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Using hardware performance counters to determine how often both logical processors are active on an Intel CPU

John McCalpin

Most Intel microprocessors support “HyperThreading” (Intel’s trademark for their implementation of “simultaneous multithreading”) — which allows the hardware to support (typically) two “Logical Processors” for each physical core. leaving half of the Logical Processors idle).

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Best Practices for a Seamless MongoDB Upgrade

Percona

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Our new eBook, “ From Planning to Performance: MongoDB Upgrade Best Practices ,” guides you through the entire process to ensure your database’s long-term success. In MongoDB 6.x:

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Why IT Needs to Look at the Network Through a 4-D Lens

DZone

While ‘digital transformation’ and ‘cloud migration’ are two concepts with relatively broad definitions, they’re both rooted in the modernization of enterprise networks. This includes retiring legacy hardware and rethinking network architectures from the top-down to help facilitate a new wave of agile, cloud-delivered solutions and workflows.

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Reinventing Performance Testing: New Architectures

Alex Podelko

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. Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. Mitigating performance risks moves to SaaS vendors.

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Impact of Querying Table Information From information_schema

Percona

A lot of useful information can be retrieved from this schema, for example, table metadata and foreign key relations, but trying to query I_S can induce performance degradation if your server is under heavy load, as shown in the following example test. ” under heavy load + I_S queries” to check for performance degradation.

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Announcing the General Availability of Percona Operator for PostgreSQL Version 2

Percona

IT teams must ensure high availability, scalability, and security, all while ensuring that their PostgreSQL clusters perform optimally. Users now have full control over Custom Resource Definitions that Operator relies on, which simplifies the deployment and management of the operator. In version 1.x,

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What is MTTR? How mean time to repair helps define DevOps incident management

Dynatrace

All these definitions are distinct and important. MTTD is a primary key performance indicator for IT and DevOps teams. MTTF measures the reliability of a network and durability of its hardware. This pressure escalates the stakes on MTTR and other incident management metrics. So, what is MTTR? Mean time to detect.

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