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Seeing through hardware counters: a journey to threefold performance increase

The Netflix TechBlog

Special thanks to Sandhya Viswanathan , Jennifer Dimatteo , Brendan Gregg , Susie Xia , Jason Koch , Mike Huang , Amer Ather , Chris Berry , Chris Sanden , and Guy Cirino Seeing through hardware counters: a journey to threefold performance increase was originally published in Netflix TechBlog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation (..)

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How Virtualization Helps Security

DZone

This allows users to interact with any hardware resource through a digital interface. Virtualization is a technology that can create servers, storage devices, and networks all in virtual space. Devices connect to a virtual network to share data and resources.

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How to Optimize CPU Performance Through Isolation and System Tuning

DZone

In modern production environments, there are numerous hardware and software hooks that can be adjusted to improve latency and throughput. To achieve this level of performance, such systems require dedicated CPU cores that are free from interruptions by other processes, together with wider system tuning.

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How To Run a Docker Container on the Cloud: Top 5 CaaS Solutions

DZone

Containerization simplifies the software development process because it eliminates dealing with dependencies and working with specific hardware. In the past few years, there has been a growing number of organizations and developers joining the Docker journey. But, it can be quite confusing how to run a container on the cloud.

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SQL Server Hardware Optimization

SQL Server Performance

An important concern in optimizing the hardware platform is hardware components that restrict performance, known as bottlenecks. Quite often, the problem isn’t correcting performance bottlenecks as much as it is identifying them in the first place. Start with obtaining a performance baseline.

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Monitoring Web Servers Should Never Be Complex

DZone

For example, you can monitor the behavior of your applications, the hardware usage of your server nodes, or even the network traffic between servers. One prominent solution is the open-source tool Nagios which allows you to monitor hardware in every detail.

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Create A Bitcoin Hardware Wallet With Golang And A Raspberry Pi Zero

The Polyglot Developer

Over the past month or so, in my free time, I’ve been working towards creating an affordable hardware wallet for various cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Right now many cryptocurrency enthusiasts are using the Ledger Nano S hardware wallet, but those are very expensive and rarely in supply.