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

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

High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This model of computing has become increasingly popular in recent years, as it offers a number of benefits, including cost savings, flexibility, scalability, and increased efficiency. This means that users only pay for the computing resources they actually use, rather than having to invest in expensive hardware and software upfront.

Cloud 201

Cloud Serverless Internet Internet 201

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 198

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 198

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. These essential data points heavily influence both stability and efficiency within the system. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

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 112

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 112

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior. Chaos engineers ask why. The history of chaos engineering.

Engineering 221

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 221

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

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

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

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. Software failure: Software applications can become vulnerable, or they can crash altogether.

Database 92

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 92

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Compatibility Open source databases are designed with interoperability at their core, adhering to industry standards and offering support for a wide range of data import and export formats. Security and risk The question “ Is Open Source software safe?

Open Source 96

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 96

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. Using emulation (e.g.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

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. Dynatrace news. What is AWS Lambda? The Amazon Web Services ecosystem.

Lambda 178

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 178

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

At Percona, we observe a growing trend among companies utilizing Kubernetes as a means to offer services to their teams, fostering expedited software delivery and driving business growth. It comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic.

Cloud 83

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 83

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. An advanced observability solution can also be used to automate more processes, increasing efficiency and innovation among Ops and Apps teams.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

According to IEEE Std 829-1998, Software Testing is defined as “the process of analyzing a software item to detect the differences between existing and required conditions (i.e. defects) and evaluating the features of the software items.” Testing Techniques. ” In Dynamic Testing, the code is executed.

Software 69

Software Software Testing Scalability 69

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Percona Backup for MongoDB is a custom-built backup utility designed to cater to the needs of users who don’t want to pay for proprietary software but require a fully supported community backup tool capable of performing cluster-wide consistent backups in MongoDB.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

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

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The term software compatibility describes how a product should provide the same result across all platforms on which it runs. 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.

Testing 78

Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. This can fundamentally transform how they work, make processes more efficient, and improve the overall customer experience. What is cloud migration?

Cloud 163

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 163

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. Note that most of the changes we’ve introduced so far and those that are detailed below are all designed to be invisible to you, taking place entirely automatically in the background.

Best Practices 193

Best Practices Storage Java Benchmarking 193

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

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

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

Software-defined far memory in warehouse-scale computers Lagar-Cavilla et al., Using zswap means that no new hardware solutions are required, enabling rapid deployment across clusters. ASPLOS’19. Memory (DRAM) remains comparatively expensive, while in-memory computing demands are growing rapidly.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

To be clear, these languages were not designed to be fast or space-efficient, but for ease of use. Unfortunately, languages like Python have proven resistant to efficient implementation, partly because of their design, and partly because of limitations imposed by the need to interop with C code. As Leiserson et al.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. They introduced the architecture of coarse grain reconfigurable array (CGRA) for statically scheduled data flow computing in HOTCHIPS’17 and its software stack of compiler and linker in ICCAD’17. processor” targets at autonomous driving, while “Sunrise 1.0

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. Also known as a “correct by construction” approach to security.

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

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

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 10, 2019

…software operating on persistent data structures requires "global" pointers that remain valid after a process terminates, while hardware requires that a diverse set of devices all have the same mappings they need for bulk transfers to and from memory, and that they be able to do so for a potentially heterogeneous memory system. .

Hardware 52

Hardware Virtualization Operating System Programming 52

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. The storage backend is the software module directly managing the storage device attached to physical machines.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

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. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To address these challenges, architects must design robust and scalable MongoDB databases and adopt appropriate sharding strategies that can efficiently handle increasing workloads while ensuring continuous availability. It’s essential to select an appropriate shard key to ensure even data distribution and efficient querying.

Best Practices 75

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 75

Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

First, a bit of operating-system design context. The answer is hardware interrupts. CPU power efficiency is strongly tied to how long the CPU can stay asleep ( 8+ ms is apparently a good number ), and random wakeups work against that. This used to be a reasonable design choice, and now it doesn’t work.

Programming 145

Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

The Morning Paper

MAY 19, 2019

The focus of optimization hence will completely shift to efficiently handling RPCs at the endpoints as soon as they are delivered from the network. Any resulting load imbalance after applying these [RSS] rules must be handled by system software, introducing unacceptable latency for the most latency-sensitive RPCs with µs-scale service times.

Latency 80

Latency Hardware Network Architecture 80