

desc="Time to process request at origin" NOTE: This is not a new API. Latency – How much time does it take to deliver a packet from A to B. For example, processing of web application firewall (WAF) rules, detecting bots or other malicious traffic though security services, and growing in popularity, edge compute.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In both cases, when using virtually-synchronous replication, the process will require certification from each node and local (by node) write; as such, the number of writes is NOT distributed across multiple nodes but duplicated. Think about updating a table with millions of rows that refer to another table with another million rows.

Traffic 125

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 125

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

Incoming data is saved into data storage (historian database or log store) for query by operational managers who must attempt to find the highest priority issues that require their attention. The best they can usually do in real-time using general purpose tools is to filter and look for patterns of interest.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

and enable you to maintain a nearly up-to-date copy of your master database in a different AWS Region. Cross Region Read Replicas also enable you to serve read traffic for your global customer base from regions that are nearest to them. Amazon RDS offers a monthly uptime percentage SLA of 99.95% per Multi-AZ database instance.

Cloud 145

Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. ‍At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. It's an ongoing, iterative process. You've put new rules in place.

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007.

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Do you have a database? Was the database running? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? Each process has its own independent memory that it works with. The recipe was straightforward. Concurrency.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. It's an ongoing, iterative process. You've put new rules in place.

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Consistent performance matters just as much as low average latency.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Resource consumption & traffic analysis. Database & functional migration. Before starting any migration project, you must have a good overview of all your hosts, processes, services and technologies. Step 2: Understand your Dependencies: No Host or Process left alone! Step 3: Detailed Traffic Dependency Analysis.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Advances in browser content processing. If those specs sound eerily familiar, it's perhaps because they're identical to 2016's $200USD Moto G4 , all the way down to the 2011-vintage 28nm SoC process node used to fab the chip's anemic, 2012-vintage A53 cores. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Analysis of such large data sets often requires powerful distributed data stores like Hadoop and heavy data processing with techniques like MapReduce. This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. what is the cardinality of the data set)?

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Staff should be familiar with recovery processes and the behavior of the system when it’s working hard to mitigate failures. Figure out how much delay is built into your observability system, it may be taking samples once a minute, processing them for a minute or two, then watching for several bad samples in a row before it triggers an alert.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40