Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF. Ford, et al., “TCP

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

HotOS’19 is presenting me with something of a problem as there are so many interesting looking papers in the proceedings this year it’s going to be hard to cover them all! The following figure highlights how just one of these variables, batch size, impacts throughput and latency on ResNet50. HotOS’19.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

However, it’s important to note that the optimal value may vary depending on your specific workload and hardware configuration. The answer does not consider the queue or latency of the sample, which could indicate a disk with issues. 16) and monitoring the server’s performance. The answer could be better.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

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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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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

A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. The HammerDB TPROC-C workload by design intended as CPU and memory intensive workload derived from TPC-C – so that we get to benchmark at maximum CPU performance at a much smaller database footprint.

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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. On the other hand, MongoDB schema design takes a document-oriented approach. 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). We need to be able to easily determine what imagery is present for a given platform, region, and language.

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The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM. 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.

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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.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 17, 2020

Based on these findings, the authors present four guidelines to get the best performance out of this memory today. 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. Optane DIMMs are here!

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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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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. This 2GiB RAM, Android 9 stalwart features the all-too classic lines of a Quad-core A53 (1.4GHz, small mercies) CPU, tastefully presented in a charming 5.5" Chip design choices and silicon economics are the defining feature of the still-growing Performance Inequality Gap. " package.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

The goal is to produce a low-energy hardware classifier for embedded applications doing local processing of sensor data. The resulting system can integrate seamlessly into a scikit-learn based development process, and dramatically reduces the total energy usage required for classification with very low latency. Introducing race logic.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design.

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O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

But we, as technologists, have typically ignored our own expectations when designing and building those devices. If the devices aren’t designed with those expectations in mind, they’re destined for the landfill. When designing an experience, you need to consider the identity context and where the experience will take place.

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John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Dr. Damon McDougall gave a short presentation on this study at the IXPUG 2018 Fall Conference ( pdf ) — I originally wrote these notes to help organize my thoughts as we were preparing the IXPUG presentation, and later decided that the extra details contained here are interesting enough for me to post it.

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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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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. This White Paper is for informational purposes only.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The benefits to apps that adopt WebView-based IABs are numerous: WebViews are system components designed for use within other apps. Furthermore, the content developer is unlikely to find limits presented by the WebView to be unwelcome or unreasonably immutable (via collaboration with the app developer). Camera/mic ( getUserMedia() ).

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Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. As OS and hardware deployed base integrate these components, the set of what most computers can do is expanded. This is often determined by hardware integration and device replacement rates.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. This White Paper is for informational purposes only. and ​​ 2000.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

PostgreSQL Cluster One coordinator node citus-coord-01 Three worker nodes citus1 citus2 citus3 Hardware AWS Instance Ubuntu Server 20.04, SSD volume type 64-bit (x86) c5.xlarge And now, execute the benchmark: -- execute the following on the coordinator node pgbench -c 20 -j 3 -T 60 -P 3 pgbench The results are not pretty.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. It’s designed to capture delays that result from the main thread being busy, especially during page load.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Setting Realistic Goals.

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