Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This is sometimes referred to as using an “over-cloud” model that involves a centrally managed resource pool that spans all parts of a connected global network with internal connections between regional borders, such as two instances in IAD-ORD for NYC-JS webpage DNS routing.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

How IT operations teams can de-silo monitoring data According to the Gartner report, “IT operations practitioners may be in specific silos, such as the network team, server team, virtualization team, application support team or other cross-functional teams (such as a generalized monitoring team).

Monitoring 231

Monitoring Artificial Intelligence Performance Analytics 231

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

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 Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” via direct plug-ins, and is available on multi-cloud platform services. Additionally, Conductor supports render management systems?—?including

Cloud 282

Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 282

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. This increases the cores and network bandwidth available to serve common requests.

Storage 199

Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

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

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

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

AWS 252

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 252

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. Effective monitoring of key performance indicators plays a crucial role in maintaining this optimal speed of operation.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

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

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

Simply put, in a MySQL semisynchronous replication configuration, the master commits transactions to the storage engine only after receiving acknowledgement from at least one of the slaves. Managing The Execution Speed of The Slaves. The default design of the ScaleGrid HA framework is to avoid falling back to asynchronous mode.

Availability 113

Availability Tuning Speed Network 113

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While speeding up development processes and reducing complexity does make the lives of Kubernetes operators easier, the inherent abstraction and automation can lead to new types of errors that are difficult to find, troubleshoot, and prevent. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host.

Virtualization 162

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 162

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

## References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

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 4.22 %usr 38.40

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

When a new leader is elected it loads all data from external storage. The path over which data travels from Titus Job Coordinator to a Titus Gateway cache can be described as a sequence of event queues with different processing speeds: A message generated by the event source may be buffered at any stage.

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. Any asset that carries the no-store directive will always hit the network, no matter what. How is your knowledge of caching and Cache-Control headers? Now we’d use no-store.

Cache 264

Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. This way, even if a user desires to watch in 4K but lacks the necessary network resources, HLS steps in to offer a lower-quality version.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

An incremental backup, which is faster and requires less storage than a full backup, captures changes made since the previous backup. Some of them include: Redundant hardware: Both HA and DR use redundant hardware components, including servers and storage devices. It’s suitable for databases with moderate change rates.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. Â The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. This way, even if a user desires to watch in 4K but lacks the necessary network resources, HLS steps in to offer a lower-quality version.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

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

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

But OpenShift provides comprehensive multi-tenancy features, advanced security and monitoring, integrated storage, and CI/CD pipeline management right out of the box. By removing concerns around storage, security, and lifecycle management, businesses can instead focus on application development, support, and evolution. The result?

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

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

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

Cache 126

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

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. Physalia is designed to offer consistency and high-availability, even under network partitions.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. IndexedDB is an in-browser NoSQL storage system that you can use to cache and retrieve the required data to make your PWA work offline.

Cache 124

Cache Internet Internet Google 124

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

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] , Jul 2008 [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] , 2010 [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

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

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web development is evolving at a rapid speed with each passing year. And so, it optimizes the page loading speed and reduces the bounce rate. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Its visual design pattern became a mainstream trend in web app development.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

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

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.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In the Application panel go to Storage > Cookies to either clear all cookies or an individual cookie. Device Mode You can test your website and media queries to see if your responsive design is breaking anywhere by going into device mode. Network Throttling Profiles You can now also add custom networking throttling profiles.

Google 85

Google Website Network Media 85

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Autoscaling tiered cloud storage in Anna. I don’t think so in this case, but this paper will take you down into the nitty-gritty of getting the best out of modern processors and networks, with up to two orders of magnitude single node throughput gains to be had. What if the network was no longer the bottleneck? Do we want that?

Blockchain 46

Blockchain Hardware Google Analytics 46

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

However, amidst the drive for speed, ensuring policy compliance is often overlooked, leading to potential security vulnerabilities and compliance risks. Conftest : Conftest is a tool designed to enforce policies on configuration files. OPA can be integrated with a wide range of tools and systems, making it highly versatile.

AWS 52

AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52