Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 108

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As CTOs, database developers & experts, and DBAs seek more efficient, secure, and scalable cloud services solutions, DBaaS emerges as a compelling choice. The advantages of DBaaS Businesses can use their database services without having to purchase new hardware or set it up. Your data will always be intact.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

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.

Artificial Intelligence 202

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 202

Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

As more organizations adopt generative AI and cloud-native technologies, IT teams confront more challenges with securing their high-performing cloud applications in the face of expanding attack surfaces. Likewise, with observability of systems that run AI models, organizations can predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability.

Artificial Intelligence 229

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Best Practices DevOps 229

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.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. Real-time file processing, for quickly indexing files, processing logs, and validating content.

Lambda 180

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 180

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. High performance and mobility. Fault-tolerance.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Our new eBook, “ From Planning to Performance: MongoDB Upgrade Best Practices ,” guides you through the entire process to ensure your database’s long-term success.

Best Practices 92

Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 92

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

For nonurgent messages, texting is a more efficient approach. In a distributed processing environment, message queuing is similar, although the speed and volume of messages are much greater. A producer creates the message, and a consumer processes it. A given consumer only processes each message once.

Monitoring 199

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 199

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

For nonurgent messages, texting is a more efficient approach. In a distributed processing environment, message queuing is similar, although the speed and volume of messages are much greater. A producer creates the message, and a consumer processes it. A given consumer only processes each message once.

Monitoring 199

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 199

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. A key step in digital transformation is migrating from traditional on-prem IT processes to adopting cloud services. What is cloud migration?

Cloud 165

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! Or even on a plane.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Most IT incident management systems use some form of the following metrics to handle incidents efficiently and maintain uninterrupted service for optimal customer experience. It shows how efficiently your DevOps team is at quickly diagnosing a problem and implementing a fix. What are MTTD, MTTA, MTTF, and MTBF? Mean time to detect.

DevOps 207

DevOps Artificial Intelligence Metrics Network 207

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Efficient lock-free durable sets Zuriel et al., Moreover, for better performance, the processor may change the order in which writes reach the NVRAM, making it difficult for the NVRAM to even reflect a consistent prefix of the computation. Performance evaluation. OOPSLA’19. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

Efficiency 60

Efficiency Cache C++ Performance 60

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

However, the key insight here is that these caches are partially shared among the CPUs, which means that perfect performance isolation of co-hosted containers is not possible. Traditionally it has been the responsibility of the operating system’s task scheduler to mitigate this performance isolation problem. Linux to the rescue?

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

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.

Testing 78

Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

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. The discoveries form inputs into the software development and delivery process, so new software and microservices will better stand up to unforeseeable events.

Engineering 225

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 225

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

APU: Accelerated Processing Unit is the AMD’s Fusion architecture that integrates both CPU and GPU on the same die. APU: Accelerated Processing Unit is the AMD’s Fusion architecture that integrates both CPU and GPU on the same die. BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies. 264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. The success was repeated by H.264/AVC,

Open Source 166

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

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!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. The data in the above definition could also include instructions.

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Breaking that assumption allowed Ceph to introduce a new storage backend called BlueStore with much better performance and predictability, and the ability to support the changing storage hardware landscape. Readers of this blog properly have a pretty good idea what ‘efficient transactions’ and ‘fast metadata operations’ are all about.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

are all prone to performance issues and unexpected outages at some point. Now that we have talked about what an incident is, incident management is the process by which teams resolve these events and bring systems and services back to normal operation. ITSM is the policies, processes, and structure behind the lifecycle of IT services.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

While the technologies have evolved and matured enough, there are still some people thinking that MySQL is only for small projects or that it can’t perform well with large tables. With disks being faster nowadays and CPU and memory resources being cheaper, we could easily say MySQL can handle TBs of data with good performance.

Open Source 93

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 93

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Header bidding and other programmatic advertising developments will multiply the impressions DSPs and SSPs need to process, going from hundreds of billions to trillions. However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. Another adtech infrastructure problem is capacity.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Header bidding and other programmatic advertising developments will multiply the impressions DSPs and SSPs need to process, going from hundreds of billions to trillions. However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. Another adtech infrastructure problem is capacity.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

Interestingly, Xcode provides a testing framework called XCTest to write unit tests, performance tests, and UI tests. Unlike unit tests which are tested in isolation, UI testing is performed on the integration of the multiple classes. We can use these documented statistics to improve the testing and application performance.

Testing 84

Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This allows teams to sidestep much of the cost and time associated with managing hardware, platforms, and operating systems on-premises, while also gaining the flexibility to scale rapidly and efficiently. REST APIs, authentication, databases, email, and video processing all have a home on serverless platforms.

Serverless 243

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 243

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Your customers demand optimal performance, whether they’re the only user or one of a thousand. LoadView – Best Practices and Process. LoadView, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing. Identifying performance bottlenecks.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) joins) during query processing. The queries also require varying amounts of intermediate data to be processed during their execution.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

Today’s paper introduces Zippads , which compared to a state of the art compressed memory hierarchy is able to achieve a 1.63x higher compression ratio and improve performance by 17%. … to realize these insights, hardware needs to access data at object granularity and must have control over pointers between objects. Implications.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. The Sort only has 19 rows to process, so it consumes only 1ms or so. This is very efficient, as confirmed by the elapsed time of 13ms (all of which is CPU time). Performance is competitive at around 15ms. Test Environment.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. Perhaps the biggest win when it comes to making websites more sustainable is that performance, user experience and sustainability are all neatly intertwined. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

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. This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

The current system assumes an application specific regression model is available on the servers which can predict processing time given the current parameters of the job (e.g. These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.). for the wasm-version.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104