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 pricing details for the East US region are here , as an example. The key specifications for the Lsv2 series virtual machines are shown in Table 1. SQL Server Impact.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). You can observe the metrics across service instances split by region (in this example, API Gateways in us-east-1 and us-east-2 ). Dynatrace news.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 135

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). You can observe the metrics across service instances split by region (in this example, API Gateways in us-east-1 and us-east-2 ). Dynatrace news.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 132

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 16, 2019

There are places so remote, so harsh that humans can't safely explore them (for example, hundreds of miles below the earth, areas that experience extreme temperatures, or on other planets). Already, IoT is delivering deep and precise insights to improve virtually every aspect of our lives.

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IoT Healthcare Internet Internet 126

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Yes, these might change based on localization settings, but in terms of storage, it’s still a completely baked cookie that the server can choose to serve or not serve.Whenever a user clicks on an episode, these bits remain unchanged. Developed by none other than Apple, HLS is vital in minimizing delays, known in the tech world as latency!When

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Yes, these might change based on localization settings, but in terms of storage, it’s still a completely baked cookie that the server can choose to serve or not serve.Whenever a user clicks on an episode, these bits remain unchanged. Developed by none other than Apple, HLS is vital in minimizing delays, known in the tech world as latency!When

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For example, if you’re deploying the infrastructure for an e-commerce website, security becomes a fundamental requirement. For example, the first 10TB to South America cost $0.11.Source: For example, Lambda@Edge request pricing is $0.6 However, if your traffic is dynamic, you'll need a CDN that can adapt.Â

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Traffic Cache Strategy 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 14, 2021

The Microsoft Azure IoT ecosystem offers a rich set of capabilities for processing IoT telemetry, from its arrival in the cloud through its storage in databases and data lakes. For example, here are some scenarios in which stateful, real-time introspection can create important insights. Azure digital twins serve a different purpose.

IoT 52

IoT Azure Analytics Serverless 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

Incoming data is saved into data storage (historian database or log store) for query by operational managers who must attempt to find the highest priority issues that require their attention. The best they can usually do in real-time using general purpose tools is to filter and look for patterns of interest.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100. The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees. Without further ado, let’s start with the OS settings.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For example, if you’re deploying the infrastructure for an e-commerce website, security becomes a fundamental requirement. For example, the first 10TB to South America cost $0.11.Source: For example, Lambda@Edge request pricing is $0.6 What features are important to you? Some CDNs offer features like security and load balancing.

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Traffic Cache Strategy 52

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

However in the Skylake microarchitecture (you can see a list of CPUs here ) the PAUSE instruction changed and in the documentation it says “the latency of the PAUSE instruction in prior generation microarchitectures is about 10 cycles, whereas in Skylake microarchitecture it has been extended to as many as 140 cycles.”

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

Here’s how the same test performed when running Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 14 on these same servers: Queries: reads Queries: writes Queries: other Queries: total Transactions Latency (95th) MySQL (A) 1584986 1645000 245322 3475308 122277 20137.61 We have long been surfing the virtualization wave (to keep it broad).

Tuning 137

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 137

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In both cases, when using virtually-synchronous replication, the process will require certification from each node and local (by node) write; as such, the number of writes is NOT distributed across multiple nodes but duplicated. Because the solutions still rely on writing in one single node that works as Primary. Why ProxySQL?

Traffic 125

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 125

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

For example HammerDB has not used tpmC terminology to report TPC-C based metrics instead using TPM and NOPM nomenclature. For TPC-C this meant enough available spindles to reduce I/O latency and for TPC-H enough bandwidth for data throughput. This was both expensive and time consuming to configure.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Therefore any programming abstraction must be low latency and the kernel needs to be kept off the path of persistent data access as much as possible. Traditional pointers address a memory location (often virtual of course). For example, a whole B-tree might be a single persistent object.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

By transparently distributing stored objects across a cluster of servers (physical or virtual), it automatically scales performance for fast-growing workloads and maintains consistently low access latency. Consider the above example of querying shopping carts exceeding a threshold value. The Challenges with Parallel Queries.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

By transparently distributing stored objects across a cluster of servers (physical or virtual), it automatically scales performance for fast-growing workloads and maintains consistently low access latency. Consider the above example of querying shopping carts exceeding a threshold value. The Challenges with Parallel Queries.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

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 access to external storage and data locality (I/O, bandwidth). Twitter Heron is another good example of this approach. Storage provisioning.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 18, 2018

For each resource there’s usually an underlying or bare metal version, a virtualized resource and sometimes also a containerized resource. This is true for CPU, network, memory and storage, and also for bare metal, virtual machines, containers, processes, functions and threads. I’ve seen problematic examples in the past.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Systems Virtualization Metrics 40

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

Real-World Example Problem. In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget. This goal has been attempted to be addressed from the beginning of time: think of Object Oriented Programming, Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Service Bus and now Microservices. Real-time order management.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

Real-World Example Problem. In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget. This goal has been attempted to be addressed from the beginning of time: think of Object Oriented Programming, Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Service Bus and now Microservices. Real-time order management.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As with the previous guides as an Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) the examples are taken from a MySQL 8 on Linux on Intel system and the approach is the same for whatever system you are testing although some of the settings you see may be different. an example is shown of the shortest of these: . HammerDB difference from Sysbench.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As an example, cloud-based post-production editing and collaboration pipelines demand a complex set of functionalities, including the generation and hosting of high quality proxy content. The following table gives us an example of file sizes for 4K ProRes 422 HQ proxies.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These nodes and edges require a good amount of compute and storage which is typically distributed across a large number servers either running in the cloud or your own data center. Every time data spikes - a phenomenon which will be not predictable in most cases - overall latency to process the data using data pipeline will go up.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Additionally for the log disk component it is latency for an individual write that is crucial rather than the total I/O bandwidth. The first example shows a data load, the second a TPC-C based workload with 5 virtual users and the 2nd example with 10 virtual users. Oracle Log File Sync. Checkpoint not complete.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 40

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

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. To make use of the services in this region, customers will use the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to organize their AWS resources. More information.

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Here's some output from my zfsdist tool, in bcc/BPF, which measures ZFS latency as a histogram on Linux: # zfsdist. Tracing ZFS operation latency. For example, although it's very minor, the /dev/*random devices were faster on Solaris last time I checked, as Linux was spending more effort on entropy for improving security. (Or,

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage. SQL Server defines stable media as storage that can survive system restart or common failure. Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

As ​​ a ​​ simple ​​ example, ​​ take the following ​​ 2-byte string value of “AB” and apply a formula to it (Value = Position + ASCII value). ​​ Checksum ​​ is ​​ the sum of the values.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Lift & Shift is where you basically just move physical or virtual hosts to the cloud – essentially you just run your host on somebody else’s hardware. Remember: This is a critical aspect as you do not want to migrate a service and suddenly introduce high latency or costs to a system that you forgot about having a dependency with!

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 5, 2021

Here is an example of globally distributed production where several artists and workflows work in conjunction to create and share assets for one or many projects. These artists may want to create personal workspaces and work on generating intermediate assets. The major pieces, as shown in Fig.

Media 174

Media Storage Architecture Cloud 174

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

For example, the IMDG must be able to efficiently create millions of objects in each server to make use of its huge storage capacity. Likewise, object access paths must be heavily multi-threaded and avoid lock contention to minimize access latency and maximize throughput.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. Now in development in WebKit after years of radio silence, WebXR APIs provide Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality input and scene information to web applications. For example, an area where Apple is absolutely killing it is in mobile CPU design. Offscreen Canvas.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

For example, to make performance more tangible, you could expose the revenue performance impact by showing the correlation between the conversion rate and time to application load, as well as rendering performance. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

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. Developing a NIC that supported single root IO virtualization allowed us to give each VM its own hardware virtualized NIC.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. The importance of relationships.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134