Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

As organizations expand their cloud footprints, they are combining public, private, and on-premises infrastructures. But modern cloud infrastructure is large, complex, and dynamic — and over time, this cloud complexity can impede innovation. Dynatrace news. As a result, VA had to rapidly scale its on-premises Citrix environment.

Cloud 171

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 171

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

Some time ago we released a quick-start template for deploying Managed clusters on AWS infrastructure and Microsoft Azure is supported as well. You can now automatically leverage the benefits of the Dynatrace Managed offering with your GCP infrastructure. For more details, see Dynatrace Managed hardware and systems requirements.

Cloud 203

Cloud Availability Azure Google 203

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. It also supports the flexibility and scalability of the database infrastructure.

Availability 105

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your app runs in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the provider secures the infrastructure, while you’re responsible for security measures within applications and configurations. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications?

Cloud 171

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 171

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits you need while spending less, based on the recommendations presented by Dani Guzmán Burgos, our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Tech Lead, on this webinar (now available on demand) hosted in November last year. Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs.

Cloud 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Infrastructure Optimization: 100% improvement in Database Connectivity. Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Infrastructure Optimization. Digital Performance: 99% reduction in Response Time, from 18.2s to 60ms in one of the more frequently used transactions.

Cache 193

Cache Architecture Database Government 193

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

Strap yourself in; here is a non-exhaustive list presented in no particular order: Latency: As above, we’re counting a trip out to and a return trip from the server. Rather, your TTFB represents any number of the items present above. But what else is TTFB?

Latency 269

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), Failover is essential to minimizing downtime.

Availability 83

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 83

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A three-tier system is a software application architecture that consists of a presentation layer, application layer, and data, or core, layer. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently. Blockchain is a good example of this. There is no single server or machine that takes care of the workload.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources. For all its virtues, message queuing presents some challenges from an observability perspective. Message queue software options to consider.

Monitoring 193

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 193

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources. For all its virtues, message queuing presents some challenges from an observability perspective. Message queue software options to consider.

Monitoring 192

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 192

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

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 Cloud 213

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. We are working on multiple fronts to extend the solution presented here. It’s not often that you can have your cake and eat it too.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) have altered the many assumptions that guided the design and optimization of the Snowflake system.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

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 90

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 90

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It provides detailed information about memory utilization as well as presenting visual representations of CPU consumption with little effort required from users. These feedback loops allow you to develop more accurate assessments when deploying new versions or updates related to Redis® infrastructure.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

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

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

HotOS’19 is presenting me with something of a problem as there are so many interesting looking papers in the proceedings this year it’s going to be hard to cover them all! Different hardware architectures (CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, …) offer different performance and cost trade-offs. HotOS’19.

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

What I learned at GlueCon 2023 — Tipping Points and Generative AI The final slide of my GlueCon keynote featuring a sunset over a pool in Maui — picture by Adrian I’ve presented at GlueCon many times over the last decade or so. Rob Hirschfeld of RackN had this perspective on the impact of AI on his domain of infrastructure automation.

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

The initial implementation was removed from Blink post-fork and re-implemented on new infrastructure several years later. Helps developers present better, more contextual options and prompts, reducing user annoyance and "prompt spam" Screen Wakelock. is access to hardware devices. position: sticky. CSS color().

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. The security and data storage infrastructure has to meet certain security compliances and standards; only then, the infrastructure is good to go for testing. Picture Source: StatCounter.

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Fast forward to the present day and we find ourselves in a world where the number of connected devices is constantly increasing. As Tyler Akiadu, from Google, explained in his Strata NY 2017 presentation, “ Foundations of streaming SQL ”: “Streams are the in-motion form of data, both bounded and unbounded.”

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. This 2GiB RAM, Android 9 stalwart features the all-too classic lines of a Quad-core A53 (1.4GHz, small mercies) CPU, tastefully presented in a charming 5.5"

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

ITSM is one of the practices of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, or ITIL. Software services still require physical devices and hardware for them to function. This can also lead to identifying further opportunities where weaknesses may be present. It is much more than just IT support. Asset Management.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

When even a bit of React can be a problem on devices slow and fast alike, using it is an intentional choice that effectively excludes people with low-end hardware. I believe this range of mobile hardware will be illustrative of performance across a broad spectrum of device capabilities, even if it’s slightly heavy on the Apple side.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. When there’s three ways to succeed, we still have two ways to succeed when a failure is present, and if data is corrupted, we can tell which of the three is the odd one out. There is no need to retry and no extra time taken when a failure is present.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. When there’s three ways to succeed, we still have two ways to succeed when a failure is present, and if data is corrupted, we can tell which of the three is the odd one out. There is no need to retry and no extra time taken when a failure is present.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

This uses hardware, typically a crystal oscillator, that produces ticks at a very high constant rate regardless of processor speed, power settings, or anything of that nature. More importantly for the present discussion, the row mode operator elapsed and CPU times represent the time used by the current operator and all its children.

Servers 95

Servers Tuning Architecture Performance 95

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Furthermore, the content developer is unlikely to find limits presented by the WebView to be unwelcome or unreasonably immutable (via collaboration with the app developer). Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Instead of breaking content, WebViews are likely to facilitate it in these scenarios faithfully. Web Bluetooth.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Percona’s open source database monitoring tool monitors the health of your database infrastructure and helps you improve MongoDB performance. Download today.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

There are many books, articles and presentations that have influenced the way I approach the web today. So many blog posts, online publications, and presentations continually challenged me to move forward by presenting new techniques and ways of thinking about the technology I used on a daily basis. Here at Yahoo!,

Google 40

Google Website Hardware Games 40

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. 1] For these sites, we have to factor in the heavy cost of running JavaScript on the client when describing how much content we can afford. But that's not the whole story!

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Linux may need similar utilities to control various hardware cache installations. You should always validate the Fua capabilities with your device and hardware vendor. When the ‘FW’ pattern is present it shows a REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_WRITE being sent to the device. Fua = Forced Unit Access. Device Flush. Beware The Cache.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

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. And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards.

Hardware 102

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 102

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2021

Companies can use technology roadmaps to review their internal IT , DevOps, infrastructure, architecture, software, internal system, and hardware procurement policies and procedures with innovation and efficiency in mind. Make near-term decisions that don’t compromise future work. Gain awareness of which features are or aren’t working.

Technology 140

Technology Technology Development Strategy 140