SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario. In exchange for this, your databases and applications will work just the same as they would in an on-premises installation, which makes this an easy way to start using Azure. Esv3-series.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. If you don’t have insight into the software and services that operate your business, you can’t efficiently run your business. Dynatrace news.

Infrastructure 205

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 205

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. MySQL was the database for phpWebLog, for example, way back in 2000. The project signaled intent to support other databases as early as the 0.7.1 or later or MariaDB 10.3

Open Source 92

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 92

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Monolithic software systems employ one large codebase, which includes collections of tools, software development kits, and associated development dependencies. Because monolithic software systems employ one large codebase repository, the service becomes a massive piece of software that is labor-intensive to manage.

Architecture 205

Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 205

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host. Kelsey Hightower via Twitter, 2020).

Virtualization 162

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 162

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.

Monitoring 205

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 205

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.

Monitoring 204

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 204

Percona

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Transparent Huge Pages (THP) is a memory management feature in Linux operating systems that aims to enhance system performance. While THP can be beneficial for many applications, enabling it on a database server could have unintended consequences. The value that appears between square brackets is the current value.

Database 85

Database Servers Open Source C++ 85

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Unfortunately, container security is much more difficult to achieve than security for more traditional compute platforms, such as virtual machines or bare metal hosts. However, to be secure, containers must be properly isolated from each other and from the host system itself. Harden the host operating system.

Open Source 255

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 255

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. All the databases that HammerDB tests implement a form of MVCC (multi-version concurrency control). On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

A software tester’s work life includes making sure that systems that have been designed to achieve specific results behave exactly as they should. These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. What is Configuration Testing? Conclusion.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

HammerDB

APRIL 27, 2021

One of the first things you will want to do is make sure that we can access the 3rd party driver libraries for the database that we want to use. Selecting a database. Select a database. The next thing you will want to do is to select your preferred database. Librarycheck. This is done with the librarycheck command.

Virtualization 73

Virtualization Benchmarking Database Operating System 73

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. 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. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Particular Software

JULY 18, 2017

I remember the first time I deployed a system into production. We built a custom content management website backed by a single SQL Server database. It was a typical two-tier application with a web application and a database. Yes/No) Can my web server talk to my database? Yes/No) Is my web server up? (Yes/No)

Systems 56

Systems Monitoring Website Virtualization 56

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Following the series of blogs started by Peter Zaitsev in Installing MySQL with Docker , on deploying Docker containers running open source databases, in this article, I’ll demonstrate how to install and run PostgreSQL using Docker. This blog was originally published in Sept 2021 and was updated in November 2023.

Database 68

Database Open Source Scalability Virtualization 68

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. 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. Why HammerDB was developed.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to overcome these issues, the concept of paging and segmentation was introduced, where physical address space and virtual address space were designed. Here, virtual(logical) to physical address translation is much easier as segment tables store adequate information. A detailed description of these concepts is below.

Programming 81

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 81

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc. 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

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. 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. 25.84 - Total 21.04

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed. If you are building resilient systems with failover, the control plane that manages failover is often the hardest part of the system to get right.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Practitioners use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. Causes can run the gamut — from coding errors to database slowdowns to hosting or network performance issues. Mobile apps, websites, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Almost one-third (29%) of respondents say their employers are migrating or implementing a majority of their systems (over 50%) using microservices. software and systems architects, technical leads—architects represent almost 28% of the sample. Adopters are betting big on microservices. Figure 1: Respondent roles. What does that mean?

Database 135

Database Architecture Education Systems 135

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

However if you have downloaded the source code and are looking to add features or make modifications such as adding new databases you may be wondering once you have the source code where to start. However HammerDB will not be able to connect to a database yet and the librarycheck command included with the CLI gives an indication why.

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2013

In what seems almost a previous life by now Thorsten was one of the top young professors in Distributed Systems and I had the great pleasure of working with him at Cornell in the early 90''s. What set Thorsten aside from so many other system research academics was his desire to build practical, working systems, a path that I followed as well.

Network 99

Network Latency Operating System Speed 99

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

abstract capabilities are constructed only through legitimate provenance chains of operations, successively reducing permissions from initial maximally permissive capabilities provided at machine reset. And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In a classic 1983 paper , cognitive psychologist Lisanne Bainbridge drew attention to a curious irony: so-called “automated” systems were, in practice, usually attended by one or more human operators. The more advanced the system, she observed, “the more crucial…the contribution of the human operator.”

Processing 83

Processing Programming Virtualization Technology 83

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance became generally available in late 2018. Organizations are taking advantage of having managed backups, lots of built-in security features, an uptime SLA of 99.99%, and an always up-to-date environment where they are no longer responsible for patching SQL Server or the operating system.

Azure 63

Azure Performance Storage Latency 63

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

Note that the main developer of HammerDB is Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) however HammerDB is a personal open source project and HammerDB has no optimization whatsoever for a database running on any particular architecture. So to test I took a system with Skylake CPUs and all storage on a P4800X SSD. The OS was: Ubuntu 18.04.1

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability: “In database systems , durability is the ACID property which guarantees transactions that have committed will survive permanently. For example, if a flight booking reports that a seat has successfully been booked, then the seat will remain booked even if the system crashes.” – [link]. The Back Story.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

AWS Developer Relations on how the shift from Robot Operating System (ROS) 1 to ROS 2 will change the landscape for all robot lovers. Leigh Capili (DevAdv) demos how to launch apps from Git using Kubernetes orchestration, Ignite virtualization, and GitOps management.

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

AWS Developer Relations on how the shift from Robot Operating System (ROS) 1 to ROS 2 will change the landscape for all robot lovers. Leigh Capili (DevAdv) demos how to launch apps from Git using Kubernetes orchestration, Ignite virtualization, and GitOps management.

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Having an effective test automation system is an absolute necessity in today’s agile software development environments. Network disconnection is a common automation challenge that a QA team faces wherein they find it hard to access databases, VPN, third party services, APIs, specific testing environments, etc.

Testing 85

Testing Mobile Network Analytics 85

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds. Finding upper limits of your current systems for capacity planning. Identifying performance bottlenecks.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

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

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40