The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

Software-defined far memory in warehouse-scale computers Lagar-Cavilla et al., ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. .” ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 10, 2019

…software operating on persistent data structures requires "global" pointers that remain valid after a process terminates, while hardware requires that a diverse set of devices all have the same mappings they need for bulk transfers to and from memory, and that they be able to do so for a potentially heterogeneous memory system. .

Hardware 52

Hardware Virtualization Operating System Programming 52

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. The benefit of this system is that each tier runs independently from the other tiers, so they can be updated or scaled without impacting the other tiers. Big systems cost big money.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. This means that the overheads of system calls become much more noticeable. in front of that memory , as we saw last week).

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

The Morning Paper

APRIL 14, 2019

The paper sets out what we can do in software given today’s hardware, and along the way also highlights areas where cooperation from hardware will be needed in the future. The paper focuses on two key use cases: A confined component running in its own security domain, connected to the rest of the system by explicit (e.g.

Hardware 44

Hardware Cache Latency Speed 44

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Here are five considerations every software architect and developer needs to take into account when setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform. A message-oriented implementation requires an efficient messaging backbone that facilitates the exchange of data in a reliable and secure way with the lowest latency possible.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Nowadays, the source code to old operating systems can also be found online. For everyone familiar with other operating systems and their CPU load averages, including this state is at first deeply confusing. **Why?** Here's an example: on an idle 8 CPU system, I launched tar to archive some uncached files.

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. Most manufacturers' implementations immediately flush pending writes to physical disk during the restart operations. Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Infrequent failures exercise poorly tested capabilities that tend to amplify problems in unexpected ways rather than mitigate them, so it’s important to carefully exercise the system to ensure that design controls are well tested and operating correctly. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Infrequent failures exercise poorly tested capabilities that tend to amplify problems in unexpected ways rather than mitigate them, so it’s important to carefully exercise the system to ensure that design controls are well tested and operating correctly. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Uniting multidisciplinary teams of researchers and educators from 17 universities, IRIS-HEP will receive $5 million a year for five years from the NSF with a focus on producing innovative software and training the next generation of users. SCM slots between DRAM and flash in terms of latency, cost, and density. They're generally right.

Internet 30

Internet Internet Scalability Education 30

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Subsystem / Path The ​​ I/O subsystem or path ​​ includes ​​ those ​​ components ​​ that are ​​ used to support an I/O operation. ​​ SQL Server ​​ copy-on-write actions are used to maintain snapshot databases in SQL Server 2005.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Build evolvable systems. Almost from day one, we knew that the software we were building would not be the software that would be running a year later. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. Primitives not frameworks. Automation is key.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). A good starting point is to choose a good default stack for your application.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103