Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

As more organizations adopt generative AI and cloud-native technologies, IT teams confront more challenges with securing their high-performing cloud applications in the face of expanding attack surfaces. Likewise, with observability of systems that run AI models, organizations can predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability.

Artificial Intelligence 229

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Best Practices DevOps 229

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As CTOs, database developers & experts, and DBAs seek more efficient, secure, and scalable cloud services solutions, DBaaS emerges as a compelling choice. The advantages of DBaaS Businesses can use their database services without having to purchase new hardware or set it up. Your data will always be intact.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

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. Greenplum Advantages.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

ITOps refers to the process of acquiring, designing, deploying, configuring, and maintaining equipment and services that support an organization’s desired business outcomes. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence 202

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 202

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 170

Architecture Availability Infrastructure Metrics 170

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover key insights and strategic advice in our article, designed to steer you toward the best cloud solution that fits your company’s priorities. With performance optimization at its core along with mitigating risks associated with relying solely on one cloud provider or taking advantage of cost efficiencies.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Improving the efficiency with which we can coordinate work across a collection of units (see the Universal Scalability Law ). With more nodes and more coordination comes more complexity, both in design and operation. FPGAs are chosen because they are both energy efficient and available on SmartNICs). Back of the envelope.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box Aguilera et al., Therefore, if we want to make full use of one-sided far memory, we need to think carefully about the design of our data structures to make that access efficient. This makes it challenging to design effective far memory data structures.

Design 80

Design Cache Hardware Scalability 80

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. Optimizing Lambda for performance. Dynatrace news. What is AWS Lambda?

Lambda 180

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 180

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 280

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 280

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

PWAs are designed to work offline, be fast, and provide a seamless user experience across different devices. Motion UI Motion UI is a design trend involving animation and other interactive elements to create a more dynamic and engaging user experience. They thus adapt to the user's browser, screen size, and device specifications.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

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. For bare metals, any algorithm among deadline or noop (the performance difference between them is imperceptible) will be better than CFQ.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. Chaos testing enriches the organization’s intelligence about how software performs under stress and how to make it more resilient.

Engineering 225

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 225

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. How does high availability work? Redundancy is also critical for disaster recovery.

Availability 112

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 112

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. Jason Lowe-Power (UC Davis) discussed smart memory management and the need for an efficient interface for it.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

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 165

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 165

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In these modern environments, every hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure component and every container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. In a monitoring scenario, you typically preconfigure dashboards that are meant to alert you to performance issues you expect to see later.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Community support One of the most significant advantages of open source databases is the expansive global community of users, developers, DBAs, and enthusiasts who collaborate to provide a seemingly never-ending array of how-tos, resources, guidance, and solutions to help you make your database more performant and secure.

Open Source 97

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 97

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

Database 93

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 93

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

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

We then discuss defects observed, the role of test and design to address this problem, and identify research opportunities. An example of a specification is the correct operation of the hardware of a microprocessor. While testing is important, exhaustive testing is challenging given the sheer size of modern processor designs.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent deployment and life-cycle management are already widely considered to be industry benchmarks for reliability and efficiency. Deployment performs the whole rollout, instrumentation, configuration, connection, and automatic detection of monitored entities in your environment.

Best Practices 196

Best Practices Storage Java Benchmarking 196

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The focus of most published research in architecture is on applications implemented in high-performance, “ close-to-the-metal” languages essentially developed before computers got fast. To be clear, these languages were not designed to be fast or space-efficient, but for ease of use. As Leiserson et al.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Software testers explore the effectiveness of processes that should lead to quality software products to make sure they perform the purpose for which they have been designed. Compatibility testing should be performed under all possible scenarios to prevent bug spillover in the production environment. Conclusion.

Testing 78

Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

Bandwidth, performance analysis has two recurring themes: How fast should this code (or “simple” variations on this code) run on this hardware? If I am analyzing (apparent) performance shortfalls, how can I distinguish between cause and effect ? The MPI runtime library. in ways that are seldom transparent.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Scalability is a significant concern, as databases must handle growing data volumes and user demands while maintaining peak performance. Horizontal scaling enhances performance and capacity as the workload is shared across multiple machines, reducing the risk of a single point of failure.

Best Practices 75

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 75

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

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. TFLOPS deep learning performance, and is equipped with 32GB of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) capacity. The new GV100 packs 7.4

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firekube exists because none of the existing alternatives (virtualisation, containers or language-specific vms) met the combined needs of multi-tenant efficiency and strong isolation in the AWS environment. The design of Firecracker. These simplifying assumptions are reflected in Firecracker’s design and implementation.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Randon ASCII

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A twenty-second delay for recording a forty-second clip is a pretty bad efficiency ratio. RuntimeBroker was CPU bound and was spending most of its time in a single thread that was busy performing queries on the results of a crawl over some directory: The next step was to look at the File I/O graph to see what directory was being scanned.

Software 130

Software Software Cache Hardware 130

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Breaking that assumption allowed Ceph to introduce a new storage backend called BlueStore with much better performance and predictability, and the ability to support the changing storage hardware landscape. Readers of this blog properly have a pretty good idea what ‘efficient transactions’ and ‘fast metadata operations’ are all about.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64