Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

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Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 208

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

Narrowing the gap between serverless and its state with storage functions , Zhang et al., Shredder is " a low-latency multi-tenant cloud store that allows small units of computation to be performed directly within storage nodes. " In from of them is a networking layer, and the in-memory storage layer holds the actual data.

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Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity. Since its introduction in the 1960s, the concept of DBMS has undergone significant evolution.

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Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rachel Kelley (AWS), Ranjit Raju (AWS) Rendering is core to the the VFX process VFX studios around the world create amazing imagery for Netflix productions. By: Peter Cioni (Netflix), Alex Schworer (Netflix), Mac Moore (Conductor Tech.), via direct plug-ins, and is available on multi-cloud platform services.

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Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 282

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. What is a distributed storage backend? SOSP’19. This is not surprising in hindsight.

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Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

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. However these improvements are of critical importance for those who have been exposed to the problems that these improvements are designed to solve.

Best Practices 202

Best Practices Storage Java Benchmarking 202

Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

Journal It’s a process where every write operation gets written (appended) from Memory to a Journal file, AKA transaction log that exists on disk at a specific interval configured using “ journalCommitIntervalMs.” Although both the processes (involving disk) might look the same, they have different purposes.

Hardware 85

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

For example: UUID=f41e390f-835b-4223-a9bb-9b45984ddf8d / xfs rw,noatime,attr2,inode64,noquota 0 0 Unix ulimit settings Most UNIX-like operating systems, including Linux and macOS, provide ways to limit and control the usage of system resources such as threads, files, and network connections on a per-process and per-user basis.

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ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Editor’s Note: This post was submitted as a rebuttal to Andrew Chien’s July 24 SIGARCH Blog Post ) The recent post “ Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem ” by Prof. These tools account for differences among fab locations and fabrication processes.

Energy 98

Energy Architecture Hardware Metrics 98

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Our Premium High Availability comes with the following features: Active-active deployment model for optimum hardware utilization. Save on costs for hardware and network bandwidth to optimize total cost of ownership. Dynatrace Managed Premium High Availability provides cost savings in terms of compute and storage allocations.

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Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 251

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. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. It became clear that real-time query processing and in-stream processing is the immediate need in many practical applications. Fault-tolerance. Interoperability with Hadoop.

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Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

PWAs are designed to work offline, be fast, and provide a seamless user experience across different devices. Motion UI Motion UI is a design trend involving animation and other interactive elements to create a more dynamic and engaging user experience. They thus adapt to the user's browser, screen size, and device specifications.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover key insights and strategic advice in our article, designed to steer you toward the best cloud solution that fits your company’s priorities. ScaleGrid offers solutions that address these difficulties by simplifying administration processes in multi-cloud environments and enabling smooth integration among various cloud platforms.

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Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Usage reduction is a continuous process. From AWS documentation , Amazon EBS is an easy-to-use, scalable, high-performance block-storage service designed for Amazon EC2. Figure 2: Amazon Elastic Block Storage Running relational or NoSQL databases is one of the use cases where EBS is recommended for.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier. In this section, we’ll outline the essential steps involved in migrating to open source databases.

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 89

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.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

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 support the demands of our stakeholders we designed a Domain Specific Language (DSL) that we call an asset generation recipe.

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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. A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results. MySQL relies heavily on the availability of hardware resources to perform at its best.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” Cloud computing? ” scenarios at industrial scale.

Hardware 97

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements. The majority of SPOFs are a consequence of scale, where designs that were once adequate (excellent, even) no longer meet evolving, more complex requirements. Failover is essential to minimizing downtime.

Availability 82

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 82

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

About the cluster Following a step-by-step process, the objective is to create a four-node cluster consisting of: PostgreSQL version 15 Citus extension (I’ll be using version 11, but there are newer ones available.) psql pgbench <<_eof1_ qecho adding node citus3.

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Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 102

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. your resource usage.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. In this blog, we will answer all of these important questions and provide a general overview comparing the two database services, Aurora vs RDS.

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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.,

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

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. Each replica set can have multiple mongod processes (up to 50), but avoid using arbiters or zero-priority members.

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Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 70

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

Otherwise, the storage engine does a scatter-gather and queries ALL partitions in a UNION that is not concurrent. If you don’t have well-designed and small columns for this composite primary key, it could enlarge all of your secondary indexes. These benefits collectively contribute to a more efficient database environment.

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

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 storage, FIO is generally used. Storage: The system has a SATA drive for the operating system and one NVMe (Intel SSD D7-P5510 (3.84 Database: MySQL 8.0.31

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This removes the burden of purchasing and maintaining your hardware, storage and networking infrastructure, while still giving you a very familiar experience with Windows and SQL Server itself. Microsoft currently has eight main types of virtual machines designed for different types of workloads. Azure VM Types and Series.

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HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

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. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems.

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Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Most organizations are embracing DevSecOps, a term that covers processes and tooling enabling security to be integrated into the application development life cycle rather than treated as a separate process. It comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic.

Cloud 77

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 77

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Key areas include: Configuration parameter tuning : This tuning involves altering variables such as memory allocation, disk I/O settings, and concurrent connections based on specific hardware and requirements. Throughput: The throughput of an application is directly influenced by the speed at which the database can process and serve queries.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

Make sure you design the data types correctly while planning for the future growth of the table. Compression: Compression is the process of restructuring the data by changing its encoding in order to store it in fewer bytes. It can help us to save costs on storage and backup times. 1 mysql mysql 592K Dec 30 02:48 tb1.ibd

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Open Source Storage Database Big Data 85

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Also included is a lightweight conversion process back to JPEG format in order to serve clients that only support legacy JPEG. There is a potential benefit in reusing the hardware in place for video compression/decompression. Existing JPEG files can be losslessly transcoded to JPEG XL while achieving file size reduction.

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Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

Tech News Gather

JULY 19, 2023

Smart home automation is the process of automating your house by using Internet of Things (IoT) devices to manage your lights, appliances, HVAC, entertainment, security cameras, and alarms, and other sensors for things like water or gas leaks. During the registration process, the user must choose a unique username and password.

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Wireless IoT Development Internet 52

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. If the kernel isn’t involved in the persistent data access path, then we need a hardware solution to enforce access control. What about security?

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Hardware Programming Media Storage 56