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. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 106

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

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 90

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 90

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.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

The unstoppable rise of open source databases. One database in particular is causing a huge dent in Oracle’s market share – open source PostgreSQL. See how open source PostgreSQL Community version costs compare to Oracle Standard Edition and Oracle Enterprise Edition. What’s causing this massive shift?

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

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. Redundancy provides backups and safeguards against data loss in case of hardware failures. What does high availability mean?

Availability 80

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 80

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. For storage, FIO is generally used.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. What is a distributed storage backend? SOSP’19. This is not surprising in hindsight.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

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. How does high availability work? Redundancy is also critical for disaster recovery.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

It’s to ensure that our data is durable after each write operation and to make it persistent and consistent without compromising the performance. However, it’s not normal and only happens when there’s too much write activity beyond what the hardware can handle. Let’s understand both of them.

Hardware 90

Hardware C++ Storage Cache 90

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Percona

JUNE 30, 2023

Percona, a leading provider of open-source database software and services, announced the general availability of Percona Operator for PostgreSQL version 2. The solution is 100% open source and automates the deployment and management of PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes. In version 1.x,

Availability 96

Availability Open Source Azure Hardware 96

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Therefore, DBAs must take a piecemeal approach to achieve HA with PostgreSQL, bringing together open source extensions and tools from multiple sources. there cannot be high availability.

Availability 85

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 85

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them. The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is an open standard for passing messages between applications and organizations. A producer creates the message, and a consumer processes it. Watch webinar now!

Monitoring 196

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 196

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them. The A dvanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is an open standard for passing messages between applications and organizations. A producer creates the message, and a consumer processes it.

Monitoring 195

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 195

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

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., 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

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

Cloud 121

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 121

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the world of PostgreSQL performance tuning and establish some basic guidelines for setting database parameters to enhance the performance of your PostgreSQL database, based on the workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

While the technologies have evolved and matured enough, there are still some people thinking that MySQL is only for small projects or that it can’t perform well with large tables. With disks being faster nowadays and CPU and memory resources being cheaper, we could easily say MySQL can handle TBs of data with good performance.

Open Source 90

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 90

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was founded to bring standards to database benchmarking, and the history of the TPC can be found here. HammerDB is open source software licensed under the.

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Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

PostgreSQL Cluster One coordinator node citus-coord-01 Three worker nodes citus1 citus2 citus3 Hardware AWS Instance Ubuntu Server 20.04, SSD volume type 64-bit (x86) c5.xlarge Repeating the benchmark once again demonstrates that performance has degraded somewhat. Redundancy can potentially decrease overall performance.

Database 107

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 107

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. Learn more: Discover six of the most common causes of poor database performance in our free eBook. Why Do MySQL Backups Matter?

Best Practices 80

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 80

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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

Percona

AUGUST 18, 2023

Cases where (in very large sharded deployments) a user will install multiple mysqlds per server to reduce contention, i.e., they get more performance per 2-socket server with four or eight mysqlds than one. The original motivation for FB was due to different hardware generations, especially between regions/data centers.

Programming 86

Programming Servers Database Hardware 86

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. As with any database, developers and DBAs working with MongoDB should look at how to optimize the performance of their database, especially nowadays with cloud services, where each byte processed, transmitted, and stored costs money.

Database 81

Database Servers Storage Strategy 81

Testsigma

MAY 3, 2021

From operating systems to versions to hardware specs, mobile devices stand unique even after being billions in number. But testing this is essential too because data communication over the network cannot be eliminated by putting all the files into the device storage. Side-By-Side View for multi-tasking.

Mobile 77

Mobile Testing Operating System Hardware 77

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. That ‘reasonable’ performance cost is a 6.8% We answer this question affirmatively. slower to 9.8%

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

faster access to external storage and data locality (I/O, bandwidth). overall performance comparable to bare metal. The good news is all of these challenges including performance can be tackled and in several cases, there are new developments to overcome them. Performance. optimised container networking and security.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Among its many capabilities, a Citus cluster can: Create distributed tables that are sharded across a cluster of PostgreSQL nodes to combine their CPU, memory, storage, and I/O capacity. Reference tables can be replicated to all nodes for joins and foreign keys from distributed tables and for maximum read performance.

C++ 81

C++ Database Storage Testing 81

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. For bare metals, any algorithm among deadline or noop (the performance difference between them is imperceptible) will be better than CFQ.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

The goal is to produce a low-energy hardware classifier for embedded applications doing local processing of sensor data. Race logic has four primary operations that are easy to implement in hardware: MAX, MIN, ADD-CONSTANT, and INHIBIT. One efficient way of doing that in analog hardware is the use of current-starved inverters.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! Apple Corporate is at fault, not Open Source engineers or the line managers who support them. Safari has many good features, and in an open marketplace, choosing it (or not) is entirely reasonable. The Performance Argument. This is as it should be.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Additionally both commercial and open source tools based on the specifications also continued to use TPC-C and TPC-H to describe these workloads. A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. But why is this important?

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C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40