Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Some of the most important elements include: No single point of failure (SPOF): You must eliminate any SPOF in the database environment, including any potential for an SPOF in physical or virtual hardware. Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

Availability 83

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 83

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It simplifies infrastructure management and is the driving force behind many cloud-native applications and services. Kubernetes manages and orchestrates these containers, handling tasks such as deployment, scaling, load balancing, and networking.

Efficiency 106

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 106

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). Are you comfortable setting up your own cloud infrastructure through AWS or Azure? Expert Tip.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Partner Infrastructure team at Netflix provides solutions to support these two significant efforts by enabling device management at scale. 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.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

This is especially the case with microservices and applications created around multiple tiers, where cheaper hardware alternatives play a significant role in the infrastructure footprint. Network measurements with per-interface and per-process resolution. Network metrics are also collected for detected processes.

Java 133

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 133

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.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

Cloud 123

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 123

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Infrastructure Optimization: 100% improvement in Database Connectivity. Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Too many fine-grained services leading to network and communication overhead. Infrastructure Optimization. to 60ms in one of the more frequently used transactions.

Cache 199

Cache Database Architecture Government 199

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Both multi-cloud and hybrid cloud models come with their advantages, like increased flexibility and secure, scalable IT infrastructure but face challenges such as management complexity and integration issues. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail? What is Multi-Cloud?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. These systems can include physical servers, containers, virtual machines, or even a device, or node, that connects and communicates with the network. The recipe was straightforward. Peer-to-Peer.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

No single point of failure (SPOF): If the failure of a database infrastructure component could cause downtime, that component is considered an SPOF. 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.

Availability 88

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 88

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

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. For services, the gains were even more impressive. Conclusion If any of this piques your interest, reach out to us!

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz). The maximum physical layer bit-rate for the 5G network is 1200.98 The short answer is no.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Resource allocation: Personnel, hardware, time, and money The migration to open source requires careful allocation (and knowledge) of the resources available to you. Evaluating your hardware requirements is another vital aspect of resource allocation. Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.)

Open Source 96

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 96

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

DevOps is not a single system, rather it is a combination of many processes – testing, deployment, production, etc – thus, it’s better termed as a ‘distributed infrastructure’. Cloud-based solutions are extremely cheap when compared to building and maintaining a DevOps infrastructure on-premise. Source: FileFlex.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

The idea is to use secondary servers on your infrastructure for either reads or other administrative solutions. Network Connectivity: Establish a reliable network connection between the primary and replica servers. Solutions like Percona XtraDB Cluster are a component to improve the availability of your database infrastructure.

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

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. Total Cost of Ownership. s a summary chart of the TCO analysis. What this chart summarizes is that.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions. Disk measurements with per-disk resolution.

Availability 31

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 31

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

By offloading the task of managing infrastructure to AWS Essent is able to spend more time on innovating on behalf of their customers to help them in their energy usage. Essent has moved to the cloud to take advantage of the low, pay-as you-go, cost model and also the flexibility and scalability the cloud provides.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

When a QoS violation is predicted to occur and a culprit microservice located, Seer uses a lower level tracing infrastructure with hardware monitoring primitives to identify the reason behind the QoS violation. E.g., in memcached there are five main internal stages, each of which has a hardware or software queue associated with it.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Today’s applications are built on multiple technologies, relying on vast networks of third-party providers and CDN’s. It helps assess how a site, web application, or API will respond to various traffic, without adding any additional infrastructure.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

For our migration projects, we simply roll out Dynatrace OneAgents on the existing infrastructure. Resource consumption & traffic analysis. While most of our cloud & platform partners have their own dependency analysis tooling, most of them focus on basic dependency detection based on network connection analysis between hosts.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

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

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions. Disk measurements with per-disk resolution.

Availability 25

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 25

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors. Teachers can interact with their colleagues in professional learning networks.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

In this type of environment, there are many potential sources of failure, stemming from the infrastructure itself (e.g. degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. Defining and running experiments.

Latency 77

Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. Held back by budget and infrastructure restrictions, some organizations have been forced to settle for load tests that paint an incomplete picture. One noteworthy feature is the Network Elements Filter.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. The third team is the infrastructure platform team, who deal with datacenter and cloud based resources. Application Layer FMEA This first example FMEA models the application layer assuming it is implementing a web page or network accessed API.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. Because they lean on the system-provided WebView component, they do not need to pay the expense of a heavier app download to support rendering HTML, running JavaScript, decoding images, or loading network resources. Camera/mic ( getUserMedia() ).

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. The third team is the infrastructure platform team, who deal with datacenter and cloud based resources. Application Layer FMEA This first example FMEA models the application layer assuming it is implementing a web page or network accessed API.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

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. Download today.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Teams with this support are free to set performance budgets, do “bakeoffs” between competing approaches, and invest in performance infrastructure. Where to start?

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Open Connect Open Connect is Netflix’s content delivery network (CDN). An easy, though imprecise, way of thinking about Netflix infrastructure is that everything that happens before you press Play on your remote control (e.g., video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. are you logged in? what plan do you have?

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145