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Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) vs. Dedicated Hosting at ScaleGrid

Scalegrid

This is why our BYOC pricing is less than our Dedicated Hosting pricing, as the costs listed for BYOC are only what you pay for ScaleGrid and don’t include your hardware costs. AWS Security Groups and Azure Network Security Groups allow you to lock down access to your servers through advanced virtual firewalls. Security Groups.

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A Spectrum of Actions, Part II

J. Paul Reed

The “root cause” [sic] was eventually identified and it was related subtle differences in server provisioning. Even though that remediation task was pretty minor — tweaking some low-level hardware settings on each physical server and rebooting — and could have been done quickly enough, there was intense debate on whether it should be done.

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MySQL Capacity Planning

Percona

Unfortunately, this topic is more of an art than a science, given that there is really no foolproof algorithm or approach that can tell you exactly where you might hit a bottleneck with server performance. Hardware considerations The first thing we have to consider here is the resources that the underlying host provides to the database.

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Fun with (columnstore) compression on a very large table – part 1

SQL Performance

This is a copy of the data, on an idle server (8 cores, 64GB RAM), with plenty of disk space (well over 6TB). mdf' ) TO FILEGROUP FG_CCI_PARTITIONED ; On this particular hardware (YMMV!), mdf' ) TO FILEGROUP FG_CCI ; --. ALTER DATABASE OCopy ADD FILE ( name = N'CCI_8' , size = 250000 , filename = 'K:Datao_cci_8.mdf'

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How to Assess MySQL Performance

HammerDB

Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. For the network, we can use Iperf to assess the network bandwidth between the client and the database server to ensure it will be enough to meet our peak requirement. and 8.0.32 HammerDB 4.5

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The top 5 reasons to run your own database benchmarks

HammerDB

As the chart shows because we know that both HammerDB and the implementation of the TPC-C workload scales then we can determine that with this particular database engine both the software and hardware scales as well. If you only test your own application (and if you have more than one application which one will you use for benchmarking?)

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Automating chaos experiments in production

The Morning Paper

degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. Monocle grabs data from the Atlas telemetry system, the tracing system, and by querying runtime servers for configuration information such as time values.

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