Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

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 104

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 104

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure. The primary goal of ITOps is to provide a high-performing, consistent IT environment. Performance. What does IT operations do?

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Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 205

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

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This blog post will explore some of the major challenges in database management that businesses can expect, especially when transitioning from traditional database servers. The advantages of DBaaS Businesses can use their database services without having to purchase new hardware or set it up.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

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! Or even on a plane.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

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.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

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 3, 2024

ProxySQL is a high-performance SQL proxy that runs as a daemon watched by a monitoring process. The daemon accepts incoming traffic from MySQL clients and forwards it to backend MySQL servers. These include runtime parameters, server grouping, and traffic-related settings. sec) File /var/lib/proxysql/proxybkp.cnf is saved.

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Traffic Hardware Cache Servers 108

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

On MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL , there is a schema called information_schema (I_S) which provides information about database tables, views, indexes, and more. The percentage in degradation will vary depending on many factors {hardware, workload, number of tables, configuration, etc.}. Results for Percona Server for MySQL 5.7

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Cache Hardware Servers Benchmarking 101

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Default settings can help you get started quickly – but they can also cost you performance and a higher cloud bill at the end of the month. I’ll show you some MySQL settings to tune to get better performance, and cost savings, with AWS RDS. This was exactly what was happening on this server. Buffer Pool Size | 92.0G

AWS 119

AWS Hardware Storage Tuning 119

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

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. Optimizing Lambda for performance. What is AWS Lambda? How does AWS Lambda work?

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 181

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

A lot of people surmise that TTFB is merely time spent on the server, but that is only a small fraction of the true extent of things. TTFB isn’t just time spent on the server, it is also the time spent getting from our device to the sever and back again (carrying, that’s right, the first byte of data!). Expect closer to 75ms.

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Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

At Dynatrace Perform 2022 , David Catanoso, acting director of cloud and edge solutions at the U.S. The agency executed one of the largest email migrations from on-premises Exchange servers to Microsoft Office 365 — moving almost 480,000 mailboxes to the cloud. “We used Dynatrace to monitor that large increase in servers.

Cloud 179

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 179

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.

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Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

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

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. We will not concern ourselves with the raw throughput of workload.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

As I embark on my first PASS Summit in a few years, it is hard to contain my excitement about the newest version of SQL Server. As you may recall, back in SQL Server 2016 SP1, they opened up all of the programming surface features to all editions, and many (but certainly not all) of the performance and availability features.

Servers 40

Servers Hardware Database Availability 40

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

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.

Cloud 167

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 167

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., Here the first finding was that the current strategy for determining when to hand-off has a 25% probability of worsening your link performance after handover. Application performance. SIGCOMM’20.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In particular, recent research has begun to demonstrate that it is possible to perform security attacks on quantum computers. Otherwise, there is a risk of repeating many of the mistakes from classical computers where, for many years, security at the hardware and architecture levels was an afterthought.

Architecture 72

Architecture Hardware Programming Cloud 72

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Questions Q: I have a MySQL server with 500 GB of RAM; my data set is 100 GB. 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. Q: I have a MySQL server, and my application is writing at a rate of 100 MB/hour in my redo logs.

Social Media 121

Social Media Database Servers Cache 121

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The limited number access points, compounded with the fact that traffic is controlled by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, creates performance bottlenecks for all users in China when trying to access websites from inside and outside of the country. Final Thoughts: Monitoring Performance from the Great Firewall of China.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

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. CXL-based disaggregated memory provides a new opportunity with two orders of magnitude better performance than RDMA (as illustrated in Figure 2).

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., Finally, we show that Seer can identify application level design bugs, and provide insights on how to better architect microservices to achieve predictable performance. ASPLOS’19.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

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

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 ).

Monitoring 104

Monitoring Hardware Tuning Mobile 104

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. Chaos testing enriches the organization’s intelligence about how software performs under stress and how to make it more resilient. Watch webinar now!

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 228

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 6, 2016

As indicated, SQL Server 2016 added the use of SSE and AVX instructions in various code paths to improve performance. This post will outline SQL Server’s decisions around SSE/AVX or software algorithm use. SQL Server asks the CPU if it supports SSE or AVX in order to determine the level of hardware support present on the system.

Servers 40

Servers Hardware Software Engineering Software 40

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The Netflix application is complex, but at its simplest it streams data from a Netflix server, buffers several seconds worth of video and audio data on the device, then delivers video and audio frames one-at-a-time to the device’s playback hardware. In Ninja, this job is performed by an Android Thread.

Engineering 352

Engineering Code Hardware Open Source 352

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

The simple answer is to just spin up more servers. More servers means more capacity. However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. And while it’s easy to say “spin up more AWS servers”, you’re only adding to your cloud provider bill. Switching to VoltDB will.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

The simple answer is to just spin up more servers. More servers means more capacity. However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. And while it’s easy to say “spin up more AWS servers”, you’re only adding to your cloud provider bill. Switching to VoltDB will.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? Generally speaking, we can also run the top command on any server to which we have shell access.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2019

Audit logs are available on individual nodes at DATASTORE_PATH/log/server. Previously, to apply a RAM update on a cluster node host, you were required to perform an “in-place” upgrade or wait until the next scheduled upgrade. Cluster event audit logs are available as of Dynatrace Managed version 1.170. Other improvements.

Hardware 103

Hardware Traffic Servers Monitoring 103