Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity. Types of DBMS DBMS can be classified into hierarchical, network, relational, and object-oriented types.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

We were very pleased to see that AV1 streaming improved members’ viewing experience, particularly under challenging network conditions. AV1 playback on TV platforms relies on hardware solutions, which generally take longer to be deployed. Throughout 2020 the industry made impressive progress on AV1 hardware solutions.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your application runs on servers you manage, either on-premises or on a private cloud, you’re responsible for securing the application as well as the operating system, network infrastructure, and physical hardware. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications? These alerts tend to slow down development.

Cloud 179

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 179

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

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. When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens. They use the graph as the basic representation for many AI-related algorithms, including neural network, Bayesian network, Markov Field, and some other emerging methods. HPU1 with TSMC 28nm process was announced in HOTCHIPS’17.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections. 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.

Latency 269

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

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. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

During compatibility testing of an application, we check the compatibility of the application with multiple devices, hardware, software versions, network, operating systems, and browsers, etc. present on the device without undergoing any application crash or hanging. Scenario: .

Testing 84

Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

It’s important to note that recommended throughput levels may vary depending on factors such as operating system type, network bandwidth availability, and hardware quality. A higher value for this metric can indicate issues on the master/slave or some network problems. It further causes the slave to serve stale data.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

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

Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

These software errors are usually uncovered during functionality testing, mostly can be present as: Difficult/ confusing functionality: If the user is unable to understand or perform a function on the application, then it should change. Hardware error. We focus on software so much that we forget about the hardware failures.

Software 82

Software Software Testing Hardware 82

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

However, it’s important to note that the optimal value may vary depending on your specific workload and hardware configuration. In general, the recommended value for innodb_thread_concurrency on a server with 10 CPUs is typically between 16 and 32. 16) and monitoring the server’s performance.

Social Media 119

Social Media Database Servers Cache 119

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

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

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] Nov 2011 - [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] Feb 2012 - [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] 2013 - [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

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. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

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

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

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Lighthouse records metrics from the browser, applies a scoring model to them, and presents an overall performance score. It’s time to come to terms that your customers aren’t using the same powerful hardware as you. An excellent substitute for using a real device is to use Chrome DevTools hardware emulation mode. In PageSpeed 5.0,

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] , Nov 2011 [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] , Feb 2012 [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] , 2013 [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

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. Change management is also sometimes grouped with release management. Asset Management. You cannot virtualize everything…yet. Postmortems.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Sutter's Mill

MAY 28, 2012

There was so much interest that I formed four Study Groups and appointed chairs: the largest on concurrency and parallelism (SG1, Hans Boehm), and three others on modules (SG2, Doug Gregor), filesystem (SG3, Beman Dawes), and networking (SG4, Kyle Kloepper).

C++ 40

C++ Hardware Best Practices Tuning 40

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Understanding Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Cloud computing has revolutionized the IT industry, offering a host of advantages including cost-effectiveness, increased agility, and access to cutting-edge hardware. Challenges of Multi-Cloud Although multi-cloud has its benefits, it also presents some obstacles. But what do these entail?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., Microservices fundamentally change a lot of assumptions current cloud systems are designed with, and present both opportunities and challenges when optimizing for quality of service (QoS) and utilization.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This includes latency, which is a major determinant in evaluating the reliability and performance of your Redis® instance, CPU usage to assess how much time it spends on tasks, operations such as reading/writing data from disk or network I/O, and memory utilization (also known as memory metrics).

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware.

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

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 89

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 89

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Too many fine-grained services leading to network and communication overhead. All this was made possible without any need for hardware upgrades : Misconfigured queue and pool sizes are a common issue in distributed architectures. .

Cache 199

Cache Database Architecture Government 199

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.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

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

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. These systems can include physical servers, containers, virtual machines, or even a device, or node, that connects and communicates with the network. The recipe was straightforward. Peer-to-Peer.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Network or connection error. Network latency. Hardware resources. Network Latency. Network latency can be affected due to. Network equipment like cable or router. Hardware Resources.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

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. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

Availability 104

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

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.), there cannot be high availability.

Availability 81

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 81