Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The entire country of China’s internet connectivity is shielded by the Great Firewall (GFW). There are three state-owned ISP providers, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile , that control internet in China. The most recent technology automatically shuts internet off whenever blacklisted URLs are accessed.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

In the radio portion of the network, 5G buffer sizes are 5x 4G, but within the wired portion of the network only about 2.5x (this is with a 1000 Mbps provisioned cloud server). When it comes to latency the authors measured RTTs for four 5G base stations spread across the city, and 20 other Internet servers nationwide.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. Amazon RDS for SQL Server. We introduced Amazon RDS for Oracle last year , and based on the demand from our Windows customers, are introducing Amazon RDS for SQL Server today. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM.

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Cloud Development AWS Servers 115

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

20+ years ago when I joined Microsoft I was handed a diskette (maybe it was two), and was told “Here is SQL Server. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20 desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. There was a GUI as part of setup but within just a few clicks, SQL Server was installed and ready for use.

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. These include data transfer (i.e.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

I’ve been diligent about data backup throughout my life, but my files are fragmented amongst different media over the years—burning CDs and DVDs back in the day, several generations of external hard drives (that are in various states of decay), university servers, Dropbox, and other cloud services.

Entertainment 73

Entertainment Internet Internet Design 73

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Analyzing server performance (CPU, memory, bandwidth, disk I/O) and database response times. Design your test without the hassle of managing hardware, giving you the ability to identify objectives and define a scenario by setting up a number of users and test duration. All resources are dedicated to this test – no shared servers.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. Paul Calvano has an awesome post using HTTP archive data to detail the prevalence of third party content on the internet.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

MachMetrics

JULY 27, 2018

One person tried to fix it by beefing up the hardware from a large to xlarge (which doubles the compute power), but that didn’t make a big difference. The pricing for Windows servers on Amazon EC2 is over twice as much as the Linux alternative. large server in the US East region: Windows: $0.177 per Hour.

Speed 40

Speed Hardware Internet Internet 40

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Back-End Error Tracking Back-end, or server-side, errors include things like page exceptions and JavaScript errors. Back-end error tracking is relatively straightforward since all server-side code runs in the same place. While lastly, APM allows you to gather data on server-side bottlenecks.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Additionally, many high-end HPC applications take advantage of knowing their in-house hardware platforms to achieve major speedup by exploiting the specific processor architecture. There is no more need for hardware tinkering to keep the clusters up and running (I spent many nights doing this; there is no glory in it). until today.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The only time the Internet was mentioned was as a tool for communicating with one another without the need to chop down more trees, or for working without a commute. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical.

Website 135

Website Energy Internet Internet 135

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Another interesting note was how significant the impact of hardware has on the timing. Those markets are going to dominate internet growth over the next few years, and affordability is a more necessary feature than a souped up device. Before you laugh off this little device running the 2.3.6 That’s a bug.

Latency 41

Latency Google Hardware Servers 41

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices. Just as people use Xerox as shorthand for paper copies and say “Google” instead of internet search, Docker has become synonymous with containers. What is Docker?

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 301

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data. What Exactly is Greenplum? At a glance – TLDR. The Greenplum Architecture. Greenplum Architectural Design.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Nitro is a revolutionary combination of purpose-built hardware and software designed to provide performance and security. It would have had no way of propagating Nitro across an entire vertical stack of hardware and software services.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Content is placed on the network of servers in the Open Connect CDN as close to the end user as possible, improving the streaming experience for our customers and reducing costs for both Netflix and our Internet Service Provider (ISP) partners. takes place in Amazon Web Services (AWS), whereas everything that happens afterwards (i.e.,

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

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. Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

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Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

The wide accessibility of the internet around the globe has made it easy for hackers to intrude into an organization’s system in an unethical manner and compromise their security controls to fulfill their harmful goals. Penetration testing is comprehensively performed over a fully-functional system’s software and hardware.

Testing 67

Testing Hardware Open Source Internet 67

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Do you have a web server? Is the web server running? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? These systems can include physical servers, containers, virtual machines, or even a device, or node, that connects and communicates with the network. Do you have a database? Peer-to-Peer.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. 30.14% in the middle of the flame graph.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

After finding it cost prohibitive to use colocation centers in local markets where their users are based, iZettle decided to give up hardware. Icelandic low-cost airline carrier WOW air is using AWS for its Internet-facing IT infrastructure, including its booking engine, development platforms, and web servers.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? Until AI reaches 100%, it’s still in the process of adoption. from education.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

72 : signals sensed from a distant galaxy using AI; 12M : reddit posts per month; 10 trillion : per day Google generated test inputs with 100s of servers for several months using OSS-Fuzz; 200% : growth in Cloud Native technologies used in production; $13 trillion : potential economic impact of AI by 2030; 1.8 They'll love you even more.

Internet 30

Internet Internet Scalability Education 30

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL backups play a pivotal role in safeguarding the integrity of your data, providing defense against various unforeseen calamities, hardware malfunctions, data loss, corruption, and inadvertent deletions. on, you can use mysqlbinlog to stream binary logs from a remote server. 30 days of binlog backups locally on the backup server.

Best Practices 79

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 79

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Once you have chosen your target devices, consider the architectural aspect of your hardware. You need strong and reliable servers to manage mobile devices and execute test scripts. Internet and Power Supply. In the case of weak Wi-Fi points, you would struggle with timeouts or slow server responses. Automated Testing.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Hardware DevOps 52

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

DevOps on their own are meant to slash down the time taken from building a patch to deploying it on the servers. Infrastructure as a Service is the term used for those cloud-based solutions that provide complete infrastructure to the users including all the overheads, hardware, and networking facilities. Centralizes the Processes.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). More in-depth information is available. What Does It All Mean?

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Colleagues/Internet I love using Linux performance tools. 30.14% in the middle of the flame graph.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. 30.14% in the middle of the flame graph.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments ().

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This metric shows how much time it takes for the server to respond with something. This metric is important, but quite vague because it can include anything — starting from server rendering time and ending up with latency problems. For the site, I would consider Time To First Byte (TTFB) as a metric. So make a competitors list.

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Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 99