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. While this is a good way to get a rough estimate, your monthly cloud costs will indeed vary based on the amount of backups performed and your data transfer activity.

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Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to understand “segmentation fault,” it is a must to know the basic idea of segmentation and its implementation in C programming. When we need to execute any program, it should be loaded into memory first. Here, memory is divided into equal sizes of partitions where the code of a program resides.

Programming 83

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 83

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

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. Also known as a “correct by construction” approach to security.

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

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. Such a combination requires new abstractions and programming models for effective management.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

I'm sure this delivered large performance improvements and I wouldn't try arguing against it. While that Java change led to discovering countless performance wins in application code, libc was still breaking some portion of the samples (as pictured in the example at the top of this post) and preventing off-CPU flame graphs.

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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% ASPLOS’19. We answer this question affirmatively.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

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. What is HammerDB? Why HammerDB was developed.

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Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

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

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

With the rapid advancements in web application technologies, programming languages, cloud computing services, microservices, hybrid environments, etc., This complexity is “hidden” to the end user, like how an API (Application Programming Interface) operates, whether that is an actual user or another computer. Concurrency. Reliability.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM. The Twizzler programming model.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. Linux already has many performance tools, but these are often counter-based and have limited visibility. The probe is BEGIN , a special probe that runs at the beginning of the program (like awk).

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

KeyCDN

JANUARY 23, 2020

These acronyms, which stand for real user monitoring and application performance monitoring, are software monitoring processes essential to measuring and evaluating applications in many different areas. RUM gathers data from real life users to analyze application performance. What is application performance monitoring (APM)?

Strategy 72

Strategy Metrics Monitoring Servers 72

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

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Web Performance APIs.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “. The “forced flush” changes in SQL Server avoid flushes, when possible, in order to improve performance on non-optimized Fua file systems. Performance points of reference: The following charts highlight the increase in performance.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you time time?

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Randon ASCII

AUGUST 16, 2018

I have trouble resisting a good performance mystery but in this case the draw was particularly strong. I work at Google, making Chrome, for Windows, focused on performance. I loaded it into Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA), but I couldn’t definitively find the hang. Well that’s funny …. The problem suddenly became clearer.

Programming 75

Programming Virtualization Code Processing 75

The Morning Paper

APRIL 2, 2019

In this context it means there are no external dependencies on e.g. secrets, trusted hardware modules, or special instructions (e.g. known good state of a trustworthy program). Then the verifier selects a random nonce and sends it to the system with a challenge to perform a (very!) of the paper have the desired property.

Software 40

Software Software Programming Hardware 40

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

It is much more difficult to publish truly risky, revolutionary research due to implicit filters in what gets funded and what makes it past a program committee. Virtualization, for instance, was being addressed by IBM in the 1960s. We believed existing hardware and OS protocols protected the processor. Discounting the Past.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Both concepts are virtually omnipresent and at the top of most buzzword rankings. The management consultants at McKinsey expect that the global market for AI-based services, software and hardware will grow annually by 15-25% and reach a volume of around USD 130 billion in 2025. Progress through machine learning. More room for optimism.

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Artificial Intelligence Transportation Education Airlines 147

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

“War stories” in programming are entertaining tales of truly evil bugs that kept you up at night. halt (); Some sort of very early exception handler; better to sit busy in an infinite loop than run off and destroy hardware or corrupt data, I suppose. Recent work. halt_loop: while ( true ). a “gadget.”)

C++ 67

C++ Hardware Code Virtualization 67

Randon ASCII

APRIL 14, 2020

The next few times I thought about investigating, but performance problems that occur before you have even logged on are trickier to solve, and I was feeling lazy. I tried to tap the control key (virtual key code 162) once a second until the password input field appeared. Ultimately there are a lot of programs spinning very hard.

Programming 89

Programming Processing Systems Hardware 89

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

You can feed it with commands and it will execute them to perform some actions. It’s because the shell is really powerful: it allows you to run many small programs which work very well together. It’s very similar to the virtual desktops many Linux desktop managers have. The shell is an interpreter. But first, a bit of theory.

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Development Energy Programming Efficiency 99

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors. Atomicity A transaction must be an atomic unit of work; either all of its data modifications are performed or none of them are performed. Consistency When completed, a transaction must leave all data in a consistent state.

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) was the focus of the QZFS paper which used this new hardware device to speed up file system compression.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

If they are higher than your CPU count, then you might have a performance problem (it depends). 90491 N|rnberg (Germany) Consulting+Networking+Programming+etc'ing 42. His example of using a slower swap disk makes sense: by degrading the system's performance, the demand on the system (measured as running + queued) should increase.

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Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ This is similar to the ​​ suspend and resume ​​ operations performed by ​​ the operating system. ​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

SQL Server According to Bob

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Let’s actually use the calculator program in Windows 10 to look at this a different way. Automatic soft-NUMA was enabled because SQL Server has detected hardware NUMA nodes with greater than 8 physical cores. What does this look like in a Virtual Machine? 111111111111111111111111111111111111? Hyper-V calls these vCPUs.

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Servers Virtualization Scalability Hardware 45

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And everyone has opinions about how these language models and art generation programs are going to change the nature of work, usher in the singularity, or perhaps even doom the human race. AI users say that AI programming (66%) and data analysis (59%) are the most needed skills. Many AI adopters are still in the early stages.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. The installer will also provide the options to perform a full ‘Custom’ installation, or to ‘Download Media’ only as the download button above provides. Launching this program brings you to the new Basic Installer Screen. Go install it”.

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40