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.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations Ren et al., For example: “Red Hat and Suse normally required 6-18 months to optimise the performance an an upstream Linux kernel before it can be released as an enterprise distribution”, and. Google’s data center kernel is carefully performance tuned for their workloads.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Our new eBook, “ From Planning to Performance: MongoDB Upgrade Best Practices ,” guides you through the entire process to ensure your database’s long-term success. In MongoDB 6.x:

Best Practices 85

Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 85

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

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. Mitigating performance risks moves to SaaS vendors.

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. We presented the sustainability story including a deep dive into WAS at reInvent as ARC325 Architecting for Sustainability. As well as the video, there’s a long podcast where I discuss them with Mik Kersten.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. Configuration testing is performed to discover the optimum combinations of software and hardware specifications that allow the system to work without flaws. What is Configuration Testing? An Example.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

It provides a consistent platform that integrates with a variety of message queuing types to enable consistent performance regardless of the platform. This approach is common in transaction-intensive environments in which teams perform the same tasks repetitively. Two styles of message queuing. Watch webinar now!

Monitoring 202

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 202

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

It provides a consistent platform that integrates with a variety of message queuing types to enable consistent performance regardless of the platform. This approach is common in transaction-intensive environments in which teams perform the same tasks repetitively. Two styles of message queuing. The post What is a message queue?

Monitoring 201

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 201

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. The report also reveals the leading programming languages practitioners use for application workloads.

Open Source 345

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 345

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

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. But what else is TTFB? during our time optimising iPlayer.

Latency 269

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

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. This allows us to present the content exactly as creatively envisioned on devices and plans which support such high resolution and frame-rate playback.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. However, building and utilizing HCM presents challenges, including interconnecting various memory technologies (e.g., Using emulation (e.g.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

At Dynatrace Perform 2022 , David Catanoso, acting director of cloud and edge solutions at the U.S. ” Since then, VA solved many cloud performance problems and kept its complex hybrid environment running without interrupting remote work. “We used Dynatrace to monitor that large increase in servers.

Cloud 179

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 179

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. So, anyway. I wrote a lot of benchmarks.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

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

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

However, the key insight here is that these caches are partially shared among the CPUs, which means that perfect performance isolation of co-hosted containers is not possible. Traditionally it has been the responsibility of the operating system’s task scheduler to mitigate this performance isolation problem. Linux to the rescue?

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

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?

Cloud 179

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 179

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2023

In this blog, I have deliberately chosen an index without any internal pages, so that readers may understand that internal pages may not necessarily be present in every B-tree index. Here, the search performs the index scan to obtain the record easily, and the index is unable to locate the desired record; hence, it is unable to show any data.

Database 116

Database Hardware Storage Programming 116

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

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

TFLOPS deep learning performance, and is equipped with 32GB of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) capacity. The new DGX-2, which achieves 2 petaFLOPS in the system, combines 16 fully interconnected GPUS with 10x the deep learning performance. HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

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

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

Interestingly, Xcode provides a testing framework called XCTest to write unit tests, performance tests, and UI tests. Unlike unit tests which are tested in isolation, UI testing is performed on the integration of the multiple classes. We can use these documented statistics to improve the testing and application performance.

Testing 84

Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

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 third principle is that the interface to a platform should be driven by the users of the platform. The next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Keep in mind that setting the buffer pool size too high may result in other processes on your server competing for memory, which can impact performance. However, it’s important to note that the optimal value may vary depending on your specific workload and hardware configuration. 16) and monitoring the server’s performance.

Social Media 119

Social Media Database Servers Cache 119

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! “ For instance, Facebook applications issue tens-of-trillions of inference queries per day with varying performance, accuracy, and cost constraints.”

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 9, 2022

So while I have retired from corporate life, I have ideas to share, as an analyst and presenter, and needed a framework to support consulting and analysis work. The group has deep roots in High Performance Computing (that’s what Shahin, Steve, and I did at Sun).

IoT 52

IoT Best Practices AWS Media 52

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. I will be looking for distinct values in the BountyAmount column of the dbo.Votes table, presented in bounty amount order ascending. Performance is competitive at around 15ms. BountyAmount ; Performance Summary Table. Test Environment.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

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. of the persistent data on average. Elasticity. S3 on AWS).

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Nowadays, hardware and software are designed to conduct eye-tracking studies for marketing , UX , psychological and medical research , gaming , and several other use cases. billion by 2025 , being present in different segments and industries. This heatmap is a visual representation of the F-shaped pattern. More after jump!

Mobile 111

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

billion rows, presented on 143 million pages, and occupying ~1.14TB. Note that I am not focusing on reporting workload or other read query performance at this time – I merely want to see what impact I can have on storage (and memory) footprint of this data. At the time it had 3.75 Sounds like a great job for compression, right?

Database 70

Database Storage Hardware Efficiency 70

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. To understand how these changes affect us from a performance perspective, we need to grasp the underlying technology.

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The rest of the article presents some examples of this behavior and how it impacts our field, whether we care to admit it or not. Present Bias. In Thaler’s book, he uses the term “present bias” to describe how people discount the future and give larger weight or value to decisions that are closer in time. Discounting the Past.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47

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

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to perform the actual translation of a logical address to the physical address, MMU needs to perform memory mapping operations, which can be accomplished by another structure called a page table. At present, this is in the development phase. These details are planned to be added in pg_gather reports.

Programming 81

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 81

Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2019

During the entire SDLC phase, there are various kinds of testing performed at different stages. Both functional and non-functional tests are executed while performing regression. Regression testing is never performed on a new module. When is Regression Testing performed? What is the Objective of Regression Testing?

Testing 53

Testing Hardware Testing Tools Strategy 53