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 94

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 94

HammerDB

MARCH 25, 2023

When you list the HammerDB directory you can now see a directory called “scripts” This directory contains CLI scripts to build, run, delete and query TPROC-C and TPROC-H workloads against all databases. If HammerDB is running on a separate system from the database under test then you should modify this value accordingly.

C++ 83

C++ Virtualization Benchmarking Database 83

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

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. 2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix.

Open Source 81

Open Source Programming Database Servers 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. Above that there’s a deployment platform such as Kubernetes or AWS Lambda.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes. The work includes changes to the CHERI ISA, the C compiler, the C language runtime, the virtual memory APIs, and the CheriBSD kernel. The MIPS rows show the test suite results on a standard mips64 system.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

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

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

How are we managing the torrent of telemetry that flows into analytics systems from these devices? 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 list goes on.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase. In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. data-driven business logic stays close to the data, i.e. in the database.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase. In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. data-driven business logic stays close to the data, i.e. in the database.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 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. Fixing Code Smell.

Testing 85

Testing Mobile Network Analytics 85

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

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

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. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Cloud First strategy is most visible with new Federal IT programs, which are all designed to be â??Cloud This clears the path for agencies that have IT programs that need to be ITAR-compliant to start using AWS GovCloud (US) for these applications.

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

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 244

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 244

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Do you have a database? Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. In addition, monitoring DevOps processes provide the following benefits: Improve system performance. Help systems meet SLAs. Increase system uptime. Lost efficiency.

DevOps 220

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 220

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Then, they can split these services into functional application programming interfaces (APIs), rather than shipping applications as one large, collective unit. Monolithic software systems employ one large codebase, which includes collections of tools, software development kits, and associated development dependencies.

Architecture 200

Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 200

HammerDB

JULY 5, 2022

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. What programming languages does HammerDB use and why does it matter? Surely any language will do? Background and Concepts. usr/local/bin/tclsh8.6

Benchmarking 98

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 98

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Similar to AWS Lambda , Azure Functions is a serverless compute service by Microsoft that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions (triggers), such as an order arriving on an IoT system, or a specific queue receiving a new message. Consider using virtual machines or specialized frameworks for these types of tasks.

Azure 137

Azure Serverless IoT Lambda 137

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

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It’s the single most popular programming language on O’Reilly, and it accounts for 10% of all usage. In programming, Python is preeminent. Normalized search frequency of top programming languages on the O’Reilly online learning platform in 2019 (left) and the rate of change for each language (right). Figure 3 (above).

Software Architecture 134

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 134

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

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

When trying to develop a new piece of software or an app, one of the first things a developer has to do is pick a programming language. For years, the debate has raged on regarding which programming language is better, Java or Scala. In essence, Java is classified as an object oriented programming language.

Java 100

Java Performance Programming Virtualization 100

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

And the Operating System environment for Windows Server has become more robust but has introduced more features and complexity. Launching this program brings you to the new Basic Installer Screen. Here is what it looked like on my system. So now there are more choices to make when installing SQL Server. How do I know this?

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 17, 2019

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, ‘threads’ were a programming novelty rarely used and seldom trusted. In that environment, the first PostgreSQL developers decided forking a process for each connection to the database is the safest choice. It would be a shame if your database crashed, after all.

Architecture 200

Architecture Database Latency Servers 200

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A new generation of automated solutions — designed to provide end-to-end observability of assets, applications, and performance across legacy and cloud systems — make that job easier, says Federal Chief Technology Officer Willie Hicks at Dynatrace. They don’t have visibility or “observability” in their systems. What’s the root cause?

Cloud 172

Cloud Monitoring Network Azure 172

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

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. Programming Languages. loaded library Oratcl for Oracle Checking database library for MSSQLServer Success. HammerDB CLI v3.1

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. Both of these Intel processors are special bespoke models that are not in the Intel ARK database. The key specifications for the Lsv2 series virtual machines are shown in Table 1.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2022

But, as resources move off premises, IT teams often lack visibility into system performance and security issues. That’s why customers use Dynatrace’s application programming interface (API) to automate monitoring tasks and export different data types into a third-party reporting and analysis tool.

Strategy 198

Strategy Cloud Infrastructure Java 198

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. Relationships are a fundamental aspect of both the physical and virtual worlds. Enter graph databases. Graph databases at Amazon.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

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

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Containers are portable, self-contained operating environments that include applications and the dependencies they need to run, such as databases, middleware, and frameworks. These APIs shift the complexity of building and configuring APIs from the user to the system. Microservices. Service mesh. Declarative APIs.

Cloud 162

Cloud Architecture Serverless Infrastructure 162

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And everyone has opinions about how these language models and art generation programs are going to change the nature of work, usher in the singularity, or perhaps even doom the human race. AI users say that AI programming (66%) and data analysis (59%) are the most needed skills. Many AI adopters are still in the early stages.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108