Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The field of Platform Engineering has witnessed significant advancements, as evidenced by the publication of the CNCF platform whitepaper and the introduction of a dedicated Platform Engineering day at the upcoming KubeCon event. They also remove toil and allow engineers to focus on application development vs platform engineering work.

Cloud 82

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 82

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Editor’s Note: This post was submitted as a rebuttal to Andrew Chien’s July 24 SIGARCH Blog Post ) The recent post “ Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem ” by Prof. Andrew Chien rightfully raises awareness of the challenges of reducing operational carbon.

Energy 98

Energy Architecture Hardware Metrics 98

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Like any move, a cloud migration requires a lot of planning and preparation, but it also has the potential to transform the scope, scale, and efficiency of how you deliver value to your customers. This can fundamentally transform how they work, make processes more efficient, and improve the overall customer experience. Here are three.

Cloud 163

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 163

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. With its modular architecture, DLA is scalable, highly configurable, and designed to simplify integration and portability. HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. We formulate the problem as a Mixed Integer Program (MIP).

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

If you want to do efficient linear algebra, you don’t want to write your own code by hand; that would be slow. Instead, you want a library that is tuned for your target hardware architecture and ready for par_unseq vectorized algorithms, for blazing speed. Seeing only the end result of T.[0] This is that library.

C++ 107

C++ Lambda Network Programming 107

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this blog post, we will review key topics to consider for managing large datasets more efficiently in MySQL. Redundant indexes: It is known that accessing rows by fetching an index is more efficient than through a table scan in most cases. It can help us to save costs on storage and backup times.

Open Source 90

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 90

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. Different hardware architectures (CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, …) offer different performance and cost trade-offs.

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In the world of a site reliability engineer (SRE) , failure is not only an option, but also expected. In a different article, we talked about chaos engineering and how SRE teams proactively seek out and test for failures to prevent the worst from happening. ITSM defines how teams design, create, and deliver their services.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

physics engine that simulates 3D cubes falling from the air. These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.). Future work includes delving into more realistic use cases and addressing other challenges related to mobile computing such as energy efficiency.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This article is an effort to explore techniques used by developers of in-stream data processing systems, trace the connections of these techniques to massive batch processing and OLTP/OLAP databases, and discuss how one unified query engine can support in-stream, batch, and OLAP processing at the same time. Modularity and flexibility.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

Web standards are best defined as guidelines developed by the World Wide Web Consortium W3C to promote consistency in design code which makes up a web page. For instance, when creating a website in the early 1990s, a designer would create each site to fit the browser for which it was intended.

Internet 56

Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

The applications are designed using the same code base as Desktop like HTML, Javascript, and CSS. Unlike Native Applications, Mobile web applications do not have to be designed separately for IOS and Android. Test how user-friendly an application is: Google search engine gives high priority to websites in comparison to desktop apps.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2020

We’re therefore excited to announce that Dynatrace has received the Amazon RDS Service Ready designation. Achieving this designation differentiates Dynatrace as an AWS Advanced Technology Partner with a product that is integrated with Amazon RDS and is generally available and fully supported. Next steps.

Design 140

Design AWS Education Innovation 140

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The way we now look at software engineering has revolutionized test automation, with QA teams adapting automation to expand test scope, increase efficiency and do more testing in less time. The tester can find a bug in the specifications, design, or development phase. It raises uncertainty and reduces the efficiency of workers.

Testing 54

Testing Testing Tools Software Engineering Efficiency 54

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. Besides, for the test creation itself, you’ll need plenty of testers and engineers who have to regularly upgrade their skills to learn the latest trends and technologies for performing tests.

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has far-reaching implications how future data systems and algorithms will be designed. Apart from indexes, super efficient sorting and join operations are some major areas come to my mind with immediate benefits of using learned data structure. Learned indexes. Bigger picture.

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These data pipelines can process data at petabytes scale and to some extent, their success can be attributed to an army of engineers devoted to build and maintain internal data pipelines. Not everyone is operating at Netflix or Spotify scale data engineering function. A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Digitalization offers almost endless possibilities to communicate faster, work more efficiently, and be more creative – in real-time. Previously, the top priorities for IT departments were equipping data centers with hardware, purchasing software, and further developing proprietary software.

Social Media 84

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 84

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. Sustainable Web Design. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Serverless architecture offers several benefits for enterprises. Simplicity. The first benefit is simplicity. AWS serverless offerings. Compute services.

Serverless 276

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 276

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

By leveraging the Dynatrace Operator and Dynatrace capabilities on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power, customers can accelerate their modernization to hybrid cloud and increase operational efficiencies with greater visibility across the full stack from hardware through application processes.

Architecture 167

Architecture Availability Infrastructure Metrics 167

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Greenplum Architectural Design. What Exactly is Greenplum?

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

For example: Read/Write tickets WiredTiger uses tickets to control the number of read / write operations simultaneously processed by the storage engine. We can also extend this for automation(using Ansible, for example), which in general, DevOps engineers tend to create a pool of mongos.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. So is speedy resolution and agreement.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites.

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Making the use of resources efficiently and ensuring that this does not impact the budget available for cloud computing is not a one-time fix but a continuous cycle of picking properly sized resources and eliminating over-provisioning. Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs.

Cloud 121

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 121

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. In addition to the disaster recovery site, this design includes an external layer of nodes.

Availability 110

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This abstraction allows the compute team to influence the reliability, efficiency, and operability of the fleet via the scheduler. We do this for reliability, scalability, and efficiency reasons. Most of these encoding tools are designed to interact with the POSIX filesystem API.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Such policies would be designed to mitigate legal problems and require regulatory compliance. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. Design tools suitable for professional use don’t exist yet, but they will appear very soon. of users and 3.9%

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s been clear for a while that software designed explicitly for the data center environment will increasingly want/need to make different design trade-offs to e.g. general-purpose systems software that you might install on your own machines. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language.

Java 207

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

Otherwise, the storage engine does a scatter-gather and queries ALL partitions in a UNION that is not concurrent. If you don’t have well-designed and small columns for this composite primary key, it could enlarge all of your secondary indexes. ensures that only relevant partitions are accessed, further enhancing query efficiency.

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40