The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., Here the first finding was that the current strategy for determining when to hand-off has a 25% probability of worsening your link performance after handover. Application performance. SIGCOMM’20.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

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. I think it’s a different team with different expertise from the more infrastructure oriented Container Platform Team that provides a place for applications to run.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Most existing adtech infrastructure simply can not achieve the required latency. Another adtech infrastructure problem is capacity. This surge in impressions will strain or break existing infrastructure, which wasn’t architected to handle data at this scale. The simple answer is to just spin up more servers.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Most existing adtech infrastructure simply can not achieve the required latency. Another adtech infrastructure problem is capacity. This surge in impressions will strain or break existing infrastructure, which wasn’t architected to handle data at this scale. The simple answer is to just spin up more servers.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Your customers demand optimal performance, whether they’re the only user or one of a thousand. LoadView, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing. Identifying performance bottlenecks. Finding upper limits of your current systems for capacity planning.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Serverless computing can be a huge benefit to organizations that don’t have the necessary resources or teams to manage physical resources, like servers/hardware, and all the maintenance and licensing that goes along with that, allowing them to focus on developing their code and applications. Benefits of a Serverless Model. Scalability.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., Finally, we show that Seer can identify application level design bugs, and provide insights on how to better architect microservices to achieve predictable performance. ASPLOS’19.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

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

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. What is always-on infrastructure?

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 182

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Our Premium High Availability comes with the following features: Active-active deployment model for optimum hardware utilization. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. – A Dynatrace customer, Head of Performance Engineering. Save on costs for hardware and network bandwidth to optimize total cost of ownership.

Availability 247

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 247

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. What is Docker? Container deployment.

Open Source 301

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 301

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.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

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

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

He joined us at Perform 2021 to share his experience, highlighting why automatic and intelligent observability and AIOps are crucial. First, he pointed to the infrastructure monitoring capabilities as critical to understanding the impact of hardware failures. SAP makes observability a first-class citizen.

Retail 242

Retail Cloud Monitoring Hardware 242

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 122

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 122

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Digital Performance: 99% reduction in Response Time, from 18.2s Infrastructure Optimization: 100% improvement in Database Connectivity. Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Here are two I would start with: Web Performance Optimization with Dynatrace.

Cache 198

Cache Architecture Database Government 198

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’ll wrap it up by suggesting high availability open source solutions, and we’ll introduce you to support options for ensuring continuous high performance from your systems. Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. What is fault tolerance?

Availability 80

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 80

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Large Seasonal Peaks – Our largest community supports TurboTax where the peak traffic during February or April is often 100s of times greater than a quiet day in June. Moving to AWS has enabled us with operational agility to deliver more value to those customers without having to worry about scale and infrastructure maintenance.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion.

Availability 111

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

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. Host performance measures. For details on available metrics, see host performance monitoring.

Java 133

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 133

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.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Community support One of the most significant advantages of open source databases is the expansive global community of users, developers, DBAs, and enthusiasts who collaborate to provide a seemingly never-ending array of how-tos, resources, guidance, and solutions to help you make your database more performant and secure.

Open Source 96

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 96

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.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

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., Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. are you logged in?

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

The immediate (working) goal and requirements of HA architecture The more immediate (and “working” goal) of an HA architecture is to bring together a combination of extensions, tools, hardware, software, etc., Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

Architecture 100

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 100

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For availability, I always propose to use Dynatrace Synthetic vs looking at real user traffic. Because Synthetic tests are predictable and eliminate any seasonal behavior or impact of the end user’s environment (defect hardware, bad Wi-Fi, etc.). For our SLO the only thing we need is the default Mobile Crash Rate metric. Availability.

DevOps 204

DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics 204

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It simplifies infrastructure management and is the driving force behind many cloud-native applications and services. Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands.

Efficiency 106

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 106

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Scalability is a significant concern, as databases must handle growing data volumes and user demands while maintaining peak performance. Horizontal scaling enhances performance and capacity as the workload is shared across multiple machines, reducing the risk of a single point of failure.

Best Practices 73

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 73

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

It enables businesses and organizations to meet uptime and service level objectives, protect business-critical data, and maintain performant databases. No single point of failure (SPOF): If the failure of a database infrastructure component could cause downtime, that component is considered an SPOF. there cannot be high availability.

Availability 85

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 85

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

The idea is to use secondary servers on your infrastructure for either reads or other administrative solutions. Perform routine maintenance and backups to ensure data integrity. Remember that semi-synchronous replication impacts performance because it needs to wait for the round trip of the actual ACK from the replica.

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

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

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Plus there was all of the infrastructure to push data into the cluster in the first place. Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware. Not that you’ll even need GPU access all that often.

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently. A distributed system comprises of a variety of hardware and software components with different operating systems and technologies, meaning the processors are separate and independent of each other. State is distributed through the system. Concurrency.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

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. Performing the Load Test. Creating a Script.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144