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. The following figure highlights how just one of these variables, batch size, impacts throughput and latency on ResNet50.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Regularly optimizing query structures is vital.

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

For example, iostat(1), or a monitoring agent, may tell you your average disk latency, but not the distribution of this latency. This example instrumented one of many thousands of available events. For smaller environments, it can be of more use helping eliminate latency outliers. Block I/O latency as a histogram.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It’s also a fabulous example of recognising and challenging implicit assumptions. 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. Supporting new storage hardware.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

HammerDB has always used stored procedures as a design decision because the original benchmark was implemented as close as possible to the example workload in the TPC-C specification that uses stored procedures. As an example from the TPC-C specification, this is the Stock Level procedure. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X

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Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

This liberal attitude is known as Postel’s Law, which is conveyed superbly by Jeremy Keith in Resilient Web Design : “Even if there are errors in the HTML or CSS, the browser will still attempt to process the information, skipping over any pieces that it can’t parse.”. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. JavaScript is less forgiving.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. on end-to-end latency) and less than 0.15% on throughput.

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Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

I’m personally interested in this topic since I am a professor who researches human-computer interaction, user experience design, and cognitive science , so AI voice interfaces are fascinating to me. I’ve recently been brainstorming ideas for how to design such a system and how to deal with the practical challenges of scaling and maintenance.

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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. Example of such apps: We all are aware of how online shopping has taken over the world. What are Native Applications?

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Here are 8 fallacies of data pipeline The pipeline is reliable Topology is stateless Pipeline is infinitely scalable Processing latency is minimum Everything is observable There is no domino effect Pipeline is cost­-effective Data is homogeneous The pipeline is reliable The inconvenient truth is that pipeline is not reliable.

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Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

ITSM defines how teams design, create, and deliver their services. Software services still require physical devices and hardware for them to function. Knowing when and where an error, downtime, or application latency occurs is a critical factor in limiting the impact to users and customers. It is much more than just IT support.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. until today. Recent Entries.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

VM Import allows our customers to move virtual machine images from their datacenters to the Cloud and Amazon Direct Connect makes the network latencies and bandwidth between on-premises and AWS more predictable. Here are three example use cases that we envision for the AWS Storage Gateway. s highly reliable storage environment.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

For example, in a three-node cluster, one node can go down; in a cluster with five or more nodes, two nodes can go down. The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Our Premium High Availability comes with the following features: Active-active deployment model for optimum hardware utilization.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

For example HammerDB has not used tpmC terminology to report TPC-C based metrics instead using TPM and NOPM nomenclature. A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. This was both expensive and time consuming to configure.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 17, 2020

Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable.

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This system has been designed to supplement and succeed the existing Hadoop-based system that had too high latency of data processing and too high maintenance costs. The design of the in-stream processing engine itself was driven by the following requirements: SQL-like functionality. Fault-tolerance.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees. The deadline excels at latency-sensitive use cases ( like databases ), and noop is closer to no schedule at all. For example, on a 128GB memory host, this can allow up to 38.4GB of dirty pages. Two other schedulers are deadline and noop.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., Microservices fundamentally change a lot of assumptions current cloud systems are designed with, and present both opportunities and challenges when optimizing for quality of service (QoS) and utilization.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Before designing a solution it’s important to understand the main product requirements for such a feature: The content needs to be new, relevant, and regional (not all countries have the same catalogue). To reduce latency, assets should be generated in an offline fashion and not in real time.

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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.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. This becomes an even more important lesson at scale: for example, as S3 processes trillions and trillions of storage transactions, anything that has even the slightest probability of error will become realistic. Primitives not frameworks.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

Shredder is " a low-latency multi-tenant cloud store that allows small units of computation to be performed directly within storage nodes. " From an operator perspective it makes it harder to follow the classic cloud-native design in which a global storage layer is separate to compute.

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Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database. DynamoDB Streams simplifies and improves this design pattern with a distributed systems approach. DynamoDB Cross-region Replication.

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Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

The Morning Paper

MAY 19, 2019

Last week we learned about the [increased tail-latency sensitivity of microservices based applications with high RPC fan-outs. Seer uses estimates of queue depths to mitigate latency spikes on the order of 10-100ms, in conjunction with a cluster manager. So what we have here is a glimpse of the limits for low-latency RPCs under load.

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Latency Hardware Network Architecture 80

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. Therefore any programming abstraction must be low latency and the kernel needs to be kept off the path of persistent data access as much as possible.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

The Morning Paper

MARCH 17, 2020

higher latency and lower bandwidth)… We have found the actual behavior of Optane DIMMs to be more complicated and nuanced than the "slower, persistent DRAM" label would suggest. The read latency for Optane is 2x-3x higher than DRAM. Optane DIMMs are here! Optane memory is also more pattern-dependent than DRAM.

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Scalability Latency Cache Media 59

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

This is a fascinating paper from members of Netflix’s Resilience Engineering team describing their chaos engineering initiatives: automated controlled experiments designed to verify hypotheses about how the system should behave under gray failure conditions, and to probe for and flush out any weaknesses. Safeguards.

Latency 77

Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

To be robust and scalable, this key/value store needs to be distributed for durability and availability, to protect against network partitions or hardware failures. This architecture affords Amazon ECS high availability, low latency, and high throughput because the data store is never pessimistically locked.

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Latency Architecture AWS Open Source 166

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to Dr. Bandwidth, performance analysis has two recurring themes: How fast should this code (or “simple” variations on this code) run on this hardware? The user environment defines the mapping of MPI ranks to hardware resources (cores, sockets, nodes). The MPI runtime library. in ways that are seldom transparent.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT).

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. This work is latency critical, because volume IO is blocked until it is complete. NSDI’20. Requirements.

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Database AWS Network Design 106

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple's policy against browser engine choice adds years of delays beyond the (expected) delay of design iteration, specification authoring, and browser feature development. For heavily latency-sensitive use-cases like WebXR, this is a critical component in delivering a good experience. is access to hardware devices.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

Examples include popular home assistants and smart displays like the Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod, and many others. But we, as technologists, have typically ignored our own expectations when designing and building those devices. Communal devices are intended to be used by groups of people in homes and offices.

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Google Games Technology Technology 121

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

If extra provisioned capacity was needed to offset a slowdown for example then this could easily offset all potential TCO savings. This boils down to a single digit µs latency toleration in the tail for far memory, and in addition to security and privacy concerns, rules out remote memory solutions.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. Comments ().

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