The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Achieving 100 Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server , Zhao et al., This stems from a combination of Jevon’s paradox and the interconnectedness of systems – doing more in one area often leads to a need for more elsewhere too. Today’s paper choice is a wonderful example of pushing the state of the art on a single server.

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Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

These containers are software packages that include all the relevant dependencies needed to run software on any system. Serverless container offerings such as AWS Fargate enable companies to manage and modify containers while abstracting server layers to offer customization without increased complexity. Serverless container services.

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Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 221

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., Systems built with lots of microservices have different operational characteristics to those built from a small number of monoliths, we’d like to study and better understand those differences.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

These orphaned pods represent real pain for our users, even if they are a small percentage of the total pods in the system. When this happens, usually a k8s cloud-controller provided by the cloud vendor will detect that the actual server, in our case an EC2 Instance, has actually gone away, and will in turn delete the k8s node object.

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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. The MPP system leverages a shared-nothing architecture to handle multiple operations in parallel.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Our Premium High Availability comes with the following features: Active-active deployment model for optimum hardware utilization. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. Automatic recovery for outages for up to 72 hours.

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Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’ll wrap it up by suggesting high availability open source solutions, and we’ll introduce you to support options for ensuring continuous high performance from your systems. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster.

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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. Without data backup mechanisms, there can be data loss or system downtime.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 86

High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. It allows users to access and use shared computing resources, such as servers, storage, and applications, on demand and without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure.

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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. Some disruption might occur, but it will be minimal. More in the following sub-section.)

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 106

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system for online applications and data warehousing. However, data loss is always possible due to hardware malfunction, software defects, or other unforeseen circumstances, just like with any computer system. Choose the method that works best for your situation.

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. Connected_slaves provides information about replication status while Used_memory tracks utilized amount of server’s total capacity. You can pick a smart selection of relevant metrics from these.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times. This ensures each Redis® instance optimally uses the in-memory data store and aligns with the operating system’s efficiency.

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Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. This code is then executed on remote servers in response to an event, such as users interacting with functional web elements. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Optimized system performance. What is log monitoring? Increased collaboration.

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Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 213

Percona

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

If you replicate from one server to the next, are you replicating what you need? Second, peruse the accounts on your system to trim away those staff who are no longer with your organization. Take some to check how the server is being accessed, as you do not want a project to use the root access for all queries.

Database 88

Database Open Source Hardware Operating System 88

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. 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. Networking.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 306

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. What is AWS Lambda? Customizing and connecting these services requires code.

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SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One initial, easy step to moving your SQL Server on-premises workloads to the cloud is using Azure VMs to run your SQL Server workloads in an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) scenario. You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2010, Netflix introduced a technology to switch production software instances off at random — like setting a monkey loose in a server room — to test how the cloud handled its services. Because it can touch many systems, chaos engineering can have broad implications, affecting groups and stakeholders across the organization.

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 230

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

She was speaking about how her team is providing Visibility as a Service (VaaS) in order to continuously monitor and optimize their systems running across private and public cloud environments. Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. You may ask: How is this possible?

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Cache Architecture Database Government 201

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.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

In general terms, to achieve HA in PostgreSQL, there must be: Redundancy: To ensure data redundancy and provide continuous performance when a primary server fails, multiple copies of the database reside in replica servers. When the primary server fails, a standby server takes over as the new primary.

Availability 83

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 83

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. However, simply deploying a monitoring tool is not enough; you need to know which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor to gain insights into your MySQL server’s health and performance.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 103

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?

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Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 181

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. Compare Ease of Use.

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2019

Having the ability to monitor the performance and availability of your organization’s internal applications—in addition to your organization’s customer-facing applications—from within your corporate network is an important benefit of synthetic monitoring. Windows 2016 Server (or a supported Linux distribution ).

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Monitoring Hardware Tuning Mobile 104

The Morning Paper

MAY 19, 2019

The net result of rapid advancements in the networking world is that inter-tier communications latency will approach the fundamental lower bound of speed-of-light propagation in the foreseeable future. RPCValet balances incoming RPC requests among the multiple cores of a server. Consider a 16-core server handling 16 requests.

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Latency Hardware Network Architecture 80

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With a simple example such as this, it would not necessarily be expected for the additional network traffic to be significant between the 2 approaches. However, with more complex application logic this network round trip soon becomes a key focus area for improving performance. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X performance advantage.

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Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

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Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

These vendors often provide integrated stacks that include the database, application server, and other components that seamlessly integrate. Parallel run : Operating both the existing and new database system simultaneously during the transition, allowing for a seamless fallback in case of any issues. And finally… budgets.

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 91

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. The kind of edge server envisaged here might, for example, be integrated with your WiFi access point. As such, web workers are a natural target to offload to a more powerful server.

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Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It requires purchasing, powering, and configuring physical hardware, training and retaining the staff capable of servicing and securing the machines, operating a data center, and so on. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little. Reduced cost.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

This is why our BYOC pricing is less than our Dedicated Hosting pricing, as the costs listed for BYOC are only what you pay for ScaleGrid and don’t include your hardware costs. A vast majority of the features are the same, outside of these advanced features available through the BYOC model: Virtual Private Clouds / Virtual Networks.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

To secure consumer data, organizations need to make sure that their networks are updated and protected against any malicious activity. For businesses to remain safe, and sustainable in the face of competition, it is necessary to use a comprehensive approach to foolproofing their systems. Why do we perform Penetration Testing?

Testing 67

Testing Hardware Open Source Internet 67

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc. Early web applications involved less on client-side behavior and more server-side for all its navigation, query handling, and updates. Network or connection error.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63