The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. SOSP’19.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

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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. They maintain fault tolerance and redundancy by replicating this information throughout various nodes in the system.

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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.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

First, he pointed to the infrastructure monitoring capabilities as critical to understanding the impact of hardware failures. You can see the traffic reaching each milestone of an online shopping journey. Auer outlined the key benefits of Dynatrace’s observability for e-commerce use cases and beyond. We really like how Davis works.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Vertical scaling is also often discussed, which involves increasing the resources of a single server, which can have limitations in hardware capabilities and become costly as demands grow. Use the following example command as a guide: rs.initiate( { _id: "<configReplSetName>", configsvr: true, members: [ { _id : 0, host : "<cfg1.example.net:27019>"

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Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

With streaming services, for example, excessive downtime could result in significant financial and reputational losses for the business. For example, in a server cluster, multiple servers are used to host the same application so that if one server fails, the application can continue to run on the other servers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. For example, when running tests, the state of the device will change from “available for testing” to “in test.” In this blog post, we will focus on the latter feature set.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Let’s dive in and learn how (and what) to effectively monitor MySQL performance, along with examples from PMM, by understanding the critical KPIs to watch for. This is not an exhaustive list but an example of what we can watch for. That said, it should also be monitored for usage, which will exhibit the traffic pressuring them.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Today’s paper choice is a wonderful example of pushing the state of the art on a single server. When used in prevention mode (IPS), this all has to happen inline over incoming traffic to block any traffic with suspicious signatures. This makes the whole system latency sensitive. The target FPGA for Pigasus has 16MB of BRAM.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). Let’s walk through an example: Database: MySQL. Where to host your cloud database?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Below is an example of such a simple dashboard. Mobile app rating is a good example of Objective Driven Development. For availability, I always propose to use Dynatrace Synthetic vs looking at real user traffic. How to measure those end-user and service focused SLOs with Dynatrace. Availability. Error rate. Probably not.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands. It distributes the load among containers and nodes automatically, ensuring that your application can handle any spike in traffic without the need for manual intervention from an IT staff.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

For example, an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance with Graviton2 processors will be a better choice than non-ARM options, as it’s cheaper, and you will get real and faster cores which means the CPU cores are physical and not with hyper-threading. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is your good-to-go option for disk space.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

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. As an illustrative example, let’s consider a toy instance of 16 hyperthreads. It has 8 physical hyperthreaded cores, split on 2 NUMA sockets.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. MAMPU showed two great examples for this section; database connectivity and web-server threats. Dynatrace gave them automated insights into traffic behavior and the impact of queued up requests to the end-users (up to 3s queue time).

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Cache Architecture Database Government 203

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Real-world examples like Spotify’s multi-cloud strategy for cost reduction and performance, and Netflix’s hybrid cloud setup for efficient content streaming and creation, illustrate the practical applications of each model. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail?

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Modern web applications and pages, such as single-page applications, that put the user experience at its utmost priority are expected to be available 24/7, anywhere in the world, usable on any screen size, secure, flexible, scalable and be ready to meet traffic spikes on demand. Hardware resources. Hardware Resources.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Programmers continue to write applications in them, and they continue to evolve: the just approved C++20 standard is the latest example. For example, we should care less if a proposed mobile chip or compiler optimization slows down SPEC, and care more if it speeds up Python or JavaScript! MICRO 15 , Gope et al.,

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C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2019

See audit log example below: audit.cluster.event.log. Starting with version 1.170, hardware updates are applied automatically when services are restarted. An agent field is provided for enabling/disabling OneAgent traffic on individual nodes. Audit logs are available on individual nodes at DATASTORE_PATH/log/server.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here are some examples: In the e-commerce sector, websites such as Amazon and Flipkart employ DBMS to oversee extensive customer databases, monitor sales orders, track returns, and manage faulty products. Practical Applications of DBMS DBMS finds practical applications in various fields.

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Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Ok, so maybe that is an oversimplified example, but you get the point. For example, you can think of a cell phone network as a type of distributed system, consisting of a network of internet-connected devices that share resources workload. Blockchain is a good example of this. Awesome, everything is running as expected.

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Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

So while you probably won’t be using Zippads in practice anytime soon, it’s a wonderful example of what’s possible when you’re prepared to take a fresh look at “the way we’ve always done things.” Hotpads is a hardware-managed hierarchy of scratchpad-like memories called pads. ” The big idea. Implications.

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Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. This not only enhances performance but also enables you to make more efficient use of your hardware resources, potentially resulting in cost savings on infrastructure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires. To support the demands of our stakeholders we designed a Domain Specific Language (DSL) that we call an asset generation recipe. We call these adaptive fields.

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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. It’s important to note that recommended throughput levels may vary depending on factors such as operating system type, network bandwidth availability, and hardware quality.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites. Demand Engineering Demand Engineering is responsible for Regional Failovers , Traffic Distribution, Capacity Operations and Fleet Efficiency of the Netflix cloud.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it. In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware.

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Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

HammerDB has always used stored procedures as a design decision because the original benchmark was implemented as close as possible to the example workload in the TPC-C specification that uses stored procedures. As an example from the TPC-C specification, this is the Stock Level procedure.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the simplest case, you have a growing workload, and you optimize it to run more efficiently so that you don’t need to buy or rent additional hardware, so your carbon footprint stays the same, but the carbon per transaction or operation is going down. As an example, many of us now have electric cars and solar panels.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run. Can you afford the necessary hardware, software, and operational costs of maintaining a PostgreSQL HA solution? there cannot be high availability.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

Essentially, all traffic between China and the rest of the world goes through a few national level and a handful of core level access points in different regions. The censorship and monitoring of internet have evolved from anti-virus-like and firewall software to hardware security patches for all devices that uses internet.

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Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. Organizations working with the UK government to build new digital services, for example, are required to meet standards defined in their Greening Government ICT and Digital Services Strategy. Terabyte of wasted traffic. With approx.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

This paper is all about the design of efficient data structures for far-memory, which turns out to have consequences reaching all the way down to the hardware. To manage the scalability of notifications the subscribers of the hardware primitives are compute nodes, and a software layer on each compute node demultiplexes incoming notifications.

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John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to Dr. Bandwidth, performance analysis has two recurring themes: How fast should this code (or “simple” variations on this code) run on this hardware? The user environment defines the mapping of MPI ranks to hardware resources (cores, sockets, nodes). The MPI runtime library. in ways that are seldom transparent.

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Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

The below diagram shows an example of a MySQL replication environment. Below is an example architecture for Group Replication. For example, the exact same INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statements are executed by the replica. When a problem is detected, these tools automatically redirect traffic to a standby replica.

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