Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The bad On the other hand, Kubernetes is not designed to handle large databases or mainframes. Kubernetes performance is heavily influenced by the underlying hardware. Running a database on a Kubernetes cluster should deliver similar performance, with less than a 1% difference when compared to running it on standalone hardware.

Open Source 86

Open Source Hardware Storage Database 86

High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. 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

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

We were very pleased to see that AV1 streaming improved members’ viewing experience, particularly under challenging network conditions. AV1 playback on TV platforms relies on hardware solutions, which generally take longer to be deployed. Throughout 2020 the industry made impressive progress on AV1 hardware solutions.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

To test the hypothesis, chaos engineers orchestrate simulated uncertainty combined with load testing and watch for signs of upheaval in the services, infrastructure, networks, and devices that deliver the application. Any failures in the stack break the hypothesis. Blast radius. That’s a good thing. Accelerates innovation.

Engineering 225

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 225

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

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

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. The world is still changing, so Google published a new edition: The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines, Third Edition.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

All Things Distributed

MAY 22, 2013

Amazon Redshift and Designing for Security. For multi-node clusters, the nodes storing customer data are isolated in their own security group, preventing direct access by the customer or the rest of the AWS network. Amazon Redshift can also be set up to encrypt all data at rest using hardware-accelerated AES-256. Comments ().

Design 110

Design AWS Hardware Media 110

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. Hardware Compatibility Testing: In this scenario, an application is tested against various hardware configurations to check behavior.

Testing 78

Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests. As a bonus, operations staff never needs to update operating systems or hardware, because AWS manages servers with no stoppage of application functionality. Customizing and connecting these services requires code.

Lambda 180

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 180

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

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. It’s important to note that recommended throughput levels may vary depending on factors such as operating system type, network bandwidth availability, and hardware quality.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In all these cases, prior to being delivered through our content delivery network Open Connect , our award-winning TV shows, movies and documentaries like The Crown need to be packaged to enable crucial features for our members. Decryption modules need to be initialized with the appropriate scheme and initialization vector.

Technology 181

Technology Technology Open Source Media 181

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It requires purchasing, powering, and configuring physical hardware, training and retaining the staff capable of servicing and securing the machines, operating a data center, and so on. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little. Reduced cost.

Cloud 165

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 165

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Instead, you want a library that is tuned for your target hardware architecture and ready for par_unseq vectorized algorithms, for blazing speed. There are a handful of design questions still to decide, norably the semantics of implicit lambda capture, consteval , and multiple declarations. Seeing only the end result of T.[0]

C++ 107

C++ Lambda Network Programming 107

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 25, 2012

I mentioned several examples, but the one that really prompted the post was the myth of responsive design equaling bad performance. To whet your appetite a bit: We love to tout the web’s universality when discussing the need for responsive design. Networks and hardware capabilities must factor in as well.

Design 40

Design Hardware Network Performance 40

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. However, with more complex application logic this network round trip soon becomes a key focus area for improving performance.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

It was initially designed to mitigate the limitations of file management systems, including slow operations, inadequate security, and substantial data redundancy. Types of DBMS DBMS can be classified into hierarchical, network, relational, and object-oriented types.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

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.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. For the network, we can use Iperf to assess the network bandwidth between the client and the database server to ensure it will be enough to meet our peak requirement.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

A few of the errors which can be faced due to a poorly designed UI are: i. Hardware error. We focus on software so much that we forget about the hardware failures. If the hardware gets disconnected or stops working then we cannot expect correct output from the software. Hardware issues. Functional errors.

Software 82

Software Software Testing Hardware 82

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

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

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

The design of the HTML5 Web Worker interface turns out to be a great match for migration – Workers are already designed to work on a separate thread communicating via message passing, and are typically used to offload expensive computation that you don’t want to do in the main thread with the user waiting.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Tech News Gather

JUNE 30, 2023

It combines hardware, software, data, and people to facilitate effective decision-making by providing a deeper understanding of the relationships between different locations and their attributes. Understanding GIS Technology GIS technology is a system that captures, stores, analyzes, and visualizes geographical and spatial data.

Technology 52

Technology Technology Development Retail 52

Testsigma

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Remember to test how your app works with shared resources such as memory, space, network resources, etc. A failing test establishes my confidence in a test I’ve designed. I’ll share both, along with the lessons I learned from them: Software loading was failing if a specific application is running in parallel.

Engineering 96

Engineering Hardware Testing Software Engineering 96

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Finally, we show that Seer can identify application level design bugs, and provide insights on how to better architect microservices to achieve predictable performance. There are multiple sources of queueing in both hardware and software, and Seer works best when using deep instrumentation to capture these.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Lots can go wrong: a network request fails, a third-party library breaks, a JavaScript feature is unsupported (assuming JavaScript is even available), a CDN goes down, a user behaves unexpectedly (they double-click a submit button), the list goes on. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. How To Build Resilient JavaScript UIs. Callum Hart.

Network 145

Network Engineering Monitoring Availability 145

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) From shared-nothing to disaggregation. Workload characteristics.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

However, it’s important to note that the optimal value may vary depending on your specific workload and hardware configuration. Answer : No, ChatGPT is an AI language model developed by OpenAI and is not designed to replace a MySQL DBA job. 16) and monitoring the server’s performance. So, as for now, we are safe 😀

Social Media 121

Social Media Database Servers Cache 121

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.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance. Where VoltDB fits. Very Well!”

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity. Sustainable Web Design.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

We’re therefore excited to announce that Dynatrace has received the AWS Outposts Service Ready designation. It differentiates Dynatrace as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member with a fully tested product on AWS Outposts. “We The post Dynatrace achieves AWS Outposts Ready designation appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

AWS 200

AWS Design Cloud Storage 200

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52