Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

We will also discuss related configuration variables to consider that can impact these KPIs, helping you gain a comprehensive understanding of your MySQL server’s performance and efficiency. Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution.

Performance 105

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 105

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. This can help to ensure that the website or web application remains available and responsive, even during periods of high traffic.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

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 89

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 89

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Improving the efficiency with which we can coordinate work across a collection of units (see the Universal Scalability Law ). So before matching, the IDS/IPS has to reconstruct a TCP bytestream in the face of packet fragmentation, loss, and out-of-order delivery – a process known as reassembly.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

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. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion.

Availability 109

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 109

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

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. Evaluating your hardware requirements is another vital aspect of resource allocation.

Open Source 94

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 94

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. But we can discuss common bottlenecks, how to assess them, and have a better understanding as to why proactive monitoring is so important when it comes to responding to traffic growth.

Traffic 89

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 89

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Usage reduction is a continuous process. Making the use of resources efficiently and ensuring that this does not impact the budget available for cloud computing is not a one-time fix but a continuous cycle of picking properly sized resources and eliminating over-provisioning. Don’t pay for capacity you don’t use or need.

Cloud 120

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 120

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Or think of requesting a new drivers license which requires your implementation to reach out to many dependent systems, e.g. DMV, police records that are needed to kick off the process of renewing or issuing a new license.

Cache 198

Cache Architecture Database Government 198

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Its goal is to assign running processes to time slices of the CPU in a “fair” way. The idea CFS operates by very frequently (every few microseconds) applying a set of heuristics which encapsulate a general concept of best practices around CPU hardware use. In Linux, the current mainstream solution is CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler).

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Each process has its own independent memory that it works with. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently. For everything to work together in harmony, middleware is used to act as the conduit between these different hardware and software components. No Shared Memory. Concurrency. Complexity.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

… to realize these insights, hardware needs to access data at object granularity and must have control over pointers between objects. Hotpads is a hardware-managed hierarchy of scratchpad-like memories called pads. Zippads also has the best reduction in main memory traffic : halving the amount of traffic compared to the baseline.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. Making predictions about web traffic is a very difficult endeavor. Total Cost of Ownership. t need them.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

From retail recommendations to genomics based product development, from financial risk management to start-ups measuring the effect of their new products, from digital marketing to fast processing of clinical trial data, all are taken to the next level by cloud based analytics. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

Far memory brings many potential benefits over near memory: higher memory capacity through disaggregation, separate scaling between processing and far memory, better availability due to separate fault domains for far memory, and better shareability among processors. It’s not all straightforward though. The last word.

Design 80

Design Cache Hardware Scalability 80

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

MySQL replication is a process in which data from a primary MySQL database is copied and sent to one or more secondary databases, known as replicas. Start the replica server’s replication process. If the primary server experiences a failure, the entire replication process could be disrupted. What is MySQL Replication?

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

Thinking back on how SDLC started and what it is today, the only reasons for its success can be accounted to efficiency, speed and most importantly automation – DevOps and cloud-based solutions can be considered major contributors here (after all DevOps is 41% less time-consuming than traditional ops ). . Centralizes the Processes.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

LoadView – Best Practices and Process. It helps assess how a site, web application, or API will respond to various traffic, without adding any additional infrastructure. Executing an internal test can tell you how well your application or site handles an increase in traffic, but it will never reflect real-world conditions.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 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

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

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. RDS also simplifies the process of automatic scaling based on workload demand, adding or subtracting replicas to efficiently distribute read requests and reduce costs during low demand.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic. Bottlenecks can occur, for example, if you have a sudden surge in traffic that your servers are not equipped to handle. What Are the Benefits of Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities. Thus, a responsive mobile view of the website will help you rank higher in the search engines and divert more traffic to grow your business. Best Practices For Mobile Website Testing.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Resource consumption & traffic analysis. Before starting any migration project, you must have a good overview of all your hosts, processes, services and technologies. Step 2: Understand your Dependencies: No Host or Process left alone! How much traffic is sent between two processes hosting a certain service?

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Error tracking is the process of proactively identifying issues and fixing them as quickly as possible. Error monitoring can get increasingly complicated as you deal with bugs reported by users and your production team, which is why having an efficient error tracking workflow from the beginning is so important.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Centralized purchasing found efficiencies by standardizing roles and position specifications and granting preferred partner status to contract labor firms. In theory, standardized buying lifted the burden of negotiation from individual department managers and found cost efficiencies for the company. We staffed poorly, plain and simple.

Innovation 40

Innovation Energy Serverless Hardware 40

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.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Basic navigation and window management features to (e.g.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

assigning to a specific CPU) is a manageable resource, represented by the concept of “virtual CPU” as a term that includes CPU cores, hyperthreads, hardware threads, and so forth. Good examples are: ETL processes for data archiving, reporting, data consolidation and so on. Currently, CPU affinity (i.e., Another cool useless feature???

Tuning 45

Tuning Virtualization Testing Servers 45

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Answering it requires an understanding of how browsers process resources (which differs by type) and the concept of the critical path. This input processing happens on document’s main thread , where JavaScript runs. Processing input (including scrolling w/ active touch listeners). ” A good question!

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Micro-optimizations are great for keeping performance on track, but it’s critical to have clearly defined targets in mind — measurable goals that would influence any decisions made throughout the process. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware. ” (We’ll miss rush hour traffic.) “What if I bring my duffel bag instead of the roll-aboard?” “Here’s our risk model.

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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. Primitives not frameworks.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144