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. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. What's changed ?

Storage 199

Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

When a new leader is elected it loads all data from external storage. In that scenario, the system would need to deal with the data propagation latency directly, for example, by use of timeouts or client-originated update tracking mechanisms. Active data includes jobs and tasks that are currently running.

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

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

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. High availability storage options within the context of cloud computing involve highly adaptable storage solutions specifically designed for storing vast amounts of data while providing easy access to it. This also aids scalability down the line.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. Storing frequently accessed data in faster storage, usually in-memory caching, improves data retrieval speed and overall system performance. Beyond

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

ITOps refers to the process of acquiring, designing, deploying, configuring, and maintaining equipment and services that support an organization’s desired business outcomes. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence 208

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 208

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage.

Speed 121

Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

xlarge 4vCPU 8GB-RAM Storage: EBS volume (root) 80GB gp2 (IOPS 240/3000) As well, high availability will be integrated, guaranteeing cluster viability in the case that one worker node goes down. In order to speed up the benchmark indexes must be added. psql pgbench <<_eof1_ qecho adding node citus3.

Database 102

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 102

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

It provides significant advantages that include: Offering scalability to support business expansion Speeding up the execution of business plans Stimulating innovation throughout the company Boosting organizational flexibility, enabling quick adaptation to changing market conditions and competitive pressures.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

’ Stateless is fine until you need state, at which point the coarse-grained solutions offered by current platforms limit the kinds of application designs that work well. On the Cloudburst design teams’ wish list: A running function’s ‘hot’ data should be kept physically nearby for low-latency access.

Lambda 98

Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

million” – Gartner Data observability is a practice that helps organizations understand the full lifecycle of data, from ingestion to storage and usage, to ensure data health and reliability. . “Every year, poor data quality costs organizations an average $12.9

DevOps 198

DevOps Analytics Airlines Metrics 198

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

If, however, there wasn’t a new file on the server, we’ll bring back a 304 header, no new file, but an entire roundtrip of latency. We can completely cut out the overhead of a roundtrip of latency. On high latency connections, this saving could be tangible. What do we mean by a mutable or immutable file? Examples and Recipes.

Cache 264

Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. The client MWW combines these estimates with an estimate of the input/output transmission time (latency) to find the worker with the minimum overall execution latency. The opencv app has the largest state (4.6

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

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. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

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

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

DonHopkins : NeWS differs from the current technology stack in that it was all coherently designed at once by James Gosling and David Rosenthal, by taking several steps back and thinking deeply about all the different problems it was trying to solve together. Some are lucky enough to also have a production environment."

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Yes, these might change based on localization settings, but in terms of storage, it’s still a completely baked cookie that the server can choose to serve or not serve.Whenever a user clicks on an episode, these bits remain unchanged. This ensures a consistent viewing experience, irrespective of the internet speed or quality.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Yes, these might change based on localization settings, but in terms of storage, it’s still a completely baked cookie that the server can choose to serve or not serve.Whenever a user clicks on an episode, these bits remain unchanged. This ensures a consistent viewing experience, irrespective of the internet speed or quality.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

The basic tier provides up to 5 DTUs with standard storage. The standard tier supports from 10 up to 3000 DTUs with standard storage and the premium tier supports 125 up to 4000 DTUs with premium storage, which is orders of magnitude faster than standard storage. vCore Pricing Tier. GB per vCore. HyperScale Database.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

Instead of the table-based structure of relational databases, MongoDB stores data in documents and collections, a design for handling large amounts of unstructured data and for real-time web applications. It’s a good setup for real-time analytics and high-speed logging. It ranks No.

Open Source 74

Open Source Database Scalability Software 74

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. This processor has a base clock speed of 2.0GHz, with an all-core boost speed of 2.55GHz, and a max boost clock speed of 3.0GHz. The L3 cache size is 64MB. Azure Lsv2 Details.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Sometimes developers only care about speed. Some will claim that any type of RPC communication ends up being faster (meaning it has lower latency) than any equivalent invocation using asynchronous messaging. There are more steps, so the increased latency is easily explained. So we’ll just use “RPC” for short.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Latency Servers Systems 97

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

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.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

There will be a considerable gain if we combine this with other sets of great improvements in WAL archiving in PostgreSQL 15, as discussed in previous posts New WAL Archive Module/Library in PostgreSQL 15 and Speed Up of the WAL Archiving in PostgreSQL 15. The actual benefit of compression depends on many factors.

Database 115

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 115

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

The speed of backup also depends on allocated IOPS and type of storage since lots of read/writes would be happening during this process. Percona Backup for MongoDB is an uncomplicated command-line tool by design that lends itself well to backing up larger data sets. Records backup progress logging.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. The advanced Asia Pacific network infrastructure also makes the AWS Tokyo Region a viable low-latency option for customers from South Korea. Subscribe to this weblogs.

AWS 112

AWS Cloud Games Latency 112

All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

At Amazon we have hundreds of teams using machine learning and by making use of the Machine Learning Service we can significantly speed up the time they use to bring their technologies into production. AWS has been offering a range of storage solutions: objects, block storage, databases, archiving, etc. for a while already.

Lambda 122

Lambda Cloud IoT AWS 122

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To do that, you develop a personalized design style, including a certain combination of colors, typography, spacing, animations, and others, and apply the style consistently throughout your site. They can also take part in the unique design so that visitors browsing your site will immediately recognize it simply by looking at the content.

Website 104

Website Social Media Media Design 104

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage. Using the cache as permanent storage is an anti-pattern. Data-loading patterns are one way you can optimize your applications’ speed. More after jump! Jump to online workshops ?. Caching Schemes.

Cache 126

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. Chip design choices and silicon economics are the defining feature of the still-growing Performance Inequality Gap.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget. As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget. As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). Our design needed to scale and be adaptable to the modern hardware on the market.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

It offers reliability and performance of a data warehouse, real-time and low-latency characteristics of a streaming system, and scale and cost-efficiency of a data lake. Delta implements the unified data management layer by extending the Amazon S3 object storage for ACID transactions and automatic data indexing.

Big Data 49

Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49