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. For organizations running their own on-premises infrastructure, these costs can be prohibitive. What is always-on infrastructure?

Infrastructure 176

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 176

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The bulk of this latency comes from on-device frame processing, not network transmission delay. …the delay spent on smartphone’s local processing remains as a prohibitive latency bottleneck, ruining the user experiences in real-time interactive. It accounted for 55.18% of the total energy budget of the phone!

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Most existing adtech infrastructure simply can not achieve the required latency. Another adtech infrastructure problem is capacity. Header bidding and other programmatic advertising developments will multiply the impressions DSPs and SSPs need to process, going from hundreds of billions to trillions.

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. Header bidding and other programmatic advertising developments will multiply the impressions DSPs and SSPs need to process, going from hundreds of billions to trillions.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

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

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

LoadView – Best Practices and Process. It helps assess how a site, web application, or API will respond to various traffic, without adding any additional infrastructure. Executing an internal test can tell you how well your application or site handles an increase in traffic, but it will never reflect real-world conditions.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

It makes use of the Eagle Genomics platform running on AWS, resulting in that Unilever’s digital data program now processes genetic sequences twenty times faster—without incurring higher compute costs. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

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. This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

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. Save on costs for hardware and network bandwidth to optimize total cost of ownership. Automatic recovery for outages for up to 72 hours.

Availability 241

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 241

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

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

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

Auer oversees the initiative to maintain the performance and availability of SAP Commerce Cloud , which underpins more than 3,500 e-commerce sites in more than 200 countries, processing transactions worth $500 billion annually. When the site is slow, if the checkout process is not working, you might choose to buy somewhere else.

Retail 238

Retail Cloud Monitoring Hardware 238

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Usage reduction is a continuous process. Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs. PostgreSQL in the cloud CPU Considering AWS as your cloud platform of choice, the configuration made for your infrastructure will influence the performance of your application and monthly costs.

Cloud 118

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 118

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. Dynatrace gave them automated insights into traffic behavior and the impact of queued up requests to the end-users (up to 3s queue time).

Cache 193

Cache Architecture Database Government 193

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier. Evaluating your hardware requirements is another vital aspect of resource allocation.

Open Source 92

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 92

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 132

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 132

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 107

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 107

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

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

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. In essence, it establishes permissions within a Kubernetes cluster.

Efficiency 102

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 102

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 197

DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics 197

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

Sure, you can get there with the right extensions and tools, but it can be a long, burdensome, and potentially expensive process. and package them in a design (blueprint) of a database infrastructure that’s fit to perform optimally — amid demanding conditions.

Architecture 96

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 96

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Vertical scaling is also often discussed, which involves increasing the resources of a single server, which can have limitations in hardware capabilities and become costly as demands grow. Query Routers (mongos) : Query routers, also known as “mongos” processes, act as the interface between applications and the sharded cluster.

Best Practices 71

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 71

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

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

A process that was developed to automate the processes from build creation to deployment and maybe everything in between. Cloud computing solutions work as a catalyst in this process due to the easily available high processing power of the cloud, resulting in faster deployments. Centralizes the Processes.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

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 83

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 83

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

MySQL replication is a process in which data from a primary MySQL database is copied and sent to one or more secondary databases, known as replicas. The idea is to use secondary servers on your infrastructure for either reads or other administrative solutions. Start the replica server’s replication process.

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Each process has its own independent memory that it works with. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently. For everything to work together in harmony, middleware is used to act as the conduit between these different hardware and software components. No Shared Memory. Concurrency. Complexity.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. This becomes an even more important lesson at scale: for example, as S3 processes trillions and trillions of storage transactions, anything that has even the slightest probability of error will become realistic. Primitives not frameworks.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. RDS also simplifies the process of automatic scaling based on workload demand, adding or subtracting replicas to efficiently distribute read requests and reduce costs during low demand.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

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 30

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 30

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. It’s all done with the click of a single button.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

For our migration projects, we simply roll out Dynatrace OneAgents on the existing infrastructure. Resource consumption & traffic analysis. Before starting any migration project, you must have a good overview of all your hosts, processes, services and technologies. Database & functional migration.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

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

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Staff should be familiar with recovery processes and the behavior of the system when it’s working hard to mitigate failures. 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.

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. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Basic navigation and window management features to (e.g.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121