Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

A vast majority of the features are the same, outside of these advanced features available through the BYOC model: Virtual Private Clouds / Virtual Networks. Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) and Azure Virtual Networks (VNET) are private, isolated sections of the cloud infrastructure where you can launch resources.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Artificial intelligence can automate tasks ranging from: data analysis resource provisioning system maintenance decision-making natural language processing This not only improves accuracy and reliability but also frees up valuable time for IT teams to focus on strategic tasks, such as resource management on platforms like Google Cloud.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables). PC, smartphone, server) or virtual (virtual machines, cloud gateways). Real-user monitoring (RUM).

Monitoring 202

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 202

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. The recently announced CXL3.0

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

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! Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Testsigma

DECEMBER 12, 2020

But browsers and web development technologies do not seem to be in a happy relationship. To ease out the web development, developers think of new ways to have a dedicated and organised system of sustainable websites such as subgrids. Maybe just changing the code according to browsers and operating systems.

Testing 53

Testing Operating System Website Latency 53

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Serverless computing can be a huge benefit to organizations that don’t have the necessary resources or teams to manage physical resources, like servers/hardware, and all the maintenance and licensing that goes along with that, allowing them to focus on developing their code and applications. Focus on Application Development.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

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., I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

It was created by Alastair Robertson, a talented UK-based developer who has previously won various coding competitions. For example, iostat(1), or a monitoring agent, may tell you your average disk latency, but not the distribution of this latency. watchpoint Memory watchpoint events (in development). system(".")

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2020

Continuous Testing is the process of testing at all stages of software development – one after the another- without any human intervention. Continuous Testing makes it possible to eliminate testing as a bottleneck for faster software development and delivery. Continuous Testing is key to faster delivery of Agile products to the market.

Testing 69

Testing Open Source Scalability Latency 69

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.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

VoltDB

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Virtualization of appliances and systems is seen as a necessary step to add the agility to meet these increasing and evolving service demands. Is there an initiative to define a consensus on what “cloud native” means when evaluating virtual network functions? John Abraham] I don’t think so. There is not a consensus yet.

Latency 40

Latency Virtualization Cloud Software Engineering 40

VoltDB

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Virtualization of appliances and systems is seen as a necessary step to add the agility to meet these increasing and evolving service demands. Is there an initiative to define a consensus on what “cloud native” means when evaluating virtual network functions? John Abraham] I don’t think so. There is not a consensus yet.

Latency 40

Latency Virtualization Cloud Software Engineering 40

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. more capable, and built from the ground up for the modern era of the eBPF virtual machine. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering.

C++ 110

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 110

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

Note that the main developer of HammerDB is Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) however HammerDB is a personal open source project and HammerDB has no optimization whatsoever for a database running on any particular architecture. So to test I took a system with Skylake CPUs and all storage on a P4800X SSD. In the recent MySQL 8.0.16

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

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.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud extends on-premises compute with all the power of AWS, making it elastic, scalable and highly reliable. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. By Werner Vogels on 23 January 2012 12:01 AM.

Storage 115

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 115

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Five SLO examples for faster, more reliable apps Once you get started with these service-level objective examples, you can branch out to develop more targeted SLOs suited for your business. It represents the percentage of time a system or service is expected to be accessible and functioning correctly.

Traffic 173

Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase. In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. Application State Management and Data-Driven Decision Making.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase. In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. Application State Management and Data-Driven Decision Making.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

In recent times, in order to gain valuable insights or to develop the data-driven products companies such as Netflix, Spotify, Uber, AirBnB have built internal data pipelines. This includes both data pipeline developed using batch-driven frameworks such as Apache AirFlow, Luigi, etc. Depending on frameworks, data processing units (a.k.a

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines.

Serverless 243

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 243

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Lastly, the packager kicks in, adding a system layer to the asset, making it ready to be consumed by the clients. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency. Virtual Assembly Figure 3 describes how a virtual assembly of the encoded chunks replaces the physical assembly used in our previous architecture.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Understanding Hybrid Cloud Strategy A hybrid cloud merges the capabilities of public and private clouds into a singular, coherent system. On-Premises Data Center A hybrid cloud architecture necessitates that an organization retains full authority over its physical or virtual infrastructure within the private cloud segment.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Containerized data workloads running on Kubernetes offer several advantages over traditional virtual machine/bare metal based data workloads including but not limited to. faster development and deployment cycles. Heron is a real-time, distributed stream processing engine developed at Twitter. better cluster resource utilization.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. more capable, and built from the ground up for the modern era of the eBPF virtual machine. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering.

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify. What is a Distributed System?

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Synthetic monitoring is also useful for developing baselines of performance. Virtually any application with a user interface can benefit from regular real user monitoring. Analyzing a clinician’s clickstream when using an electronic medical record system to better improve the efficiency of data entry. Want to learn more?

Monitoring 179

Monitoring Latency Mobile Best Practices 179

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. There are different considerations when deciding where to allocate resources with latency and cost being the two obvious ones, but compliance sometimes plays an important role as well. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region.

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

It keeps application processing closer to the data to maintain higher bandwidth and lower latencies, adheres to compliance regulations that don’t yet approve cloud managed services, and allows data center capital investments to be fully amortized before moving to the cloud. AWS System Manager. Getting started.

AWS 131

AWS IoT Virtualization Infrastructure 131

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

To improve availability, we designed systems where components could fail separately and avoid single points of failure. The abstractions that Eureka provides for this are Virtual IPs (VIPs) for insecure communication, and Secure VIPs (SVIPs) for secure. Afterward, Envoy behaves as if the cluster was defined in the config.

Traffic 220

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

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. The key specifications for the Lsv2 series virtual machines are shown in Table 1. They feature low latency, local NVMe storage that can directly leverage the 128 PCIe 3.0

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In that environment, the first PostgreSQL developers decided forking a process for each connection to the database is the safest choice. On modern Linux systems, the difference in overhead between forking a process and creating a thread is much lesser than it used to be. It would be a shame if your database crashed, after all.

Architecture 200

Architecture Database Latency Servers 200

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Only teams that master their systems can make intentional trade-offs.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Build evolvable systems. But we couldn’t adopt the old style approach of upgrading systems through a maintenance outage, as many businesses around the world are relying on our platform for 24/7 availability. We needed to build systems that embrace failure as a natural occurrence even if we did not know what the failure might be.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144