HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. We will not concern ourselves with the raw throughput of workload.

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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.

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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. Blast radius.

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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.

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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.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Real-time stream processing to perform live activity tracking, data cleansing, metrics generation, and more. You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests. The function itself performs a small unit of work and Lambda charges subscribers by the millisecond.

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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.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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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

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Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

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.

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Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

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.

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Design Education Google Internet 54

All Things Distributed

MAY 22, 2013

Amazon Redshift and Designing for Security. s message of price , performance and simplicity has resonated with our customers. ve talked about performance and availability in Amazon Redshift before. Amazon Redshift can also be set up to encrypt all data at rest using hardware-accelerated AES-256. All Things Distributed.

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Design AWS Hardware Media 110

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.

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Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 165

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!

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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.

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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.

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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. CFS is widely used and therefore well tested and Linux machines around the world run with reasonable performance.

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., Finally, we show that Seer can identify application level design bugs, and provide insights on how to better architect microservices to achieve predictable performance. ASPLOS’19.

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Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. 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.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

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.

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Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

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.

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Design Hardware Network Performance 40

Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

A few of the errors which can be faced due to a poorly designed UI are: i. These software errors are usually uncovered during functionality testing, mostly can be present as: Difficult/ confusing functionality: If the user is unable to understand or perform a function on the application, then it should change. Hardware error.

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Software Software Testing Hardware 82

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.

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Technology Technology Development Retail 52

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Keep in mind that setting the buffer pool size too high may result in other processes on your server competing for memory, which can impact performance. However, it’s important to note that the optimal value may vary depending on your specific workload and hardware configuration. 16) and monitoring the server’s performance.

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Social Media Database Servers Cache 120

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.

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Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

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. “ For instance, Facebook applications issue tens-of-trillions of inference queries per day with varying performance, accuracy, and cost constraints.”

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Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Your customers demand optimal performance, whether they’re the only user or one of a thousand. Today’s applications are built on multiple technologies, relying on vast networks of third-party providers and CDN’s. LoadView, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing.

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Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

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.

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Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Testsigma

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Remember to test how your app works with shared resources such as memory, space, network resources, etc. Users will take will never perform a form submission as quickly as a script, so use waits judiciously. A failing test establishes my confidence in a test I’ve designed. Randomly failing tests are interesting.

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Engineering Hardware Testing Software Engineering 96

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

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. that a lot of people used.

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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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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing. 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.

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

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

Testlodge

DECEMBER 4, 2017

A load test is done by simulating the real time user load on the application under test, and this determines how the application responds when multiple users hit the server simultaneously and it reveals the application’s response time, CPU and memory usage, network and bandwidth usage. New hardware changes/upgrades. Why Load Testing?

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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. During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. until today.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

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.

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